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🌌 South Arts’ new ‘catalyst’
Where you land, how you leave Dec. 10 — Outgoing Atlanta City Council president Doug Shipman is moving into a new role, and he's thinking about what it means to keep artists at home. As the incoming president and CEO of South Arts, Shipman is taking on a nine-state region where creative workers often start their careers, leave for visibility, and return only after building their names elsewhere. At Hartsfield-Jackson, movement is the medium. Georgia Tech's yearlong art exhibition, “Transport | Transform | Transcend: Innovations in Materials and Movements,” turns the constant flow of 104 million annual travelers into art.
