Category: Community Impact Stories

By preserving the heritage of African American folklore through storytelling, tours, and student publishing and preserving the legacy of Joel Chandler Harris, the Wren’s Nest serves as a valued educational and cultural resource. The 2017 strategic plan calls for increased programming and community engagement, specifically through the lens of storytelling. With a new interpretation of…

Funding provided by the Georgia Council for the Arts was allocated to general operating support, the most difficult type of support to secure. GCA funding helped The Atlanta Opera fill critical needs so we could focus more fully on our mission.  “Out of Darkness: Two Remain,” based on the stories of two Holocaust survivors, was…

The generous grant we received from the Georgia Council for the Arts has been instrumental in providing the financial assistance necessary for us to do the work of supporting people who are under carceral control in Georgia through arts, education, and reentry services. Through judicious use of the grant funds, we were able to enlist…

Thanks to the GCA grant we received, we were able to bring in many artists and performers who provided quality cultural and artistically rich programming at our week-long event. We were able to bring in quite a few well known artists from in and around Atlanta area. I would like to take a moment to…

The support from the generous GCA grant allowed us to accept more partners than we had originally anticipated as well as helped us grow in our goal toward increasing longterm sustainability. We are infinitely grateful for the opportunities the support from this grant have given our organization and allowed us to bring more art to…