SXSW 2009: The Arts in Atlanta
A couple of times during this year’s SXSW, I ran into Shani Harris Peterson, an Atlanta-based filmmaker and partner in the local production house Two Six Productions. Our mutual friend George Kelly introduced us.
Shani and I gabbed in large part about the Atlanta filmmaking scene (or what of it is not owned, lock stock and barrel, by Tyler Perry) which got me thinking about the Atlanta art scene at large. Which, unknown to me, is quite rich.
- Local designer Cinque Hicks is a great beginning resource. Check out this mother-of-a-blogroll.
- Ditto to the Atlanta Coalition for the Perfoming Arts.
- Atlanta Films Forum is lively discussion board about the cinema scene in town.
- A nice explanation of the Atlanta literary community.
- Museumwise, Atlanta is home to the High Museum of Art, The King Center, The Jimmy Carter Library, and The national headquarters of The AIDS Quilt, to name but a few. I’m also quite partial to the Center of Puppetry Arts, which has a Jim Henson retrospective going on right now.
I haven’t visited Atlanta since the late 1990 when an old friend lived there. Time to find an excuse to go back.