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The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High) is the largest museum for visual art in the Southeastern United States. Located in Atlanta, Georgia (on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district ), the High is 312,000 square feet (28,985 m 2) and a division of the Woodruff Arts Center. [ 2 ] The High organizes and presents exhibitions ...
The Breman Museum. Midtown Atlanta. Jewish. Jewish history, with special emphasis on Georgia and the Holocaust. Callanwolde Fine Arts Center. Druid Hills. Art. Community arts center, gallery hosts one-person and occasional group exhibitions by emerging local artists in varied media. Center for Puppetry Arts.
Atlanta also hosts one of the largest free jazz festivals in the country, the Atlanta Jazz Festival. In 2017, the Atlanta Jazz Festival will celebrate its 40th year and include 40 Days of Jazz leading up to the Memorial Day weekend event that takes place in Piedmont Park.
Freaknik ( / ˈfriːknɪk /; originally Freaknic) was an annual spring break festival in Atlanta, Georgia. It was initially attended by students enrolled at historically black colleges and universities in the Atlanta University Center. [ 1] It began in 1983 as a small picnic in a public park near the Atlanta University Center sponsored by the D ...
Sweet Auburn. / 33.75483; -84.38131. The Sweet Auburn Historic District is a historic African-American neighborhood along and surrounding Auburn Avenue, east of downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The name Sweet Auburn was coined by John Wesley Dobbs, referring to the "richest Negro street in the world," one of the largest concentrations ...
Atlanta, Illinois. "Welcome to Atlanta!" [ 1] Location of Atlanta in Logan County, Illinois. / 40.26389°N 89.23083°W / 40.26389; -89.23083. Atlanta (formerly Xenia) is a city in Logan County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,692 at the 2010 census.
Theater. Atlanta is one of few United States cities with permanent, professional, resident companies in all major performing arts disciplines: opera ( Atlanta Opera ), ballet ( Atlanta Ballet ), music ( Atlanta Symphony Orchestra ), and theater (the Alliance Theatre ). Atlanta also attracts many touring Broadway acts, concerts, shows, and ...
Artists’ Open Studios returns to Jamestown on Saturday from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Hosted by the Jamestown Arts Center, the annual Artists’ Open Studios is a one-day, island-wide event where ...