Tag: visual arts

Posy Press, which uses eco-friendly risograph prints, adds a pop of color to Goat Farm Arts Center’s ongoing construction: Visitors are welcomed into the studio with a hot-pink, art nouveau–style floral logo. The studio offers events where artists sell riso prints and classes for a range of skill levels.

One of the most gratifying aspects of my years at WABE was connecting listeners to our city’s cultural events. A vibrant arts community can uplift and enrich the lives of Atlantans. The challenge today is to help these organizations thrive: Funding is essential from various sources. With money allocated to the arts, we can all take pride in a city made greater by its cultural organizations.

Gordon Parks: The South in Color isn’t the first time Anna Walker Skillman has exhibited the work of the iconic photographer at her gallery, Jackson Fine Art. When more than seventy color transparencies from the seminal trip at the base of his epochal 1956 Life magazine photo essay “The Restraints: Open and Hidden” were found at the bottom of an old storage bin in 2011, the Gordon Parks Foundation contacted Skillman and fellow gallery owner friend Arnika Dawkins for the first exhibition of them in 2012. Then in 2015, Skillman dovetailed the celebrated Gordon Parks: Segregation Story exhibition at the High Museum. Over a decade later, Skillman remains intimately involved with Parks’s epic work.

Navin Norling's childhood frugal mindset informs his artistic practice to this day, exemplified in his upcoming solo exhibition at Johnson Lowe Gallery in Buckhead. Dangerous Games continues Norling’s use of salvaged materials, this time with a few exciting twists.

Boundary Layers, a new exhibition curated by Atlanta-based artist Heather Bird Harris, brings together 15 artists to explore how life survives, adapts, and transforms itself under rapid, intense change. As an educator attuned to history and justice, an artist whose work confronts climate change, and a mother grappling with the existential weight of shepherding new life through a warming world, Harris says she often looks to the living world for guidance. Boundary Layers asks painters, sculptors, weavers, ceramicists, and more to do the same.

Creativity is one of life’s great mysteries. But artists of every genre recognize it when the moment of inspiration hits them. We spoke to 16 Atlanta artists about their creative processes—visual artists, dancers, musicians, actors, and more. What ignites their creativity? How do they turn an idea into art? How do they overcome a creative block? Their answers are illuminating, sometimes humorous and often profound.

Trees with human faces; humanoid forest creatures; dancing cats; humans with fur and tails. This list may sound fantastical, but for artist María Korol, this cast of characters regularly appears in her paintings. These creatures will come alive in Korol’s solo exhibition, Playing Ball Without a Ball, at Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens (July 18–September 27).

Atlanta’s arts season is bursting with creativity, from the High Museum’s landmark exhibition of Minnie Evans to bold new takes on Balanchine, Bram Stoker, and Tennessee Williams. Here's your 2025 fall arts calendar.

In 2023, Karimah McFarlane took a leap and purchased the gallery Buckhead Art & Company. Her mission for the gallery is “to make art accessible to everybody and to have difficult conversations with people whose paths wouldn’t cross,” she says. “And let them know that we actually have more in common than we think.”

Something larger than life is coming to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History—and it’s not another dino. It’s “Spirit Guides,” a vibrant display of...