For nearly 60 years, the Woodruff Arts Center has proudly been a place for every person to experience the power of the arts. We have a responsibility to ensure that the Arts Center is well-positioned for a bright future marked by growth, inclusivity, and even greater artistic and educational impact. Ambitious and unprecedented, this
$67 million capital campaign will bring new life to our campus, expand access to our proven educational programming, and secure our place as Atlanta’s center for the arts. It’s time to reintroduce the Woodruff Arts Center and invite our community—and the world—to Experience Atlanta, Experience Woodruff.
Imagine … an open city center beaming with festivals, art-making activities, installations, performances, and concerts curated by our world-class Art Partners—right on Peachtree Street. That is what we envision for the Woodruff Arts Center’s next 60 years. We’ll start by reimagining two new spaces:
Goizueta Stage for Youth & Families
This transformative space will feature programming for our youngest patrons curated by the Alliance Theatre and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. With sophisticated streaming technology, we’ll share our educational content world-wide, breaking geographic barriers to the arts.
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PlaySpace
Open six days a week, this experiential learning center will offer hands-on engagement opportunities for children ages birth to five at no cost to families. Here, children can enjoy free play, interactive performances, and the chance to create, move, and make believe.
Get an immersive look at the new spaces
all in real time.
ACtivate - Maintain - Protect
With a focus on accessibility, sustainability, and conversation, Experience Atlanta, Experience Woodruff is growing access to youth and family programming as well as modernizing our campus. With more pathways, lighting enhancements, clear signage, and dynamic outdoor spaces, we are fostering a more inclusive and accessible community space that invites patrons from all walks of life to spend more time with us and experience the arts in new and personal ways. Investing in our infrastructure and Building and Grounds Endowment will ensure our facilities mirror the quality of the art displayed and presented on campus long into the future.
With your support, we can expand equitable access to the arts and ensure the Woodruff Arts Center remains a premier asset to our community for decades to come. Let’s get started.
Why It Matters
We know that children who have access to the arts are:
What we are building is more than a stage… We are building hope for the youth of our community.
The mental health crisis of today’s young people is unlike any other, with reports of persistent feelings of sadness, loneliness, and hopelessness at unprecedented levels. We know that access to the arts, however, can transform lives, and we are dedicated to changing the course for children in Atlanta and beyond. When kids are given the space to explore freely and tell their story through performances, music, painting, they feel more connected and less alone. When they can see stories and people who looks like them across stages and in galleries,
they feel more hope for a brighter future.
Your gift ensures the Woodruff Arts Center remains a place to explore, to learn, to dream—a place
for everyone to experience the magic of the arts.
For more information, please contact Kristin Hathaway Hansen, Chief Development Officer,
at kristin.hathaway-hansen@woodruffcenter.org or call 404.733.4115.
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- Bank of America
- Chick-fil-A
- Cousins Properties Foundation
- Emerald Gate Charitable Trust
- Georgia Power Foundation
- The Goizueta Foundation
- The Home Depot, Inc.
- The Imlay Foundation
- James M. Cox Foundation
- John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation
- Kelin Foundation
- Norfolk Southern
- PNC
- The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
- The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation
- Southface GoodUse
- The Tomé Foundation
- Truist Charitable Fund
- Tull Charitable Foundation
- Vasser Woolley Foundation
- The Zeist Foundation
- Allegra Lawrence-Hardy
- Kenny Blank
- Lynn Eden
- Margaret and Bob Reiser
- Patty and Doug Reid
- Rand and Seth Hagen/ Hilda D. Glenn Fund
- Rogers Family Foundation
- Sara Hehir/ Sara Giles Moore
- Claire Lewis Arnold
- D. Richard Williams
- Daniel Baldwin
- David B. Sewell
- DeRetta Rhodes, Phd
- Galen Oelkers
- Glenn W. Mitchell III
- Hala Moddelmog
- John C. Yates
- Kathy Waller
- Kenneth Neighbors
- Mike Egan
- Patrick Viguerie
- Pratap Mukharji
- Ravi Saligram
- Roxanne and Benny Varzi
- Thomas C. Chubb
- Angela Spivey
- Ann and Jeff Cramer
- Annie Adams
- Barbara and William DeButts
- Bharath Parthasarathy
- BJ Green
- Brendon Doherty
- Brian Mahoney
- Candace Steel Flippin
- Carli Huband
- Charles Palmer
- Christine Whitaker
- Dave Dase
- David Scheible
- Dennis Lockhart
- Doug Hertz
- Erica Qualls-Battey
- J. Veronica Biggins
- Janet Simpson
- Jim Boswell
- Julia Houston
- Julie Ann Crommett
- Kate Kiefer Lee
- Kathy Petralia
- Katie Saez
- Kevin Gooch
- Kim Greene
- Lacey Jordan
- Lizanne Thomas and David Black
- Lovette and Michael Russell
- Margaret and Bob Reiser
- Mark Pighini
- Michael Rogers
- Michelle Hylton
- Pamela Stahls
- Phil Harrison
- Phil Jacobs
- Pradeep Sinha
- Ryan Wilson
- Scott Uzzell
- Stephanie Nadi Olson
- Steve Cohen
- Tiffany Burns
- Ty Johnson
- Vicki Escarra
- William Pate
- Vicki Escarra
- Doug Hertz
- Allegra Lawrence-Hardy
- Thomas Chubb
- Brendan Doherty
- Mike Egan
- Linnea Geiss
- Virginia Hepner
- Julia Houston
- Phil Jacobs
- Ashish Mistry
- Chuck Palmer
- Kathy Waller
- Ron Williams
- John Yates