| Allied Arts began in 1977 as a Georgia
Council for the Arts Community Development site. In 1987 local city
and county governments reorganized and Allied Arts Incorporated
became a secondary agency of the City of Milledgeville.
Our mission, as a multi-disciplined
community arts agency is to make available a broad range of
experiences in the performing arts, visual arts, literary arts,
heritage arts and general arts education for all the citizens of
Milledgeville and Baldwin County regardless of their socio-economic,
cultural, racial, physical or religious differences.
Our programming goals run parallel with our facilities development
goals. The preservation and adaptation of four historic structures
that make up our arts center complex have played a pivotal role in
our programming history. To adequately meet program needs our
community wants met would be impossible without a well-developed
sense of place. We have literally had to make space for the arts in
a community that before 1977 had only selective pocket exposure to
the arts by the way of college events.
In the 1911 Allen's
Market Building, which is one of four historic buildings that make
up the Marlor Arts Center Complex in Milledgeville's Downtown
Historic District we need to complete a roughed in
artist-in-residence efficiency apartment and a second small
classroom/kitchen space. Allied Arts involvement since 1980 in
bringing in resident artists to work in the schools and community
demands that we furnish adequate housing for artists not available
in an already overloaded college housing market. Considering the
first floor of Allen's Market is the only small public auditorium
(and fully accessible) in town since the Mary Vinson Regional
Library converted theirs into office space, the full development of
Allen's Market becomes even more critical.
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