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National Black Arts Festival Presents Fine Art + Fashion
Atlanta, GA (February 2022)
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National Black Arts Festival Announces 2022 Empower the Possibilities Entrada
Atlanta, GA (Feb 09, 2022)
The National Blackness Arts Festival (NBAF), a nonprofit organisation with a legacy of providing stellar artistic and educational programs in music, dance, film, visual arts, theater, and the literary arts recently announced the launch of its starting time-ever campaign, "Empower the Possibilities". The campaign volition spotlight and dilate Black artists' roles and contributions to a growing cultural economic system and market.
Nether the leadership of recently appointed Executive Manager Stephanie Owens and Board Chair Tracey Lloyd, "Empower the Possibilities" was developed to back up, uplift, and champion the work of Black artists nationwide while deeply investing in and producing robust and intentional programming for the arts community.
The campaign will come to life throughout the year every bit NBAF expands their programs through immersive experiences and workforce evolution programs, while providing educational and business concern back up resources to youth and emerging artists. Each program draws inspiration from NBAF's mission to expose, educate, appoint and entertain audiences through the support of Blackness artists. The goal is to augment NBAF'south reach across multiple touchpoints including circulate, via several streaming services, and through a combination of social and digital content.
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NBAF Receives Grant from National Endowment for the Arts
Atlanta, GA, (January 8, 2022)
NBAF (National Black Arts Festival) has been approved for a $25,000 Grants for the Arts Projects honor past the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the Move/ Trip the light fantastic toe! Education program in partnership with Atlanta Public Schools and several historically Blackness colleges and universities, equally a part of its disbursement of grants for fiscal twelvemonth 2022.
NBAF'southward project is amid i,248 projects across America totaling $28,840,000 that were selected to receive this first circular of fiscal twelvemonth 2022 funding in the Grants for Arts Projects category.
"The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to back up arts projects like this one from NBAF that help back up the customs's creative economic system," said NEA Interim Chair Ann Eilers. "NBAF in Atlanta, GA is among the arts organizations nationwide that are using the arts as a source of forcefulness, a path to well-beingness, and providing access and opportunity for people to connect and find joy through the arts."
"NBAF seeks to ensure that the art and stories of Blackness people are increasingly presented and valued," said Stephanie Owens, Executive Director of NBAF. "We are committed to our work that helps shape a more equitable and impactful arts ecosystem that highlights the beautiful contributions of Black artists and the impact black art has made on our globe and are truly excited to go on to practice this work through our partnership with the NEA."
Please note, there may be a delay in the distribution of some grant awards as the NEA and all of the federal government are operating under a continuing budget resolution which currently expires on February 18, 2022.
For more information on other projects included in the Arts Endowment grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news.
Almost National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Established by Congress in 1965, the National Endowment for the Arts is the independent federal agency whose funding and support gives Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities. Through partnerships with country arts agencies, local leaders, other federal agencies, and the philanthropic sector, the Arts Endowment supports arts learning, affirms and celebrates America's rich and diverse cultural heritage, and extends its piece of work to promote equal access to the arts in every community across America.
ArtsATL, NBAF partner for fellowship to mentor aspiring arts writers of colour
Atlanta, GA (September 29, 2021)
Simona Lucchi, a recent graduate of Kennesaw Country University, has been named as the inaugural ArtsATL Beau, a new program designed to mentor aspiring arts writers of colour.
The one-year fellowship is underwritten through a partnership with the National Blackness Arts Festival. "NBAF seeks to ensure that the fine art and stories of Black people are increasingly presented and valued," said Stephanie Owens, executive director of NBAF. "We are committed to our work that helps shape a more equitable and impactful arts ecosystem. NBAF is excited to partner with ArtsATL on their fellowship program that will nurture the next generation of arts writers in an endeavour to go along to drag emerging artists of color."
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NBAF Receives Grant from Georgia Council for the Arts
Atlanta, GA (July 13, 2021)
National Blackness Arts (NBAF) was awarded a grant past Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA), a sectionalisation of the Georgia Department of Economical Development, as part of its initial disbursement of grants for fiscal year 2022.
A total of 218 organizations were awarded 266 grants that provide more than $2 1000000 in funding to arts organizations throughout the state. The Bridge Grant provided funding for operating back up to 135 organizations, the Project Grant will help fund 54 arts projects, and the Arts Pedagogy Plan Grant was awarded to 77 organizations. Boosted grants for Vibrant Communities and Cultural Facilities programs will be awarded in the Fall of 2021.
"As we emerge from this past year's quarantine, the arts sector is vital to restarting the economy by attracting tourists, assisting with classroom learning, and igniting events to bring communities back together," said GCA Executive Director Tina Lilly. "The 266 grants we have awarded will help cities and organizations leverage boosted funds and bring people back to work while providing fun and educational opportunities for Georgians across the state."
"NBAF seeks to ensure that the art and stories of Black people are increasingly presented and valued," said Stephanie Owens, Executive Director of NBAF. "We are committed to our work that helps shape a more equitable and impactful arts ecosystem that highlights the beautiful contributions of black artists and the bear upon black fine art has made on our globe and are truly excited to go on to do this work through our partnership with the Georgia Council for the Arts."
Funds awarded by Georgia Council for the Arts include appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Georgia Quango for the Arts uses Peer Review Panels to estimate and review applications following standard practices ready by the National Endowment for the Arts. Panelists are GCA Quango members and swain professionals who are experienced in the arts discipline or type of grant being reviewed, or are citizens with a record of arts activities, experience and knowledge. Grant recipients include theaters, trip the light fantastic toe companies, museums, cities, colleges and multi-subject field arts entities. A complete listing of financial year 2022 grantees in these program areas tin exist found hither.
About Georgia Council for the Arts
Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) is a sectionalization of the Georgia Section of Economical Development whose mission is to cultivate the growth of vibrant, thriving Georgia communities through the arts. GCA provides grant funding, programs and services statewide that back up the vital arts industry, preserve the land'south cultural heritage, increase tourism and nurture strong communities. Funding for Georgia Council for the Arts is provided past appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts. Visit gaarts.org for more information.
About GDEcD
The Georgia Department of Economical Development (GDEcD) is the land'south sales and marketing arm, the lead agency for attracting new business organisation investment, encouraging the expansion of existing industry and modest businesses, locating new markets for Georgia products, attracting tourists to Georgia, and promoting the state every bit a destination for arts and location for picture, music, and digital entertainment projects, besides as planning and mobilizing state resources for economic development. Visit www.georgia.org for more information.
Brand History: Black History Calendar month 2021
Atlanta, GA (February 11, 2021)
The past year has been extraordinarily hard, but we have persevered by working harder and working together. This month, Georgia Ability will illuminate Black leaders and organizations who are making bold moves — and history — past lifting upward the citizens and communities of Georgia.
Join the conversation on Facebook Live featuring Charmaine Ward, Georgia Ability's Manager of Corporate Relations, Stephanie Owens, NBAF's Managing Director and other local Black leaders and their organizations that are making a difference.
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NBAF Selected equally a 2020 South Arts Resilience Fund Recipient
Atlanta, GA (October 21, 2020)
National Black Arts (NBAF) is extremely grateful to be a 2020 S Arts Resilience Fund recipient. The generous grant of $65,209 volition help to support NBAF's resiliency efforts in response to the COVID-nineteen pandemic. This will include the re-alignment of their strategic plan with the inclusion of resilience focused strategies; provide staffing resource to proceed providing artistic and innovative public programming post-obit CDC guidelines; and assistance with offsetting overhead expenses for the organization.
With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the South Arts Resilience fund is supporting new, region-specific activities to build the long-term resiliency of arts organizations battling the furnishings of the Covid-19 pandemic. Through the Due south Arts Resilience Fund, significant grants accept been fabricated available to small-scale- and mid-sized arts organizations with a history of visionary leadership and impact. This fund is one of several back up mechanisms created by S Arts in an effort to exist responsive to the needs of arts organizations across the region. S Arts continues to seek additional funds to further build the South Arts Resilience Fund and its grant-making capabilities every bit the pandemic and its effects go along to evolve.
For over xxx years, NBAF has been steadfast in its work to elevate multidisciplinary performances and create memorable experiences for a wide spectrum of patrons of the arts. The organization is committed to working direct with emerging artists to expose them to art disciplines and to back up their growth and evolution. All of this as the nonprofit presents, supports and celebrates these artists and their work through excellent artistic and educational programs in spotlights, showcases, through the NBAForward virtual platform, and through arts teaching and youth development programs that nurture the talent of the next generation.
While 2020 has proven to be quite the challenge for NBAF and nonprofits around the world, it is not the first time NBAF has had to face up arduousness. Equally an system that has supported black artists nationwide for decades, NBAF knows how to navigate unprecedented change. NBAF's Managing Director, Stephanie Owens says "Equally an system, we are dedicated to being innovative and committed to sharing creative excellence, while addressing the need to get artists back to work head on, and empowering youth with arts educational activity programming. We are truly grateful to the South Arts Team and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for this extremely generous grant and through their support we will exist able to continue this important work and make an even larger bear on within the Atlanta arts community and throughout the Southeastern Region."
For more than information, visit the NBAF website, NBAF.org.
Virtually Due south Arts
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Southward Arts is a nonprofit regional arts organisation empowering artists, organizations, and communities, and increasing access to arts and culture. In partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the State Arts Agencies of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, N Carolina, Southward Carolina, and Tennessee — with additional funding from other public and private donors such as the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew West. Mellon Foundation — Due south Arts supports artists and organizations through a rich and responsive portfolio of grants, fellowships, and programs.
About The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Every bit the largest supporter of the arts and humanities in the US, the Mellon Foundation seeks to build just communities where ideas and imagination can thrive. To this end, our core programs support exemplary and inspiring institutions of higher didactics and culture. The Foundation makes grants in iv core program areas: Higher Learning; Arts and Culture; Public Knowledge; and Humanities in Place.
Why The Arts Matter in Georgia
Atlanta, GA
Fine art influences society past changing opinions, instilling values and translating experiences across space and time… Art in this sense is communication; it allows people from unlike cultures and different times to communicate with each other via images, sounds and stories. Information technology besides impacts factors such as GDP and employment. Take a wait at the "Why the Arts Matter in Georgia" Factsheet from Americans for the Arts Action Fund for ways the Arts impacts our state.
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Northside Hospital Partners with NBAF in Support of The "Motility/Dance!" And "Dancing with Seniors" Programs
Atlanta, GA (September 10, 2020)
The Collective Culture Presents the Apollo Theater's Stage Adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Critically Acclaimed Between the World and Me at Atlanta Symphony Hall Oct. 22, 2019
National Black Arts (NBAF) is honored and proud to announce a new sponsor partnership with Northside Infirmary. Northside Hospital will be supporting NBAF's Movement/Dance! and Dancing with Seniors Programs with a generous $40,000 contribution for the 2020-2021 schoolhouse year.
The Motion/Dance! Program was established by NBAF as part of its Adopt-A-School Program. Information technology brings much needed arts education and physical pedagogy dorsum into local Atlanta middle schools. The program provides teaching artists who instruct diverse dance forms from the 18th to the 21st centuries. They besides instruct classroom etiquette and act equally mentors and role models. Their lessons are based on a curriculum highlighting Black trip the light fantastic toe developed past NBAF to match the Atlanta Schoolhouse system's curriculum standards and goals. The Motion/Dance! Program is located in three middle schools, Sylvan Hills Eye Schoolhouse, King Middle Schoolhouse, and Bunche Middle School and serves virtually 1,000 depression income students. In 2020, NBAF in partnership with Atlanta Public Schools, provided virtual Google Classroom programming for all of its youth development and wellness initiatives.
The Movement/ Dance! Program encourages and nurtures the talent and the aspirations of middle school students while supporting the school, parents and guardians with their academic likewise as their health and health goals. Through this initiative, NBAF combines the creative arts with the goal of addressing prevalent health issues such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity and other conditions that plague our communities. Move/Dance! is besides an interventionist Plan because of the focus on improving the health and wellness of the students, and by extension their families, through fun trip the light fantastic toe lessons that support movement and do. Every bit 95% of the youth served in this program are African American, it is reported that a higher margin of these students suffer from diabetes, hypertension, and asthma. Overwhelmingly, the dance/practise program has improved the health disparities of the students. The Program likewise promotes educational enrichment and learning with the classroom experience, didactics the rich history of Black trip the light fantastic toe and the dancers, choreographers and dance companies that have paved the style.
In improver, the Northside/ NBAF partnership volition as well support "Dancing with Seniors", a health initiative focused on providing seniors with wellness teaching and exercise through dance. NBAF is serving over 125 seniors at Truitt Camp and Helene Senior Centers through this entertaining dance and wellness grade. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NBAF has re-branded the plan to "Zoomba with Seniors" and with digital support of the Zoom platform, the seniors appoint in the virtual dance wellness classes from the safety of their ain space. Participating seniors have go more agile, accept had less incidents of falling, lowered their BMI readings, and experience more alert and attentive.
With Northside Hospital's sponsorship, NBAF will have the power to expand both programs. The goal is to replicate the Move/Dance! Program throughout the Atlanta Public Middle Schools and Simple Schools. The plan will continue to expand and focus on addressing the needs of the whole child – supporting, nurturing, expanding and improving their creativity, talent, knowledge, academics and health.
NBAF'due south Managing Director, Stephanie Owens, shared "NBAF is beyond excited to build upon our electric current relationship with Northside Hospital as nosotros grow and evolve the Move/ Trip the light fantastic! And Dancing with Seniors Programs through their generous support and partnership. These two programs closely marshal with Northside Hospital'south mission and strategic initiatives focused on preventative wellness services and healthy lifestyle behaviors. We are thrilled to keep this of import work with Northside, impacting our communities and improving the health of those that we serve."
"Information technology's incommunicable to adequately describe the importance of National Blackness Arts and what it has meant to the people of Atlanta," said Lee Echols, vice president of marketing at Northside Hospital. "NBAF's touch on as a legacy organization gives information technology both gravitas every bit well equally cultural legitimacy. Northside Hospital believes this partnership will provide enormous benefit to our employees, our patients and their families – all while changing the lives of Atlanta's young people and senior citizens."
Northside Hospital is committed to the health and wellness of the community. Equally such, they dedicate themselves to being a center of excellence in providing loftier-quality health intendance. They pledge compassionate support, personal guidance and uncompromising standards to patients in their journeys toward health of torso and listen. To ensure innovative and unsurpassed care for patients, they are dedicated to maintaining their position as regional leaders in select medical specialties. To enhance the wellness of the community, they commit themselves to providing a diverse array of educational and outreach programs.
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About Northside Hospital
The Northside Hospital health care system is ane of Georgia'southward leading wellness care providers with v acute-care hospitals in Atlanta, Canton, Cumming, Duluth and Lawrenceville and more than 250 outpatient locations across the country. Northside Hospital leads the U.S. in newborn deliveries and is among the country's top providers of cancer care, sports medicine, cardiovascular and surgical services. For more data, visit: northside.com.
NBAF Featured in the Atlanta Prove Guide
Atlanta, GA
Nosotros are proud to exist featured in the Summertime Result of the Atlanta Testify Guide! Accept a look at our feature regarding "The Fine art of Giving/Horizon Awards"and more by clicking the link and turning to pages 7, 14 and 24.
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NBAF reaches for the stars in 2020, with fresh faces and initiatives to salvage the impact of COVID-19.
Atlanta, GA (May/June 2020)
Two new faces at National Black Arts (nbaf.org) take been hard at work standing the nonprofit arrangement's upward trajectory: Managing Director Stephanie Owens and Creative Director Tiffany LaTrice. The pair remain committed to NBAF's legacy to provide quality programming and arts education–albeit with some creative new visions in the works for the near future.
While 2020 has proven to exist quite the claiming, it's not the beginning fourth dimension NBAF has had to confront adversity. "As an system that has supported black artists nationwide for more than xxx years. NBAF knows how to navigate unprecedented change," says Owens, calculation, "We're dedicated to being innovative and committed to sharing artistic excellence." Right now, that innovation takes form in NBAF'south new artist project initiative, NBAForward, which will offer funds starting at $5,000 to support black artists in getting back to work.
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NBAF's CEO Vikki Millender Morrow visits Goodwill's "Good Works Show" to chat with co-hosts Elaine Armstrong and Trenise Lyons about National Blackness Arts.
CEO Vikki Millender Morrow visits the Studio Noize Podcast to discuss the new direction for NBAF (National Black Arts).
The NBAF (National Black Arts) 2019 Event Guide is live!
Atlanta, GA – (August 27, 2019) – Check out the annual publication of the NBAF 2019 Outcome Guide created by the team at the Atlanta ShowGuide. This issue features the program highlights for the balance of 2019 year and looks ahead to the exciting events planned for 2020. Click the link beneath for more data and to see what we take coming upward that you don't want to miss!
NBAF partners with The Commonage Civilization to present the Apollo Theater'south stage adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coate's critically acclaimed "Between the Globe and Me"
Atlanta, GA (Baronial 22, 2019)
The Collective Culture Presents the Apollo Theater'southward Stage Adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Critically Acclaimed Betwixt the World and Me at Atlanta Symphony Hall Oct. 22, 2019
The Apollo Theater and The Collective Culture, (Ronald B. Williams, J. Carter and Erin White), today announced that the Apollo'due south critically-acclaimed stage accommodation of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the Globe and Me is headed to Atlanta. The special presentation, originally developed and directed past Kamilah Forbes, Executive Producer of the Apollo Theater, and featuring original music equanimous by MacArthur "Genius" Jason Moran and performed alive by his trio, had its world premiere at the Apollo in 2018, and will launch its national tour in Atlanta with other stops across the country to be announced. Forbes will bring together the tour in Atlanta to discuss the continued significance of Between the World and Me and the cultural relevance of the product, the connection betwixt the Apollo, widely considered the epicenter of Black culture, its hometown Harlem, and Atlanta.
On Tuesday, October 22, 2019, the Apollo Theater and The Commonage Culture will present Between the Globe and Me at Atlanta Symphony Hall at 3:00 p.thousand. and vii:xxx p.k. The cast for the show will also feature some prominent Atlantans, to exist named at a afterwards date.
The product deepens the conversation well-nigh the experience of being Blackness in America through the eyes and words of Coates. "We are thrilled to bring this Apollo product to Atlanta and to exist function of the conversations on a topic that continues to resonate throughout our land," said Forbes. "Nosotros are grateful to work with partners who enable usa to share this important work with communities beyond the country."
Based on his honour-winning book, the theatrical upshot Betwixt the World and Me, takes hard, but necessary conversations effectually Black life and decease and places them heart stage. A profound piece of work that pivots from the biggest questions effectually racism and police violence to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Betwixt the World and Me offers a powerful framework for understanding our nation's history and asks: What is it like to inhabit a Black torso and find a fashion to alive within it? And how tin nosotros all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its brunt? Between the Globe and Me, both the book and the theatrical event, is an eye-opening, emotional look inside these conversations.
Dorsum past popular demand, after sold out runs at the Apollo Theater and Kennedy Eye in 2018, this alive operation features a cast of actors who bring to life Coates' words, along with a breathtaking, digital backdrop and music composed and performed live by Jason Moran (Selma, Netflix's documentary 13th) and his trio, direction by Apollo Executive Producer, Kamilah Forbes (By The Fashion, Meet Vera Stark; NBC'due south The Wiz). Angela Bassett, Common, Black Thought, Joe Morton and Pauletta Washington are just a few of the performers who brought the words of Coates' critically lauded book to life in the world premiere of Between the World and Me at Harlem'due south Apollo Theater.
The production volition exist remounted at the Apollo Theater October 25-28, 2019. Full casting for all shows will be appear at a afterward appointment.
Partners for The Collective Culture's Presentation of Between the World and Me are: Sundial Brands, Banking concern of America, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and the National Black Arts.
NBAF Officially Announces New Management in Atlanta Business Relate
Atlanta, GA (August 2, 2019)
Fresh off the heels of our 30th anniversary year, we are excited to denote several initiatives that will lead to new growth and opportunities for advancement for the work of artists of African descent. Near importantly, NBAF has worked for several years to get known equally more than than a summer festival. Thank you to the support of our Board, volunteers, patrons and generous corporate partners, we accept become a sustainable year round arts system!
Over the past twelvemonth, we've worked to cultivate programming that impacts the future through youth pedagogy, supports emerging artists and yet still provides festival-like arts programs for the public throughout the calendar yr.
And we've already enjoyed tremendous success by eliminating the barriers that were imposed by a defined flavor.
Every pace frontward furthers our mission to expose, brainwash, appoint and entertain audiences as we present and support fine art and artists of African descent, while broadening cultural experiences for all. Our mission and our fine arts disciplines are the same. We're just no longer bound past time. To read the residuum of our characteristic, visit the Atlanta Business Relate.
CEO Vikki Millender-Morrow Expands NBAF to Twelvemonth-Round Celebration of Culture.
Atlanta, GA (July 12, 2019)
The National Blackness Arts Festival (NBAF) provides educational programs in music, trip the light fantastic, film, visual arts, theater and literary arts locally, nationally and internationally for diverse audiences. Founded in 1987 past the Fulton County Arts Council, NBAF began as a one-week summer festival. Today, President and CEO Vikki Millender-Morrow, forth with the board, council, partnerships and donors, are working together to transform information technology into a premier yr-round celebration of Black culture.
Rolling out recently sat downwards with Millender-Morrow to become the scoop on what to expect from NBAF in the coming months.
As the president and CEO, what is your vision for the National Black Arts Festival?
NBAF has been effectually for more than 30 years and has congenital a legacy every bit an system that provides the opportunity to celebrate the arts and artists of African descent. Past featuring artists from the African Diaspora we go along to bring diverse communities together. My vision is to operate in this same light to continue to open more doors through the artistic and educational programs that nosotros offer.
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National Black Arts Festival goes year-circular as gala returns to Buckhead
Atlanta, GA (June 26, 2019)
The National Black Arts Festival continues to expand beyond its origin as a weeklong series of events, so much so that it's dropped the give-and-take "Festival" from its proper noun and now goes by NBAF.
The NBAF celebrates the African diaspora past showcasing artists in half dozen disciplines: literary arts, dance, music, film, theater and visual arts, and is the oldest organisation of its kind in the U.s.a. focused on the arts and artists of African descent. The U.S. Congress honored information technology as a "national treasure" in 2008, and last year it received the Governor's Award for the Arts and Humanities in Georgia.
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NBAF Hosts Music Event, Fine art Gallery in Conjunction with Atlanta Jazz Festival.
Atlanta, GA (May 21, 2019)
The National Black Arts Festival will host ii events at the almanac Atlanta Jazz Festival in an effort to unify fans of various ages and art disciplines. Jazz and hip-hop make for a rich collaboration at Talkin' All That Jazz: The Jazz and Hip-Hop Fusion Concert at Metropolis Winery on May 23. And on May 25–26, the organization hosts Art in the Park, a pop-up outdoor gallery in Piedmont Park during the jazz fest.
The NBAF, a nonprofit system that supports art and artists of African descent through pedagogy and entertainment, has supported jazz and its role as a social conduit for more than than three decades. The organisation is seeking ways to transcend the generational divide in jazz music.
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NBAF Receives General Operating Grant From Its Founding Organization.
Atlanta, GA (March 14, 2019)
Fulton County announces its continued fiscal support of the National Black Arts Festival (NBAF) with a $250,000 grant for full general operating support for the fiscal year 2019. Fulton County recognizes the importance of NBAF, the oldest multidisciplinary arts organization in the Us focused exclusively on the arts and on artists of African descent. In 2008, the United states Congress honored NBAF as a "national treasure", and in 2018 NBAF received the Governor's Award for Arts and Humanities in Georgia. "NBAF is pleased to accept this level of support from our visionary founders, Fulton County Board of Commissioners and Arts and Culture. This gift is in back up of our transformation from a summer festival to a year-round arts organisation that exposes and educates youth by delivering school-based arts programs in underserved areas, supports and elevates emerging visual artists, and creates public arts programs that entertain audiences," says Vikki Millender-Morrow, President & CEO of NBAF.
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NBAF Grantee of the 2019 Grant Awards of NEA.
Atlanta, GA (March 3, 2019)
The National Black Arts Festival (NBAF) is pleased to denote that it is a grantee of the 2019 grant awards announced past the National Endowment for the Arts. This annunciation of more $27 1000000 in grants, supports the National Endowment for the Arts in continuing its efforts to provide all Americans with the
opportunity to participate in and experience the arts.
This fiscal twelvemonth 2019 grants volition reach all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. This is the get-go of ii major grant announcements in the fiscal twelvemonth 2019 and includes three of the bureau'south funding categories: Art Works and Challenge America to support projects by nonprofit organizations, and Creative Writing Fellowships. Through these grants, the National Endowment for the Arts supports local economies and preserves American heritage while embracing new forms of creative expression.
"The arts heighten our communities and our lives, and we look forward to seeing these projects take identify
throughout the country, giving Americans opportunities to learn, to create, to heal, and to celebrate," said Mary
Anne Carter, acting chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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NBAF Super Basin Weekend Light Testify in Midtown
Atlanta, GA (February 12, 2019)
On February 23 the residents of Atlanta and people from well-nigh and far historic Super Bowl LIII at Mercedez Benz Stadium and not too far abroad, NBAF historic the connection betwixt sports and the arts at Colony Square. Digital images depicting "Fine art of the Sport" was projected onto the building.
The images appeared nightly betwixt 6 and 11 p.m. The project was supported by the Woodruff Arts Center — simply beyond the street from Colony Square.
The idea was to prove the similarities between the two worlds, both of which depend on "passion, coordination, expression, discipline, talent, teamwork and the human trunk," according to the festival.
"Art and sports assistance transcend and elevator; they both bring joy to the man spirit," said Pellom McDaniels Iii, Ph.D., curator of African American Collections at Emory University and former NFL player.
The National Black Arts Festival is an Atlanta-based nonprofit organisation that for 30 years has brought the art and the artists of the African diaspora to Atlanta audiences.
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NBAF Celebrates xxx Years of Arts and Educational Excellence.
Atlanta, GA (October 28, 2018)The National Black Arts Festival (NBAF) celebrates 30 years of excellence at the elegant Flourish Atlanta by Legendary Arts venue. The 30th "NBAF: What Makes A Legend" gala focuses on artists of African descent who create and push forth the innovative essence of African and African-American civilization.
Among the dynamic artists who contributed their groundbreaking artwork includes Kenyan-born sculptor and painter Grace Kisa, who gleamed every bit she stated, "The gala reminded me the NBAF was more than than an organization, it was a move." Artist and founder of YBE Magazine Okeeba Jubalo gave great remarks about the gala, he added, "xxx years is a great accomplishment. Reimagining the role of the NBAF and their relationship with Atlanta's arts community will exist the primal to some other successful 30 years." Pioneer manner designer, Cedric Brownish, and fine art main Maurice Evans was in attendance besides. Atlanta based fine artist Lillian Blades stated, "The NBAF Gala has raised the bar of excellence, incomparable and unprecedented!"
NBAF has a history of advancing artistic and educational programs in visual arts, music, film, dance theater and literary arts. NBAF is best-selling as the oldest multidisciplinary arts organisation in the The states which advances the arts and contributions of artists of African descent.
Post-obit the art showroom there was a performance past an all-girls youth ring who twirled their cymbals with style and beat on the drums with fierceness and speed. NBAF is known for supporting the youth and their creative endeavors which contributes to the adjacent generation of visual, performing and creative arts.
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Artist Lillian Blades Hosts Workshop For Local Atlanta Students.
Atlanta, GA (October iv, 2018) On Midweek, September 19 youth from the East Signal-based nonprofit Future Foundation pitched in to decorate the Atlanta Hawks' newly renovated $192.5 million home, which hosts its first home game Oct. 24.
They were led by Atlanta creative person Lillian Blades, who counts honors from the consulate in her native Bahamas and from the National Black Arts Festival among her awards.
"Art is a way that people express themselves when they may non take the words or platform to convey their feelings. I recollect that it is really important that children are allowed to have that 'voice,'" she said in a argument after the Sept. 19 upshot. "Working with the youth provides a adventure to connect with and encourage those that are invigorated by art."
Blades, students and festival artists Charly Palmer, Okeeba Jubalo and Tracy Murrel worked on what a news release called a "massive collage" during a session at the city'southward Jefferson Park Recreation Center.
As in Blades' other piece of work, like "Quilted Passages" commissioned by Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the sixth- through twelfth-grade students assembled mixed media materials.
The piece is part of a "Truthful to Atlanta" series conceived by art consultant Amy Parry.
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About the Futurity Foundation
Our mission is to level the playing field for metro Atlanta youth by providing quality teaching, health, and life skills programs. We call ourselves the Future Foundation because we encourage kids to dream about, invest in, and prepare for their futures. Nosotros ready students and parents to take the cocky-confidence to envision a amend life, and stand out from the wheel of negativity and hopelessness, and affect modify in their lives and communities. Whether it's tutoring, higher prep, guidance toward salubrious choices, or providing a safe space to make those choices, our programs help our students depict on their resilience and thrive in the face up of their challenges. We offer programs to help parents build stronger families, and encourage community members to invest in our youths' future. In this mode, nosotros build a foundation for a better time to come for all of us.
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Afterwards 30 years of serving Metro Atlanta, NBAF Transforms.
Atlanta, GA (September 28, 2018)Over the concluding 3 decades, the Atlanta-based National Black Arts Festival has persisted in its mission to advance the contributions of artists of African descent by showcasing Black artists from all over the country in Atlanta.
In the process, it has become a staple in the fine art customs for Blackness artists, who at present have a platform to impress their art into the fabric of club.
Though the mission has ever remained the aforementioned, the direction of the organization has certainly changed.
One of the driving forces behind that change is CEO Vikki Morrow, whose vision is to work directly with artists to progress their careers, implement programs to foster new talent and reimage what the organization tin do for Black artists.
Founded in 1987 past Michael Lomaz, former Chair of the Fulton County Commission and President of the United Negro Higher Fund, the organization hosted its first biannual festival back in 1988.
Over the form of its 30-year history, the NBAF has engaged in partnerships with the High Museum of Art, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, the Rialto Center of Arts, the Auburn Avenue Research Library, Emory University, Spelman and Morehouse Colleges, and the Atlanta Beltline. The organization'southward most significant partnership to date is i that it shares with Atlanta Public Schools (APS).
In award of NBAF's 30th anniversary, the arrangement offered an entire calendar month of festival programming, showcasing a number of events and exhibits that capture NBAF'south past accomplishments and future goals.
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A Focus On The Futurity.
Atlanta, GA (September 28, 2018) Over the terminal three decades, the Atlanta-based National Black Arts Festival has persisted in its mission to advance the contributions of artists of African descent past showcasing Blackness artists from all over the country in Atlanta. In the procedure, it has become a staple in the art community for Black artists, who now have a platform to impress their art into the fabric of society.
Though the mission has always remained the aforementioned, the direction of the system has certainly changed. I of the driving forces behind that change is CEO Vikki Morrow, whose vision is to work straight with artists to progress their careers, implement programs to foster new talent and reimage what the organization tin practise for Black artists.
Under Morrow'due south guidance, the organization now focuses more on implementing yr-round programming to uplift youth and emerging artists. "(Morrow) is doing an outstanding chore of reconnecting the NBAF with the community through partnerships and collaborations," said Lionell Thomas, director of the Fulton County Arts Quango. "She is thoughtful and deliberate in her actions and is perfect for taking the NBAF to the next level." This year marks the 30th Ceremony of the National Black Arts Festival (NBAF).
With 30 years under its chugalug, NBAF has existed as a non-profit that provides artistic and educational programming in dance, way, film, literature, music and visual arts. Founded in 1987 by Michael Lomaz, former Chair of the Fulton County Committee and President of the United Negro College Fund, the organization hosted its first biannual festival dorsum in 1988.
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National Black Arts Festival Celebrates 30 Years
Atlanta, GA (September xiv, 2018)The National Black Arts Festival is turning 30.
The Atlanta-based nonprofit is renowned for beingness the oldest multidisciplinary arts organization that focuses mainly on fine art and artists of African heritage, according to NBAF'south CEO Vikki Morrow.
"It's not ofttimes that an arts organization or even an arts organization largely representing artists of African descent could concluding for 30 years. And then we feel very blessed and fortunate to have this distinction," Morrow said.
In 1988, NBAF began as a 1-week outdoor festival. The non-profit has since evolved into a celebration of all arts, from theatre to trip the light fantastic toe, around the city, according to Morrow.
"People always call back about the people on the phase or in front of the photographic camera or the artist that had a paintbrush. And we want to expose immature people to the full latitude of the creative arts industries," she said.
The organisation has success stories that prove the impact of their programs on young people.
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The National Black Arts Festival turns xxx.
Atlanta, GA (September 14, 2018) In 1988, NBAF began as a one-week outdoor festival. The non-profit has since evolved into a celebration of all arts, from theatre to trip the light fantastic, effectually the city.
Within the terminal decade, the non-profit has shifted its focus to providing the customs with school-based programs, such as the Motility/Dance Program that brings dance sessions to middle school students in Atlanta.
To commemorate the 30th anniversary, this yr's festival season included events, ranging from a jazz show to an art exhibit. Here's what to expect from this year'southward festival issue lineup.
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NBAF 30th Anniversary Includes Exhibitions, Concerts, and Beltline Parade.
Atlanta, GA (September 10, 2018) The 30th-anniversary season of the National Blackness Arts Festival is gearing upwards with several noteworthy events slated for September.
The exhibitionWithout Stopping curated by Jonell Logan at the Westside Cultural Arts Center features the work of Atlanta-based and national artists who are exploring gimmicky social, political and theoretical bug through their work. The show volition be on view through September 24, with a special collectors' reception on Sat, September xv at 3 p.m. Featured artists include Lillian Blades, Alfred Conteh, Ya La'Ford, Shanequa Gay, Mario Moore, Roni Nicole Henderson, Fahamu Pecou, Charly Palmer, Cheryl Riley, William Paul Thomas, Zipporah Camille Thompson, Cedric Umoja and Cosmo Whyte.
Another exhibition,Thirty Years of NBAF: Experience the Journey, running September 22 through Oct 15 at Chastain Arts Center, will feature a look back through photos, video and commissioned fine art pieces from throughout the festival'southward xxx-year history. A reception for the exhibition takes identify on Thursday, September 27 at six p.m. A dark of jazz at the High Museum on Fri, September 21, celebrates the festival's long and storied connection to the fine art form. Jamal Ahmad from Jazz 91.nine WCLK hosts a lineup featuring dissimilar styles of jazz including bebop, freeform and the genre-blending sounds of horn thespian Christopher Allison.
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Couture And Celebrating Young Talent Come up Together In Fine Art & Fashion
Atlanta, GA (April 3, 2018) In March 2018, I had the opportunity to visit the National Black Arts Festival's special consequence, "Fine Fine art & Manner". It was a unique opportunity to collaborate with a foundation focused on irresolute the lives of promising talent while focusing on providing unique opportunities to advance the arts of artists of African descent.
Held at Lenox Square's Neiman Marcus, the outcome drew a diverse, stylish crowd, including several members of the GPB community. Morning Edition host Leah Fleming had the honor of hosting the evening's affairs and was enthusiastic about collaborating with NBAF.
Additionally, the consequence was attended by those behind and in front of the cameras on GPB'due south original show A Seat at the Table, including host Monica Pearson and producer Tiffany Brown Rideaux, too as GPB President and CEO Teya Ryan.
Later photo opportunities and hors d'oeuvres, guests made their manner to the tiptop floor of Neiman Marcus to recognize both contributors to the NBAF too every bit the students recognized. As commemorative portraits were presented to the honorees, the ceremony as well highlighted another GPB connection: Jessica Gurrell, i of GPB's talented graphic designers, created some of the fine art used for the portraits. For other awards, the portrait art was created by Afua Richardson, a comic book artist with work in print from a variety of publishers and who is working on Marvel's electric current Blackness Panther series. While Gurrell was not present, I spoke to Richardson after the prove who was both humbled and excited to attend the effect. The popularity of the recent Curiosity film was not lost on the crowd, equally guests buzzed in excitement over the portraits.
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NBAF Pegs Fahamu Pecou For It's Visual Artist Award
Atlanta, GA (February viii, 2018) The National Black Arts Festival, jubilant its 30th anniversary this year, has selected Fahamu Pecou as the winner of this year's Visual Creative person Award. This year the award comes with a $v,000 cash prize, which will be presented to Pecou at the festival's Fine art + Fashion event on March fifteen at Neiman Marcus.
The Atlanta artist, known for his figurative paintings that reference hip hop, African traditions and the perception of black men, recently received his PhD from Emory University'southward Found of Liberal Arts in visual scholarship, visual culture, anthropology, and race & gender.
"Practice or Die: Affect, Ritual, Resistance," a traveling survey of his work organized by the Halsey Found of Contemporary Fine art in Charleston, volition appear at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, January 19 – Apr 28, 2019. A book of Pecou's work,Visible Human, arose from his dissertation and was published in conjunction with the exhibition.
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Atlanta BeltLine Inc. and NBAF Host Fine art on the BeltLine.
Atlanta, GA (Dec xi, 2017)Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. (ABI) and the National Black Arts Festival (NBAF) launched a new collaboration to enhanceArt on the Atlanta BeltLine in Atlanta BeltLine neighborhoods. Working together, the two organizations volition reach more communities and more than artists, share resource and knowledge, and support and promote artists to continually push for a positive, diverse public fine art experience in Atlanta.
ABI is in the procedure of reevaluating its public art programme with the goal of greater equity, admission, and inclusion beyond the cultural sector. ABI has held meetings in order to receive feedback from communities with their suggestions forFine art on the Atlanta BeltLineand other programming.
Results of theArt on the Atlanta BeltLine community date process highlighted an opportunity for greater outreach and connection to a more various group of artists from the juried selection through the final visual and performance works. ABI and NBAF volition work to attain these goals by bringing together world-class fine art professionals, enriching artistic programming, and greater multifariousness in planning and implementation. This new partnership is the first step in a series of new collaborations that will reshape howArt on the Atlanta BeltLine connects with the broader community.
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