- Collection:
- Community Art in Atlanta, 1977-1987: Jim Alexander's Photographs of the Neighborhood Arts Center from the Auburn Avenue Research Library
- Title:
- Great background
- Creator:
- Alexander, Jim
- Date of Original:
- 1987
- Subject:
- Community arts projects--Georgia--Atlanta
Photography--Georgia--Atlanta
African American writers--Georgia--Atlanta
Neighborhood Arts Center (Atlanta, Ga.)
Neighborhood Arts Center (Atlanta, Ga.)--Employees
Simanga, Michael, 1954-
Alexander, Jim, --Exhibitions - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Mechanicsville, 33.739, -84.39854 - Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
image/x-mrsid - Description:
- "NAC Director Michael Simanga (left) at a meeting in NAC's Auburn Avenue location. Jim Alexander's exhibition is on the walls."--from Jim Alexander's annotations.
Neighborhood Arts Center director Michael Simanga attends a meeting at the Neighborhood Art Center's second location at 228 Auburn Avenue in Atlanta. Jim Alexander's photography is displayed on the walls. Simanga, an Atlanta-area writer, was selected as director of the Neighborhood Arts Center in January 1987. Jim Alexander worked at the Neighborhood Arts Center full-time as a photography teacher and resident artist from September 1977 until September 1979. After 1979, he continued to work with the Neighborhood Arts Center on a contractual basis until 1982, when he left to establish the Photo/Media Photography Collective, a studio and gallery complex in Atlanta.
Title provided by Jim Alexander. - Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/aarl_anac_janac55
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/aarl_anac_janac55#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/aarl_anac_janac55/presentation/manifest.json
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by Jim Alexander.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Great background. Neighborhood Arts Center photographs series. Jim Alexander collection. Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 31 x 23 cm.
- Original Collection:
- Neighborhood Arts Center photographs series. Jim Alexander collection. Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System.
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
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