ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that project and positions the Atlanta University Center (AUC) in general as a leading and forward-thinking nucleus, which consistently anticipates the needs of the field and leads meaningful initiatives that benefit African American students and aspiring artists and arts professionals alike. The School of Music and Fine Arts, part of “The Six Year Plan” John Hope proposed in 1930, would serve the Atlanta University Center, which included Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College, as well as the laboratory high school and the elementary school. In the 1960s the AUC launched a new effort known as the Coordinated Art Program. Under the Rubric of the Coordinated Art Program Clark and Morris Brown, like Atlanta University and Spelman College, established art departments and there was great anticipation across the administrative leadership and faculties of the AUC institutions.
