136. Museum of Design Atlanta
City: Atlanta, GA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (404) 979-6455
Address: 285 Peachtree Center Ave. NE
Description: Established in 1989, this museum celebrates the craftsmanship of the world’s cultures through ethnographic, folk art, and design exhibits. It is a nonprofit educational organization affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution and supported by public and private funds. Admission is $10; the museum is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
137. Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking
City: Atlanta, GA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (404) 894-7840
Description: On the outer limits of the Georgia Tech campus, this tiny museum is located on the main floor of the Institute of Paper Science and Technology. Each show lasts three months and features artifacts having to do with papermaking by hand or machine from b.c. to present times. Changing exhibitions bring in paper artists so that the entire spectrum of the paper arts from history to art to science is covered. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission is free. The museum also holds papermaking and paper art workshops for children and adults.
City: Atlanta, GA
Category: Shopping
Address: 1440 Spring St. NW
139. Aaron's lakewood Amphitheater
City: Atlanta, GA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (404) 627-9704
Address: 2002 Lakewood Way
Description: Located in the old Lakewood Fairgrounds on the city’s southside, this venue is one of the area’s premier outdoor concert sites. Musical stars of rock, country, and blues have packed the property during the warmer months. Besides music, the fairgrounds host a monthly antiques fair.
140. Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
City: Atlanta, GA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (404) 688-1970
Address: 535 Means St. NW
Description: Formerly known as the Nexus Contemporary Art Center, it has been a vibrant force on the Atlanta art scene since it was founded as a co-op storefront gallery in 1973. Later it occupied a former elementary school; then, in 1989, it purchased a historic warehouse complex west of Five Points. The 40,000-square-foot center houses an art book press, studios, a large gallery that presents six major exhibitions annually, and the 1,800-square-foot Performance Cafe. Admission is free to members. General admission is $5; students and seniors pay $3. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
141. The Boisfeuillot Jones Atlanta Civic Center
City: Atlanta, GA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (404) 523-6275
Address: 395 Piedmont Ave.
Description: Most Atlantans will refer to this as simply the Atlanta Civic Center, but as of 2001, it is officially named Boisfeuillot Jones Atlanta Civic Center after one of Atlanta’s most beloved philanthropists. The center’s big stage has hosted visiting Broadway spectacles such as Miss Saigon and The King and I as part of the Atlanta Broadway Series. Concerts from Riverdance to rock ’n’ roll have filled the 4,600 seat venue, one of the city’s most spacious.
City: Atlanta, GA
Category: Shopping
Address: 980 Briarcliff Rd. NE
143. Chastain Park Amphitheater
City: Atlanta, GA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (404) 733-4900
Address: 4469 Stella Dr.
Description: The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is the most frequent part of this open-air Atlanta summer tradition, but it’s not the only one. Concertgoers pack elegant picnics and settle into one of 6,000 seats to hear internationally known performing artists under the stars. This is a great, relatively intimate venue. Because Chastain is located in a neighborhood, all the concerts have to end in time for the place to clear out by 11 p.m. The amphitheater has been used as a concert venue since 1944.
144. Coca-Cola Roxy
City: Atlanta, GA
Category: Shopping
Address: 3110 Roswell Rd.
Description: This intimate theater in the heart of Buckhead hosts an eclectic series of events, from rock and blues concerts to plays and even boxing matches.
City: Atlanta, GA
Category: Shopping
Address: 349 Ferst Dr. NW
146. Glenn Memorial Auditorium
City: Atlanta, GA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (404) 727-5050
Address: 1652 North Decatur Rd.
Description: Music lovers pack the pews of this former church on the campus of Emory University for choral, chamber, and small-group performances throughout the year.
City: Atlanta, GA
Category: Shopping
Address: 887 West Marietta St. NW
148. The Rialto Center for the Performing Arts
City: Atlanta, GA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (404) 651-4727
Address: 80 Forsyth St.
Description: Completed in 1996, this state-of-the-art hall is one of Atlanta’s newest auditoriums for the performing arts. It is housed in downtown Atlanta on the site of the old Rialto, a premier movie palace complete with escalator. A declining Downtown economy in the ’80s closed the old theater’s doors. In 1991 Georgia State University purchased the site, ultimately transforming it into a professionally managed performing arts complex with 900 seats. Programming includes music, dance, theater, and film to celebrate the cultural diversity and artistic excellence available in Atlanta. The Rialto season caters as much to the blue jeans crowd as to the black-tie set.
149. Robert West Woodruff Arts Center
City: Atlanta, GA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (404) 897-1280
Address: 1280 Peachtree St. NE
Description: This multibuilding complex houses some of the city’s premier arts institutions. Home to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Alliance Theatre Company, and the Atlanta College of Art, the center occupies one large city block in the heart of Midtown Atlanta. We detail the first three components of the center in other sections of this chapter. The Atlanta College of Art, founded in 1928, is one of the Southeast’s outstanding independent art colleges. In addition to its four-year programs, the college offers community education classes. The college has its own gallery that hosts exhibitions of contemporary art and design.
150. The Tabernacle
City: Atlanta, GA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (404) 659-9022
Address: 152 Luckie St. NE
Description: The transformation of this abandoned Downtown Baptist church began during the 1996 Olympics when it was converted into the House of Blues concert hall, one of the hottest spots to see and be seen that summer. In 1998, after several attempts to reopen as a House of Blues, the building was reopened as a concert hall that holds 2,500. By 2006, the Tabernacle was boasting it had entertained more than 6 million guests at a wide assortment of performances from rock to country and even grunge.