WonderRoot is an Atlanta-based 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization committed to uniting artists and community to inspire positive social change.
Objectives

• to provide production facilities to Atlanta-based artists

• to facilitate arts-based service programs in the Atlanta community

• to encourage artists to be proactive in engaging their local communities through service work

The monthly WonderRoot TV screening has been moved. The original screen of July 1 has been moved to July 8. We're doing this so all of you can come see the WonderRoot 48hr FilmFest screening at Midtown Art Theatre at 7pm. Come support WonderRoot!

Check out the photos and story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about WonderRoot's BeltLine public art project by clicking here.

Open casting for actors and actresses of all ages to appear in the New Lexicon/WonderRoot film for the 48 hour film festival the weekend of June 27-28. Actors must be available to shoot Saturday 9am - 2am at a locations inside the city limits of Atlanta. Open casting for actors and actresses of all ages to appear in the New Lexicon/Wonderroot team for the 48 hour film festival the weekend of June 27-28.

Join us this evening for our bi-weekly Dinner and Discussion event. Project South will be leading the talk this week. Don't forget to bring a dish and it's a free event!

Click here to view some video footage from a WonderRoot art show at Eyedrum.

WonderRoot is very excited to host Clark Whittington… the creator of the Art-O-Mat… as part of our ongoing Dinner and a Discussion series Tuesday night June 2nd. Clark will be chatting with us via webcam about the creation of the Art-O-Mat concept and will be doing a workshop for those interested in creating artwork for his machines. Creating Art-O-Mat art is a great way to have your art distributed all over the world and in major museums such as the Museum ofModern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Artists also get paid for the work that they sell through Art-O-Mat. Please come by for this great event!!! Dinner and discussion is a free event including a potluck dinner!

Join us this Saturday for the celebration of the WonderRoot Community Arts Center One-Year Anniversary. Things will get kicked off around 4pm with a BBQ, the evening will feature and I Love Atlanta Art Show, Film Screening, WonderRoot TV DVD Release, and live music. $5 after 8pm. Hope to see you for this exciting day and thanks to everyone for making Atlanta a better place through art.

Tonight at Lenny's! A fundraising party for Gather Atlanta. WonderRoot is a founding member of Gather Atlanta. Gather Atlanta is an emerging creatives conference held at Eyedrum on Saturday, June 6. Click here for more details.

Take a quick second to admire BurnAway's latest crush...our very own Christopher Appleton...read the details here.

Please join us this Tuesday for our bi-weekly Dinner and Discussion event. The Georgia Veterans Alliance will lead the discussion. Don't forget to bring a dish for the potluck dinner!!!

Join WonderRoot this evening at 6pm for a new WonderRoot Community Garden planning/info session.

Listen to this podcast interview with Eli Dickerson who runs the WonderRoot Urban Hiking program!

Come out this weekend to the Inman Park Festival for some great art and music. The weather should be great and we are super excited to see all the great performers on the WonderRoot Stage!!! including Batata Doce, Book of Colors, and Indyana Jonz.

Unfortunately... Jamie Stewart of the band Xiu Xiu has had to cancel his performance for this Saturday at WonderRoot due to family issues. Green Monsters will be taking his place. It should still be a great show, and we will be rescheduling with Jamie for July hopefully! Thanks!!

Check out the latest blog post for WonderRoot Urban Hiking.

Come out this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to the Vortex in Little Five to support WonderRoot. Scion is hosting an event for which WonderRoot is the the beneficiary. Test drive a Scion for FREE and get a $15 gift certificate to the Vortex! If you like, donate a portion of your gift certificate to WonderRoot. This a a FREE event for you and a great way for WonderRoot to raise a few dollars. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 10-6. Please come support us at Vortex in L5P!

The opening for WonderRoot's April art show is tonight from 8-10pm. The exhibition is comprised of artworks by SCAD printmaking students. Please join us for the event to see some outstanding artwork.

WonderRoot will be at the Braves' game on Friday for the 50/50 raffle. Hooray for baseball season!

Check out the latest episode of WonderRoot TV by clicking here

As part of our Creativity for Kids program, WonderRoot artists Alicia Coleman and Valerie Lake facilitated a mural painting in East Atlanta with the Everyday Leaders Program. Click here to view photos!

Check out the films made this weekend at our Handmade Filmmaking Workshop. A special thanks Robbie Land for making this happen!

WonderRoot is very excited about hosting a benefit for Mondo Homo this Friday night at the WonderRoot Commmunity Arts Center… Mondo Homo is a great group, and it is going to be an awesome show! The Thieves, The Long Shadows, Treephort, and Dangerous Ponies (philladelphia) are all performing!! Show starts at 8:30… cost is $5. Hope to see you there! You can find out more about Mondo Homo here.

The WonderRoot Urban Hike this past weekend was amazing! Our urban hikers took a trip down the Beltline and saw some amazing things. Click here to view the blog post.

We have a few great events this week. On Monday evening, our second edition of a monthly open mic night is taking place. Wednesday is the first screening of WonderRoot TV Episode #1. And Sunday is the opening for our new art show. Hope to see everybody around!

Check out this blog post about the recent Dorkbot event at WonderRoot. here.

Come out this weekend for the first annual WonderRoot Battle of the Bands Celebration at Lenny's Bar. Things will get started around 9pm. Remember that this is a community service battle and that admission is free with 3 cans of food to support the Atlanta Community Food Bank.

Tomorrow's Dinner and Discussion has been canceled. Sorry for the inconvenience, and we look forward to seeing you in a few weeks!

Check out this story that ran on 11 Alive news about WonderRoot. Click here to view the video.

We are extremely excited to announce a new project, WonderRoot TV! WonderRoot TV is a monthly show compiling video and film work by Atlanta artists. The project includes short films, animations, documentary work, and features of local artists/musicians. Each new episode, produced monthly, will air weekly on People TV after a screening at WonderRoot. We will be accepting submissions for March's episode through February 16. Please contact info@wonderroot.org with questions

Join WonderRoot this Saturday for our first Urban Hike of 2009. The hike will be led by Eli Dickerson of Fernbank and hikers should meet at Park Grounds at 10:00am. We will leave from there at about 11am and the hike should take between 3-4 hours. Please email info@wonderroot.org with questions.

The WonderRoot Zine Library and No Breaks Record Distro are officially open! The Grand Opening is tonight and we'd love for you to stop by soon. Thanks so much to Cristina and Stewart for making it happen.

WonderRoot will be closed today in observance of MLK day. Thanks!

Come out this weekend for the One-year Birthday Party and Benefit for Atlanta's Chapter of Food not Bombs. We've got some great bands playing, including The Wild, Atlanta Sedition Orchestra, and more.

We've got some exciting news here at WonderRoot. The WonderRoot ceramics studio is now open! We have two wheels, a great kiln, and plenty of fun stuff for handbuilding and getting dirty. Please come check it out and make some pottery for your grandma. She'll love it!

We have three important things that we've added to our regular programming this month. The last Saturday of the month we are hosting Straight from the Arts: a roundtable for artists by artists. Every Thursday from 7-8 Cuyler Hovey-King and Molly Evans will host a critique group for artists all of all mediums. Lastly, WonderRoot finally has its own open mic night. Musician and artist, Emily Kempf of the Back Pockets, will be hosting. There aren't many rules and its free from, just come with a good attitude. The open mic night is the first Monday of every month from 8-11. Email Kristy with questions.

This month, WonderRoot artist and volunteer, Jonathan Putman, curated an art show with the theme of currency in mind. The exhibition explores our ideas of currency, exchange, and money. The show includes works by Ashley Anderson, Lindsey Elcessor, Gary Eddy, Dosa Kim, Juanami Spencer, Andrea Sanders, Dosa Kim, and more great artists. If you did not have a chance to make it to the opening this past weekend, please come out and see the though provoking art. Also, if you haven't have a chance to see the show curated by Mike Germon of Thoughtmarker, it will be up for the remainder of January. Please remember that 100% of all proceeds from art sales go directly to the artists.

WonderRoot is excited to announce that Chris Wyatt, the producer of Napoleon Dynamite, will be speaking at WonderRoot on January 7th, at 7PM. Chris will talk about making movies on a budget. We are really excited to have him at the space and hope you all can make it! You can read about Chris at his IMDB profile here.

Hello friends!! WonderRoot will be closed for a few days during the holidays. This will give us some time to spend with our family, friends, and loved ones. We hope that you have a great time during the holidays, and we look forward to seeing everyone when we re-open. We will be closed from Sunday Dec. 21st until Sunday January 4th.

Check out this blog. It was started by WonderRoot artist Ingrid Sibley after she hosted an artist roundtable at WonderRoot. Beginning January 2009, we will host a monthly roundtable for artists by artists.

Check out this recent article in Alarm Magazine about our performance space!" click here

WonderRoot will be closed this Thursday, Nov. 27.

Design a t-shirt for WonderRoot! We just announced a t-shirt design competition. The winner will receive a 3 month membership to the WonderRoot Community Arts Center, a t-shirt, and some glory! Please email submissions to wrtshirt@wonderroot.org. Get crazy with designs. Single color or multicolor, front, back, or front and back. For questions, email info@wonderroot.org. And if you want the WonderRoot logo, click here.

WonderRoot is excited to host NoPhest this upcoming weekend (Nov. 28, 29, 30). Over 30 bands will play beginning Friday evening at 8pm. Please check out the NoPhest website (www.nophest.com/) for details. Due to the large number of bands and early starts, WonderRoot's studios will close at 5pm on Friday and will remain closed until Monday morning. Hope to see you there

Please check out this great write up in Performer Magazine about WonderRoot's Battle of the Bands.

Please visit the WonderRoot service and workshops calendar for a list of this week workshops/classes. We are excited to offer classes in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Bookmaking, Creative Writing, Music Production, and a Darkroom workshop. Please email info@wonderroot.org for questions.

WonderRoot is sorry to announce that tonight's 50 artists event has been moved to the Horizon's Theatre. Please visit www.50artists.org for more information.

The "How to Start a Non-Profit" workshops on Saturday, Nov. 8 and Saturday, Nov. 15 have been postponed. We will notify people via our email list when they are rescheduled. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Tonight we’re having an amazing last minute show at WonderRoot! Jeff Lewis from NYC, Lemuria, the Wild, and more!! show starts at 8:00. $5 at the door. Hope to see everyone there!

We are really excited to present the Gadabout Touring Film Festival this Thursday night, November 6th, here at the WonderRoot Community Arts Center. The festival features great DIY films and art from the Just Seeds Collective. After the films there will be awesome music by Halo Fauna (plan-it-x records), Revolutionary Youth, and Routine Emergency. The festival starts at 8:00.