Educational Opportunities
Art Contest
SMAC hast hosted two annual Celebrate the Dream Art Contest to encourage two through eighteen year-old artists to explore what Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream would look like at Stone Mountain in the twenty-first century.
We are looking to partner with classroom teachers, cultural institutions, community educators, libraries, and parents develop our 2026 program. Please contact Sally Stanhope at sallystanhope@gmail.com to partner to develop a 2026 plan or for additional education resources.
Summer Programs
SMAC has facilitated two participatory research programs during the summers of 2023 and 2024 that empowered youth to examine the relationship between Shermantown, a historically Black community within Stone Mountain, Georgia, and Stone Mountain, as it evolved from a quarry, to the site where elite Atlantans launched the second KKK in 1915, to the largest Confederate monument in the world. Through oral interviews, archival and secondary research, and field trip, these youth researchers uncovered interracial coalitions among quarry workers in the late nineteenth century that staged a series of strikes for higher wages, the unpaid prison labor that built the park, and the need to preserve the cultural legacy of Shermantown.
Check back soon for information on Summer 2026.