Alice Lovelace

The Atlanta Creative Loafing once proclaimed Alice, "one of Atlanta's premiere poets." In the late '70's, Alice 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 has served as contributing editor for High Performance Magazine. She is a contributor to the on-line publication Community Arts Network.

"It was Toni who trained me to be an arts activist/organizer, a writer who uses her talents for positive social change."

** Published playwright, poet, performance artists, essayist, cultural worker, spoken word artists, lecturer, producer of festivals and Cafe Medusa, and teacher of poetry

** Writing has appeared in numerous regional, national and international publications

** Uses the arts as a tool for social change

** Lead Editor of the anthology CRUX: a conversation in words and images/South Africa to South USA, published by the Fulton County Arts Council and released in October of 2007 as a follow-up to her 2005 residency at Caversham Centre for Artists & Writers in Balgowan, South Africa.

** Latest collection of poetry, forever, was released in October 2008 and is available from www.inmotionmagazine.com

** Masters Degree in Conflict Resolution from The McGregor School of Antioch University in Yellow Spring, Ohio. Focused on the arts as a process of conciliation, organizational design, mediation and organizational conflict.

** Designed and teaches an Arts for Social Change curriculum for artists, arts administrators and social service organizations.

** Along with Dr. Lisa Delpit, she helped to found the Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning; designed the program and implemented it in nine schools from elementary to high school level, recruited teachers and artists, designed professional development and training and created the program guidelines. APAL facilitated collaborations between classroom teachers and teaching artist to teach the core curriculum through the arts in innovative and challenging ways designed to engage every student from the gifted to the struggling. The program was rooted in principles of art as a tool for collaboration and an instrument for differentiated teaching.

** 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.

** Currently Associate Regional Director, Southeastern Region for the American Friends Service Committee

** Co-editor at online journal In Motion Magazine and covers issues of art and democracy in her column Art Changes.