The Atlanta Regional Commission today announced that 27 arts, culture, and civic leaders have been selected to participate in the 2023 Culture and Community Design program. These leaders will meet between May and December and work in groups to help further the strategic goals of two community arts organizations:
The African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta (ADAMA), an innovative museum showcasing contemporary art and culture of the African diaspora.
Full Radius Dance, a dance company that brings together disabled and non-disabled dancers through performance, education, and advocacy to address community needs through culture-focused planning and design initiatives.
The Culture and Community Design program is a new effort at ARC that builds on the agency’s past arts leadership program, the Arts Leaders of Metro Atlanta, or ALMA. The revised program provides a more immersive, hands-on experience for a broader diversity of participants that includes artists, culture-bearers, planners, designers, and government officials.
Critically, the Culture & Community Design program (C&CD) focuses on strategic engagement with small, arts-focused organizations that don’t have the resources for these kinds of efforts.
“We are excited to launch our newly designed C&CD program, which focuses on communities that are too often excluded from the regional planning process,” said Roshani Thakore, Head of Community Engagement & Arts Program at ARC. “We’ve designed the program to provide an inclusive learning space with artists, planners, community-based organizations, and local government officials – key members in shaping a visionary metro Atlanta.”
The Culture & Community Design Program was created to advance arts and culture as an essential part of inclusive and equitable planning in communities across metro Atlanta and is part of ARC’s Arts, Culture, and Placemaking Plan which aims to integrate arts and culture into the agency’s planning work to help build a…
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