There is much more art in the city than the High. Plenty of local studios and artists call Atlanta home, but perhaps they don't always get the recognition they deserve with the city more like a sports town than a cultural one.
But, it is never to late to appreciate and support Atlanta artists. Saturday, June 7, the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs Public Art Program is hosting a reception for its new exhibit: A (new) Genre Landscape. Held at the Cyclorama from 5:30-7:30pm, the reception will feature nine artists and three artist teams that have been working in local parks and communities to experiment with contemporary artwork.
The exhibits will last all summer long...providing the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors while interacting directly with the artists, as each will be providing artist talks in the parks throughout the month.
Click on the above link to see the schedule.
The featured artists, Danielle Roney, Shiela Pree Bright, Avantika
Bawa, Joe Peregine , Pam Longbardi, Craig Dongoski, Michael Reese, Last
Stand Collaborative, Tristan Al-Haddad, Matt Haffner, Ruth Stanford,
Angus Galloway, Nat Slaughter cover a variety of art forms and span the range of emerging artist to internationally recognized.
A van tour of all the parks and art on exhibit is scheduled for July 19. Or bring on the heat with the "safari bike tour" of the art on the same day. I have no idea what the safari part is about, other than it being hot, but it definitely has me curious to learn more.
For more information, contact Stuart Keeler: 773 771 9362 or newgenrelandscape@gmail.com.