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ARTS 19th and 20th century France, and

ECONOMIC ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT

to early 20th century.
& ENTERTAINMENT Japanese porcelain from the 17th
On Stage Atlanta – This permanent
ensemble uses the power of theater
eKalb County’s diversity has resulted in a community rich in to entertain and inform, to break down
barriers, and to communicate unlike any
varied cultural entertainments and diversions, including shopping
other art form. Rail Arts District
D venues, art centers, museums, and other attractions. (RAD) – At the rail line
Porter Sanford III Performing Arts where Avondale Estates meets
ART Station – In historic Stone Mountain this family-friendly museum. Explore ancient & Community Center – This 500-seat Decatur is a collection of art studios
Village, the ART Station is home to its own fossils, science interactives, and the largest theater in the historic Candler Road district and shops with pottery making, glass
professional equity theatre company. dinosaurs ever discovered.
brings diverse programming to southern blowing, paper arts, leather crafts, sewing,
DeKalb County. and more.
Callanwolde Fine Arts Center – Housed Fernbank Science Center – Includes
in a Gothic-Tudor style mansion built in 1920 Fernbank Forest; the Jim Cherry Memorial
by Coca-Cola heir Charles Howard Candler, Planetarium, one of the largest planetariums
Callanwolde offers classes in visual, literary, in the U.S.; the Fernbank Observatory
and performing arts, as well as concerts, which houses the largest telescope in the
gallery exhibitions, and outreach programs. Southeast; science-related exhibits.
Spruill Center for the Arts –
Michael C. Carlos Museum – Marcus Jewish Community Center In Dunwoody, the Spruill Center is
This Emory University museum of Atlanta – MJCCA presents theater and the largest community arts education
has the Southeast’s largest art of a historical nature and reflections of center in the Southeast, with classes
collection of ancient art, with Jewish life, and offers fitness, wellness, and ranging from jewelry-making and ceramics
objects from ancient Egypt, sports programming for members. to painting and glassblowing.
Africa, Greece, Rome, the Near
East, Asia, and Americas. Oglethorpe University Museum of Art – Stage Door Players – Dunwoody’s
In Brookhaven, the museum’s collection has own award-winning, professional theater
Fernbank Museum of Natural History nearly 700 drawings, prints, and paintings company attracts audiences from all over
– Science, culture, and nature come alive at from the various schools in the art of Porter Sanford III Performing Arts & Community Center the metro area.

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