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  • Felicia Feaster

    Editorial Contributor

    Felicia Feaster has worked both ends of the art and culture beat from newsprint to glossy as a staff writer at Creative Loafing and as a senior editor at the Atlantan. She holds a master's degree in film studies from Emory and was born in Jimmy Stewart's home town of Indiana, Pennsylvania. A resident of the twenty-first-century Mayberry—College Park—Feaster was named one of "Atlanta's 50 Most Creative People" by CommonCreativ magazine. Feaster is the winner of three Green Eyeshade Awards for Excellence in Journalism by the Society of Professional Journalists.

Q&A with Kenny Leon

Guess who's back in Atlanta?

Posted on 7/1/2012 12:00:00 PM by Felicia Feaster
There aren’t many American stage directors who can also boast of People magazine Most Beautiful status. But Kenny Leon has always had a knack for straddling two worlds. The Tony-nominated Atlantan has balanced high-art material like the MLK Jr. drama The Mountaintop with mainstream fare like a forthcoming remake of Steel Magnolias with an all-black cast. Leon’s latest project is the stage debut of the 1967 race issue film Read More

The Dance Movement

Atlanta's migrating dance ensembles have an underlying connection

Posted on 6/1/2012 12:00:00 PM by Felicia Feaster
Atlanta dance is having a moment. Performers are suddenly undulating through parks, cemeteries, churches, and art museums—even stopping traffic at Midtown intersections. Funded by a hodgepodge of grants, commissions, donations, and income, Atlanta’s dance scene is as intertwined as a game of Twister, with players moving back and forth between companies—not to mention thriving programs at Emory, Kennesaw State, and Spelman. Here’s how some connect.  Read More

The Orly Crash Forced Atlanta's Art Scene to Grow Up Fast

A tribute to Atlanta's fallen artists

Posted on 6/1/2012 12:00:00 PM by Felicia Feaster
Like the alkaline dust that coated lower Manhattan for months after the Twin Towers crumbled, the 1962 disaster at Orly Field near Paris hung in Atlanta’s atmosphere for years afterward. On June 3 of that year, a Boeing 707 carrying 106Atlantans—some of the city’s most passionate arts patrons, returning from an art tour of Europe—crashed on takeoff, killing everyone aboard except for two flight attendants. Gone were Atlanta’s cultural elite—its artists, collectors, and those who sustained the still-embryonic High Museum and its school, the Atlanta Art Institute. Read More

Twyla Time

Atlanta Ballet and Twyla Tharp make for a fairy-tale collaboration

Posted on 2/1/2012 12:00:00 PM by Felicia Feaster
During the almost four months she spent in Atlanta since last spring rehearsing her new ballet, "The Princess and the Goblin," legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp didn’t see much of the city. There was too much to do: Hit the gym every morning for stretching and weight training, then on to the Atlanta Ballet studio on Marietta Boulevard for six hours of rehearsal. Read More

Chip Simone's Second Coming

Senior moment for the photographer

Posted on 2/1/2012 12:00:00 PM by Felicia Feaster
The art world can be cruel. While critics and curators salivate over the fresh crop of art school grads, an older generation of artists gets lost in the shuffle. Read More

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5/25+ The Melion-Clum Collection of Modern Southwestern Pottery
5/25+ Georgia Renaissance Festival
5/25+ Concerts on the Square and Blue Sky Concerts
5/25+ Chosen Food: Cuisine, Culture, and American Cuisine Identity

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