Artsxchange Community Cultural Center Email & Phone Number

The ArtsXchange is a 501(c)3 Atlanta area community-based arts center whose mission is to uplift and celebrate the power of the arts and activism through our support of artists, culture and social justice work. Our role in the community allowed us to continue to work on behalf on behalf of the diverse communities we serve. Our mission is rooted in the vision to create a community cultural center to nourish, train, and sustain black artists and the extended communities they serve across lines of race, class, and identity. We live our mission by sustaining an arts center that is multi-racial, intergenerational, and supportive of diverse arts and cultural practices from traditional to the experimental. Our programs serve audience from the young to the elders.—A Family That Creates Together, arts education projects that support STEAM, with a focus on parents, caregivers and students learning together. Projects like the upcoming classes taught by Jeff Mather and Marquetta Johnson merging math, engineering and quilt making.—The Fresh Oasis Community Garden in partnership with the Champion Gardeners youth entrepreneurship program and Natures Candy Farms. We offer classes and garden beds for youth, individuals, and families.—The Jack Sinclair Gallery—featuring exhibits like the current “Jazz & Spirituality the works of Oscar Harris”; and the 2023 Afrofuturism exhibit “The Alchemist Notebook: The Haunts of Black Kirby”.—Four monthly Literature and Literary programs from open mic to creative writing classes, and Scrabble Club.— Our 2023 JOY Festival that combines workshops in the visual and performing arts, physical and mental health classes, financial literacy, gardening, and performances to reawaken in the youth and families the joy of learning.—Robeson Theater Incubator Project supporting emerging and established artists like Meadowlark Productions who produced 2 new plays tonfull houses, and the upcoming  “Joe’s Jazz Joint” from veteran jazz musician and leader Joe Jennings.—Studio Artists Program that helps artists build their careers and an economic base for success.  Creating new work and teaching classes from acting, dance, drumming, meditation, yoga, painting, and more.—The Community Spaces that provides below market event spaces for artists, civic and community organizations, and community actions.This is just a small part of what the ArtsXchange offers year round!

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  Community Cultural Arts Center

  Artsxchange

  Jan 1984 - Present - East Point, Ga

  Southeast Community Cultural Center (SECCC), open our first facility, The Arts Exchange, in 1984. Since its beginning at our first facility in Atlanta’s Grant Park community, the organization has been known as a gathering place for artists of all disciplines, and a place where the community can experience the arts through classes and exposure to performances, and gallery exhibits. After 32 years in Grant Park, we watched the neighborhood undergo extreme changes as a focus of the growing movement to gentrification. In 2016 the facility was sold. In 2017, we bought and a renovated the former renovated Jere Ware Elementary School. The ArtsXchange is a name reflecting a renewed purpose and relocation to a facility designed by and for artists, that meets ADA guidelines for accessibility, while offering a flourishing schedule of arts experiences for people of all generations and abilities. We believe we are the largest and most diverse artists run and owned facility, and arts services provider in South Fulton County.Since our official opening in 2019, The ArtsXchange is a thriving example of creative placemaking with our focus on art for the people's sake, our openness and inclusivity in an industry that can feel exclusive, our ability to show emerging artists alongside seasoned artists, and even our reigniting and renovating an abandoned school as a place of arts learning. As a small, grassroots nonprofit, we rely on collaboration to offer a wide range of programs and events; offering practicing, professional artists a chance to nurture their creativity, make their work available to the public, provide ways for them to share their arts practice, and provide educational opportunities with the public. Having artists and event housed in one facility makes for ample opportunities to nourish and stimulate the creativity of our audiences and students.