Tag: Museum of Design Atlanta

Nonprofit arts organizations in metro Atlanta are facing financial challenges as government grants, corporate sponsorships, and Covid-era relief funding have dried up while costs have risen and audience participation remains below pre-pandemic levels. In response, arts leaders have banded together through weekly meetings and the coalition Arts Capital | Atlanta, which seeks to raise $100 million to stabilize the sector and ensure smaller organizations in particular can survive.

It’s January: a month to reset, reflect, and renew. To help you out, we’ve compiled a list of 25 ways in Atlanta to get moving, get creative, or just get started on a new hobby. You don’t have to change your whole life to kick-start something amazing in 2025: A new pet friend, a ballroom dance class, or a volunteer gardening project could be just the spark you need to make this a year to remember.

The installations at the Museum of Design Atlanta’s new exhibition, Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture, include experimental visualizations, development proposals, facade studies, and building designs. Each riffs off of hip-hop’s methodologies—deejaying, emceeing, b-boy dancing, graffiti, remixing, sampling—to translate hip-hop’s energy into built form.

MODA's "2020: The Year of Climate & Change" is unprecedented for the Midtown institution: Showing how design can mitigate and, in some cases, reverse climate change will consume the museum, including kids’ summer camps and adult workshops, for an entire year.

The best of Atlanta's arts and culture in 2019, including best new album, best surprise superstar, best up-and-coming director, best Instagrammable exhibition, and more.

Common performs with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Pride Month comes to a close this weekend with a choir performance about Matthew Shepard and Keisha Lance Bottoms reading books with a local drag queen.

Watch Atlanta Ballet 2 perform Beauty & the Beast, celebrate the last weekend of Black History Month with the Black History Month Parade, and go back in time to learn about the history of design and technology with coffee.

Watch the night sky light up at Atlanta BeltLine Lantern Parade, plan an entire house at Fall Atlanta Home Show & Outdoor Living Expo, and attend the largest community photo festival in the country in Atlanta Celebrates Photography's 20th anniversary.

It’s a warm Friday evening in August, and I’m sitting inside the beautiful Museum of Design Atlanta, listening to Atlanta native and Georgia Tech grad Ti Chang teach a sold-out workshop on how to build your own vibrator.

Everything is awesome at the design museum’s brick-building nights.