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Arts & Culture

Spivey Hall

Enjoy a Front Row Seat

Exploring the artistic side of Clayton County – music, theatre, art and enhanced sound and lighting. The facility
event venues – will have you giving a standing ovation. Creativity is supports the Martha Ellen Stilwell School of
the Arts and the district’s Fine Arts Magnet
one of the many features that make Clayton County great. program, as well as other area performing
arts organizations that book the facility’s
layton State University’s elegant, Spivey Hall has presented the best in jazz performance space.
400-seat Spivey Hall, known as and classical music to the metro Atlanta area.
the “Carnegie Hall of the South,” Its renowned Concert Series receives regular The visual arts have a prominent place
is the heart of Clayton County’s national and international attention as one in Clayton County, as well. Arts Clayton
C arts community. Since 1991, of America’s finest, and the Hall’s acoustics is a dynamic leader in arts programming
and design are routinely lauded by patrons, with professional caliber exhibits and a
pundits and performers. commitment to arts education. The Arts
The visual centerpiece of Spivey’s
breathtaking design is the Albert Schweitzer
Memorial Pipe Organ, a 79-rank, 3-manual,
4,413-pipe organ, built and installed by
Fratelli Ruffatti of Padua, Italy. For more
information and upcoming events, visit:
clayton.edu/spiveyhall.
Clayton State University also supports
the Crescent Theatre, which offers student
performances that provide a hands-on
approach to the craft, with training in acting
and singing, dance, solo performance, and
technical design. Productions feature talented
students and professional production values, Clayton Gallery is the south metro’s only
staged and designed by high caliber artists nonprofit community art facility showcasing
who are professionals in the industry. For a wide variety of Georgia artists. The year-
more information and upcoming events, round schedule of exhibits includes juried
visit clayton.edu/vpa/Theatre. competitions, college and student exhibits,
The Clayton County Public Schools as well as national touring exhibitions. The
operates the Performing Arts Center (PAC) annual holiday shopping bazaar features a
which serves as a community entertainment wide variety of Master Crafts and Georgia
complex. The PAC provides a stage to meet Made artisan food products. The Gallery
the needs of the schools and provides a is open free to the public. The education
venue for performance of our fine arts initiative has received state and national
students. The PAC boasts a seating capacity awards for curriculum-based, after-school
of 1,800, a 6,000-square-foot auditorium art programs, artists residencies, and a
Arts Clayton Gallery stage, an electrically operated orchestra pit, new focus on STEAM (Science, Technology,
two performance rooms, and professionally Engineering, Art and Math) education. Arts

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