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  Woodruff Arts Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Woodruff Arts Center is an arts center in the Midtown district of Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The main campus of the Woodruff Arts Center on Peachtree Street includes the Memorial Arts Building, the High Museum Building, an administrative building, a residence hall for the Atlanta College of Art, and the Arts Center MARTA public transportation station.
In 1968, Atlanta Memorial Arts Center (designed by Joe Amisano) was built and dedicated to the memory of 106 Atlanta art patrons who died in a plane crash during a 1962 art tour in Paris.
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 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Atlanta College of Art
The Atlanta College of Art (ACA), founded in 1905, was a four-year accredited private art college in the city until 2006, when it was absorbed by the Atlanta campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).
Woodruff Arts Center, a multiuse art complex composed of the High Museum of Art, the Alliance Theater, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in midtown Atlanta.
In 1905 an art school and museum, later to become the Atlanta College of Art and the High Museum of Art, were formed as an outgrowth of the Atlanta Art Association.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1054   (504 words)

  
 High Museum of Art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The High Museum of Art is the primary art museum in Atlanta, Georgia.
The museum is a division of the Woodruff Arts Center, which also includes the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Young Audiences and the 14th Street Playhouse.
In 1968, 122 Atlanta arts patrons died in an airplane crash while on a museum-sponsored trip to Europe.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/High_Museum_of_Art   (376 words)

  
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The Woodruff Arts Center is the heartbeat of Atlanta's arts community.
Since its inception, the Woodruff Arts Center has grown into the most dynamic center for the visual and performing arts in the South and is among the top such centers in the nation.
Today the Woodruff Arts Center includes the Alliance Theatre Company, High Museum of Art, Atlanta College of Art, 14th Street Playhouse and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
www.table1280.com /content/woodruff.asp   (102 words)

  
 Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center
ATLANTA - When the respective Boards of the Woodruff Arts Center and Young Audiences of Atlanta, Inc. voted recently to add Atlanta's affiliate of Young Audiences, Inc. as a new division at Woodruff, history was made for both organizations and a new force in arts education was born.
The Woodruff Arts Center is currently one of the four largest arts centers in the country and more than 200,000 students from the metro Atlanta area attend educational programs and exhibitions offered by the Divisions of the Woodruff each year.
A not-for-profit organization, the Woodruff Arts Center comprises the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta College of Art, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the High Museum of Art, Young Audiences of Atlanta and the 14th Street Playhouse.
www.yawac.org /press2.php   (1671 words)

  
 CAP/ADID - GSU's Rialto Center Partners with Woodruff Arts Center
The Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center is the regions largest arts center.
The Center's "Celebrate Diversity Through the Arts" initiative seeks to provide Atlanta opportunities to experience the rhythms of many cultures through the exhibition of their arts and festivals.
Rising from the shell of a once-popular movie theater dating to 1916, the Rialto is the result of an ambitious, state-of-the-art, $14 million renovation and a firm, forward-thinking commitment on the part of the University to the revitalization of the city's central business district.
www.atlantadowntown.com /NewsGSUWorldArt.asp   (525 words)

  
 Arthur Blank Family Foundation
Art is not an ornament, a plaything for the intellectual elite, but an elixir that nourishes the best impulses of men.
Records at the Atlanta History Center document that in 1962, at the time of the Orly plane crash, there were seven: two professional theater companies, two semi-professional theater troupes, the Atlanta Ballet, the Atlanta Symphony and the Atlanta School of Art.
But according to a recent study of the arts economy comparing Atlanta to 20 peer cities, Atlanta’s arts lag in private philanthropy, and we’re in the bottom tier of southern cities in nonprofit arts revenues per capita and philanthropy to the arts per capita.
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 Inglett & Stubbs - Electrical Construction - Woodruff Arts Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Woodruff Center's 14th Street Playhouse is a three-theatre complex at the corner of Juniper and 14th Streets.
The multi-purpose Woodruff Arts Center includes the Alliance Theatre Company, High Museum of Art, Atlanta College of Art, 14th Street Playhouse and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
The Center was built in 1955 and expanded twice in the 1960s.
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 Restaurant Associates Managed Services
The Woodruff Circle Room is a formal meeting room on the third floor of the Memorial Arts Building.
Enjoying views of the main Piazza at the Woodruff Arts Center (WAC), guests may choose from two different dining experiences: The restaurant, offering American brasserie-inspired dishes and the Tapas Lounge, serving a variety of small plates, using the finest seasonal ingredients.
The Woodruff Arts Center is located at the Arts Center Station of MARTA, Atlanta's rapid transit system.
www.restaurantassociates.com /default.asp?action=article&ID=51   (629 words)

  
 Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center
As one of 32 local affiliates of the national Young Audiences organization and the newest division of the Woodruff Arts Center, YAWAC is Georgia’s leading provider of in-school educational arts programming, reaching approximately one million children during the 2004-2005 school year alone.
The Woodruff Arts Center opened its doors in 1968 and has grown into the largest performing and visual arts center in the nation.
Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center would like to spread the word that it is available to assist any YA of Louisiana roster artists currently staying in Georgia.
www.yawac.org /press.php   (3254 words)

  
 How Have Others Helped - Advertising and Work Opportunities | Southern Arts Federation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture magazine, donated a one-page Public Service Announcement, published in the November 2005 issue, promoting the SAF Emergency Relief Fund.
Delaware City, Delaware and the Delaware Division of the Arts are partnering to provide opportunity grants and favorable rent/purchase terms to Gulf Coast artists who relocate to the area.
Woodruff Arts Center is offering to provide work for the Young Audiences artists displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
www.southarts.org /site/c.guIYLaMRJxE/b.1466521/k.D0E2/How_Have_Others_Helped__Advertising_and_Work_Opportunities.htm   (528 words)

  
 Expanded High Museum Of Art Opened On November 12, 2005 | Design Forums
The High Museum of Art opened its expanded facilities to the public on November 12, 2005, creating a vibrant “village for the arts” at the Woodruff Arts Center in Midtown Atlanta.
The High and the Woodruff Arts Center surpassed their original $130-million campaign goal in November 2004—exactly one year before the opening of the expanded Museum.
The Woodruff Arts Center is ranked among the top four arts centers in the nation.
www.dexigner.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=3534   (1728 words)

  
 Woodruff Arts Center
Center is the heart of Atlanta's Arts District.
The Alliance Theatre, High Museum of Art, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, 14th Street Playhouse and the Young Audiences are all a part of the Woodruff Arts Center.
Atlanta is home to the largest arts and culture center in the southeast region -- the melting pot for cultures, traditions and a myriad of lifestyles, the heartbeat of Atlanta's thriving arts community.
www.woodruffcenter.org /wac/invo.asp   (268 words)

  
 DEVELOPMENT TOUR: WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER
The High Museum of Art will open its expanded facilities to the public on November 12, 2005, unveiling architect Renzo Piano’s vibrant “village for the arts” at the Woodruff Arts Center—a cultural hub that not only creates dynamic new spaces, but also embodies the spirit of Blueprint Midtown II.
The High expansion is the centerpiece of an overall upgrade of the Woodruff Arts Center, which in addition to the museum also encompasses the Atlanta College of Art, the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Young Audiences of Atlanta and the 14 th Street Playhouse.
The fundraising campaign to expand the High and enhance the Woodruff Arts Center campus reached its $130 million goal in November 2004.
www.midtownalliance.org /DT_future_40.htm   (629 words)

  
 PlaybillArts: News: Atlanta's Woodruff Arts Center Appoints Joseph Bankoff President
Joseph Bankoff has been appointed president and CEO of Atlanta's Woodruff Arts Center, which houses the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the center announced.
Bankoff, 60, is senior partner at King and Spalding and a long-time arts and civic leader.
The Woodruff Arts Center, opened in 1968, is also home to the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta College of Art, the High Museum of Art, and the 14th Street Playhouse.
www.playbillarts.com /news/article/4579.html   (497 words)

  
 Renzo Piano - Building Workshop Woodruff Arts Center :: arcspace.com
The new High and Woodruff Arts campus creates a “Village for the Arts” where visitors can experience the finest art, music and theatre in the city.
All three are clad in panels of aluminum to unite the complex with the Meier-designed building’s signature white enamel facade.
The Wieland Pavilion and the Anne Cox Chambers Wing centers on a roof system of 1,000 seven-foot-tall light scoops that captures northern light and filter it into the skyway galleries, allowing for natural illumination.
www.arcspace.com /architects/piano/woodruff1/woodruff.html   (466 words)

  
 wsbradio.com: News Woodruff Arts Center Announces New CEO
ATLANTA (AP) The Woodruff Arts Center has named a prominent Atlanta attorney and longtime arts and civic leader as its new president and chief executive officer.
Joseph R. Bankoff, who starts his new job in September, will lead the largest arts center in the Southeast and one of the three largest in the nation.
Over the summer, he will study Woodruff Arts Center plans and operations and transition his role at the King Spalding law firm, where he is a senior partner.
wsbradio.com /news/051706woodruffceo3a.html   (246 words)

  
 Atlanta Symphony Center Designed By Santiago Calatrava
The Center is a key element in the evolving campus expansion of the Woodruff Arts Center.
In March 2000, the Woodruff Arts Center purchased a 6.2-acre plot of land in Midtown Atlanta, located at the corner of Peachtree and 14th Streets.
The largest center in the United States for the performing and visual arts, the Woodruff Arts Center opened in 1968 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the High Museum of Art and Atlanta College of Art as founding members.
www.atlantasymphonycenter.org /support.asp   (2982 words)

  
 Public Broadcasting Atlanta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
During his tenure at the Woodruff Arts Center, currently the largest visual and performing arts center in the country, Shelton has presided over the most dramatic expansion ever seen by the Woodruff.
Since the opening, the Woodruff Arts Center’s campus has been the cornerstone for the growth of the arts throughout the South and a centerpiece in Atlanta.
Currently, the Woodruff Arts Center is the largest visual/performing arts center in the United States and is one of the four largest arts centers in the country.
www.wabe.org /community/lexusleader/jan06.html   (666 words)

  
 Wesleyan College: News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
MACON, Ga. —Wesleyan college alumna Malika Garrett’s vibrant paintings of her native India will be featured in the Center Space Gallery in the Memorial Arts Building of the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta Sunday, Aug. 8, through Sunday, Aug. 15, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Garrett, who was born in Calcutta and went on to earn her AB degree in fine arts from Wesleyan in 1989, was featured in the February 2004 issue of Southern Living.
Woodruff Arts Center is located at 1280 Peachtree Street NE Atlanta.
www.wesleyancollege.edu /news/articles/2004/08062004_garrett.html   (284 words)

  
 Mélik Ohanian: You're mY destinY - Atlanta College of Art, Woodruff Arts Center - Absolutearts.com
Atlanta College of Art Gallery is pleased to present Mélik Ohanian: You're mY destinY, a multimedia installation project predicated on the entanglements of fate and identity.
An Atlanta College of Art Gallery commission, Ohanian's You're mY destinY is based on the recent and accidental discovery of his homonym living in New York City.
Led to this connection through a search for his Armenian roots, Ohanian re-imagines the Armenian exile (after the genocide of 1915) and uncovers its resonance in terms that are personal to the artist as well as historically and philosophically speculative.
www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2003/03/28/30884.html   (762 words)

  
 MIDTOWN ATLANTA: ATLANTA'S HEART OF THE ARTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The event actually marks the return of the festival to Atlanta, but this is the first time the City, the Woodruff Arts Center and Montreux planners have teamed up to make it happen.
Atlanta was chosen as the sole US host city in part due to its growth among international cities, its 14-year history of presenting the festival in the past, and Woodruff’s capability to provide multiple stages and facilities.
Further, considering that the South is where jazz was born and the reputation of the Woodruff, we couldn’t imagine a better place to hold the festival,” said Mathieu Jaton, Montreux Jazz Festival Secretary General.
www.midtownalliance.org /AM_jazz.htm   (436 words)

  
 About VSA arts: VSA arts of Georgia
VSA arts of Georgia, in partnership with Young Audiences Woodruff Arts Center, is conducting artist residencies in inclusive classrooms in five schools.
The annual Holiday Art Sale is a major retail learning opportunity for artists with and without disabilities, and an occasion for shoppers to experience the organization’s vision of a Georgia where the arts are accessible to everyone, regardless of circumstance.
VSA arts of Georgia invites corporate and civic groups to reserve the organization’s Arts for All Gallery for holiday parties where partygoers can “shop for a cause.” The shopping party concept, introduced in 2004, has seen annual sales revenue jump from $3,000 to $32,000 in just two years.
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 BellSouth Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Woodruff Arts Center is the crowing jewel of the arts in Georgia.
The Woodruff boasts the best in theatre, symphony and visual arts through its members, the Alliance Theatre Company, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum of Art.
Each year, the Woodruff Arts Center looks to the corporations and people of our state to support its growth and future.
www.bellsouth.com /community/campaign_local_woodruff.html   (205 words)

  
 GoCityKids Atlanta | Woodruff Arts Center
One of the top arts centers in the nation, Woodruff Arts Center is a mecca for the performing and visual arts.
The campus includes the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the High Museum of Art, Young Audiences and the 14th Street Playhouse.
The Woodruff Arts Center is located at the Arts Center Station (N5) of MARTA.
www.gocitykids.com /browse/attraction.jsp?id=37333   (87 words)

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