PROFILES: South Arts
www.southarts.org

Gerri Combs, Executive Director
Todd Lowe, Chair - Louisville, Kentucky

Member States
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee

South Arts (formerly Southern Arts Federation), a nonprofit regional arts organization founded in 1975, creates partnerships and collaborations; presents, promotes and produces Southern arts and cultural programming; and advocates for the arts and arts education. Working in partnership with nine state arts agencies—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee—South Arts builds on the South’s unique heritage, and enhances the public value of the arts in our communities by promoting and supporting the arts in the South, enhancing the artistic excellence and professionalism of Southern arts organizations and artists, and serving the diverse population of the South.

Each year, South Arts reaches constituents through its programs in the performing, traditional, literary, media and visual arts. In addition, South Arts provides technical assistance and professional development opportunities for artists and arts professionals through workshops, conferences and online resources. The South Arts Fund provides grants for performances and educational activities in more than 100 communities each year. South Arts' hallmark programs include the Southern Visions traveling exhibits program featuring the award-winning Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft and Traditional Arts, the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers and the Short Circuit Traveling Film Festival, Folklorists in the South, the SouthernArtistry.org online artist registry, and the Performing Arts Exchange, our annual booking and professional development conference for the performing arts industry.

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