Our Mission: A collective voice for Metro Atlanta’s arts ecosystem, driving sustained investment, equitable redistribution, and systemic change that strengthens culture, community, and creativity.
Our
Values
Collaboration
Our goal is to build and nourish mutually beneficial relationships within Atlanta’s arts ecosystem. When one of us succeeds, we all succeed.
Inclusivity
We endeavor to represent the broad diversity of arts organizations in Atlanta and the people and cultures they serve.
Growth
We advocate for a new way of funding the arts in Atlanta—and for the positive change that can be made in our city when arts organizations are fully capitalized.
Innovation
We believe that new models for funding the arts are possible and that Atlanta can lead the nation in pioneering new ways to support the arts and their potential to help cities grow and develop.
This effort is being undertaken on behalf of every professional arts nonprofit organization in Metro Atlanta.
It is being led by a working group representing the organizations listed below:
Board of Directors
Alexander Acosta, Executive Director, Soul Food Cypher
Alexander Scollon, Managing Director, Actor's Express**
Angela Harris, Executive Artistic Director, Dance Canvas, Inc.
Ann-Carol Pence, Co-Founder / Producing Artistic Director, Aurora Theatre
Anne Archer Dennington, Executive Director, Flux Projects
Chris Escobar, Executive Director, Atlanta Film Festival
Elizabeth Labbe-Webb, Executive Director, Core Dance**
Eve Krueger, General Manager, Out Front Theatre Company
Ginny Thompson, Executive Director, ATLANTA YOUNG SINGERS
Laura Flusche, Executive Director, MODA
Leslie Gordon, Executive Director, The Breman
Mack Headrick, Managing Director, 7 Stages
Michael Thomas, Chairman, Caribbean American Cultural Arts Foundation
Rachel May, Producing Artistic Director & Co-Founder, Synchronicity Theatre
Tom West, West Strategy Group
** denotes Board Chair: Elizabeth Labbe-Webb and Treasurer: Alexander Scollon
Steering Committee
Adam McKnight, Associate Artistic Director, Ballethnic Dance Company
Alexander Acosta, Executive Director, Soul Food Cypher
Alexander Scollon, Managing Director, Actor's Express
Allen Bell, Director of Grants and Research, Georgia Council for the Arts
Amy Clarke, Director of Community Impact, Systems, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
Angela Harris, Executive Artistic Director, Dance Canvas, Inc.
Anita Farley, Founder Emeritus, Georgia Ensemble Theatre
Ann-Carol Pence, Co-Founder / Producing Artistic Director, Aurora Theatre
Anne Archer Dennington, Executive Director, Flux Projects
Atiba Mbiwan, Executive Director, The Zeist Foundation
Audrey Jacobs, The WISH Foundation
Brittnee Buley, Program Manager, City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs
Chandra Stephens-Albright, Managing Director, True Colors Theatre Company
Chris Escobar, Executive Director, Atlanta Film Society
Christina Sims Hamilton, Interim Executive Director, Aurora Theatre
Conrhonda Baker, Program Officer, Arts, Culture, & Creative Enterprises, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
Danielle Gray, Association Director, The Zeist Foundation
David Manuel, Director, Fulton County | Arts & Culture
DePriest Waddy, Executive Director, Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia
Elizabeth Labbe-Webb, Executive Director, Core Dance
Emily Lightner, Executive Director, Cultural Arts Council Douglasville/ Douglas County
Eve Krueger, General Manager, Out Front Theatre Company
Gennadi Nedvigin, Artistic Director, Atlanta Ballet
Ginny Thompson, Executive Director, ATLANTA YOUNG SINGERS
Laura Flusche, Executive Director, MODA
Leslie Gordon, Executive Director, The Breman
Lita Pardi, Executive Director, Moving in the Spirit
Mack Headrick, Managing Director, 7 Stages
Michael Thomas, Chairman, Caribbean American Cultural Arts Foundation*
Natalie DeLancey, Executive Director, City Springs Theatre Company
Nena Gilreath, CoFounding Director, Ballethnic Dance Company
Rachel May, Producing Artistic Director & Co-Founder, Synchronicity Theatre
Rob Smulian, Executive Director, The Imlay Foundation
Saskia Benjamin, Nonprofit Consultant, Purpose Possible
Shalondra Henry, Former Executive Director, Moving in the Spirit
Shantras Lakes, Contracts for Services Program Manager, Fulton County | Arts & Culture
Staci Brill, The Molly Blank Fund
Tina Lilly, Executive Director, Georgia Council for the Arts
Tom West, West Strategy Group
Facilitator & CEO
Arts Capital | Atlanta is facilitated by Laura Hennighausen, Director of Strategic Philanthropy at Purpose Possible, through the generous support of The Zeist Foundation, Imlay Foundation, and The Molly Blank Fund.
Staff: Emily Llamazales, Consultant at Purpose Possible.
Purpose Possible has been an important capacity partner to Arts Capital | Atlanta, substantially subsidizing staff time dedicated to the collaborative’s research, strategy, facilitation, and implementation. This in-kind investment helps Arts Capital | Atlanta direct more of its resources toward strengthening and supporting the region’s nonprofit arts sector.
