Art Supply Stores

(10 - 15% Spruill Student discount)

Mission Statement

Established in 1975, The Spruill Center for the Arts in Dunwoody is a private, non-profit organization, whose mission is to foster understanding and appreciation of the visual and performing arts, by offering an extensive and diverse program of classes, a professional artist exhibition series and outreach programs for seniors, youth and audiences with special needs. Our Outreach programs range from art projects for Children’s HealthCare of Atlanta to free “Arts 4 Alzheimer’s” art classes.

The Spruill Education Center on Chamblee Dunwoody Road conducts about 700 courses and workshops each year, reaching roughly 7,000 students.

The Spruill Gallery, located in an historic 1867-1905 home on Ashford Dunwoody Road, mounts four to six exhibitions each year, including a Holiday Artists Market.

Spruill History

Through the generosity of Onnie Mae Spruill, Stephen Thomas' Spruill's daughter, and Ethel Warren Spruill, his second wife, the Spruill Homeplace and five surrounding acres have been donated to the Spruill Center for the Arts to serve as a place to foster the arts, and as a remembrance of one of Dunwoody's first families, the Spruills.

When Stephen Thomas Spruill (1870-1967), married Miss Mollie Lee Carter (1872-1932) of Sandy Springs in 1889, the Homeplace was presented to them as a wedding gift. It was Stephen who, in 1905, tore down the original log house because it was infested with termites using the 1867 addition as an anchor and rebuilt the Homeplace as we know it today.

Throughout the early twentieth century, Stephen acquired land from neighboring farms, and by the time of his death was one of the most prosperous farmers and largest land owners in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. Most of Stephen and Mollie Lee's descendants continue to live in the Dunwoody area.

Board of Directors

• Alex Moraitis l President :: President, BizDevMobile
• Beth Saxe l Vice President :: Community Leader
• Bill Grant l Treasurer :: President, Bill Grant Homes, Inc.
• Fran Fuchs l Secretary :: President The Piedmont Bank
• Tania Becker l Artist and Businesswoman
• Sonia Bratten l Community Leader
• Carol Brull l Ceramic Artist and Instructor
• Charlie Hawkins l Partner, Troutman Sanders LLP
• Keith Hicks l Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Radiant Systems
• Teodoro Maus l Architect, artist, retired diplomat; co-founder and head advisor, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR)
• Barbara Draper Nicholas l BD Nicholas Designs
• Michael Randall l President, Randall-Paulson Architects
• Jessica Lundberg l Senior Marketing Manager, Radiant Systems/NCR
• Norman Collins l Vice PResiden Bank of North Georgia - Dunwoody
• Chanda Tutt l Director of Sales, Retour Sales and Services, AT&T

Spruill Staff