Tag: visual arts

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 six to eight-feet tall hybrid animal sculptures.Created by Oaxacan artists...

Works from multidisciplinary artist Blair Hobbs will be on view at Spalding Nix Fine Art from March 14 to May 9 in Birthday Cake for Flannery—curated as part of the gallery’s ECHOES exhibition—in honor of the Georgia-born Southern Gothic writer’s 100th birthday. Viewers familiar with O’Connor’s singular body of work will recognize images, allusions and characters from some of her most well-known stories—Wise Blood, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” “Good Country People,” "Parker’s Back.”

James Burns’s Instagram post last December immediately upstaged all of the food porn, cat videos, and workout thirst traps on the app. Even the doomscrollers parked their thumbs for a minute. Through a series of four black-and-white comic panels, the Athens-based graphic designer told followers that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Artist DL Warfield's latest endeavor is Cyphers, a mixed-media homage to the B-boy culture he grew up in. The circular works include the four elements of hip-hop fashioned in the tradition of Arabic mehndi and Moorish damascene patterns.

In 2008, Venezuelan artist Carlos Solis looked around the Atlanta metro and found the representation of Latin American art lacking. He reached out online to another local Venezuelan artist who he thought might share his vision of creating together and raising awareness about Latin American art. Over the next decade and a half, the contemporary artists collective known as Contrapunto came together.

In this edition of ARTlanta, you’ll find a list of events where artists are reflecting on freedom, justice, liberty, and all the ideas that form our nation. They know that you get further when you affirm what you want rather than denounce what you don’t.