chefATL started as a class assignment. Now it’s an Emmy winner. On this episode of WABE Arts, Sherri Daye Scott talks with Astrid Sims, a SCAD student director who worked her way up from production assistant to helming two episodes of the student-produced docuseries made in partnership with WABE. Sims, who also took home a 2026 Gracie Award for Director (TV – Student), talks about what it takes to connect with Atlanta’s chefs on camera and why the show is about so much more than food. chefATL Season 2 premieres June 25 on WABE TV. 🎙️

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The World Cup has come to Atlanta, and a new exhibition at ADAMA, the African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta, is asking viewers to look beyond the pitch. On this episode of WABE Arts, WABE Arts and Culture Editor Sherri Daye Scott walks through “The African Game,” the immersive body of work by photographer and filmmaker Andrew Dosunmu, shot across nine African countries over more than two decades. ADAMA founder and executive director Fahamu Pecou explains why the exhibition centers the fans and what that perspective reveals about community, spirituality, and the culture of the game across the African diaspora. The exhibition is on view through July 25. 🎭

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Now in its eleventh year, SanSe Atlanta is Georgia’s largest Puerto Rican festival — and one with a philanthropic mission. On this episode of WABE Arts, Sherri Daye Scott talks with Belisa Urbina, co-founder and CEO of Ser Familia, about what it takes to bring Puerto Rico’s post-Christmas spirit to Alpharetta in June and proceeds go directly to mental health and family counseling services for Latino communities across Georgia. With Elvis Crespo headlining and DJ EU on the decks, Urbina says the party is the point — and so is everything it funds.  

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GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter and longtime Maroon 5 keyboardist PJ Morton is back with a new double album: ‘Saturday Night, Sunday Morning,’ half R&B, half gospel, out June 19. On this episode of WABE Arts, Sherri Daye Scott talks with Morton about the project’s origins and the Bogalusa, Louisiana studio where he recorded it. Morton also shares the kismet behind the album’s structure, his lifelong pull toward nine-song records, and what’s ahead as he takes the new music on the road this summer. 🎧 

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Artful ATL started with a simple idea: Atlanta artists deserve a professional space, real collectors, and a direct path to income — without giving up a percentage of what their work brings in. Now in its second year, the annual exhibition and sale returns Saturday, June 13 to Atlanta Contemporary with more than 30 artists selected from more than 200 submissions. On this episode of WABE Arts, Sherri Daye Scott talks with co-founders Esohe and George Galbreath about what it takes to get into the show, how they arrange artists to create the best experience for collectors and attendees, and what they hope the Atlanta art community takes from what they’ve built. Esohe Galbreath comes from finance and engineering. George Galbreath is a visual artist and educator. Together they describe Artful ATL not as a business, but as a calling. 🎨 

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When Joyce Kim immigrated to Georgia from Korea in the third grade, she couldn’t yet speak English, but she could paint and draw. Art, she says, was a familiar language in an unfamiliar place. On this episode of WABE Arts, Sherri Daye Scott talks with Kim about the body of work that earned her a Gold Medal Portfolio Award from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards,  the organization’s highest honor, awarded to just 16 students nationwide. Kim discusses her mixed-media portfolio, ‘Fear of the Unknown and the Uncontrollable Forces,’ the psychological theory behind one of its signature pieces, and what she hopes other young artists take from her work. Kim graduates from Johns Creek High School in Alpharetta this month and will study psychology and visual arts at Yale University in the fall. 🎨 

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The Amplify Decatur Music Festival has been turning live music into community support since 2010 — and a decade ago, it claimed the Decatur Square as its home. This week, the festival marks ten years outdoors with a lineup headlined by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, on a brand-new downtown stage about to host its very first concert. On this episode of WABE Arts, Sherri Daye Scott talks with co-board chair Mike Killeen about what it took to build a festival around a cause, why music and anti-poverty work belong together, and what it means to finally land an artist that's been on the wish list for years. The Amplify Decatur Music Festival runs June fourth through seventh on and around the Decatur Square. 🎵 

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For more than a year, ‘Amy Sherald: American Sublime’ packed museums in San Francisco, New York, and Baltimore. Now the exhibition — the largest of the Georgia native’s work to date — has arrived at its final stop: Atlanta’s High Museum, the city where Sherald honed her craft. On this episode of WABE Arts, Sherri Daye Scott talks with Angelica Arbelaez, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art at the High, about what visitors will find inside: the visual language Sherald developed over nearly 20 years, the new triptych created specifically for this show, and how the museum has organized an exhibition that asks you to slow down and meet the gaze of every subject in the room. 🎨 

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In 2019, producer Michael Shulman invited Gloria Estefan to score a musical he was developing based on ‘Landfill Harmonic,’  a documentary about a children’s orchestra in Paraguay that builds its instruments from recycled trash. Estefan invited her daughter Emily to write alongside her. On this episode of WABE Arts, Sherri Daye Scott talks with Gloria and Emily Estefan — during rehearsals at the Alliance Theatre ahead of the musical’s May 30 premiere — about what it takes to write original music for the stage: the panic, the process, the songs that didn’t survive, and why Atlanta audiences will help shape what ‘Basura’ becomes. 🎭

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The Atlanta Fringe Festival opens Wednesday, May 27th. Fifty-one shows. Nearly 250 performances. The lineup is selected by lottery — open to artists of all backgrounds, disciplines, and experience levels.

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