accomplishments
A few of our accomplishments:
- Opened DC’s first arts incubator, Flashpoint, and incubated ten emerging arts organizations there including Artomatic, Fringe Festival, Step Afrika! and Washington Improv Theater
- Purchased and renovated Source as a multi-user performing arts facility providing performance, rehearsal and office space for numerous arts organizations
- Developed DC’s first (legal) artist live/work housing (at The Mather Studios)
- Produced the Source Festival – an annual three-week performing arts festival
- Brokered 18 arts space projects totaling almost 250,000 square feet of space including the Atlas Performing Arts Center, GALA Hispanic Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Ticketplace
- Honored with the Washington Post Award for Innovative Leadership in the Theatre Community at the 2007 Helen Hayes Awards
- Honored with the 2008 Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in Service to the Arts