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Journey of the Spirit Journey of the Spirit The multi-dimensional artistry of Sean Haynes June 7, 2025 – July 19, 2025 The Inaugural South Fulton County Invitational FEATURED ARTIST Sean Haynes EVENTS Journey of the Spirit - Opening Reception SAT - Jun 14, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM FREE | Open to the public Jack Sinclair Gallery ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA RSVP Journey of the Spirit - Artist Talk SAT - Jul 19, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM FREE | Open to the public Jack Sinclair Gallery ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA RSVP About the Artist Sean Haynes , a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, is a graduate of Southern University at New Orleans with a B. A. in Fine Art. Sean has been in numerous group exhibitions and public art projects in New Orleans and Atlanta. Over the years, his artwork has been acquired by collectors like Stella Jones, Stella Jones Gallery patrons, Eli Lolis, Kevin Cole, William Rhodes, various art collectors and auction patrons. His artworks have been acquired through the Fulton County Arts and Culture art purchase program and businesses like Keiser-Permanente. Mr. Haynes has had artworks featured at Zucot Gallery, Mason Gallery, Art Institute in Atlanta, The Arts Xchange Jack Sinclair Gallery, Ellington-White Contemporary at the Arts Council in Fayetteville, NC, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia (MOCAGA Binders, Stella Jones Gallery, Barrister's Gallery (Juried), Southern University at New Orleans’ Gallery, Orleans Parish School Board, Dollars for Scholars (Juried), the African American Museum (Juried), Audubon Zoo auction, African American Art exhibition in Louisville Kentucky (Juried), South West Arts Center in Georgia (Juried), and Hammond’s House Auctions where his artworks have been acquired by several Atlanta art collectors, Abernathy Arts Center (Juried), the Emma Darnell Aviation Community Cultural Center and many others. Sean has several public works including Public School Murals, Fulton County Art Acquisition Purchase featured at Marietta Public Library, Two Artworks featured at Keiser-Permanente in Cascade, Restoring the Oaks (painted column under the Claiborne Bridge in New Orleans) Project, banners for Tambourine and Fan, universities, Group Art Installation project at Pilchuck School of glass in Seattle, WA and several community art projects created with at risk teens in coordination with the Arts Council of New Orleans. He has co-sponsored exhibitions like Eclectic Harmony I and Eclectic Harmony II with Artist George Galbreath and Two Sides of Color, Shape, and Form” A Two-person Show Featuring Mr. Sean Haynes and Dr. Zerrick Clinton at the Fulton County Arts & Culture Emma Darnell Aviation Museum & Conference Center. Mr. Haynes is an Artist/Educator dedicated to skillfully creating and making visual art. All Exhibits SINCLAIR GALLERY NEWS Oh shelia! Photographic works remembering shelia Turner, by members of Sistagraphy | On View - July 21, 2025 to Sept 5, 2025 - Community Gallery @ ArtsXchange ArtsXchange Jul 23 2 min read Artist and curator Courtney Brooks opens a bold new art gallery rooted in Black creative legacy - Check out Full Article By Rough Draft Atlanta - Sherri Daye Scott ArtsXchange Jun 25 2 min read

The Kitchen Sink The Kitchen Sink A collection of artworks by GSU MFA and BFA Students March 12, 2022 - March 26, 2022 CURATOR Georgia State University BFA and MFA Program ARTISTS Emily Albee | Bethany Grabert | Katie Kearns | Kate Kosek | Nick Kakavas | Savannah O'Leary | Iyana Nass | Bronwyn Simons | Corran Shrimpton | Celine Thompson | Joshuah Holbrook Georgia State University presents "The Kitchen Sink," a group show featuring the work of the BFA and MFA members of GSU’s Student League of Independent Potters and Sculptors. All Exhibits SINCLAIR GALLERY NEWS Oh shelia! Photographic works remembering shelia Turner, by members of Sistagraphy | On View - July 21, 2025 to Sept 5, 2025 - Community Gallery @ ArtsXchange ArtsXchange Jul 23 2 min read Artist and curator Courtney Brooks opens a bold new art gallery rooted in Black creative legacy - Check out Full Article By Rough Draft Atlanta - Sherri Daye Scott ArtsXchange Jun 25 2 min read

The Haunts of Black Kirby The Haunts of Black Kirby An exhibition of works from the dawn of Afrofuturism Sept 2, 2023 - Oct 28, 2023 CURATORS Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library ARTIST Black Kirby The Haunts of Black Kirby Presented in partnership with the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library Black Kirby—the pseudonym assumed by the acclaimed visual artists and professors, John Jennings and Stacey Robinson—are Alchemists. They take raw materials from black history, hip hop, and comic book mythology and remix them to create new universes, never-before seen technologies, and biting satires about the world we live in today. Each of the Black Kirby images serves as a funky, rare artifact from an alternate universe, fully formed, and autonomous from its earthly origins. The works in this exhibition are on loan from the Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library. The Haunts of Black Kirby is derived from “The Alchemist’s Notebook: The Satire, Remixes, and Haunts of Black Kirby”, an exhibition organized by the AUC Woodruff Library in 2019. It featured more than fifty digital artworks by Black Kirby and artifacts from the AUC Woodruff Library’s Archives Research Center exploring the topics of Black history, hip-hop, and comic book mythology. Join us for the opening reception and come back for the many surrounding classes and events! EXHIBIT EVENTS: The Haunts of Black Kirby - Opening Reception September 2, 2023, 7:00 – 10:00 PM| ArtsXchange Register Now Community Class: Learn Procreate Software (The Haunts of Black Kirby) September 13, 2023 at 6:00 PM| East Point Register Now Intro to Comic Book Illustration - FREE Community Class September 16, 2023 at 1:00 PM| East Point Register Now Ekphrastic Poetry in the Gallery - FREE Wednesday Writers Workshop September 27, 2023, 7:00 – 8:30 PM| ArtsXchange Register Now Community Discussion: Afrofuturism, Its Relevance in Today's Environment & the P... September 30, 2023 at 4:00 PM| East Point Register Now Afro-Surrealism, the Negritude Movement & the Archival Roots of Afrofuturism - F... October 4, 2023, 5:00 – 7:00 PM| Atlanta University Ctr Woodruff Library Register Now Intermediate Illustration for Adults - FREE Community Class October 7, 2023 at 1:00 PM| East Point Register Now The Process of Creating Afrofuturistic Work - FREE Community Sketching Class October 11, 2023 at 6:00 PM| East Point Register Now Creative Feedback & Career Lab for Projects in Progress - FREE October 14, 2023 at 4:00 PM| East Point Register Now Ekphrastic Poetry in the Gallery - FREE Wednesday Writers Workshop October 25, 2023, 7:00 – 8:30 PM| ArtsXchange Register Now Suspend your disbelief with me for a moment. Imagine the alchemists at work in their lair. Watch as they use a set of rusty tools to handle raw, crude materials and melt them down to more malleable forms. As they carefully mix the isolated substances together, listen as they whisper a forgotten tongue from a dusty leather-bound notebook. When the ritual is over and the notebook has been cast aside into the shadows, you witness the substance start to stir. As it twists and turns in the immense heat, you smell the stench of a hot fusion that breathes life into a new creation, indeed a new element, that has never existed before. This new element is the art of Black Kirby, and this exhibition provides a peek into their notebook of esoteric spells. - Clint Fluker, Ph.D. All Exhibits SINCLAIR GALLERY NEWS Oh shelia! Photographic works remembering shelia Turner, by members of Sistagraphy | On View - July 21, 2025 to Sept 5, 2025 - Community Gallery @ ArtsXchange ArtsXchange Jul 23 2 min read Artist and curator Courtney Brooks opens a bold new art gallery rooted in Black creative legacy - Check out Full Article By Rough Draft Atlanta - Sherri Daye Scott ArtsXchange Jun 25 2 min read

Ritual Ritual : the birth of new freedom A collaborative work exhibition July 20, 2019 - Aug. 17, 2019 CURATOR / ARTIST Charmaine Minniefield Exploring African & African-American Ritual from a Womanist Perspective The work of artist-activist, Charmaine Minniefield preserves Black narratives as a radical act of social justice. Firmly rooted in womanist social theory and ancestral veneration, her work draws from indigenous traditions as seen throughout Africa and the Diaspora, to explore African and African-American history, memory and ritual as an intentional push back against erasure, displacement, and misrepresentation. Her creative practice is community-based as her research and resulting bodies of work draw from the physical archives of a community, place or institution as she excavates the stories of African-American women-led resistance, spirituality and power in response to contemporary social landscapes. Her recent public works include projection mapping and site-specific installation which visually activate spaces of historical significance to insight dialogue around race, class and power. Through interdisciplinary collaboration she incorporates other art forms including physical movement to reveal embodied memories as resistance and healing, and utilizes sound, film and digital imagery to virtually bridge the past to the present. With a degree in Fine Art from Agnes Scott College, Charmaine Minniefield has also served the Atlanta area as an arts administrator for nearly 20 years, holding positions with such arts organizations as the National Black Arts Festival, the High Museum of Art and the Fulton County Department of Art and Culture, producing projects around art and activism with such organizations as Alternate ROOTS, Points of Light and Flux Projects. She recently served as faculty for the Department of Art and Visual Cultural at Spelman College and currently serves as faculty for Freedom University, an underground university for undocumented students. All Exhibits SINCLAIR GALLERY NEWS Oh shelia! Photographic works remembering shelia Turner, by members of Sistagraphy | On View - July 21, 2025 to Sept 5, 2025 - Community Gallery @ ArtsXchange ArtsXchange Jul 23 2 min read Artist and curator Courtney Brooks opens a bold new art gallery rooted in Black creative legacy - Check out Full Article By Rough Draft Atlanta - Sherri Daye Scott ArtsXchange Jun 25 2 min read

HOW I SEE WHAT I SAW HOW I SEE WHAT I SAW The Definitive Artwork of Vernon Robinson Sr. March 1, 2021 - April 4, 2021 CURATOR Ric Washington ARTIST Vernon Robinson Sr. For over 40 years, Robinson Sr. painted and sculpted a remarkable collection of work driven by his knowledge that he has a gift to create and the freedom to express his ideas in all kinds of media. He admits that he enjoys creating but also that he has a need to create. His work is rich in color, powerful in visual rhythm and organic shapes. The curator, RIchard Washington, describes Roibinson’s work as “innate, naturally resonating with African forms of expression”. Robinson himself recalls a childhood memory of being inspired by a pencil drawing of a [African] Benin Mask that showed ornate symmetry and precision. Robinson Sr. has devoted his time to painting and sculptural art with a desire not only to express the excitement generated by what he sees in the world around him but to stimulate in viewers of his work that same visual excitement. This exhibition is truly a definitive representation of Vernon Robinson’s mantra, “HOW I SEE WHAT I SAW. All Exhibits SINCLAIR GALLERY NEWS Oh shelia! Photographic works remembering shelia Turner, by members of Sistagraphy | On View - July 21, 2025 to Sept 5, 2025 - Community Gallery @ ArtsXchange ArtsXchange Jul 23 2 min read Artist and curator Courtney Brooks opens a bold new art gallery rooted in Black creative legacy - Check out Full Article By Rough Draft Atlanta - Sherri Daye Scott ArtsXchange Jun 25 2 min read

Events & Classes Join us for our in-person and virtual events. We offer a range of creative and community classes. Check out our master calendar and learn more about the ArtsXchange Programs. To request accessibility accommodations call 404-879-7863. Events - List View Community Opportunities Events - Calender View Sinclair Gallery - On View Event Feedback News & Updates Events & Classes - List View 1 day to the event VIP Reception - 2025 Ebon Dooley Legacy Awards Oct 12, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA VIP reception for ArtsXchange members with Builder/Friend Membership ($100) and above | The Legacy Awards will begin with a special presentation to Shirley C. Franklin. Admission to the 2025 Ebon Dooley Legacy Awards is also included. RSVP / Get Tickets 1 day to the event 2025 Ebon Dooley Legacy Awards Oct 12, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA Your ArtsXchange Membership is your Ticket | Trailblazers: Honoring Atlanta's Cultural Pioneers | Six honorees will be celebrated at ArtsXchange’s Ebon Dooley Legacy Awards for their impact on Atlanta’s lasting power as global cultural capital. RSVP / Get Tickets 4 days to the event Volunteer Event: ArtsXchange Permaculture Volunteer Day 11 Oct 15, 2025, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA Join us as we revamp the front yard. We will be working towards installing an ecologically beneficial garden! "TICKETS" are Volunteer Shifts. RSVP / Get Tickets 4 days to the event Coloring Conversations 10-15-25 Oct 15, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA FREE | PAY WHAT YOU CAN | Let’s color outside the lines and explore ways to support, uplift, and empower each other. From health care and self-care to activism and beyond, these conversations are led by passionate members of our community and local organizations. RSVP / Get Tickets Multiple Dates 7 days to the event Scrabble Club Oct 18, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM The ArtsXchange - Riley Library, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA FREE Event | RSVP to let us know you'll be joining us! - Scrabble Club!!! All ages and skill levels welcome. Scrabble Club is a fun and engaging way to enhance literacy, spelling skills, problem-solving, and conversation. Let’s make it a game to remember! Host- Theresa Davis RSVP 7 days to the event From Stono to Now: The Fire This Time | Opening Reception Oct 18, 2025, 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA An exhibition charting the lineage of Black rebellion and creative defiance RSVP / Get Tickets 11 days to the event Music in Common 20th Anniversary Concert Oct 22, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA Free Event | Join us for the final show of Music in Common’s multi-city 20th Anniversary Tour. Music in Common’s powerful bridge-building work has taken place in more than 400 communities worldwide, directly serving over 10,000 people since 2005. RSVP / Get Tickets 13 days to the event From Stono to Now: The Fire This Time | Artist Talk Oct 24, 2025, 6:30 PM ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA Hear from artists on the art of resistance. RSVP / Get Tickets Multiple Dates 14 days to the event 2025 Garden Like A Boss | Fall - Winter | Wild Foraging for Fall Medicinals Oct 25, 2025, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA $25 per class. Join us for the 2025 Garden Like A Boss Series led by tenisio seanima. Learn how to enhance your quality of life, reduce dependency on commercial systems, create a productive urban space and so much more. We can't wait to see you at the Fresh Oasis Community Garden. RSVP / Get Tickets 14 days to the event Saturday Writers Workshop 10-25-25 Oct 25, 2025, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT The ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA $10 - Monthly Writing Workshop Series at the ArtsXchange. Hosted by Literary Director, Theresa Davis. Engage in interactive sessions using thought-provoking prompts and ekphrasis. Experience a variety of writing styles and genres as we feature guest facilitators who are experts in their fields. RSVP / Get Tickets 14 days to the event Playing With Our Words 10-25-25 Oct 25, 2025, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA FREE Event | Hosted by Theresa Davis. Following the game, participants transition into the creative phase of the workshop. Armed with the words played during Scrabble, they use them as building blocks for crafting original poems or short stories. RSVP to let us know you are coming! RSVP / Get Tickets Multiple Dates 28 days to the event 2025 Garden Like A Boss | Fall - Winter | Hoop Houses Nov 08, 2025, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA $25 per class. Join us for the 2025 Garden Like A Boss Series led by tenisio seanima. Learn how to enhance your quality of life, reduce dependency on commercial systems, create a productive urban space and so much more. We can't wait to see you at the Fresh Oasis Community Garden. RSVP / Get Tickets 28 days to the event Saturday Writers Workshop 11-8-25 Nov 08, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST The ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA $10 - Monthly Writing Workshop Series at the ArtsXchange. Hosted by Literary Director, Theresa Davis. Engage in interactive sessions using thought-provoking prompts and ekphrasis. Experience a variety of writing styles and genres as we feature guest facilitators who are experts in their fields. RSVP / Get Tickets 34 days to the event November XChange Open Mic and Slam 11-14-25 Nov 14, 2025, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM EST The ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA $10 in advance / $15 at the door - Join us for the monthly Open Mic and Slam at the ArtsXchange. This event is a celebration of creativity, sharing and community. We start with the open mic and end with the slam. Hosted by Theresa Davis. RSVP / Get Tickets Multiple Dates 35 days to the event Scrabble Club Nov 15, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM The ArtsXchange - Riley Library, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA FREE Event | RSVP to let us know you'll be joining us! - Scrabble Club!!! All ages and skill levels welcome. Scrabble Club is a fun and engaging way to enhance literacy, spelling skills, problem-solving, and conversation. Let’s make it a game to remember! 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Michael H. Ross 2019 Ebon Dooley Honoree Economic Justice Champion https://mhrinternational.com/ Michael H. Ross is considered a national expert in project management, economic development, small business development, procurement and community revitalization. He is currently a member of the board of the BronzeLens Film Festival, a Southeast Smithsonian Council member and an Ambassador for the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and Culture. He served as Chairman of the Board of the Georgia Black United Fund for more than 10 years. Mr. Ross worked with or supported several nonprofit organizations in the metropolitan Atlanta area including the YWCA of Greater Atlanta, the National Black Arts Festival, the United Youth Adult Conference, Beat the Odds and Let Us Make Men. OUR STAFF STUDIO ARTIST EBON DOOLEY HONOREES

Charmaine Minniefield 2021 Ebon Dooley Honoree Economic Justice Champion Alumni Studio Artist Contact@PraiseHouseProject.org https://charmaineminniefield.com/ The work of Artist-Activist Charmaine Minniefield preserves Black narratives as a radical act of social justice. Firmly rooted in womanist social theory and ancestral veneration, her work draws from indigenous traditions as seen throughout Africa and the Diaspora, to explore African and African-American history, memory, and ritual as an intentional push back against erasure. Her creative practice is community-based as her research and resulting bodies of work often draw from the physical archives as she excavates the stories of African-American, women-led resistance and spirituality and power. Minniefield’s recent public works, which include projection mapping and site-specific installation, insight dialogue around race, class, and power. Recent projects include the Remembrance as Resistance: Preserving Black Narratives in Atlanta’s historic Oakland Cemetery which honored the over 800 unmarked graves recently discovered within the African-American Burial Grounds through the multimedia installation of a Praise House. Her Praise House Project went on to receive a prestigious Our Town Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Charmaine’s work is featured in several public and private collections, and as a muralist, her walls can be seen throughout the City of Atlanta and beyond. She was honored by Mercedes Benz as a part of their Greatness Lives Here campaign. She is featured in the 2020 US Census commercial with her recent mural in Brooklyn depicting women who shaped the future. Minniefield recently served as the Stuart A. Rose Library Artist-in-Residence at Emory University through a collaboration with Flux Projects and as the Curator of Elevate for the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Charmaine has a long history of including other artists in her projects, to share funding opportunities, and to advocate on behalf of artists. Her determination to help artists, especially Black women artists, to become economically visible by sharing resources and opportunities that will help create change is powerful. Charmaine’s brilliance as an artist is unquestionable, but what has earned her this award is her attention to sharing economic opportunities and funding among other artists. This is such a cooperative and collaborative example that deserves special recognition since under capitalism, being an artist is often a solitary and self-promoting life. As a visual artist my work seeks to preserve Black narratives as a radical act of social justice. As an artist-activist, I intentionally push back against erasure, displacement, misrepresentation, and marginalization by reclaiming cultural histories in communities affected by gentrification. My work invokes the power of the ancestors. By creating visual roadmaps from the past to the present, paved by the history and stories, love and heartache, success and failures of the ancestors, it celebrates and calls to the present the wisdom of those who have come before to inspire a new freedom movement today. My work reclaims the stories of the ancestors as social iconography of my generation by creating shrine paintings, which present the ancestors as sacred symbols of freedom. I believe that by reclaiming the stories of our ancestors and by praising and committing to their memory, we will better understand our collective potential and ourselves as a society. OUR STAFF STUDIO ARTIST EBON DOOLEY HONOREES

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