The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (The Contemporary) is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in the West Midtown district of Atlanta. The center presents 8-10 art exhibitions per year that are free to the public every Thursday. The Contemporary also commissions artwork and organizes approximately 50 educational programs per year. At its facility, the museum provides 14 subsidized studios for visiting artists. The Contemporary features work by local, regional, national, and international artists. The Contemporary also features a retail shop that sells art books, jewelry, and recordings.

History

The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center was founded in 1973 by a group of Atlanta photgraphers as Nexus. The Contemporary moved to its current location in West Midtown in 1989. Its current name was adopted in 2000.

Notable exhibits

In 2011, the Contemporary debuted the "Sex Drive" exhibit, which showcased artwork that depicted various human sexual positions. The exhibit is a variation of the exhibit the museum's curator, Stuart Horodner, debuted at Pennsylvania's Haverford College

Haverford College

Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia...

. The exhibit featured local artists as well as international names, including Leon Golub

Leon Golub

Leon Golub was an American painter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he also studied, receiving his BA at the University of Chicago in 1942, his BFA and MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1949 and 1950, respectively.He was married to and collaborated with the artist Nancy Spero...

, Mira Schor

Mira Schor

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 and Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin

Tracey Karima Emin RA is a British artist of English and Turkish Cypriot origin. She is part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs ....

.

See also

• High Museum of Art
  High Museum of Art
  The High Museum of Art , located in Atlanta, is the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States and one of the most-visited art museums in the world. Located on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district, the High is a division of the Woodruff Arts Center.-History:The Museum was...
  
  
• Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
  Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
  The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia is a contemporary art museum located in Atlanta. The museum collects and archives hundreds of contemporary works by Georgia artists...
  
  
• List of contemporary art museums

External links

• Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center Official Website