ARTiculate ATL

JOIN US Thursday, October 1, for a panel discussion where you’ll learn from artists, designers, and creative entrepreneurs how to build a sustainable, distinctive creative venture on your own terms.

“The Business of Creativity”
📆 Date: Thursday, October 1
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM — 8:30 PM ET
🏤 Location: BUCKHEAD ART & CO.
🔗Free RSVP [LINK IN BIO] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-business-of-creativity-building-a-creative-venture-on-your-own-terms-tickets-2000657343972

Moderator:
• Tamiko Hope, owner of Hope Heritage

Panelists:
• Leah Alexander, interior designer, owner of Beauty Is Abundant
• Dionna Collins, artist & entrepreneur
• Brandon Ball, professor & entrepreneur

Thanks to MICA and BUCKHEAD ART & CO. for their support of this program.

ADVISORY BOARD SPOTLIGHT 🚨✨(1/4)

We are officially expanding the ARTiculate ATL family with the creation of a new Advisory Board! These 4 brilliant creatives, advocates, and community leaders are joining us to push our mission even further, elevate local talent, and keep the Atlanta arts scene buzzing.

Meet Dionna Collins, the Founder and CEO of ComfiArt ComfiArt™️, a creative agency helping artists build sustainable careers through public art, creative entrepreneurship, and strategic partnerships. An artist, designer, and business strategist, Dionna is passionate about helping creatives develop the skills, systems, and confidence to thrive both artistically and professionally.

We’re honored to have Dionna’s voice guiding our next chapter.

Drop a comment to welcome her! 💬👇
Check back tomorrow to meet our next board member.

🔗 Learn more about ComfiArt™️ and the rest of our advisory board at articulateatl.org.

Happy Women’s History Month! 🎨❤️

“In 1971, Buchanan changed course: she enrolled at the Art Students League. There she studied under Noman Lewis and found mentorship with other contemporary artists such as Romare Bearden. In 1977, she moved to Macon, Georgia, to pursue art full time, and she credits her early medical studies for inspiring her desire to investigate and seek information from a variety of sources, and then piece together answers. As such, she experimented with diverse media and approaches, ranging from land art to photography to drawing, to produce a dynamic oeuvre that offers a connection to place and reckons with histories that shaped communities in the South.”

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Happy Women’s History Month! 🎨❤️

Kara Walker ()

“New York-based artist Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and violence through silhouetted figures that have appeared in numerous exhibitions worldwide.

Born in Stockton, California in 1969, Walker was raised in Atlanta, Georgia from the age of 13. She studied at the Atlanta College of Art (BFA, 1991) and the Rhode Island School of Design (MFA, 1994). She is the recipient of many awards, notably the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award in 1997 and the United States Artists, Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship in 2008. In 2012, Walker became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2015, she was named the Tepper Chair in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Her work can be found in museums and public collections throughout the United States and Europe including The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Tate Gallery, London; the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo (MAXXI), Rome; and Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt.” — karawalkerstudio.cơm

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Happy Women’s History Month! 🎨❤️

Laurie Darby ()

“Laurie Darby has loved making art since she was a small child growing up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Darby has taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design and at the Savannah Classical Academy. She has traveled throughout Europe including Italy, Spain, Czechoslovakia, France, the Caribbean and Austria. She has shown her art throughout the United States. In her work she explores the concept of capacity referencing African and animated forms. The shapes in her paintings push against the boundary in the pursuit of limitations. Darby holds several accolades and has many honors including a Georgia Individual Artist Grant, residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and sculpture and the Hambidge Center, a Pollock-Krasner Award, and inclusion in the Georgia Triennial; she maintains a studio in Savannah, Georgia where she lives and works.“ — saatchiart.com

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