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Subscribe to the ArtsGeorgia newsletter State of the Arts by emailing your request to artsga@artsgeorgia.net. Please include your name, organization, street address, city, state and zip code. You will receive a reply confirming the receipt of your request.
State of the Arts is a quarterly printed publication which includes articles of interest to artists, arts educators, arts administrators, patrons, advocates and those interested in the state of the arts in Georgia. State of the Arts covers what is new in the Georgia arts community and stories where we find success with initiatives, programs and people in the Georgia arts community. All previous issues of State of the Arts - beginning in 2013 through the current issue - are now available as pdf files below.
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2016
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 Fall ArtsGeorgia celebrates the grand opening of St. EOM’s Pasaquan with this special edition. Doug DeLoach, our new writer, and Tom Patterson, author of St. EOM in the Land of Pasaquan, write about all aspects of Pasaquan, its history and visionary founder, its significance and the people who worked on the restoration. The issue is filled with images of this phantasmagorical artist environment. The work is now complete thanks to funding from the Kohler Foundation. The site is owned and administered by Columbus State University for future maintenance and as a teaching opportunity. ArtsGeorgia celebrates the month of October as Georgians for the Arts Month, a statewide campaign of stakeholders advocating support for increased state funding for the arts and arts education. Our eNewsletter expands our editorial direction to include breaking news, arts advocacy, arts education & articles of special interest. Subscribe by email or on our Facebook page. Can we tell your story? Contact ArtsGeorgia to help spread news about the arts in your community.  Download PDF |
 Spring & Summer We celebrate the 2016 Year of Georgia Music with a review of the Savannah Music Festival by our new contributing writer, Doug DeLoach; and with a story about the successful launch of a new music school bringing star power to Callanwolde. The Atlanta Photography Group reports on a new award for photography’s rising young stars. ART THE BOX, our cover story about the Greater Augusta Arts Council’s dynamic intervention in downtown Augusta relates how public art with its amazing diversity of topics, styles and colorful images can be transformative. Read about the new Directory of the Arts in Georgia launched this spring to connect the arts or visit the site at www.artsga.org. Email (artsga@artsgeorgia.net) to request advance notice for first come registration to attend the Georgians for the Arts Fall Conference.
The eNewsletter expands our editorial direction: breaking news - arts advocacy - arts education - articles of special interest. Subscribe to our print or eNewsletter by email on the ArtsGeorgia Facebook page. Can we tell your arts story? Contact ArtsGeorgia to help spread news about the success of the arts in your community.
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 Winter
ArtsGeorgia continues to celebrate our beginnings with this 5th Anniversary Special Edition. ArtsGeorgia’s programs and accomplishments are reviewed including the exciting news of the January launch of SpaceFinder Georgia. Read how this exciting new program works as a resource for the arts. ArtsGeorgia celebrates our Georgians for the Arts Day, a new statewide campaign of stakeholders demonstrating across Georgia in support of increased state funding for the arts and arts education. Our eNewsletter expands our editorial direction to include breaking news, arts advocacy, arts education & articles of special interest. Subscribe by email or on our Facebook page. Can we tell your story? Contact ArtsGeorgia to help spread news about the arts in your community. Download PDF |
2015
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 Fall
ArtsGeorgia continues to celebrate our fifth anniversary with exciting news. Atlanta Contemporary has a new name and admission is now FREE. The Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association welcomes fall with exciting events and celebrates their thirty-five years of achievements. October is Georgians for the Arts Month; review details in this issue on how you can support the campaign. Our eNewsletter expands our editorial direction to include breaking news, arts advocacy, arts education & articles of special interest. Subscribe by email or on our Facebook page. Can we tell your story? Contact ArtsGeorgia so we can spread news of the arts in your community Download PDF |
 Summer
ArtsGeorgia celebrates our fifth anniversary with two exciting articles about MOCA GA and WonderRoot investing in individual artists with innovative and valuable programs. MOCA GA’s Working Artist Project and WonderRoot’s Walthall Fellows are featured. Read about the artists, the support they get and the stories they tell of their participation in these stellar Atlanta opportunities for individual artists. 'STATE OF THE ARTS' is the statewide voice of the arts print newsletter reporting on what is new and stories of success. Beginning this spring our new eNewsletter expands our editorial direction to include breaking news, arts advocacy, arts education & articles of special interest. Subscribe by email or at our Facebook page. Can we tell your story? Contact ArtsGeorgia so we can spread the word of the arts in your community. Download PDF |
 Spring For the spring issue we continue our journey along the Georgia coast with a stop in Savannah. The cover story tells of the unique contributions by the Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs to our oldest and most historic city. The DCA has initiated, funded and maintained successful programs to make Savannah a city rich with arts and culture. Besides the glorious Savannah Music Festival and the exciting Savannah Film Festival, Art Rise Savannah with the DCA’s support is a youthful arts organization on the Arts March; their story is told in a complementary article. Our feature story highlights the hard work of the dedicated citizens of Jonesboro who just won a national award for Arts Clayton. Their hard work, partnerships and focus on their community have added cultural value while creating a work force and job opportunities for the future.Can we tell your story? Contact ArtsGeorgia so we can tell the story of the arts in your community. Download PDF |
 Winter For the spring issue we continue our journey along the Georgia coast with a stop in Savannah. The cover story tells of the unique contributions by the Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs to our oldest and most historic city. The DCA has initiated, funded and maintained successful programs to make Savannah a city rich with arts and culture. Besides the glorious Savannah Music Festival and the exciting Savannah Film Festival, Art Rise Savannah with the DCA’s support is a youthful arts organization on the Arts March; their story is told in a complementary article. Our feature story highlights the hard work of the dedicated citizens of Jonesboro who just won a national award for Arts Clayton. Their hard work, partnerships and focus on their community have added cultural value while creating a work force and job opportunities for the future.Can we tell your story? Contact ArtsGeorgia so we can tell the story of the arts in your community. Download PDF |
2014
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 Fall The fall newsletter---in full color---confirms the Georgia Museum of Art has a cherished collection of Georgia artists and folk artists not to be missed on your next trip to Athens. We highlight Athens’s Indie South Fair as one of the many opportunities around the state to buy art and handmade crafts from local artists. You are encouraged to help ArtsGeorgia unite those in support of the arts to be Stronger Together with your ArtsGeorgia membership or a membership for your arts organization. The many benefits of membership and the details for joining can be found inside this issue. Download PDF |
 Spring & Summer The cover story in ArtsGeorgia’s first full color newsletter highlights the Quinlan Visual Arts Center in Gainesville. Our feature focuses on the artist residency programs at the Hambidge Center in the north Georgia mountains. The importance of arts education continues with the Georgia Alliance for Arts Education’s President Laura Lieberman making the case for arts education in Georgia. Then we present highlights of South Arts’ two recent publications on arts education in the southeast with statistics and information about arts education in Georgia. ArtsGeorgia encourages you to contact us to cover the arts in your community. Download PDF |
 Winter To begin 2014, we introduce coverage of Georgia’s museums and historic sites. Hammonds House Museum is our cover story as they celebrate a 25 year history and honor founder, Dr. O.T. Hammonds with an event this spring. Our feature story presents exciting news about new youth education programs and the expansion of facilities at the Averitt Arts Center in Statesboro. ArtsGeorgia had a good year in 2013 and our many accomplishments are reviewed. Download PDF |
2013
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 Fall Our third issue includes articles on what is new in the Georgia arts community, and stories where we have found success with initiatives, programs and people in the arts community from around the state. Our coverage includes a variety of stories related to arts education, arts in education, arts in after school and the effect of arts on education with exciting stories about the new UGA Arts Council and their November festival, Spot Light on the Arts; the Cultural Arts Council's award of an NEA grant for the expansion of its Arts in After School program; and a model recycling program that benefits artists, teachers, non profits, and teaches environmental best practices. Download PDF |
 Summer Our second issue includes a collection of interesting articles about Headwaters: Didja hear?, an award-winning story play presented in Sautee-Nachoochee; a story about the ART Station's award winning arts incubator program in Stone Mountain; news of the new home in Macon for Mercer's Robert McDuffie Center for Strings; and a call to help preserve the artist-created environment at St. EOM’s Pasaquan in Buena Vista. Download PDF |
 Spring Our first issue has an exciting series of articles, Allen Bell’s Creative Industries and Nonprofit Arts in Georgia with data and analysis detailing the solid economic benefits of the arts. Joe Winter of C4 Atlanta writes about the concept of “intrapreneurial” a new method to consider in sustaining an existing arts organization. Scooter Mcmillian relates how Columbus successfully completed a capital campaign with the addition of the new Dorothy W. McClure Theatre at the Springer Opera House. Download PDF |
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