Dashboard is a creative non-profit producing transformative arts experiences in public spaces.
We build creative projects and programs that have lasting impact on communities, and interrupt the status quo. We’re the team organizations call to produce projects with a ripple effect—artful experiences that have never been done before, that have extended impact.
Dashboard consists of four full-time staff members and a revolving team of 300+ local, national, and international creatives, designers, architects, engineers, and builders. Our services include (from conception to completion): large-scale immersive installations, non-traditional gallery exhibitions, event design and production, public art commissions, artist grants, and public programming.
Our niche is connecting artists, funding, space, and big ideas. We’re the conceivers, the matchmakers, and the project managers. We build the visions, and manage the artists and experts to make it happen.
Our History
In 2010, we were co-founded in Atlanta, GA as a 501c3 nonprofit organization by Courtney Hammond and Beth Malone as a co-op that created non-traditional art experiences in vacant buildings. Since then, we have grown rapidly into an all-encompassing national arts agency offering a wildly creative approach to strategic development and public engagement. We’ve presented 80+ exhibitions and artist projects with both national and international partnering organizations in cities across the United States, and have commissioned non-traditional artworks from over 500 artists.
OUR TEAM
Lauren Jackson Harris (she/her)
Executive Director
Lauren Jackson Harris has built a career at the intersection of arts, education and program development. Most recently, she served as Visiting Instructor and Curatorial Fellow at Georgia State University, where in addition to designing and teaching a class on contemporary art curation, she has also programmed and published materials for Georgia State University’s Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design galleries. She has also overseen the development, implementation, supervision, and evaluation of programs dedicated to building discourse around contemporary black art as Program Director for Black Embodiments Studios. Prior to these roles, Jackson Harris served as Director of Arts Sales at SCAD and Program Administrator at Spelman College.
Chrissy Brimmage (she/they)
Director of Creative Strategy
Chrissy joined the Dashboard team in 2018 as an intern, and has grown into her role as Director of Creative Strategy where she develops new systems, programs, and communications to support Dashboard’s mission. She’s a big believer in public art and artists being fundamental to a healthy ecology, and is passionate about making public art and opportunities for artists accessible everywhere (especially in places that get overlooked). In her own art practice, she integrates digital and material mediums and space to research the structures of experience. She is currently interested in investigating social phenomenology, identity formation, spatial anthropology and embodied romance.
Anna Akpele (she/they)
Senior Project Manager
Anna joined the Dashboard team in October of 2023.
Anna comes with a strong background in the Atlanta arts as an arts administrator with gallery and public art experience. Over the past 8 years, she’s worked to champion artists by providing space and resources. Through their own curatorial practice, centered around challenging the concept of a white cube, she provides an outlet for artists to be free and explore without limitations. Outside of the arts, Anna has a deep love for memes and cats.
Kal Landstra (they/them)
Consulting Finance Manager
Kal Landstra joined the Dashboard team as the Consulting Finance Manager at the end of 2022.
Kals works as a consultant to Dashboard and other small businesses and organizations to build strong, values-aligned financial and management infrastructure to have the foundation they need to thrive and create the biggest impact. They are passionate about Dashboard's mission and supporting artists, creatives and professionals in the non-profit space through collaboration, consistency and ensuring the long-term sustainability for this important work.
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