Discover Allied Arts Community Development - Allied Arts began in 1977 as a Georgia Council for the Arts Community Development site. In 1987 local city and county governments reorganized and Allied Arts Incorporated became a secondary agency of the City of Milledgeville. Stay and Play in GA!
General Info
Specializing in Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Heritage Arts, Literary Arts and Art Education, the programming goals run parallel with our facilities development goals. The preservation and adaptation of four historic structures that make up our arts center complex have played a pivotal role in our programming history. To adequately meet program needs our community wants met would be impossible without a well-developed sense of place. We have literally had to make space for the arts in a community that before 1977 had only selective pocket exposure to the arts by the way of college events.
In the 1911 Allen's Market Building, which is one of four historic buildings that make up the Marlor Arts Center Complex in Milledgeville's Downtown Historic District we need to complete a roughed in artist-in-residence efficiency apartment and a second small classroom/kitchen space.
Allied Arts involvement since 1980 in bringing in resident artists to work in the schools and community demands that we furnish adequate housing for artists not available in an already overloaded college housing market. Considering the first floor of Allen's Market is the only small public auditorium (and fully accessible) in town since the Mary Vinson Regional Library converted theirs into office space, the full development of Allen's Market becomes even more critical.
Mission Statement
Our mission, as a multi-disciplined community arts agency is to make available a broad range of experiences in the performing arts, visual arts, literary arts, heritage arts and general arts education for all the citizens of Milledgeville and Baldwin County regardless of their socio-economic, cultural, racial, physical or religious differences.
