Founded by choreographer lauri stallings in 2009, glo is an artist – led platform for movement, cultural development, and social relations, located in a 19th-century industrial space of the Goat Farm Arts Center on the Westside of Atlanta, Georgia. glo uses choreography as a tool box to bring together people and pool resources to meet communities where they are at: on Main Street in rural towns, sidewalks in big cities, museum galleries, symphony halls, and preservation landmarks, helping to cultivate artists and make the world better. The Platform is well known for innovative, ambitious, and meaningful initiatives, and projects that amplify and celebrate the history, value, and promise of Southern creativity at local, regional, national, and international scales. Glo operates a constellation of sites in the rural South, including the long-term project The Traveling Show, The Blooming City in Palmetto, and Tanz Farm at the Goat Farm. Glo Platform is grounded in and enriched by four core values: embody creativity, value place, practice abundance, and dance in love.
Team
Board
Malcolm Low, artist, founder, Formal Structure
Marquinn Mason, co-director, Gallery 992
Matthew DiVenere, consultant
Mechelle Tunstall,clerk reporter, moving artist, mother
Roy Sockwell, manager, CAC Food Bank
Marie Nygren, Serenbe
Sarah Bobrow-Williams, community planner, director, Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative, JUSTice Pops founder, Goddard College MFA faculty
Advisory Board
Tijana Lehtikoski, strategist
Dorian McDuffie, Program Manager, Public Art, City Studio Atlanta
Annie Moye, founder, The Reimagine Home Project
Kebbi Williams, musician, director, Gallery 992, founder, MusicInThePark
Mission
We choreograph environments that bring people together and pool resources to meet communities where they are at, making the world better.
Values
As we strive to achieve our mission and embody our vision, we are shepherded by our guiding lights, and always will tap into a power and soulforce that exists within each of us for how best we can:
embody creativity
create change
value place
dance in love
Collaborators
It’s imperative to genuinely prize collaboration. The platforms’ willingness to take risks, respond to other art practices, and support fellow artists and activists has created an ever-widening alliance while creating glo’s unique trajectory.
Goat Farm Arts Center | Gee’s Bend Quilt Collective | Black Belt Artists’ Collective | Atlanta Public Schools | Talent Development Program, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Museum of Contemporary and African Art Selma | Alliance Theatre Collision Project | Scott Peacock | Dewberry Foundation | Atlanta Contemporary | Kebbi Williams | Gallery 992 | Marquinn Mason | David Ballet | Big Boi | Big Rube | Brooklyn Queens Land Trust | Jason Bunin | National Center for Civil and Human Rights | Chattahoochee Park Conservancy | City of Griffin | Margaret Ann Phillips | Georgia Council for the Arts | Reimagine Home Project | City of Dalton | City of Lumpkin | Georgia Department of Economic Development | Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation | Karen Glass | Global Kidz | Hambidge Center for Arts & Sciences | Vyvyan Hughes | The Neon Company |zero waste | GSU Anthropology | Bruce Harlan | Gyun Hur | Tian Justman | Adam Larsen | Living Walls, The City Speaks | | Meriwether County | Paper-Cut-Projects | Ryan O’Gara | Rebecca Makus | Audrey Morrison | Sonic Generator Music Ensemble | Soul Food Cypher | Robert Spano | Rooth Stanford | saultopaul | Micah + Whitney Stansell | The Lawrence | ThreadATL | The UltraMind, Inc. | Walker County | Paul Boshears | High Museum of Art | Soul Food Cypher | Pearl Cleage | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Main St. Marion | Pasaquan Preservation Society | The Palette Group |
Advisors
Howell Binkley (Deceased) | Pearl Cleage | Jerry Thomas | Matthew Garbett | Dorian McDuffie | Kebbi Williams
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