Experience

ArtsXchange

• United States
• Retail Art Supplies
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Community Cultural Arts Center

  • Jan 1984 - Present

  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. Show less