Alternate ROOTS
Non-profit OrganizationsGeorgia, United States11-50 Employees
Alternate ROOTS is a regional non-profit arts service organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, with over thirty years of history supporting activist artists and cultural workers. The organization functions as a national resource for artists, organizers, and communities engaged in social justice-oriented art, providing connective tissue and leadership, particularly within the Southeast, where it delivers its most direct services to members. Its work centers on sustaining artistic development, increasing visibility, and stabilizing artists who create work in, with, by, for, and about their communities while pursuing social justice. The group serves a sector of the arts and culture field that is often informal and collaborative, aiming to forge lasting collaboration and support for a distinctive approach to artistic practice. Recent activity includes partnerships with other advocacy and arts organizations, such as collaborations that host listening sessions and special events, reflecting its role as a convening and networking hub for activist art and community-based cultural work.