The NAC challenge

Collection:

Neighborhood Arts Center Photographs Series, Jim Alexander Collection

Creator:

Alexander, Jim

Date:

1979

DLG URL:

https://dlg.usg.edu/record/aarl_anac_janac31

Subject:

Community arts projects--Georgia--Atlanta, African American children--Georgia--Atlanta, Urban youth--Georgia--Atlanta, and Neighborhood Arts Center (Atlanta, Ga.)

Spatial coverage:

United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 and United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Mechanicsville, 33.739, -84.39854

Medium:

black-and-white photographs

Description:

Community children hanging out outside the NAC were always encouraged to take free art classes inside.--from Jim Alexander's annotations. Neighborhood Arts Center employees always encouraged community children in Atlanta to take free art classes at the center. Neighborhood Arts Center artists hoped to develop public creativity and art appreciation by offering free workshops and classes in visual arts, performing arts and creative writing.

Holding Institution:

Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/