This issue covers the 1984 Arts Festival of Atlanta. Artists featured include Howardena Pindell, Betye Saar, Harold C. Smith Jr., Andi Parham, and Malcolm Cochran. Virginia Warren Smith features twice with an article about the birth of Arts Festival of Atlanta and an interview with artist Leah Karp. Jan Agvikos covers the birth of Atlanta Biennale, origins similar to that of Arts Festival Atlanta in that it came out of a need for artists who were not being represented by the currently prevailing tastes of conservative and mainstream art gatekeepers. Reviews include but are not limited to Festival of New Works, Don Cooper, Louise Udaykee, Greely Myatt, Survey of Major American Ceramic Sculpture and Contemporary Chinese Painting: An Exhibition From The People's Republic of China.
