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This is a list of public art in Atlanta, in the United States. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artworks in museums. Public art may include sculptures, statues, monuments, memorials, murals, and mosaics.
In recent years, Atlanta has been called one of the USA's best cities for street art. [1] Street artists have prominently created murals in Krog Street Tunnel, along the BeltLine, and in neighborhoods across the city. [2] The street art conference, Living Walls, the City Speaks, originated in Atlanta in 2009. [3]
Forward Warrior is an annual live street art painting event founded by Atlanta Artist Peter Ferrari. In recent years, Forward Warrior has covered the walls along Wylie Street and Tennelle Street in Cabbagetown with dozens of works of street art. [9] Several of the murals created for Forward Warrior are mapped on the Atlanta Street Art Map. [10]
Rise Up Atlanta, by Charlie Brouwer, was a temporary urban-art sculpture made of ladders erected in the East Side's Freedom Park. Atlanta is home to an established visual arts community. In 2010, the city was ranked as the ninth-best city for the arts by American Style Magazine. [7]
The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High) is the largest museum for visual art in the Southeastern United States.Located in Atlanta, Georgia (on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district), the High is 312,000 square feet (28,985 m 2) and a division of the Woodruff Arts Center.
Charity Hamidullah is the muralist creating a new mural at Highside Market in Columbus, Georgia. 10/09/2023 Mike Haskey/mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com
The Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum was a Civil War museum located in Atlanta, Georgia. Its most noted attraction was the Atlanta Cyclorama, a cylindrical panoramic painting of the Battle of Atlanta. As of December 2021, the Cyclorama is located at the Atlanta History Center, while the building is now Zoo Atlanta's Savanna Hall. [3] [4]
This is a list of United States post office murals, produced in the United States from 1934 to 1943 through commissions from the Procurement Division of the United States Department of the Treasury. The principal objective of the United States post office murals was to secure artwork that met high artistic standards [ 1 ] for public buildings ...