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 three 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
Oshun Layne (she/her)
Executive Director
Oshun was named Dashboard’s Executive Director at the beginning of 2022. Oshun has been with Dashboard since 2017, starting as a guest curator and quickly moving up to a full-time managing director. Oshun has a passion for visual arts and its ability to communicate a sense of inclusiveness across cultures, genders, and generations. Over the last fifteen years, she has developed and nurtured an extensive career in arts leadership that includes institutional, gallery, and non-profit project management experiences. Merging cultural studies, art, and policy, she seeks to create innovative pathways to bridge gaps between urban communities and private interests with a focus on arts awareness, cultural competency, and community partnerships.
Chrissy Brimmage (she/they)
Special Projects Director
Chrissy joined the Dashboard team in 2018 as an intern, and has grown into her role as Special Projects Director where she develops new systems, programs, and exhibitions 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 consciousness & experience. She is currently interested in investigating social phenomenology, identity formation, spatial anthropology and embodied romance.
Abigail Justman (she/her)
Project Director
Abigail joined the Dashboard team as the Project Director in May of 2022. Alongside working for Dashboard, she has worked as an artist, curator, project manager, and director in the Atlanta art scene for over eight years. Abigail’s curatorial practice focuses on building connections between artists of all career stages, backgrounds, and mediums to tell a cohesive story rooted in community building. Over the last year, with the privilege of working with the Dashboard team, she continues to strive for collaboration and conversation in expanding the southern art scene and the opportunities provided to its artists and upholding the Dashboard mission.
Anna Akpele (she/they)
Project Coordinator
Anna joined the Dashboard team as Project Coordinator 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.
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