Artist Looks Back At 1970s Atlanta’s Lively Arts Scene

The independent arts scene here in Atlanta is strong and growing all the time. This isn’t something that began overnight, as Alice Lovelace could tell you. She’s is a cultural worker, writer and arts administrator who has been active in the arts in Atlanta since the mid-1970s. She worked with the long-running Neighborhood Arts Center and was a founding member of The Arts Exchange — just to name a couple entries in her impressive resume.

Lovelace is one of the subjects of an exhibit at Kennesaw State University’s Zuckerman Museum of Art. It’s called “ATLas” and it collects oral histories of local arts organizations primarily run by women in the 1970s in order to map out a side of Atlanta which may be forgotten or overlooked.