Founded by longtime Atlanta artists and arts supporters, Tim Habeger and Shelby Hofer, PushPush Arts (formerly PushPush Theater) began in 1997 in a black box at the FloatAway Building in Atlanta’s Virginia Highlands neighborhood. After expanding to a larger facility in Decatur in 2003, PushPush fostered thousands of artists and projects in just over a decade. From 2004 to 2009, our Dailies Filmmaker Program incubated and produced over 250 short films and features. We won our first travel grant from TCG in 2010 to develop our Portal International Exchange program, while launching two literary events: Write Club Atlanta & Naked City. After winning a 2011 NEA New Media grant, we moved out of our Decatur Location, toured two shows, produced a pilot for a new TV series, and started a new arts incubation program. Between 2013 and 2015, we mounted four immersive theater productions with The Goat Farm Atlanta and other non-traditional venues.

In 2016, following the production of Intersection of Dreams, PushPush entered a planning and restructuring phase, aligning with partners to secure permanent space along MARTA, while formalizing SeedWorks, a new project incubator. Our ongoing work to develop an affordable and progressive hub for groundbreaking artists was realized, in part, in 2019 when we became an official Arts Partner for a larger conversion project to the College Park MARTA Station. During this relocation in late 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic, we presented three new productions and added affordable studio space to our list of services. The larger conversion project now includes affordable housing, a performance café, and multiple galleries and performance spaces. PushPush Arts is proud to serve as a one-of-a-kind incubator producing ground-breaking, multidisciplinary work based in Historic Downtown College Park.