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For 2019, Phoenix Flies free architecture tours are returning with a dozen new sites
Get ready, Atlanta architecture and history buffs. The 2019 Phoenix Flies is on the way. Returning for its 16 th year, Phoenix Flies: A Celebration of Atlanta’s Historic Sites continues to grow and expand, this year adding more than 12 new sites to the mix.
Lecture: Anne Gahongayire, “The Grandmother Project in West Africa” – Global Atlanta
This lecture is presented as part of the exhibition “Stories Without an End: Power, Beauty and Wisdom of Women in African Art of the Mehta Collection” on view through April 21, 2019. Ms. Anne Gahongayire was formerly an External Relations and Partnership Development Officer with The Grandmother Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes the rights […]
Bold Experimenter FDR Was Born 137 Years Ago
Joseph A. Esposito is a historian, writer, educator who served in three presidential administrations. He is the author of Dinner in Camelot: The Night America’s Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House (2018). This caricature is by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) and ran in the April 14, 1938 edition of the New York Times.
Alumni
- Malika Whitley ’11 was featured on The Today Show website for her work with ChopArt, the nonprofit she founded to help homeless youth through the arts.
- Playwright Gabriel Dean was featured on New Rep Theatre’s website for his work on the play Heartland.
- Jody Stephenson will soon open an Athens service branch of SitterTree, the company she founded, the Athens Banner-Herald, Atlanta Business Chronicle, and American City Business Journals reported.
- Laura Turner Seydel, chairperson of the Captain Planet Foundation, was included among Atlanta magazine’s 500 Most Powerful Leaders in Religion, Nonprofits, & Advocacy.
- Denitria Barnett is a Jr. Digital Marketing Specialist at InsuranceHub.
