Welcome to the City of Atlanta's Public Art Program blog, your source for the latest updates on current and new public art projects and initiatives within Atlanta and beyond.

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 Kevin M. Kruse speaks on

Race and Public Space in Atlanta: Desegregation, White Flight, and their Aftermath

Saturday May 12 at 11am

Free and Open to the Public

 

Hosted by the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

535 Means St. NW, Atlanta, GA 303018

 

Atlanta has seen renewed interest in temporary public art in recent years, including Art on the Beltline, Flux Projects, Living Walls, Elevate, and Edge/Public. These projects enliven our public spaces with a focus toward building or re-building community. Kruse is an associate professor of history at Princeton University and author of White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2005). He will discuss some of the lingering roots of fracture in our community dating to the early 1960s period of desegregation when Atlanta’s intown neighborhoods were transformed in a few short years.

 

The talk is targeted to artists and others interested in thinking through the history of the public spaces that we have inherited. Kruse’s work has influenced Atlanta Art Now’s book Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape (2012) as well as the new gloATL/Micah Stansell collaboration, “the search for the exceptional,” taking place May 11-13 at the Old 4^th Ward Skatepark.

 

This program is sponsored by Possible Futures in partnership with the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.

 

Kruse biography

Kevin M. Kruse studies the political, social, and urban/suburban history of 20th-century America, with particular interest in the making of modern conservatism. Focused on conflicts over race, rights, and religion, he also studies the postwar South and modern suburbia. His book White Flight won prizes such as the 2007 Francis B. Simkins Award from the Southern Historical Association (for the best first book in Southern history, 2005-2006) and the 2007 Best Book Award in Urban Politics from the American Political Science Association.

 

Kruse has co-edited three collections: The New Suburban History (2006), with Thomas Sugrue; Spaces of the Modern City (2008), with Gyan Prakash; and Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement (2012) with Stephen Tuck.  He is currently at work on a study of the making of American religious nationalism in the mid-twentieth century, titled One Nation Under God: Corporations, Christianity and the Rise of the Religious Right.

 

About the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

ACAC is a non-collecting institution dedicated to the creation, presentation, and advancement of contemporary art by emerging and established artists. ACAC creates a diverse cultural landscape for artists, arts professionals, and the art-interested public through its exhibitions, educational programming, and studio artist program. Founded in 1973 as Nexus, a grassroots artist’s cooperative, ACAC has become one of the southeast’s leading contemporary art centers. We play a vital role in Atlanta’s cultural landscape by presenting cutting-edge contemporary art reflective of the world around us, offering diverse educational programming for people of all ages, and supporting working artists and their creative process.

 

About Possible Futures

Possible Futures is a private non-profit operating foundation. Its mission is to nurture Atlanta’s creative culture and educate the public through the support and presentation of artists, writers and performers. The foundation provides grants to individual artists and writers, other non-profit arts organizations, and other associations or for-profit entities that write about, present or otherwise support a variety of artistic endeavors in the Atlanta area. Grants are based on artistic and intellectual merit and community engagement. The foundation operates its own educational programs, including presenting lectures, art installations and performances. It publishes the Atlanta Art Now biennial book series, with the inaugural volume entitled Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape (2012). Nearly all of its programs are free and open to the public.

 

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Flux Projects Announces

Freedom Park Project

 

Flux Projects is pleased to announce that Brian Brush and Yong Ju Lee have won the commission for this year’s Freedom Park Project.  Their submission SEAT was selected from 89 entries submitted by artists from across the United States.

 

 

 

 

Public Art Atlanta is excited and honored to assist with the upcoming project. See full FLUX PROJECTS press release below.

SEAT is a garden pavilion composed of approximately 400 simple wooden chairs arrayed and stacked in a 3-dimensional sine wave surface rising above the ground. From afar, SEAT will appear like a foreign object in the landscape, inviting curious contemplation of its strangeness in context. Closer yet, SEAT will reveal its unique geometric texture created by the chairs, yet still will not give them away as such. Upon approach, the audience can delight with sublime recognition of the compositional objects, marveling in the dexterity with which chairs are repurposed for art.  The audience will be free to sit upon, inside, and underneath SEAT, exploring it as a personal garden playground.

Yong Ju Lee and Brian Brush are partners in the New York and Portland-based collaboration E/B Office, founded in 2008.  They create works of all scales: from products, furniture, and interiors, to buildings, public art, and strategic master plans. Innovative and visionary, they aspire to build high-resolution environments with exceptional intelligence, beauty, and integrity.

In speaking about the project, Lee commented, “I hope visitors to SEAT can see and enjoy how furniture, which they use every day, can be employed radically and orderly to make a complex architectural system that's ultimately artful and fun in nature.” 

Brush added, “This project is about pushing/interrogating the content of domestic objects through spatial sculpture. With SEAT, we're looking beyond the symbol and function of the chair to its component parts as compositional and structural elements capable of generating unpredictable and whimsical architecture as art (or vice versa).”

Anne Dennington, executive director of Flux Projects, explained, “Last year’s project Rise Up Atlanta—fondly known as “the ladder project”—by Charlie Brouwer, quickly became one of our most visible and adored projects to date.  The community did not want it to come down, and we immediately began getting questions about what would come next.  We were thrilled with the Freedom Park Conservancy asked us to return to the park.”  

 

 

 

Rise up Atlanta, FLUX 2011, Charlie Brouwer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2012 Artists Added to the Public Art Atlanta National Artist Registry.

 

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In 2011, The City of Atlanta Public Art Program granted over 20 artists and organizations funding to complete artworks and performances for Elevate, Art Above Underground. The large scale public art exhibit covered 4 blocks of downtown and lasted for 66 days. Many of the projects involved gained press for their exceptional work. In total 92, local, national and international articles were published; the most recent article in the Huffington post.

SAM3, THE PRAYER,  HUFFINGTON POST, 2012

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Folk artist Howard Finster's "World's Folk Art Church", also known as Paradise Gardens is located in Pennville, GA. The gardens have been picked over in the past few years by various museums and collectors looking to obtain the famous Finster artworks.The High Museum has a few Finster pieces in their collection as well. Just recently, a northwest Georgia county has bought the garden where the folk artist once held court for tourists and art lovers from around the world and plans to restore the lot and keep the collection in tact from here on out. Fact: Howard Finster produced album covers for R.E.M and Talking Heads in the late 80's. Wild.

The City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs Public Art Program initiative,  Elevate Art Above Underground presented artists of various disiplines throughout downtown Atlanta in 2011.

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Guidelines and Review Criteria

The Japan U.S. Friendship Commission offers leading contemporary and traditional artists from the United States the chance to spend three months in Japan in 2013 through the U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program. Cultural understanding is at the heart of this program. Artists go as seekers, as cultural visionaries, and as living liaisons to the traditional and contemporary cultural life of Japan. They also go as connectors who share knowledge and bring back knowledge. Their interaction with the Japanese public and the outlook they bring home provide exceptional opportunities to promote cultural understanding between the United States and Japan.

Artists should have compelling reasons for wanting to work in Japan and they should do preliminary research to identify contacts there. The Commission encourages artists to consider collaboration with Japanese colleagues, as appropriate for the artistic field. Artists are free to interact with artists anywhere in the country. While many artists chose to remain in Tokyo, others have undertaken their residencies in Kyoto or other cities, and still others have worked in rural settings or have visited a number of sites relevant to their work.

Upon their arrival in Tokyo, artists will be predominantly on their own during the three-month residency period; however, International House of Japan provides in-depth orientation materials, expert advice and professional contacts, as well as some logistical support during the residency period.The Japan U.S. Friendship Commission sponsors this program with administrative assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts.
 

• Grant Award A grant award in the amount of $20,000 will be provided to each artist to cover housing, living, and professional Artists will be responsible for converting their dollar award into yen. Disbursement of the grant and financial responsibilities of the grantee will be outlined when awards are made. Up to $2,000 for round-trip transportation will be provided for the artist.

• Because of the limited number of awards, only one residency will be supported for artists who apply as a collaborative team. In addition, while artists may wish to apply for other grants concurrently with the application to this program, selected artists may not hold a second award for financial assistance during the period of support of the U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program.

Receipt Deadline: March 1, 2012 for the 2013 program. Residencies for a three month period may begin any time between January 1 and December 31 of 2013. Notification: by July 31, 2012.

 

Read more here for How to Apply

 

Program Guidelines and 2012 application

 

 

posted on 02/01/2012

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The City of Atlanta Public Art Program is happy to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Public Art Registry!

The artist registry serves as the preferred vendor list for soliciting artists for major and minor public art commissions and direct purchases of artworks for the City of Atlanta. Budgets for each project will vary. Historically budgets have ranged from $5,000 to $250,000. Applications are open to all local, national and international artists.

Applications accepted from November 1st through January 3rd. Click the icon below for more details.

Maria Artemis - Artist Registry Member

 

 

 

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Wednesday October 12, 2011 : 6pm

 

 

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THIS WEEKEND IN ELEVATE//ART ABOVE UNDERGROUND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 29, 2011

“Elevate finally opens!"     

                                                

 

Elevate//Art Above Underground's official kickoff was this past Friday, August 26th. Read the reviews from Atlanta InTown Paper and Access Atlanta. View the opening photos below, stay updated on all the ongoing events, and be sure to tell your friends because Elevate is finally here!

 

 

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August 12, 2011

“Elevate installation begins!”

                                            

The OCA Public Art Program has begun installation of Elevate//Art Above Underground! This week we had around 20 artists, engineers, and volunteers on Upper Alabama Street with 2 boom lifts, 2 sets of scaffolding and a smile. Burnaway magazine will be covering our install throughout the next few weeks via their website and Flickr. 

(Left): Sunday Southern Art Revival begin their mural “Preacher”   

The Public Art team wants you to get just as excited as we are. The grand opening is August 26^th with performances by Allison Rentz, Lelavision, Noot d Noot, Doodledrag, Nathan Sharratt, Priscilla Smith and Edward Wenzer. Check out the Elevate website, updated daily with behind-the-scenes info, artist profiles, and project descriptions: http://www.ocaatlanta.com/elevate

 

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July 21, 2011

 

 

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July 12, 2011

Thornton Dial's "The Bridge": Art Restoration

“The Bridge”, a sculpture located in Freedom Park’s John Lewis Plaza, was fully restored in June 2011 by the Office of Cultural Affairs Public Art Program. This sculpture was created by Thornton Dial in 2005, a renowned self taught artist from Birmingham, AL.

 Thornton Dial’s work is represented in numerous public collections such as the Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, The High Museum and many other collections. Dial was recently featured in TIME magazine March 2011. His art functions like folk tales, combining African and American traditions to tell stories that are at once personal, political, and spiritual.“The Bridge” commemorates Congressman John Lewis’s participation in the Selma to Montgomery march.   

 Standing boldly on the corner of Freedom Parkway and Ponce de Leon Avenue, in the center of John Lewis Plaza, “The Bridge” is the symbolic gateway to Freedom Park. The John Lewis Plaza is the principal entry point for pedestrians and cyclists to the four miles of trails through the 200-acre park, connecting the Martin Luther King Center, The Carter Center, and many in-town neighborhoods.

Check out CNN's recent interview with Thornton Dial by clicking here. And after you make a visit to "The Bridge", stop by the Bill Lowe Gallery to view Dial's latest exhibit, titled "Thornton Dial: Disaster Areas".

 

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July 11, 2011

Reclaiming Public Art in Peoplestown: "Spirit, Family, and Community" Art Restoration

“Spirit, Family, and Community”, a sculpture located in Peoplestown at Four Corners Park, was restored in May 2011 by the Office of Cultural Affairs. The sculpture was originally created in 1996 by local artist Ayokunle Odeleye, as one of the several capital improvement projects from when Atlanta hosted the 1996 Olympic Games.

 The bas-relief sculpture, depicting an African-American family, symbolizes the sense of community that remains in Peoplestown. The whole neighborhood is undergoing an epic change as the Atlanta Beltline and the City of Atlanta DPRCA have invested heavily in the two parks within the community.

 The Public Art Program Manager Eddie Granderson and Office of Cultural Affairs Director Camille Russell Love are thrilled to re-install the newly restored artwork that functions as a landmark gateway into the Peoplestown neighborhood. Look for the newly refurbished sculpture at Hank Aaron Drive and Haygood Street just south of Turner Stadium. 

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July 8, 2011

"Atlanta From The Ashes" Restored

The City of Atlanta Public Art Program celebrates the completed restoration of artist Gamba Quirino’s modernist bronze sculpture in Woodruff Park titled Atlanta from the Ashes. The project was funded in partnership with Atlanta Downtown Improvement District (ADID) which afforded the City the opportunity to hire Nick Veloz, one the nation’s pre-immanent bronze experts. Veloz is an art conservator based in Alexandria Virginia and has restored many of our national treasures in and around the nation’s capital.  

Atlanta From The Ashes was commissioned by the Rich’s Foundation to commemorate the 100^th anniversary of its downtown department store. James Siegler, who worked in Rich’s planning department, drafted the original design: a woman lifting a bird to the heavens. Completed in 1969, the figure was cast by artist Gamba Quirino in Pietrasanta, Italy and erected on Atlanta’s Spring Street viaduct.  The sculpture was moved to its current Woodruff Park location for the Centennial Olympic Games in 1996. 

Standing twenty-one feet tall on top of its pedestal, the bronze beauty has become associated with the Phoenix, the mythical bird who consumed by flames arose from the ashes and is now the unofficial symbol of Atlanta. Atlanta from the Ashes is a robust representation of Atlanta’s rebirth: ascending from the ashes and devastation of the Civil War to become a vibrant international city.

The Public Art Program is thrilled to unveil the newly restored artwork that functions as a landmark gateway into the Five Points District and city center. Look for the newly refurbished sculpture in Woodruff Park, at the corner of Edgewood Avenue and Peachtree Street just to the south of the historic Flat Iron Building.

 

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ATLANTA, GA – The City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs celebrates the completed restoration of a historically significant mural created
by Sol LeWitt.  LeWitt’s deceptively simple geometric sculptures and drawings established him as an icon of modern American art.  The newly
restored mural known as Wall Drawing #581 features brightly colored geometric shapes and can be viewed at the entrance of the Health and
Fitness Center on the 4th floor of the City Hall Annex Building. The mural had become worn in appearance and there were concerns
that the artwork was in jeopardy of further damage at the current location. The Public Art Program contacted the estate of the late
artist  who sent a team of technicians to restore the artwork with enhanced acrylic pigments on the city’s behalf.   

Several city of Atlanta departments graciously contributed to the fundraising effort to see this project through, including the Office of
Cultural Affairs, Human Resources, the Department of Information Technology, and the Office of Enterprise and Asset Management.
Many Atlantans were first introduced to Sol LeWitts minimum styled artworks through the mural.  The artwork was purchased with Percent for
Art funds during the addition of the City Hall Annex in 1989.  The artwork measures 120” x 252” and was painted directly onto the wall
facing the Atrium on the 4th floor. The artworks from this period of the artist’s career were done in colored ink which faded over time.   

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The Office of Cultural Affairs Public Art Program drafts its 2010-2015 Municipal Plans for Public Art. The Plan presents the policies, guidelines and vision that will guide and govern the program into 2015. The plan  enables the Office of Cultural Affairs to fulfill its public art objectives effectively and efficiently  as it sets its course under the Reed Administration.

The plan prioritizes the program goals and addresses broader initiatives for the program that reflect new  changes in policies and procedures established by the City of Atlanta. Read the 2010-2015 Municipal Art Plan

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The City of Atlanta’s Office of Cultural Affairs Public Art Program (OCA/PAP) invites artists to submit qualifications for Atlanta’s Public Art Registry. The artist registry serves as the preferred vendor list for soliciting artists for major and minor public art commissions and direct purchases of artworks for the City of Atlanta. Budgets for each project will vary. Historically budgets have ranged from $5,000 to $250,000.

Artists remain in the registry for a minimum of two years. Placement in the registry does not guarantee a commission nor does it excludes artists from submitting for other public art projects offered by the City of Atlanta. Artists will be notified by mail if they are selected for the Public Art Registry.

Artists in the registry will be solicited for site-specific commissions, artist architect collaborations, design services and artists/community collaborations.

Applications accepted from November 1st through January 3rd. Applications will not be accepted at any other time during the year.

Submitting an Application
All applicants must complete an online application and include with your application current images of your artwork. Images must be in JPEG files and sized to 1024 x 768 pixels at a minimum of 300 dpi (Instructions on completing the application and submitting images is included on the registry application. Application will be accepted between November 1st. through January 3rd.

Eligibility
All professional artists residing in the United States, especially those with previous public art experience, interest in site-specific commissions or those who have involved community members in their work, are invited to submit an application. Artists may submit alone or as a team. The Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) encourages artists working in all visual art disciplines to apply, including but not limited to sculptors, painters, muralist, mosaicists, photographers, videographers and printmakers. Portfolios that include video and audio, please see Video & Audio Submissions.

Video & Audio Submissions
Light, sound and videographers must contact the Office of Cultural Affairs Public Art Program directly during the registration period. You will be required to submit your portfolio through either a: CD/DVD or online submission.

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November 2010

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The City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs will host a dedication for Bats Baseball, a public art installation by sculptor Chris Fennell located at the Southside Sports Complex, on Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 6:00 pm. The installation is the sixth commission installed as part of the City of Atlanta’s Public Art Program’s Community Gateway Project.

“Chris Fennell created a most appropriate sculpture for a softball field…one made of bats! Working with the community of softball players at Southside and children at Rosel Fann Recreation Center really makes this artwork home grown. We gladly accept this sculpture into our public art collection,” said Camille Russell Love, Director, City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs.

The Work will stand 12’ tall, 8’ wide (front to back) 14’ long (side to side). The work (“Bats Baseball”) is comprised of 600 aluminum baseball and softball bats welded together into a baseball that the viewer can walk through. The bats were either donated from Southside softball players, signed by children at the Rosel Fann Recreation Center or donated by Louisville Slugger, the famed baseball bat manufacturer. . . Read More

 

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February 17, 2010

City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs to Dedicate a Public Art Installation Reflecting the Life of Noted Civil Rights Attorney Isabel Gates Webster.

Camille Russel Love, Director of the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs, Clarence T. “C.T.” Martin, Atlanta City Councilman (District 10), Louversia Wiggins, NPU-I, Karen Webster, daughter of Isabel Gates-Webster and former Fulton County Commissioner, and Karen Barlow-Brown, Principal of Peyton Forest Elementary School will host the public art dedication of “Yes, We Can” on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 12:30pm. Designed by noted sculptor, Robert D. Clements, the dedication marks the fifth of six commissions installed under the Atlanta “Community Gateway Project”. Isabel Gates-Webster Park adjoins Peyton Forest Elementary School and, inaddition to Principal Karen Barlow-Brown, the entire student body will be present for the dedication. 

“Yes, We Can”, the kinetic 18’ tall structure adorned with twenty leaping ‘running’ figures, serves as a gateway element to Isabel Gates-Webster Park. Covered in 250 ceramic tiles designed by students from Atlanta’s Peyton Forest Elementary School, the artwork chronicles the life of former Civil Rights attorney Isabel Gates-Webster, who, under the administration of former Governor Jimmy Carter, became the first woman to be appointed to the Georgia State Personnel Board. . . Read More

 

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August 26, 2009 

City of Atlanta Public Art Program Commissions Artist Louis Delsarte to Create Mural Celebrating the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Louis Delsarte, renowned figurative expressionist from New York City has been commissioned to create the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Mural. The mural, commissioned by the City of Atlanta's Office of Cultural Affairs pays homage to the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and is scheduled to be installed on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Natatorium located at the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site in the Fall of 2009.  The King mural spans 180 ft. of history and includes various periods in the life of Dr. King and the civil rights movement. The panels begin with the house on Auburn Avenue, travel through King's childhood, the Morehouse College years, his marriage, the marches and the movement and ends with the ultimate gift of freedom that we share as Americans.  There were over 200 participants joining artist Louis Delsarte in painting the mural during the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Community Day held on Saturday July 25,2009 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Studioplex, 659 Auburn Avenue NE.   

This Percent for Art project is funded through the Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs’ Opportunity Bond which has been used to fund several Public Art projects around the City.  “Mr. Delsarte’s skill as an artist will be an asset for the National Historic District. This mural will emphasize and enhance the story of Dr. King in a very visible place,” said Camille Russell Love, Director, Office of Cultural Affairs.  This mural gives Mr. Delsarte the opportunity to pay homage to this great leader. This challenge has become his joy. "This is the most incredible honor that I have been given since the beginning of my career. I want this mural to reflect the magnitude of King's sacrifices and his work as a civil rights leader,” said Louis Delsarte, Artist.  The artist had the pleasure of interviewing and interacting with members of the King family who provided pertinent details about the civil rights leader. His work is in several public collections including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Fine Art, the Hammonds House Museum in Atlanta, the National Gallery of Art in Bermuda and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

    

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August 25, 2009

Rotating Public Art Projects New Artwork Installed in Hardy Ivy Park

The Office of Cultural Affairs Public Art Program is initiating a rotating art program at Hardy Ivy Park.  The objective is to invigorate central Atlanta with new sculpture on a rotating basis. It is anticipated that each sculpture will be mounted at the site for a period not less than 6 months but no longer than 18 months and will provide artists with an opportunity to display their work and add to the artistic enjoyment of residents and visitors that frequent the park. On June 26, 2009, Milwaukee sculptor Richard Taylor, installed "The River Sings" the first of what the City anticipates will be many exciting additions to Atlanta's public art collection. 

The 15’ contemporary metal sculpture overlooking West Peachtree Street was inspired by its intended setting in the Riverside Community in Northwest Atlanta. Various elements within the sculpture refer to the flow of the river, the twists and ox-bows of the river and the mingling of waves and currents. Other shapes suggest the blades of a plantation's windmill, the shapes of leaves and of farm implements. The blue color recalls water, sky, and the tranquility and infinity of these components of our world. The verticality of the piece shows the power of a river's flow, that it may also rise in its ability to carry us in any direction if we are open to new directions.

“The addition of a rotating site for Public Art will add an exciting point of reference for both artists to participate in and for visitors and residents to experience. We are excited to bring this new Public art initiative to the citizens of Atlanta.” Eddie Granderson, Public Art Program Manager, Office of Cultural Affairs.

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August 20, 2009 

Reclaiming The Fairlie Poplar Gateway 

The Public Art Program Manager Eddie Granderson and Office of Cultural Affairs Director Camille Russell Love are thrilled to unveil the newly restored artwork that functions as a landmark gateway into the historic Fairlie Poplar District.  Look for the newly refurbished sculpture at Poplar and Peachtree St. just to the South of the historic Flat Iron Building. . .Read More

 

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July 1, 2009

Noguchi Playscapes Unveiling

The Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs celebrated the completion of the Noguchi Playscapes restoration, a sculptural playground installation located in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park. Noguchi Playscapes was designed by internationally renowned sculptor, designer, and architect Isamu Noguchi and completed in 1976.  The Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs and Mayor Shirley Franklin invited city residents and art enthusiasts to the unveiling of the newly restored Noguchi Playscapes. The unveiling took place Monday, June 1, 2009 at 11:00am.  Playscapes is the only play environment of its kind by Noguchi in the continental United States...Read More