About Alice Lovelace
Alice is the Lead Staff Organizer for the United States Social Forum. The first U. S. Social Forum was held in Atlanta, GA June 27-July 1, 2007 and attracted 15,000 organizers and activists from across the nation and 68 forgeign countries.
Along with Jane Fonda and Dr. Lisa Delpit, she helped to found the Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning working with artists to train teachers to teach the core curriculum thorough the arts.
Alice Lovelace is considered one of Atlanta's premiere poets. In the late seventies she worked shoulder to shoulder with Toni Cade Bambara to organize the Southern Collective of African American Writers (SCAWW) and was a coordinator for the historic 1980 Conference on Black South Literature and Art at Emory University. Alice has performed at venues across the nation.
She is currently co-editor of the on-line publication In Motion Magazine (www.inmotionmagazine.com). She served a contributing editor for High Performance Magazine. She is a contributor to the on-line publication Community Arts Network(www.communityarts.net). Her most recent publications include Remembering My Birth: New and Collected Poems from Horizons Press in Atlanta and This is for Family, poetry and music from BlackEagle Records, Atlanta.
Alice has a Master of Arts degree in Conflict Resolution from Antioch University. She has worked with Alternate ROOTS and Arts Extension Services at the University of Massachusetts to design and teach an Arts for Social Change curriculum for artists, arts administrators and social service organizations.
In recognition of her work in the community, Alice received the Bronze Jubilee Award for Long Term Contributions to the Arts, the Community Service Award from the Sisterhood of Higher Education, The City of Atlanta Mayor's Fellowship in the Arts, and the Paul Robeson Cultural Democracy Award from the Arts Exchange. Most recently, the Fund for Southern Communities presented Alice with their 1997 Torchbearers Award for consistent contributions to social justice. In 2002 Project South presented her with the Spirit of the Movement Award in recognition of her use of poetry to educate people about social justice and political issues. In 2005 the Georgia Assopcation of Wrtiers awared her a Lifetime Achievement Award.
