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| Art in the Goat Farm's Rodriquez Room photo by Adam Waldorf |
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| art hanging outside at the Goat Farm photo by Adam Waldorf |
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| A goat at the Goat Farm photo by Adam Waldorf |
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| Miles Kondylas and Sylvia Dowling, co-owners of CLVR ATL, at the Goat Farm photo by Adam Waldorf |
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| The Goat Farm's coffee shop and library photo by Adam Waldorf |
The Goat Farm does not have traditional hours of operation.
In fact, there’s nothing traditional about The Goat Farm. “The Goat Farm is
here to push culture forward through comprehensive support of the art’s,” Goat
Farm owner Anthony Harper says.
It’s a rustic 12-acre former cotton mill/goat farm, but it’s
along Atlanta’s beltway. Outwardly it seems that it must remain untouched from the
beginning of its long history, but examine inside and you will find modern art
studios, earthy as they may be. The artists that are invited to take up
residence there paint and build pieces that could not have existed in the long
ago days of the location’s past. The deeply idiosyncratic and varied acts of
Atlanta’s music scene perform at the Goat Farm on a regular basis. It features
artist exhibits, practical and artistic workshops, story circles and probably
at some point any artistic endeavor imaginable. It is truly a home to Atlanta’s
alternative community.
Location and hours of Operation
The
Goat Farm is located @ 1200 Foster Street, Atlanta, Georgia
There
are no regular hours of operation, but they often have events at night and
workshops during the day.
Events at the Goat Farm
There is no specific Goat Farm website. Most events are
advertised through word of mouth, which in this era means Facebook event pages.
The strategy seems to pay off; events regularly have hundreds of people
responding that they are attending.
The
closest thing the Goat Farm has to an official website is their official
Facebook page, which can be found at https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Goat-Farm-Atlanta/162337850449783.
One can find listings for some, though by no means all, events and workshops
happening at the location.
The Goat Farm’s mission
More
than 300 artists occupy The Goat Farm. They are enabled to live and work
without the mundane, everyday worries of the struggling artist. Sylvia Dowling,
co-owner of CLVR ATL a creative events group associated with the Goat Farm, believes
this is a necessity to helping budding artists. “Most artists can’t get paint
all over their house or have a dance floor in their basement,” she says.
The Goat Farm’s facilities
The Goat Farm has five new performance and exhibition halls
and spaces. They have 5,000 square-feet set aside for contemporary dance and
creative studios. Also on the grounds, there is a coffee shop with a library of
fascinating and obscure books, an organic farm and an education center.
According to Miles Kondylas, the other co-owner of CLVR ATL,
the Goat Farm is good for “anything from fundraisers to music events to art
galleries. The broadening of the Goat Farm’s horizons is evolving not only the
artist community that lives here, but people that participate on all levels.”
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