Name: Aaron Albrecht and Frank Fralick

Artist Bio:

With a degree in Architecture from Ball State University, Environmental Design Degree, and Honors Degree, Aaron Albrecht has several years of experience in design and art, using contrasting forms and methods to create a balance and synthesis of ideas.

Frank Fralick is a contractor and graduate of Vanderbilt University. He specializes in the cutting edge technology in the constitution industry and works closely with designers to understand their goals, using his expertise to execute the vision without compromise.

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Title: Premeditated Spontaneity

Description:

Premeditated Spontaneity is a concrete ribbon gateway and art installation that uses man-made elements to create organic additions to the environment. Capturing the fluidity and liquid form of concrete in a solid state, this sculpture serves as a multipurpose element of form and function. Like a piece of ribbon blowing in the wind, the enlarged version contrasts the lightweight, airy implication balancing itself with the weight and structural stoicism of concrete. A special coating on the concrete will be applied which cleans and removes pollutants from its surrounding, making the sculpture an active air purifier in addition to a piece of sculpture.

See how you can access the Atlanta BeltLine near Washington Park.

Year: 2012

Name: Aaron Benoy

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Title: Pseudolampyridae

Description:

Pseudolampyridae is an assembly of tree-mounted construction barricade lights each retrofitted with 32 microprocessor-addressed LEDs emitting periodic patterns in the same wavelength of common lightning bugs. Every hour on the hour Pseudolampyridae provides a tightly-unified 5-minute display of arboreal curiosity high above the Beltline.

Year: 2012

Name: Adron, Mario Schambon, and Colin Agnew

Artist Bio:

Project organizer Colin Agnew has been an in-demand percussionist and drummer in the rich music scene of Atlanta for seven years. His career has placed him in the same sonic space as a host of great artists on stage as well as in the studio.

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Title: Pyramids

Description:

A 10-foot pyramid on the Atlanta BeltLine serves as part of a large-scale music video for local musician and artist Adron’s song “Pyramids.” The collaborative design of the sculpture by Adron and New York-based installation artist Mario Schambon incorporates various household items and reclaimed debris from segments of the Atlanta BeltLine that volunteers have collected.

Year: 2012

Name: Alex Rodriguez, DMD

Artist Bio:

Dr. Alex Rodriguez has lived in the Reynoldstown neighborhood of Atlanta since 2006. As a practicing dentist, he has no formal art training, but as evidenced by his choice of profession, he does have an exceptional understanding of structural engineering and technical beauty, with the ability to create long-lasting works with his hands. Rodriguez began creating works from used bicycle parts around 15 years ago.

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Title: Whirling Wheels

Description:

A spinning collection of windmills made from bicycle parts, celebrating the ease of mobility and the freedom of movement the bicycle provides to people of all ages along the BeltLine.The design echoes the delicate and simple beauty of the bicycle as a machine and is meant to contrast the heavy industrial look and feel of the BeltLine’s railroad past.

Year: 2012

Name: Andre James

Artist Bio:

After graduating from the University of Buffalo with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Andre James went on to further his studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he received his Masters. An avid computer and technology enthusiast, using 3D modeling and scripting, James combines patterns, behaviors and ideas from nature and science to influence his designs.

Website: http://ajdesigned.com/

Title: The Banyan Pavilion

Description:

The Banyan Pavilion adapts the ideals of a banyan tree, with its aerial prop roots and large canopy, to create a pedestrian rest stop that stylizes the tree using timber construction. Designed to juxtapose the idea of Laugier’s Primitive Hut, the pavilion tries to retain the aesthetic connection and experience of sheltering under a tree as opposed to adapting the tree to resemble a shelter.

Year: 2012

Name: Brady King

Artist Bio:

B. Brady King is a student at Spelman College in Atlanta. King created his concept with the help of a few students from his sculpture class and Atlanta BeltLine alumna Tae Earl Jackson.

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Title: Those Who Wander

Description:

In the piece, Those Who Wander, each house represents a different influence from relationships the artist has gained since living in Atlanta. The houses are represented in different conditions to commemorate the concept of the houses symbolizing beings, and they are arranged in assembly line form to highlight the different styles. This work is produced by B. Brady King accompanied by Celene Craig under the direction of Tae Earl Jackson.

See how you can access the Atlanta BeltLine from Westview Drive.

Year: 2012

Name: Brandon Sadler

Artist Bio:

A native of Atlanta, Brandon Sadler’s unique approach to illustration and calligraphy has garnered the attention of galleries and media alike culminating in an ever-growing body of work and a place in the contemporary collection of the High Museum. His solo and group exhibitions have brought him accolades as one of Atlanta’s most prolific artists. Sadler’s aesthetic interests have been informed by his involvement in the American graffiti and street art sub-cultures, which formed the beginnings of his artistic process. The influences of Japanese Ukiyo-e, calligraphy, and other Asian art forms have impacted his aesthetic interests and greatly influenced his unique artistic style. This artistic inquiry has led to the creation of a body of work exhibited in galleries and the public arena, that merges East and West fluidly. Often, the resulting imagery speaks to a universal human condition through a narrative style encrypted with symbolism, text, and decorative elements. By exploring broad themes relating to current societal conditions, he exposes man’s battle with himself, society, and nature. Sadler’s transformation of these cultures illustrates perfectly, the universality of art and its ability to activate the individual and the community.

Website: http://www.risingredlotus.com/

Title: How Are You?

Description:

Meaningful human relationships seem to be abandoned in favor of technological communication, pushing members of society further away from one another. Art is a healing mechanism for communities and our current economic crisis has made it imperative that we reconnect and work together for our very survival. This piece is meant to inspire unity and to be a journey of self-discovery for the public. Translation of the characters read as follows:

(long passage) ” In the water we find peace, we float together in the love of God.”

(graffiti style text) ” Atlanta Beltline 2012 ”

(graffiti style text after fish) ” How Are You? ”

(long passage) ” Let’s travel to new places and meet new faces filled with light. “

Year: 2012

Name: Bryan Alcorn and Frank Fralick

Artist Bio:

Bryan Alcorn has a BS in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology and recently completed a Master of Architecture from The University of Michigan. He moved back to Atlanta in late 2011, bringing four years of experience working in architecture firms in Atlanta and Michigan, as well as construction experience. He currently works with the Beck Group, further investigating the relationship between designing and making within the context of new digital technologies.

Frank Fralick is a contractor and graduate of Vanderbilt University. He specializes in the cutting edge technology in the constitution industry and works closely with designers to understand their goals, using his expertise to execute the vision without compromise.

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Title: Peripatete

Description:

Through the use of three perforated steel surfaces, Peripatete establishes a permeable field of experience. Along the Beltline, the wanderer or explorer is assumed as the baseline subject. The piece is activated by mobile, peripatetic vision. The perforated forms sit within, and offer multifarious glimpses to, the surrounding landscape. The forms and views contort as the subject moves through the piece. The laser-cut carbon steel, staked into the ground with railroad spikes, references the past life of the Beltline while projecting aspirations of its future.

Year: 2012

Name: Carol Rankin

Artist Bio:

Carol Rankin is an Atlanta native and has been creating art for almost fifty years. She began as a painter but for the last few decades has been adding cut paper and other materials to create collaged, two-dimensional works. Rankin received a BFA degree from the University of Georgia in 1980 and had exhibited her work in many galleries around Atlanta, Athens, and Rome, GA.

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Title: Amsterdam Skies, Rails to Rock, and Belly of the Beast

Description:

A freestanding, three-sided ceramic mural with handmade mosaic tiles of various shapes, sizes, colors and textures. Each triangular panel is its own unique piece of art that complements and blends in with the surrounding environment.

See how you can access the Atlanta BeltLine near Rankin’s work.

Year: 2012

Name: Casey Lynch

Artist Bio:

Casey Lynch is a practicing artist in Atlanta, where he is part-time faculty in the Sculpture Department at SCAD-Atlanta, and an art critic for the online magazine BURNAWAY.org. Lynch was born and raised in Columbus, GA where he earned his BS in Psychology at Columbus State University. He also has his BFA in Sculpture from the Atlanta College of Art and his MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Website: http://www.caseylynchart.com

Title: Earth Helix

Description:

Earth Helix is a time-based light sculpture and four-sided spiraling column, made of a steel frame with biodegradable seeded-paper skin. Standing twelve feet high, Earth Helix houses internal solar lights that illuminate at night. As the Fall weather causes the skin to deteriorate, more and more light will escape and the landscape is seeded with wildflowers. The materials aim to express a hopefulness in the life cycle through acknowledgement and celebration of the aging process (the deterioration of the surface), learning and enlightenment (solar lights), as well as the hopefulness found in the generation of new life (the seeds that may or may not grow).

Year: 2012

Name: Cash Barnes

Artist Bio:

Cash Barnes is an experienced fabricator and model maker of thirty years. He works in steel, aluminum, wood, acrylic, fiberglass, glass, fiber-optic and LED lighting. He currently had a studio located near the BeltLine on Memorial Drive.

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Title: Take Me to Your Leader

Description:

Take Me to Your Leader is a sculpture constructed of a steel subframe with aluminum cladding and an acrylic hemisphere “bubble” on top. The idea stems from a conversation from 1996 when the Olympics came to Atlanta. Barnes had given some old doors to a local artist that lived in Cabbagetown named Raymond (Panorama Ray) Herbert. He took the doors and painted folk art images of the Atlanta skyline with UFO’s in the sky. When Barnes asked him why, Herbert responded, “Cuz when the aliens come to Earth, they are not going to Moscow or Washington, they have coming right here to Atlanta to talk with Jimmy Carter.”

Year: 2012

Name: Cathy Wise

Artist Bio:

Cathy Wise studied Studio Art at Georgia State University and currently lives and works in Atlanta. Focusing mainly as a painter, print-maker and photo assistant almost immediately after graduating from GSU, she moved to San Francisco for four years.

Cathy collaborated with Patricio Vela on Tree-hugger.

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Title: Tree-hugger

Description:

Tree-hugger is an interactive light installation composed of a series of wires with hundreds of green LED’s, illuminating a large, mature red oak tree along the trail. Visitors can touch four sensors on the tree trunk to trigger a display of a slow, upward and outward “pulse.” All four sensors can only be triggered if the entire trunk is “hugged” by a single person or several participants acting together.

Year: 2012

Name: Cecilia Lueza

Artist Bio:

Born in Argentina, Cecilia Lueza started studying fine arts at a very young age and she graduated from the Universidad Nacional de la Plata in the mid-1990′s. Throughout her career, she has intensely explored a wide range of artistic media, from traditional media like painting, drawing, and sculpture- in wood , metal, urethane, fiberglass, and ceramic- to much more recent resources, like digital art.

Website: http://www.lueza.com

Title: Froher Garten

Description:

Froher Garten is a colorful sculpture that functions as a bench for visitors. Made of inert materials such as steel, treated pine, and urethane, Froher Garten interacts with the public to engage the senses while creating a stark contrast against the green of the surrounding vegetation.

Year: 2012

Name: Chris Higgins

Artist Bio:

William Higgins was born in Atlanta and lived and went to school in Decatur. He has been an artist all of his life, but became interested in architecture in 5th grade. He went on to study Architecture at Georgia tech and is now exploring the fringes of Architecture to gain a better knowledge of the discipline as a whole.

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Title: Spiraling Cairns

Description:

Three solar LED light posts whose posts’ form symbolizes twisted wrought iron – a commonly found occurrence in Atlanta. The goal of the light post is to be 100% recyclable besides electronic components and to be self-sufficient in terms of power consumption.

Year: 2012

Name: Christ, Lord

Artist Bio:

Henry Detweiler is a Atlanta-native visual and performance artist. He is currently finishing a BFA in Drawing Painting and Printmaking at Georgia State University. He has partnered with Dashboard Co-op and the Department of Teen Programs at The High Museum for exhibitions and performances respectively and is extensively involved in the arts community in  Atlanta. He has a background in childhood art education and currently works part-time at The Atlanta School in Inman Park with children aged 3 to 11. In addition to continuing to pursue exhibition opportunities for his artwork, Henry is currently a volunteer staff member at MINT Gallery and serves as the Events Editor for BURNAWAY.

Website: http://christlord.bandcamp.com/

Title: TANZPLATZ: a collaboration by Henry Detwiler and Christ, Lord

Description:

Kevin Bacon walks into a bar…Christ, Lord is bathed in the smokey cries of vaudeville, covered in the wizened breath of Eastern Europe, and stepped in the fluid movement of America’s music, North, South and apocalyptic. The six members (Adam Mincey, Billy Mitchell, Brandon Camarda, Christian Ballew, Ryan Gregory and Ryan Lamb) capture raw darkness, energy, and passion, delivering a potion half refined, half ramshackle.

View all of Christ, Lord’s 2012 performances:

• September 16
• October 13
• October 28
• November 4

Year: 2012

Name: Christopher Bivins

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Title: What Emerges

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Year: 2012

Name: Christopher Martin

Artist Bio:

Website: http://www.christophertmartin.com

Title: Before the Trail

Description:

Before the Trail is composed of 10 photographs taken in 2008 and 2009 along the stretch of trail that has become known as the Eastside Trail. Images are approximately 24″x36″, mounted on boards and affixed to posts along the trail. The older photo is placed where the viewer can look past it and see the trail as it exists today.

Year: 2012

Name: Crossover Movement Arts

Artist Bio:

Crossover Movement Arts is an evolving community of artists using movement, dance, visual arts, martial arts, text, and sound to create evocative performance art. We see performance as a both a laboratory and a compelling ritual experience shared between performer and audience.

Visit Crossover Movement’s website to read their artists’ bios.

Website: http://www.crossovermovementarts.com/

Title: Your Footsteps Bring Life: Traveling the Atlanta BeltLine

Description:

Your Footsteps Bring Life: Traveling the Atlanta BeltLine is a three-part production (Emergence, Flotilla, and Daedalus Revisited) that transports audiences to three sites along the BeltLine, where, like experimental anthropologists, they will encounter and walk amongst a mysterious band of shamanic engineers who circumnavigate the BeltLine in an endless cycle.

See the full roster of Crossover Movement Arts performances:

• September 9: Your Footsteps Bring Life I: Emergence
• October 2: Your Footsteps Bring Life II: Flotilla
• October 14: Your Footsteps Bring Life III: Daedalus Revisited

Year: 2012

Name: David Landis

Artist Bio:

Born in Shrewsbury, NJ, David Landis currently lives and works in Atlanta. Landis received his BBA and MFA from Georgia State University, and was an adjunct instructor at Georgia State University’s sculpture department. Landis’ work ranges from large-scale public commissions to smaller private works. He lives with his wife Marie, son David, and their dog Lola in Grant Park, and has recently bought and remodeled a building near Turner Field to be his studio.

Website: http://landissculpture.com

Title: Northern White

Description:

Northern White is influenced by the plight of the northern white rhino. There are only four left of breeding age in existence. The work on one side is of an over life size rhino head tilting off of a small pedestal. The backside of the head has been sheared off with a smooth polished finish, almost becoming an abstract cloud-like form. The sculpture is made of stainless steel.

Year: 2012

Name: Dojo Collective

Artist Bio:

The Dojo Collective is a group of Atlanta creatives who have combined their talents to promote innovation and sustainability in multiple disciplines. The collective consists of musicians, visual artists, designers, writers and visionaries. Part of their mission is to transform cultural landscapes by utilizing available resources to develop inspiring works.

See how to access the Atlanta BeltLine at this location in southwest Atlanta.

Website: http://thedojocollective.com/

Title: In The Land Of Wanderers

Description:

In The Land Of Wanderers is a space constructed to serve both as a visual installation and temporary performance space. Encompassing elements such as art, wind chimes, shade structure, and environmental works, the space provides a euphoric-like atmosphere where people can sit, rest, and explore the artwork and message. During the performances, the viewer is taken into another realm with high-vibration music and a surrounding that mentally enters them into another world.

Get full details on Dojo Collective’s two performances:

• September 9
• October 27

Year: 2012

Name: Earth Muse Art

Artist Bio:

Based in Peachtree City, Georgia, Earth Muse Art specializes in fine art mosaics by artist Stephanie Coulibaly. Earth Muse Art is inspired by nature and spirit and also creates expression through ceramics and jewelry.

Born in New York and reared in New Jersey and Florida, Stephanie has a BFA in Jewelry and Metalwork from Florida International University in Miami. She went on to receive a MFA in Museum Exhibition Planning and Design from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Coulibaly has focused on creating mosaics of varying size made from different materials because she enjoys the meticulous nature of the work.

Website: http://www.earthmuseart.com

Title: Commune

Description:

Commune provides a resting place to close one’s eyes and “be.” Adorned with glass and clay mosaics to capture the aesthetics of the natural surroundings, the components of the installation speak to the elements of fire, water, earth and air. Sun catchers (fire), wind chimes (air), mini bird-baths (water), and benches (earth) all interplay to create an environment that reveres the nature of the Atlanta BeltLine.

See how you can access the Atlanta BeltLine near Washington Park.

Year: 2012

Name: Emily Christianson

Artist Bio:

Emily Christianson is a dancer and independent choreographer based in Atlanta. A dancer for most of her life, Emily has recently focused her efforts on creating original dance works and working collaboratively with arts organizations and artists of different mediums. She has a minor in dance choreography and performance from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville. Emily was a memeber of Gathering Wild Dance Company and gloATL, and has danced with a variety of local choreographers.

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Title: In Between

Description:

In Between is a 30-minute dance performance piece utilizing the track rails to represent a crossroads where industry intersects with residential life. Through movement, local sounds and raw lighting, Christianson investigates the tensions that exist when the noisy industrial world collides with home life. Longtime collaborator Ganesh Giri Jaya creates a soundscape with recorded sounds from Stein Steel & Company combined with nature sounds.

View full performance details on Emily Christianson’s In Between

Year: 2012

Name: Experience Collective

Artist Bio:

Comprised of Toni Dammicci and Emily Brodowski, The Experience Collective focuses on creating large-scale public art and sculptural environments. The Collective’s aim is to create imaginative situations which envelope the viewer and stimulate a sense of discovery. As a team, they work cooperatively with a wide range of organizations and communities to create art that is accessible and relatable to everyone.

Website: http://www.experiencecollective.com

Title: A Wind Instrument

Description:

A Wind Instrument is a wind sculpture that consists of multiple clusters of domed pennies hanging from branches throughout the trees bordering the BeltLine trail. The penny is generally considered a nuisance, inconvenient, and even worthless. Through a repetitive process of altering this common material, original associations are lost. Multitudes of pennies are strung in patterns mimicking musical scores and creating a variety of notes. When hanging, the copper domes tap against each other and create a soft sound in response to the wind.

Year: 2012

Name: Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery

Artist Bio:

Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery is a 13-year-old incubator for art in all its forms. Established in 1998, Eyedrum is a non-profit organization developing an interdisciplinary approach to the arts by incorporating a wide range of contemporary art, music and new media in its gallery space.

Website: http://www.eyedrum.org/

Title: Eyedrum Presents Free Poetry on Demand

Description:

View full details on performances:

• September 30
• October 13
• October 27

Year: 2012

Name: Gateway Performance Productions

Artist Bio:

Gateway Performance Productions reaches diverse cultural groups and participates in all functions of Mask and Mime Theatre in order to further the cultural quality of Mask and Mime Theatre and, thereby, ensure its place as an integral part of the world of art. The company achieves its mission through touring and outreach performances, workshops, classes, residencies, and exhibits to community and educational venues and by maintaining The MASK Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Visit their website to read more about the artists.

Website: http://www.masktheater.org/

Title: Year of the Dragon

Description:

The creation of this project was inspired by two powerful time periods – the Chinese Year of the Dragon and the annual late fall season celebrated world-wide by traditions in various countries. Gateway’s artists utilize the qualities and images of these periods to create a series of community art events and activities that focus on the transformational power of masks and the year 2012 coupled with the late fall season to align art and landscape with community gathering and celebration.

View full performance details for Gateway’s Year of the Dragon.

Year: 2012

Name: Geoffrey Bartlett

Artist Bio:

Geoff Bartlett has embraced Atlanta’s thriving arts community since migrating from the southside suburbs a decade ago. As a company member of Twinhead Theatre, Geoff has taken to the stage & screen as a 1970s evangelical, a shirtless Hitler, and Gilbert Gottfried, among others. Now working for the Plaza Theatre and the Atlanta Film Festival, he hopes to help keep classic & local cinema alive in Atlanta. More recently, Geoff has delved into amateur  infographic design; this is his first solo public installation.

Website: http://itsfinallytimeyouknewsomething.wordpress.com

Title: Fifty Five Square Miles

Description:

Fifty-Five Square Miles is at its most basic a map of the Atlanta BeltLine and its surrounding neighborhoods. This particular map, however, is composed entirely of recycled, repurposed materials standing in for the city’s human elements: its landmarks, major roads, public rail, and universities; and a continuously growing moss medium in place of the city’s parks, forests, and tree-lined neighborhoods.

Year: 2012

Name: Geoffrey Smith

Artist Bio:

Now 26, Geoffrey C. Smith was born in Aurora, CO and moved to the Atlanta area when he still a kid. He received his BA from KSU in 2010. While there he worked as a museum photographer, model, and artist assistant to Matt Haffner. He also was a founding member of the now disbanded Cheap Paper artist collective and had brief associations with the collective Dodekapus. Through these experiences he gained a working knowledge of most fine art mediums. His work consists of multi medium photographic installations and surrealist drawings/paintings. Recently he has be taking his work into the realm of street art in the form of charcoal wheat paste drawings.

Website: http://gcsmith.weebly.com

Title: Dr. Schubert's Arboretum

Description:

This project relates to some of my earlier wheat-paste drawings that I completed using a  fusion of plant and animal forms. As a developing urban park where natural and urban environments meld together, I think it is important for the artwork to reference some of the literal and abstract relationships people have with the natural world. The fantastical nature of the paintings refers to a time in history where humanity was more reliant on myth and legend than science and history. The strange forms of this project are produced in order to get people to remember the wonder that the untamed natural world can produce in the human heart and also warn against human tampering with natural systems and processes.

Year: 2012

Name: Gregor Turk and the Youth Art Connection

Artist Bio:

Known for his public art installations, ceramic sculpture, photography, and mixed-media constructions, Gregor Turk often incorporates mapping imagery and cultural markings into his artwork. His response to his surroundings, whether in his hometown, Atlanta, or while traveling, serves as a major impetus for much of what he creates. Turk received his B.A. from Rhodes College and his M.F.A. from Boston University.

Website: http://www.gregorturk.com

Title: Civilizations

Description:

Gregor Turk has facilitated nearly two dozen participants through Youth Art Connection in the fabrication of miniature “ruins” within the recessed areas under numerous small rock overhangs and ledges of railroad cut for visitors to encounter new worlds as envisioned by teens. Before the clays eventually deteriorate in the elements, visitors are able to examine the curious nooks and crannies of the rock wall, scouting for traces of civilizations from long ago to the post-apocalyptic.

See how you can access the Atlanta BeltLine near Civilizations.

Year: 2012

Name: Gyun Hur

Artist Bio:

Gyun Hur has performed and exhibited in Atlanta, New York City, Chicago, Seattle, and China. Gyun completed New York City residency through Elizabeth’s Foundation for the Arts in 2009. She was selected as the Best Emerging Artist by Creative Loafing and received Emerging Alumna Award by Savannah College of Art and Design.

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Title: Spiritus Lenus

Description:

Originally executed at Wesleyan College’s artist work shop, Spiritus Lenus (smooth breathing) is comprised by several yarn walls and highlights the nature’s beauty and an importance of its sustainability. Spiritus Lenus is a term used to highlight the breath/pronunciation of a word. The installation hopes to do just that – create an aesthetic breath in the middle of the Atlanta BeltLine.

Year: 2012

Name: Hadley Breckenridge

Artist Bio:

Hadley Breckenridge is an artist with a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Georgia State University. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Photojournalism from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2002. Hadley has worked with all formats of photography and her work has been featured in exhibitions throughout Atlanta and other cities.

Website: http://www.hadleybreck.com/

Title: The Highball Artist

Description:

The Highball Artist, railroad slang for an engineer known for running the train fast, is a minimalist mural with intense color on a large scale, covering the sides and inside of the Lucille Street bridge and tunnel. The title and design imply that the speed of the train has come out through the tunnel, spilling color down one side of the bridge and exploding out of the other. The Highball Artist is an experience about movement, perspective, scale, time, space and the simple elements of color.

Year: 2012

Name: Harry Zmijewski

Artist Bio:

Harry Zmijewski’s art making is a mandate of nature’s will. He aspires to infuse the viewer’s spirit with humor, happiness and hope. Zmijewski received his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and his BFA in Sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a self-employed artist and part owner of HZ-DC Homes, LLC.

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Title: River Bend

Description:

This is Zmijewski’s second linked bench system for Art on the Atlanta BeltLine, creating surface designs with both colors influenced by folk art tradition and inspiration from abstract automatic image making. Most of the images and forms have a connection to the natural world, Zmijewski’s primary source of information.

Year: 2012

Name: Imaginary Menagerie Productions

Artist Bio:

Started in 2010 between Julia Hill and Brandon Ross, Imaginary Menagerie Productions first took form within Atlanta’s Imperial Opa circus. Building puppets and animals for the circus, The Menagerie took audiences far beyond the average puppetry experience. Using innovative materials and creative engineering, The Menagerie strives to create living, breathing sculptures. As more creatures have been born, the company reaches out to the many talented artists, performers, musicians and puppet people Atlanta has to offer. The Imaginary Menagerie is where puppets and modern art, live together as one.

Website: http://brandonrossproductions.com/

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Description:

Imaginary Menagerie Productions presents “Kudzu” the Dragon – The BeltLine’s Guardian Spirit, an explosion of bright colors and dynamic action.The Chinese “year of the Dragon” is upon us, and you are invited to meet Atlanta’s new mythic creature of massive proportions as you spot its intense yellow and red eyes from afar. As the two puppeteers bring life as proxy riders, audiences of all ages will watch and interact with their city’s new chaperon.

See the full roster of Imaginary Menagerie’s appearances with Art on the Atlanta BeltLine:

• September 8, 2012 with the Lantern Parade
• September 30, 2012
• October 13, 2012
• November 11, 2012

Year: 2012

Name: Jac Coffey

Artist Bio:

Now 22, Jac Coffey has been making art out of metal since he was 16. Coffey mainly uses discarded railroad parts to create free-standing sculptures, often of the human form. He has recently shown his artwork at a few galleries in the metro Atlanta area.

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Title: Railroad Workers

Description:

This artifact sculpture depicts three large human forms, each carrying tools and walking mid-stride in a single file line made from discarded railroad parts from the BeltLine itself.

Year: 2012

Name: Jackson Sculpture

Artist Bio:

Etienne Jackson is a sculptor and native of Opelika, Alabama. He received his Bachelor of Ats from Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1998 with a concentration in sculpture and architectural design and a Master of Fine Arts in visual arts with a concentration in sculpture from Georgia State University in 2009. Currently, Etienne operates Jackson Sculpture, a fine art studio focused on the creation of sculpture, fine crafts and public art preservation.

Tae Earl Jackson is a sculptor and native of Fairbanks, Alaska. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Clark Atlanta University in 1996 and her Masters of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of Cincinnati in 2000. Her work documents time created with the sole purpose of preserving and safe guarding temporal personal events.

Together, Etienne and Tae make up Jackson Sculpture.

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Title: Junctions

Description:

Junctions is a two serial plane sculptural works, transforming the winding passageway of the BeltLine walkway into a unique focal point that provides an unexpected serene visual experience for visitors. The forms provide visual contrast to the natural herbaceous environment that encompasses the Atlanta BeltLine, creating an opportunity for patrons to pause and observe the simple geometry of the sculpture’s juxtaposition against the serene beauty of the urban pathway.

See how to access the Atlanta BeltLine from Gordon White Park in southwest Atlanta.

Year: 2012

Name: Jason A. Smith

Artist Bio:

Jason Smith is an artist blacksmith living and working in Decatur, GA. Born and raised in South Carolina, Jason studied Fine Arts at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. Since 2000, Jason has made his living as an ornamental metal worker, establishing his own studio, Smithworks Iron & Design, in 2006. His work is influenced by Martin Puryear, Tony Craig, and Richard Deacon.

Website: http://www.smithworksiron.com

Title: Guimard Gate

Description:

Jason Smith has created a gateway piece of sculptural and decorative ironwork. The piece is a set of two leaves composed of abstract crushed pipe and delicate forged ironwork inspired by Hector Guimard, the leader of French Art Nouveau.

Year: 2012

Name: JD Koth

Artist Bio:

The work of JD Koth explores different interactions between humanity and nature. Koth utilizes installations as well as sculptural objects to address issues ranging from growth and decay to how we perceive reality according to one’s scale.  Whatever medium he wields is stretched beyond its common use, emphasizing the unique elements of the material and its possibilities.

Website: http://www.jdkoth.com

Title: Wigwam

Description:

An organic form made of natural materials that also act as a shade structure and imagination stimulator. Complex of three hut-like forms connected by two, above ground tunnels. The size and separation of pods by tunnels allows for multiple groups to enjoy the sculpture at the same time. The structures are constructed with native Georgia saplings as well as vines and rope.

Year: 2012

Name: Karen Shacham and Mike Carpenter

Artist Bio:

Karen Shacham is a photographer specializing in portraiture, conceptual, and documentary photography. She was recented awarded and Idea Capital Grant for her “Couples” work. Shacham has shown her work in fine art galleries and earned a combined academic and artistic photography fellowship in 2009. Her website is http://karenshacham.com.

Michael Carpenter is a local artist and carpenter who works with multiple mediums. He is also the founder of MDC Interiors, a business that provides creative concepts and artistic solutions for clients’ needs. Carpenter is a Masters of Industrial Design candidate at Georgia Tech, expecting to graduate in 2014. His website is http://www.mdcinteriors.com.

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Title: Couples Reimagined

Description:

Photographer Karen Shacham and artist Mike Carpenter have come together to produce three large-scale photo murals of same-sex couples. The black-and-white photos have been painted along with the wall space around them in a mural that reflects the environment, as if the people in the portraits are trying to “fit in” to the surroundings.

See how to access the Atlanta BeltLine from Gordon White Park in southwest Atlanta.

Year: 2012

Name: Kebbi Williams and Friends

Artist Bio:

Kebbi Williams is a world class Saxophone player. Kebbi is the Saxophone player in the upcoming live music film Brass Tacks and played for the Grammy Award winning band Outkast.Williams studied saxophone throughout high school and college, earning an under graduate Degree in Jazz from Howard University.

Other performers include international theatre maker Mike Van Wetten, local theatre makers Sahr Nguaja, Andy Ditzler, Jessica Bodiford, Eugene Russell, Yakini Horn and Atlanta Public School orchestra and theatre students.Special guest musicians include Kebbi Williams, Otiel Burbridge, lil john roberts and Russell Gunn.

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Title: Music in the Park

Description:

Kebbi Williams and award winning composer Miguel Atwoods coordinate a music/theatre concert performance with original music including a string quartet of students in the Atlanta Public Schools youth orchestra accompanied by a full band. The performance includes five original threatre pieces composed and directed by local and international theatre makers.

View time and location on Music in the Park with Kebbi Williams.

Year: 2012

Name: Klimchak

Artist Bio:

Klimchak is an Atlanta-based composer and percussionist who specializes in live music for theatre and dance. He is an Artistic Associate at Georgia Shakespeare, where he has received several awards and nominations. Klimchak also designs and builds percussion instruments and received a grant this past January from Idea Capital in Atlanta to build a new series of instruments, write music for them, and have a series of flash performances with the resultant music.

Website: http://klimchakmusic.com/

Title: Lebeato Lounge

Description:

Lebeato Loungeis a series of percussion concerts showcasing home-built instruments with embedded lights on them.

Sept 15
This mini-concert features the public premiere of WaterWorks A solo percussion piece for a large amplified bowl of water and a theremin.

Sept 29
This mini-concert features the world premiere of Synesthesia,  a percussion ensemble piece featuring flashlights and vocal percussion.

Oct 13
This mini-concert features the world premiere of Plumb Line, a percussion ensemble piece featuring a very large homebuilt flute, played with ping pong paddles.

Nov 3
This final performance features all 3 works, Synesthesia, Plumb Line, and WaterWorks.

View full details on when Klimchak will be performing:

• September 15
• September 29
• October 13
• November 3

Year: 2012

Name: Knitterati

Artist Bio:

The Knitterati is a fluid group of Atlantans who use knitting and crocheting as a delightful excuse to get together, catch up and enjoy food, drink and each other’s company.

Website: http://theknitterati.wordpress.com/

Title: BeltLine Beasties

Description:

Returning for their second year in Art on the Atlanta BeltLine, The Knitterati creates a new, temporary and customized knitted/crocheted exhibition that calls attention to the unique fabric of the Atlanta community and the beauty of the BeltLine. This installation is larger than last year’s, seeking to transform and soften the industrial object of a bridge. The Knitterati exhibition brings unexpected whimsy and personality to the historic neighborhood and brings the art of “yarn bombing” to the Atlanta BeltLine.

Year: 2012

Name: Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons

Artist Bio:

Creative Director Chantelle Rytter founded the Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons in New Orleans in 1999, and the Krewe has worked together to produce creative events based in civic participation in Atlanta and elsewhere since 2001. The Krewe has established 4 annual Atlanta traditions where all are welcome: The Skeleton Krewe March, The Gingerbread Trailer Park Design Competition, The Gnome March World Record and The Fairy House Tour of Homes. They hope Lantern Parades will become an Atlanta tradition, too.

Website: http://www.gratefulgluttons.com/

Title: BeltLine Lantern Parade 2012: The Eastside Trail

Description:

Art on the Atlanta BeltLine welcomes the Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons for the third year of their BeltLine Lantern Parade. The BeltLine Lantern Parade is a community crafted paper lantern procession that fosters enduring bonds between people and their new public space through creative civic participation. The Parade prompts people to interact with each other, reflect on their larger community and celebrate their environment. This living public art form illustrates how the brilliance of individuals can illuminate a community.

View the Lantern Parade 2012 event listing.

Year: 2012

Name: Kyle Brooks

Artist Bio:

Kyle Brooks grew up around Atlanta. He did all the regular things. Got a job and said, “Yes, ma’am.” A couple years ago Brooks decided to change his approach. He grew a beard and rethought life; painted more. He now shares his work with the public, hanging art on street corners, participating in art festivals, and painting large murals including last year’s BeltLine Bears. He works with found objects; wood, cardboard, old signs. Brooks has been painting since around the turn of the century.

Website: http://www.blackcattips.com

Title: Faces, a.k.a. Eyes and Friends or &@^%@$#&^

Description:

Wall mural. Large faces, eyes and friends, fun and bright. Looking out at you from under a bridge. Hi.

Year: 2012

Name: LaMar Barber

Artist Bio:

May 2012 constitutes eight years as a professional artist. Since that time, Barber received visual art awards and exhibited in 5 different states on the East Coast, while teaching Art K-5th grade. Barber’s collegiate training at The Atlanta College of Art has prepared him to be a prolific studio painter, and the commencement of this project will be his first Public Art display as a professional artist.

Website: http://www.LaMarBarber.com

Title: Sound Poles: Heavier Than Water

Description:

Sound Poles: Heavier than Water series conceptually communicates eviction by paralleling death and delinquency. Constructed from old telephone poles and found objects Sound Poles acts as beacons of communication. Continuing in the narrative of compositional art, practiced by Tyree Guyton, Sound Poles enriches the public space aesthetically and culturally while telling the story of the community. They are site-specific totems created in numerals of three, sporadically placed to magnify the trail’s experience.

Year: 2012

Name: Laura Noel

Artist Bio:

Laura Noel was born in Atlanta, where she continues to live and work. She received a BA in Public Policy Studies from Duke University and a MFA with distinction in Photography from the University of Georgia. Her work has been featured in numerous galleries and exhibitions around Atlanta. Noel is currently a professor in the Visual Art Department at Emory University.

Website: http://lauranoel.com/

Title: The Enchanted Forest of Books

Description:

A group of existing trees are transformed into receptacles for knowledge and learning in this enchanted book forest. Hanging recycled bottles are filled with suggestions for great reads from the western canon and world literature and visitors are encouraged to share their own.

Year: 2012

Name: Leslie Tharp

Artist Bio:

“Art is for everyone and should be everywhere” is Leslie Tharp’s philosophy for the foundation of her practice. Tharp uses both traditional blacksmithing and modern metalworking techniques to create site specific public art, as well as custom household ironwork.

Website: http://www.leslietharp.com

Title: Startle

Description:

Two full-scale deer sculptures composed of bent steel lines and posed in reactive stances for visitors to experience unexpected encounters. Startle explores the role of the “wild” and the dynamic meaning of the word.

Year: 2012

Name: Loss Prevention Collective

Artist Bio:

The Loss Prevention Collective is a multi-disciplinary collective of highly sought after artists specializing in hand-painted murals and design. Originally conceived in Los Angeles in 2006, their work has been featured in film, television, and print campaigns, assisting a broad range of clients throughout the US.

Website: http://www.thelossprevention.net

Title: Mural

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Year: 2012

Name: Machiko Ichihara

Artist Bio:

Machiko Ichihara came to Atlanta in 1976 from Japan. Since receiving her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Georgia, she has been creating durable tile art surfaces for many private and commercial properties around the country for almost three decades. Art making, she believes, is an all-encompassing practicing ground.

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Title: Mosaic Community Gateways

Description:

Mosaic Community Gateways are created with the participation of the residents and visitors of the Atlanta BeltLine in tent workshops where they can stop by and create handmade tiles. These handmade tiles are then cemented to a modified geometric cast concrete sculpture. The experience and creation provides both a learning experience and a sense of community.

See how to access the Atlanta BeltLine at this location in southwest Atlanta.

Year: 2012

Name: Mariam Mojdehi

Artist Bio:

Mariam Mojdehi is a practicing architect and design educator who lives and works in both Atlanta and New York City. She currently teaches architecture design studios at Georgia Tech and is developing a design research office. Mojdehi has a degree in architecture from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University.

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Title: Observe/Reflect

Description:

Observe/Reflect is an installation of elevated pavilion structures made of mirrored plywood and wood studs. The pavilions create spaces for visitors to observe and reflect, offering opportunities for bathing, feeding, sightseeing, and seating for animals, insects and people.

See how you can access the Atlanta BeltLine near Observe/Reflect.

Year: 2012

Name: Michael Tod Edgerton

Artist Bio:

Michael Tod Edgerton is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Vitreous Hide. His poems have previously appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, New American Writing, and other journals. Tod holds an MFA from the Program in Literary Arts at Brown University and a PhD candidate in English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. He has served as an editorial assistant at The Georgia Review, and is currently an associate editor with Tarpaulin Sky magazine.

Website: http://whatmostvividly.com/

Title: What Most Vividly (A Choral Work)

Description:

What Most Vividly (Your Roots, Your Branches: What Flowering Trees) is a community-oriented choral work of a relational text art installation capped off by a poetry performance. Several hundred one-foot square panels are painted and hung from the canopy of trees along a stretch of the BeltLine, exhibiting questions with hanging permanent markers parallel to the panels for people to transcribe their response. I’m looking to you for answers. I’m asking you to take a part, to take apart the part: mine, yours, ours. “What Most Vividly” is a participatory writing project that adapts your answers with my own into collage poems and lyric essays meditating on fundamental questions about our relations to one another and to ourselves, about what makes a life. Please use the pens provided to offer your own responses for use in this project. For more information, links to published pieces, and a gallery of previous responses please visit WhatMostVividly.com. Please attend my reading from the work I will produce with your responses at 2:30pm, Nov 4 on the Reynoldstown stage at 900 Memorial Drive. Thank you for taking part.

Year: 2012

Name: Mike Jensen

Artist Bio:

A native of Huntsville, Alabama, Mike Jensen has lived in Atlanta since 1984. He received his BFA degree from the Atlanta College of Art in 1987 and has since had the privilege of working for a variety of galleries, museums and artists. Jensen’s fine-art photographs have been exhibited many times, but he has become more interested in creating public works of art, particularly sculpture.

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Title: Gnomon II

Description:

Gnomon II is a sculpture designed to continue Jensen’s exploration of light and shadow pattern generation. It is based on a series of photographs that turn building facades into a geometric pattern of shapes defined by light and shadow. The viewer is critical to to the piece, since their position, relative to the sculpture and combined with the direction and quality of the sunlight, creates the appearance of the piece.

See how you can access the Atlanta BeltLine near Gnomon II.

Year: 2012

Name: Mike Wsol and GSU’s Department of 3D Studies

Artist Bio:

The project was designed and constructed by the students of a Georgia State University Graduate Seminar class – Mark T. Errol, Jeshua W. Holt, Laura M. Martin – and instructor Mike Wsol.

Mike Wsol is a multimedia artist who explores how architectural forms and cultural and political forces affect peoples’ lives and ability to function in developed societies. His current projects take the form of interactive sculpture, computer-generated models, photographs, drawings and renderings. Wsol earned a Masters in Architecture degree from the University of Georgia, a MA in Sculpture and a BA in Sculpture from Eastern Illinois University. He now teaches three-dimensional Studies at Georgia State University.

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Title: The BeltLine Bridge

Description:

The BeltLine Bridge is a building structure constructed along the train tracks reminiscent of old train-related buildings from historic images. The tight passageway of the shotgun house creates an illusion of distance and entryway to visitors who travel the tunnel from either side.

Year: 2012

Name: Misao Cates

Artist Bio:

Trained in graphic design, Misao has explored a number of avenues where her design talents could be utilized. Among her design projects are large centerpieces and decor for special events, as well as props for theater production. Cates was included in last year’s Art on the Atlanta BeltLine exhibit with her first public art installation, Whispers. She currently works with The Galloway School Theater Company as costume designer.

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Title: What Ties Me To You

Description:

An interactive work, What Ties Me To You asks the Atlanta BeltLine traveler to contemplate the connection of the individual to the greater world. What ties a person to a loved one, a community, the world around them? Travelers are encouraged to inscribe their thoughts onto a length of ribbon and tie it to the posts, thereby integrating the individual ribbon into the community wall.

Year: 2012

Name: Neil Carver

Artist Bio:

Neil has been in the welding industry since 1995, but his artistic career launched even earlier, when, at eight years old, he began to study classical painting. He took painting classes all through high school in West Palm Beach and came to Atlanta to go to art school for painting. After one week of painting classes sophomore year, Carver switched to sculpture. Soon after, he started working in a welding shop. Finally, he left school in 1997 to work in a series of metal fabrication shops and artists’ studios.

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Title: Resurgens

Description:

Resurgens: the giant welded steel Phoenix rises from the flames to frame a gateway. The gate will be welded to the old train tracks, inviting visitors to walk along the tracks under and through the body of the phoenix. Like Neil’s other works in the area, the Phoenix draws stylistic inspiration from graffiti art, pop art and tattoo flash, industrial forms, and organic curves, adding up to something that is utterly homegrown.

Year: 2012

Name: Pam Longobardi

Artist Bio:

Since 1990, Pam Longobardi has had over 25 solo exhibitions and 65 group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the US, Italy, Spain, Finland, Poland, Japan and elsewhere. Her work involves painting, photography, fabricated objects and installations, addressing the psychological relationship between humans and the natural world. She was recently named Artist-In-Resident for the Blue Ocean Institute. Longobardi currently lives in Atlanta.

Website: http://www.driftwebs.com/

Title: Reflecting Web

Description:

Reflecting Web is a large-scale outdoor web sculpted of mirrors. The mirrored strands split the light into millions of splintering shards that dance over the landscape with the movement of the wind, making visible and invisible energy presence. Reflecting Web amplifies the beauty and amazement of common natural phenomonen of a dew-laden spider web that provides an ever-changing, subtly dynamic encounter.

See how you can access the Atlanta BeltLine near Reflecting Web.

Year: 2012

Name: Park Cofield and Company

Artist Bio:

Park Cofield is an Atlanta/Los Angeles based theater director and puppet builder. Park has written four plays for the stage, designed and conceived three original puppet shows, three site-specific street performances, two puppet films, and a playwright auction fundraiser event.

Park Cofield & Co. is a fictitious monster hunting company comprised of eight performers including two child actors, two puppeteers and two musicians.

Website: http://www.parkcofield.com/

Title: BIG & small INSECT SHOW

Description:

Park Cofield & Co. return to Art on the Atlanta BeltLine for a family-friendly extravaganza that celebrates insects, arachnids, and anthropods. The one-night event begins with a short parade to lead spectators to a large underpass for a performance of shadow puppetry and marionettes, where the company will share stories from their world famous “insectopedia” catalogue!

View full performance details for Park Cofield and Company.

Year: 2012

Name: Past Prime Players

Artist Bio:

Website:

Title: Past Prime Players

Description:

View full performance details for Past Prime Players’ events:

• October 14
• October 27
• November 4

Year: 2012

Name: Priscilla Smith

Artist Bio:

Priscilla Smith is currently the Executive Director of Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery. Established in 1998, Eyedrum is a non-profit organization developing an interdisciplinary approach to the arts by incorporating a wide range of contemporary art, music and new media in its gallery space.

Website: http://www.eyedrum.org

Title: Beyond My Wildest Dreams

Description:

Beyond My Wildest Dreams is a multi-pronged performance and multi-media interface for the public to learn about the Atlanta BeltLine and dream big about its possibilities. Inviting the audience into the context of an imaginary future as they walk the corridor, Priscilla Smith adopts the persona of one of her Atlanta forebears to weave together stories of Atlanta’s history, urban legends, the tale of  the Atlanta BeltLine, anecdotes about surrounding neighborhoods, and the details of the brilliant amenities of this city and its future. The three distinct tellings will be on the southwest Atlanta trail and on the Eastside Trail.

View full details on Priscilla’s Eastside Trail walk on September 16 and her southwest trail walk on October 27.

Year: 2012

Name: RAUM

Artist Bio:

Comprised of Katherine Johnson, Heather Ligler and Bud Shenefelt, RAUM is a newly established collaborative practice between three architectural designers that wish to explore the spatial experiences within the fabric of their community. Projects are research and material based, aimed at evoking a sensory architecture. The team uses its diverse talents to dream and design unconventional spaces that evoke curiosity and wonder to those who engage with their work.

Website: http://www.raumworks.com

Title: Ballroom

Description:

A ballroom is staged as a structural underbelly of the overpass. The heavy rectilinear vertical columns, and the floating sea of diamonds that shimmer and shake overhead define the SPACE of the ballroom. This “sea” reacts to the movement of air, the vibrations of the cars on the overpass, and the activity of visitors below.

Year: 2012

Name: Ryan Mathern and Cecilia Marrero

Artist Bio:

Ryan Mathern graduated with a BA in art from Mercer University in 1992. For the past four years, he has been concentrating on steel sculpture, using a method involving adding virgin and reclaimed materials to a tubular steel substructure and steel rod framework. Mathern often combines phrases in Tibetan script with subject matter such as mythical creatures and Asian devotional machines.

Cecilia Marrero is a longtime supporter and activist for the Tibetan cause, having recently worked with the Tibetan community on a March, 2012 Tibet Uprising demonstration.

Website: http://www.ryanmathern.com

Title: Immolation

Description:

An interpretive view of recent self-immolations acted out by Tibetan Monks as a courageous protest against the massive crackdown and longtime oppression by Communist China. The performance includes 3-4 dancers exhibiting a response to this human condition caused by suppression of one’s being and spiritual rights. The intent is to promote awareness of the severity and realism of the situation.

View full performance details for Immolation.

Year: 2012

Name: Santiago Menendez

Artist Bio:

Santiago Menendez Gil was born in Mexico City, Mexico and lives and works in Atlanta. He received his BFA in Drawing and Painting in 2010 from Georgia State University and has participated in numerous group shows as well as public art displays. Menendez works at Stratosphere Skateboards and lives in the Old Fourth Ward, keeping him very in touch with activity along the Atlanta BeltLine.

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Title: Meet Me At The Crayons

Description:

A series of 32 steel posts that have been painted to resemble a row of giant crayons for a simple and playful display at an entrance along the Atlanta BeltLine.

See how you can access the Atlanta BeltLine near Washington Park.

Year: 2012

Name: Santiago Páramo and Amy Pursifull

Artist Bio:

Santiago Páramo, Amy Pursifull & Ricardo Forero are a group of talented and accomplished artists that have come together to collaborate and create a visual and musical experience based on individual expertise in their own fields and interests. As collaborators, they have participated in and developed various interactive sound installations, and due to their successes, they have been inspired to produce S.O.N.I.C as a bigger, better and more complete device to reach a broader audience.

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Title: S.O.N.I.C

Description:

S.O.N.I.C (Synchronized Optical Network of Interactive Composition) is an interactive video and musical instrument that allows multiple participants to create and perform original compositions. Using pre-recorded content for unlimited hours, the audience push buttons that simultaneously trigger sounds and project corresponding video clips onto a screen.

Year: 2012

Name: Sarah Emerson

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Title: Untitled

Description:

Sarah painted this mural as a part of the Living Walls Conference 2012.

Year: 2012

Name: Spiral of Sound Crystal Bowl Choir

Artist Bio:

Created as interdisciplinary works of performance art, “Spiral of Sound” repertoire blends sound, visual, cultural, archetypal and spiritual elements to produce innovative meditation concerts that uplift heart, mind and body. The Spiral of Sound Crystal Bowl Choir performed for Art on the Atlanta BeltLine in 2011.

Candace Keach is the creator/director of the Spiral of Sound Crystal Bowl Choir. Keach is a classical flutist who has always been intrigued by the magic of music. Her formal studies were completed at the University of Georgia and at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Website: http://sonicangelmusic.com/

Title: STOP, LOOK and LISTEN

Description:

Immerse yourself in the healing sound waves created by Spiral of Sound Crystal Bowl Choir. The compositions created by director Candace Keach produce a unique experience of deep relaxation. STOP, LOOK and LISTEN is the theme both to honor the train tracks and to encourage people to slow down and relax! Players sound crystal bowls specific to nature’s pleasing ratios of harmony for people to enjoy up close. The bowls create a visually stunning installation and their haunting sound beckons the curious passerby to linger.

View full details for performances:

• September 15
• October 7

Year: 2012

Name: Stephanie Coffin

Artist Bio:

Stephanie Coffin has lived in Atlanta for over 40 years and has been a mosaic artist for over 10. Her work includes birdbaths, tile over large concrete surfaces, small and large house murals, outdoor planters and a number of public tile pieces. She has a Bachelors in Arts and Science, Masters in Teaching, and a Masters in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. As a teacher at Georgia Perimeter College, Coffin team taught ESL students in the beginning college art class.

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Title: Precious Predators

Description:

5′x3′ mosaic mural of glass, marble and ceramic tile mounted in a steel frame anchored in concrete. The mural depicts greatly enlarged images of the four most damaging instects for organic gardeners, as well as the plants they attack. The mural reflects the beauty of their colors and shapes in shiny glass tile as well as present a life-like image for gardeners who must identify these pests to produce crops successfully.

See how to access the Atlanta BeltLine at this location in southwest Atlanta.

Year: 2012

Name: Susan J. Champeny

Artist Bio:

Susan Champeny graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in Fine Arts, with a major in Printmaking. She quickly found employment as a graphic designer, and worked in the field of commercial art for 20 years. While working in the corporate world, she continued to paint and create fine art. In 2006, she changed careers and is now a Fine Artist, painting full-time. Her business plan is based on three principles: have fun, create, and travel.

Website: http://susanchampeny.com/

Title: ReinCARnation Hubcap Lily Pads

Description:

Giant orange and magenta lily pads, each 16-20 feet in diameter, are made from recycled plastic hubcaps. These hubcap lily pads float on the surface of a shallow pond, anchored to the bottom in patterns of concentric circles. The sculpture points out how ordinary disposable objects can create an exciting new artwork.

See how to access this part of the Atlanta BeltLine.

Year: 2012

Name: Tara Hemmer

Artist Bio:

Tara Hemmer is a 2011 graduate from the University of Georgia with her degree in dance and minor in English. During her time there, she was chosen to perform with L.A. based dance company, Diavolo Dance Theater, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and spent multiple summers with Sarasota Ballet of Florida. During Hemmer’s senior year, her thesis project was chosen to represent UGA at the American College Dance Festival in Tallahassee, FL. Tara has attended the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC (2010/2011) and worked with NY based dancers such as Jimena Paz (Stephen Petronio), Jesse Zaritt (Shen Wei), Ming Yang (Thrisha Brown), and Monica Bill Barnes. She was also chosen to participate in the GAGA project, which enabled her to work with Batsheva Dancer and Israeli choreographer, Yaara Moses. While in Atlanta, Hemmer has worked with Maryn Mills (fellow UGA grad) and performed in the Lucky Penny’s “Spectacular! Spectacular!”. Most recently, she traveled to New York to study with NY based company, Doug Varone and Dancers. She is now working with Maryn Mills once again on her recent endeavor  “Thread”. Tara is now working on her first Atlanta based work “This Goes Here” for Art on the Beltline.

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Title: This Goes Here

Description:

Tara Hemmer creates a space where the audience is invited to explore and become part of the performance. Six female dancers will have their own unique and defined space that is individual to them. Each space is created to explore the idea of space and what connect or disconnects us as people. The audience is invited to freely roam, research and explore each space as the dancers come together in a collaboration of stories, lives, and emotions. With this performance, Hemmer asks the question “do we let space define us, or do we define space”. She is interested in how within this question, “place” is defined.

View performance details on Tara Hemmer’s This Goes Here.

Year: 2012

Name: Taranji L. Alvarado

Artist Bio:

Taranji, a Newark, New Jersey native, started her visual artistic journey in the Baker High School Art program taught by artist in residence and film maker George Folke in Columbus, Georgia. Having a passion for drawing and painting she continued her studies in art classes, starting her own collection of work while working with artist and celebrity photographer Greg Mann. She also started her musical career in the mid-90′s with a rock band called Voodoo Einstein in Atlanta. Taranji continues to perform in different venues, festivals, and events state side and abroad. She performed her project A Community… A Sound Creation for Art on the Atlanta BeltLine in 2011.

Get full details on Taranji Alvarado’s performances:

• September 29
• October 14

Website: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/taranjialvarado

Title: Community... A Sound Creation 2012

Description:

Community… A Sound Creation is an interactive performance where surrounding communities are invited to participate by bringing and playing household items. The purpose of the performance is to show the beauty of simple sound creation, the importance of the individual role and voice in a community, and how enjoyable  is to create with your neighbors and community using your innate abilities and items already in your surrounding. Community… A Sound Creation shows the history of the community coming together through music and art.

Year: 2012

Name: Tarver Siebert

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Title: Chugs

Description:

Group of  fabric structures lit using solar powered LED’s and broken into three sections – Idea; Form; Structure – to clearly describe an object that doesn’t have a name. The structures are about human-sized and the forms are anthromorphic. The grouping of the forms is intended to be akin to the group of people socializing and the objects can be seen as large lanterns, small shelters, wacky boats for land-lubbers, or perhaps something else.

Year: 2012

Name: Trevor Jones

Artist Bio:

Trevor Jones has been involved with 7 Stages theatre company for four years in several different roles. He acted in their CLE program and began an administrative internship. Now, Trevor manages fundraising, assists with the creation of artistic programs, and develops community relationships.

The Collective Project, Inc., is a theatre & performance group that creates original work for Atlanta, by Atlanta. It cultivates and nurtures an expanding ensemble of artists and flies its flag at the Goat Farm Arts Center off Howell Mill.

Website: http://www.thecollectiveprojectinc.com/

Title: Prometheus the Fire

Description:

Prometheus the Fire is an orginial play by Trevor Jones in collaboration with The Collective Project, Inc. that introduces Atlanta audiences to traditional methods of Greek mask theatre and reintroduce the theatre community to outdoor performance. Three actors share the roles of Prometheus, Gaia, the Oracles, Epimetheus, and Zeus. A chorus of four accompanies the actors, vocalizing the musicality of the script.

View full performance details here:

• September 15
• October 28

Year: 2012

Name: Virginia Byers and Aria Finkelstein

Artist Bio:

Virginia Byers and Aria Finkelstein are both Atlanta-based designers who met when they were getting their Masters of Architecture degrees at Georgia Tech. Virginia is an architectural designer for general contractors Gay Construction. She has extensive experience designing, coordinating and producing quality sculptural work. Aria is an urban designer interested in the subdivision of territory and how things change over time..

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Title: Easy Pickings

Description:

Easy Pickings is an installation drawing attention to and highlighting the layers of material and space that are already present. 3056 pieces of string, 8224 knots, 22 miles of cotton.

Year: 2012

Name: Wade Tilton

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Title: Ghost/Train

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View full performance details for Wade Tilton’s Ghost/Train:

• September 29
• October 13

Year: 2012

Name: Alana Wolf, Kristin Juarez, Kamal and Rashid Nuri

Artist Bio:

Kristin Juarez is focused on engaging people with contemporary art in the public sphere. She has worked with LAX Art, Blum and Poe, the Watts House project, the High Museum of Art, BURNAWAY, and Public Acts of Art.

Alana Wolf is a cultural examiner who is deeply interested in the ways that history, place, nature, and culture intersect. She has worked with the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, BURNAWAY, and Public Acts of Art.

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Title: Eat Me ATL

Description:

Using the language of landscape, Eat Me ATL is an edible vertical garden that invites community engagement, awareness, and generosity.

Year: 2011

Name: Ashley Kyber and Park Pride

Artist Bio:

Ashley Kyber is a landscape architect whose “sculptural narratives” reference oral tradition and environmental concerns while addressing wider social dynamics of postindustrial land/community redevelopment.

Park Pride manages to coordinate more than 15,000 hours of volunteer work in Atlanta parks annually. The foundation of their work is more than 60 “Friends of the Park” groups, community-based partners working to improve the greenspace in their back yard.

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Title: Serpentine Mound

Description:

Serpentine Mound celebrates the ebb and flow of life’s rhythms.

Year: 2011

Name: Atlanta Public Schools

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Title: Concert

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Year: 2011

Name: Beacon Dance Company

Artist Bio:

Under the direction of D. Patton White since 1990, Beacon continues to re-define dance in the Atlanta community.

Website: http://www.beacondance.org/

Title: Mapping the Elements

Description:

Beacon Dance performed original dances in different locations around the Atlanta BeltLine, highlighting the unique attributes of the natural and urban environment. Beacon Dance presents progressive and challenging performance work in unusual and unexpected locations. Examples of their performances can be seen here: http://vimeo.com/40054304

Year: 2011

Name: Cameron Stuart

Artist Bio:

The artist is a playwright, poet, and composer whose work explores language’s generation of limitless outcomes through roads and songs.

Website: http://N/A

Title: Stuart's plays, Police in the Wilderness and The Storm

Description:

Stuart’s plays, Police in the Wilderness and The Storm were staged around the Atlanta BeltLine. The themes complement the development of the corridor project.

Year: 2011

Name: Carl Anthony

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Website: http://N/A

Title: Concert

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Year: 2011

Name: Carol Rankin

Artist Bio:

Carol Rankin creates paintings and collage works that blur the line between abstract and representational. Her work can be found in many Atlanta galleries.

Website: http://N/A

Title: Monroe on the BeltLine

Description:

A freestanding ceramic collage made of handmade tiles depicting Monroe Drive and the surrounding area from the Atlanta BeltLine. Viewers are invited to look through a space in the work to see the surroundings framed into the mosaic composition.

Year: 2011

Name: Christopher Moulder

Artist Bio:

Christopher Moulder’s studio in Atlanta, Georgia has designed and executed functional works of art for over a decade. The studio creates one of a kind sculptural lighting artworks, designed to specific sites and projects as well as a line of lighting fixtures of its own design.

Website: http://www.christophermoulder.com

Title: Santa Trap

Description:

Santa Trap is a sculpted surface of light points formed by layering slices of Christmas lights in catenary curves. Light string by light string, the shape was formed freehand and shaped by eye with no computer modeling. At night the wires disappear leaving only floating points of light.

Year: 2011

Name: Colleen Jordan

Artist Bio:

Colleen Jordan is a recent graduate of Georgia Tech, an artist, and designer from Atlanta.

Website: http://www.colleenjordan.com/

Title: Untitled

Description:

The artist created a cluster of cylinders that includes a bench that raises the plane of the ground, allowing a more comfortable seat in the grass.

Year: 2011

Name: Cubby Lindsay West

Artist Bio:

Cubby West is a multimedia artist, originally from Atlanta, interested in community engagement and the repurposing of materials for her work.

Website: http://cubbylwest.com/

Title: Heavy Metal

Description:

Heavy Metal uses salvage-yard car doors and side panels as a canvas for expression.

Year: 2011

Name: Dance Truck

Artist Bio:

Dance Truck is a mobile performance venue presenting Atlanta’s artists, bringing dance and performance art to the people of Atlanta, encouraging new venues, patrons, and conversations for dance artists.

Website: http://www.dancetruck.org/

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Description:

A journey into Atlanta’s industrial past and present with an evening of site-specific dance inspired by CSX’s Hulsey rail yard and by Stein Steel & Supply Company, in Reynoldstown, both of which helped fuel the post-World War II building boom and remain potent engines of Atlanta’s present economic successes. The two featured works, ‘Pressure’ and ‘Iron & Steel’, are created and performed by Crossover Movement Arts.

Year: 2011

Name: Dashboard Co-op

Artist Bio:

Founded in 2010, Dashboard Co-op activates raw and vacant spaces with radical works of contemporary art.

Website: http://dashboardco-op.org/

Title: Picnic: A Communal Food/Dnace Art Piece

Description:

Dashboard Co-op and Dinner Party hosted a large picnic, open to the public. It was part garden party, part southern picnic, part whimsical feast, as dancers engaged in a choreographed dining experience amid the attendees.

Year: 2011

Name: Dax “Dr. Dax” Rudnak

Artist Bio:

Dr. Dax made his name as a graffiti artist and then transitioned to fine art and photography. His murals have been seen during Art Basel in Miami and he’s shown in the Los Angeles MOCA show “Art in the Streets.” His art incorporates photography and his trademark color sensibility in intricate layers.

Website: http://N/A

Title: All Dogs Go to Heaven

Description:

All Dogs Go to Heaven is mural that celebrates the artist’s dog, Azul, who passed away in May 2011.

Year: 2011

Name: Daysahead

Artist Bio:

Formed in 2003, Atlanta based Daysahead is an artistic duo founded by Steve Wright and Kim Leachman. A couple on and off the stage, whose adoring relationship has influenced them greatly by shared life experiences and their mutual love for creating music. Their beautiful collaborative effort together has spawned Daysahead’s reinvented Jazz-n-Roll sound defined as “a jazz approach to rock and soul.”

Website: http://www.daysaheadmusic.com/

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Year: 2011

Name: Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel and Robbie Land

Artist Bio:

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Website: http://duetonline.net/

Title: N/A

Description:

Scott Burland (theremin) and Frank Schultz (steel) created a combination of sounds from two non-fixed-pitch instruments and laptops in an improv environment with a disregard for traditional styles, creating rich textures, swooning collages, and hypnotic pulses.

Year: 2011

Name: earth muse art

Artist Bio:

earth muse art is an emerging, arts entity that uses nature-inspired themes to unite the community with the arts.

Website: http://N/A

Title: The Nine Staves

Description:

A metaphor for time and progress while inviting nature and human engagement, The Nine Staves captures the essence of the natural environment of the Atlanta BeltLine.

Year: 2011

Name: Emer

Artist Bio:

Emer believes in making art fun and enjoyable by a wide audience. He creates work that inspires and encourages laughter and smiles.

Website: http://www.emerart.com

Title: Organic Emergence

Description:

Organic emergence is a piece inspired by modern Architectural Landscaping. I wanted to create a sculpture that was functional and appealing to the eye. With a ease of slope the eye carries from the tracks into the trees and allows the viewer a place to lay down and enjoy the surrounding space. Organic Emergence is inspired by modern architectural landscaping. With an ease of slope, the eye carries from the tracks into the trees and allows the viewer a place to lie down and enjoy the surrounding space. “Inviting the viewer into the piece and allowing them to interact with it is my goal. I believe art like this can bring people together in an outdoor space and create a beautiful space to interact with art, nature and fellow beings.”

Year: 2011

Name: Eric Simonsen

Artist Bio:

Eric Simonsen studied illustration and sculpture. His focus is manipulating metal into representational works of art.

Website: http://N/A

Title: The Freedom Parkway Skyline

Description:

The Freedom Parkway Skyline is a series of metal murals created through a perforation technique the artist developed in collaboration with Metal Tech-USA. The artwork uses a variety of angles reflecting different amounts of light to create the shades used to render images on sheet metal.

Year: 2011

Name: EVEREMAN

Artist Bio:

Evereman is about sharing and giving, as opposed to taking. Evereman is about co-operation, as opposed to competition. The idea is to keep the art in circulation on the street. Evereman is 4U ATL.

Website: http://evereman.com/

Title: Solar-Powered Riders

Description:

Evereman pieces are meant to be “Beacons of Good Will” for visitors of the Atlanta BeltLine. They are solar powered, lighting up at nightfall and are mounted on artifacts of a bygone era when the Atlanta BeltLine corridor functioned as a working railroad.

Year: 2011

Name: Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery

Artist Bio:

Eyedrum is a non-profit organization developing an interdisciplinary approach to the arts by incorporating a wide range of contemporary art, music, and new media in its gallery space.

Website: http://www.eyedrum.org

Title: Eyedrum on the BeltLine

Description:

Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery performed five unique events along the Atlanta BeltLine — local cinema; Instant Music Composition with Robert Cheatham; performance poetry; electronica music; and family painting activities at the Reynoldstown’s Wheelbarrow Festival.

Year: 2011

Name: Gateway Performance Productions

Artist Bio:

Gateway Performance Productions reaches diverse cultural groups and participates in all functions of Mask and Mime Theatre in order to further the cultural quality of Mask and Mime Theatre and ,thereby, ensure its place as an integral part of the world of art.

Website: http://www.masktheater.org/

Title: Water is Life – Hidden Springs, Atlanta

Description:

A site performance with drama, dance and music designed and directed by Sandra Hughes to celebrate the times when Atlanta’s hidden springs were visible and useable.

Year: 2011

Name: Giwayen Mata

Artist Bio:

Giwayen Mata, the all “sistah” dance, percussion, and vocal ensemble celebrate 18 years of rising and shining in new and different ways.

Website: http://www.giwayenmata.org/

Title: The Phoenix: A Giwayen Mata Drum Circle

Description:

By creating a living drum circle, Giwayen Mata orchestrated an expression of the collective experience of those who live in this cultural collage called Atlanta.

Year: 2011

Name: gloATL

Artist Bio:

gloATL is a collaborative platform of exceptional contemporary performance experience that increasingly shares synergy with art forms, blending classical elements with the complexity and groove of today’s rhythmic culture. Part choreography and part installation, glo performances regularly bridge the gap between artists and audience to explore fundamentals found in philosophies such as being together, voluntary migration, and the inter-human.

Website: http://www.gloatl.com/

Title: Milk Float; a short urban fantasy

Description:

A whimsical, communal foot gathering that embarks on a tandem, side by side/front to back, sensory/fed experience of film and contemporary physical experience.

Year: 2011

Name: Gregor Turk

Artist Bio:

Atlanta artist, Gregor Turk, often incorporates mapping imagery and cultural markings into his public art installations, sculpture, and mixed-media works.

Website: http://www.gregorturk.com/

Title: Site X

Description:

Site X was created by four rammed earth benches that collectively form an X. The location of the installation marks the intersection of many systems — seen and unseen, above and below (E.G. power lines & sewers), natural and man-made, and vanished and soon-to-be-built.

Year: 2011

Name: Hadley Breckenridge

Artist Bio:

Hadley Breckenridge is a photographer known for her sense of color.

Website: http://www.hadleybreck.com

Title: Enterchange

Description:

The purpose of this project is to raise awareness of the Beltline through art, bringing unity to the community through common interests as people cross paths. The artwork consists of a large mural. The colors reflect the time period of mass transit, 1965, attracting the attention of both pedestrians and drivers. The design involves shapes resembling intersections of interstates, roads, railroads and circles to imply unity of community reflecting the idea of connections through various forms of transportation.

Year: 2011

Name: Harry Zmijewski

Artist Bio:

Harry Zmijewski’s art is a mandate of nature’s will. He aspires to infuse the viewer’s spirit with humor, happiness and hope.

Website: http://N/A

Title: Green Thoughts (Linked Bench System)

Description:

The “Linked Bench System” unites the BeltLine communities symbolically. The imagery represents enjoying a green thought.

Year: 2011

Name: HENSE x BORN

Artist Bio:

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Website: http://www.hensethename.com/

Title: Fruition

Description:

Public mural painted on a historic structure by two of Atlanta’s most prolific street artists, HENSE and BORN. HENSE and longtime friend and collaborator BORN spent roughly twelve hours a day for almost two weeks on the mural and felt it was important for the work to show both of their tastes as artists.

Year: 2011

Name: Ian Thompson

Artist Bio:

Driven by the desire to create something new, Thompson is constantly motivated to experiment with different mediums. Studying Graphic Design at Kennesaw State University, he developed a unique concept of textural painting, worked with sculpture, music, computer animation, photography, drawing, and performance art.

Website: http://ianthompsonart.com/

Title: Fustian Circumlocution

Description:

Inciting pareidolia while satiating our infatuation with rhythm, “FC” introduces urban despondent utilitarianism to the abstract chimera that lurks in our minds.

Year: 2011

Name: Ilé Tambor

Artist Bio:

Ilé Tambor, (“House of the Drum”), is a unifying force of music that is culturally rich and community-driven. Preserving the authenticity of a community-fueled musical masterpiece, most of the members join in to dance and chant in a wide variety of languages with flawless synchronicity.

Website: http://www.myspace.com/iletambor

Title: Concert

Description:

A modern interpretation of traditional Afro-Caribbean folk songs on the Atlanta BeltLine, utilizing handcrafted instruments from natural and recycled materials collected along the Corridor.

Year: 2011

Name: Iman Person

Artist Bio:

Iman Person is a visual intellectual that lives and has exhibited in the Atlanta area since 2005. In 2010 she received her BFA from Georgia State University in drawing, painting and printmaking. Throughout her work, Iman highlights the metaphysical energy that fuels mankind and how all things, whether animal, mineral or ethereal, are all connected. Her work; while abstract in execution, takes on a familiar posture of the human body and naturalistic expansion.

Website: http://www.imancreates.com

Title: Earth Cocoons IV: An Exploration in Regeneration and Decay

Description:

“Earth Cocoons Series IV: An Exploration in Regeneration and Decay,” is an environmental study of naturalistic occurrences within a self-created atmosphere. The pieces visually showcase the constant flux and ebb of our environments and how humans contribute to charging a space and vice versa.  “Earth Cocoons,” features 50 handmade cocoons that are all made from repurposed and found fabrics.   Within the installation, 25 of the 50 cocoons signify regenerative energies while the other portions facilitate decay.  In some of the pieces, seeds and salts are used to manifest growth and while others are created solely out of raw materials, which in time will begin to decay.  While the concepts differ in some degrees, they both encompass transformation.

Year: 2011

Name: J. Richard Laupus & the Youth of Peoplestown, Mechanicsville, Summerhill, Pittsburgh, & Adair Park

Artist Bio:

Richard Laupus is a writer/photographer living in Peoplestown. His aim is to give expression to the people of his community.

Website: http://N/A

Title: BeltLine Dreams

Description:

BeltLine Dreams is a tribute to the dreams of the Peoplestown youth, a photo-wall festooned with small gardens to help those dreams grow.

Year: 2011

Name: J. Richard Laupus & the Youth of Peoplestown, Mechanicsville, Summerhill, Pittsburgh, & Adair Park

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Name: Jack Kinley

Artist Bio:

Jack Kinley is a mixed media artist making works which explore duality in loosely structured narratives open to multiple personal interpretations.

Website: http://www.jackkinley.com

Title: Winds of Change

Description:

This modern take on traditional Buddhist prayer flags lifts the voices of leaders who have advanced the cause of human rights.

Year: 2011

Name: Jason Alex Schechter

Artist Bio:

Alex Schechter spends much of his time painting and making sculptures out of things he finds in rubbish heaps.

Website: http://N/A

Title: Shrines for Ordinary Spaces

Description:

An interactive installation that encourages people to place hand painted “shrines” in areas of the Atlanta BeltLine that are important to them.

Year: 2011

Name: Jaynie Crimmins

Artist Bio:

Born in Brooklyn, NY and a resident of New York State until 2007, Jaynie Crimmins now lives in Atlanta. She was an art educator for over 20 years.

Website: http://www.jayniecrimmins.com/

Title: Tangible Evidence

Description:

Tangible Evidence repurposes shredded documents from the Atlanta BeltLine offices into art exhibited along the corridor. The piece references flags draped across the right of way as a celebration of the corridor now and what the Atlanta BeltLine will become.

Year: 2011

Name: JD Koth

Artist Bio:

JD Koth is known for sculpture building, brainstorming, art exploring, animating, adventure taking, problem solving, big smiling, collaborating, music making, pancake eating and is a knowledge absorbing, human being.

Website: http://jdkoth.com/

Title: Twisting Passage

Description:

Twisting Passage is a collaboration with nature and intended as a portal into one’s own imagination while standing as a monument dedicated to our inner child.

Year: 2011

Name: Jeff Demetriou

Artist Bio:

Atlanta-based artist Jeff Demetriou is best known for his unique work process that combines highly conceptual philosophical and existential principals.

Website: http://www.jeffdemetriou.com

Title: Settlements

Description:

An abstract representation of the synergistic relationship that exists along the Beltline between manufactured and natural landscapes.

Year: 2011

Name: Jenn Garrett

Artist Bio:

Jenn Garrett is a full-time artist living and working in Gainesville Florida. Her work can be seen at National Outdoor Sculpture Competition and Exhibition in North Charleston, South Carolina and the Museum of Florida Art Sculpture Walk in Deland, Florida.

Website: http://www.jgarretgallery.com

Title: Currents

Description:

A kinetic sculpture composed of two forms that turn independently on their own axes. The work is reflective of relationships, specifically that of couples. Like two people in a relationship, they respond to the atmosphere independently, sometimes facing the same way, sometimes facing each other, and other times away from each other.

Year: 2011

Name: John Thigpen

Artist Bio:

John Thigpen is a scenic designer and sculptor has exhibited at the U. S. Botanic Garden in Washington DC and Mudfire Gallery in Decatur, Georgia.

Website: http://N/A

Title: Meandering Fence and Atlanta Totems

Description:

Atlanta Totems: Illegal signs, street spam, and “litter on a stick” are recycled into Atlanta Totems. These were displayed in Reynoldstown along the Atlanta BeltLine.

Meandering Fence: Geometric “Op-Art” style patterns were created by volunteers along this railroad-tie inspired fence. The fences were displayed along the path leading into the corridor across from Gordon White Park in southwest Atlanta.

Year: 2011

Name: Kebbi Williams Band with Strings and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

Artist Bio:

The organizer of this performance, Kebbi Williams, earned his bachelors and masters degrees in music from Howard University and is a Benjamin E. Mays High School graduate. Williams won the Downbeat Student Award in 1996. He has played with Outkast, Ceelo, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi.

Website: http://N/A

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Original music composed by Kebbi Williams and award winning composer Miguel Atwood-Ferguson was performed along with students in the Atlanta Public Schools Youth Orchestra. Special guests during the performance included Dashill Smith, Russell Gunn, Hornz Unlimitted, Otiel Burbridge, Kofi Burbridge and DeAntoni Parks.

Year: 2011

Name: Klimchak and Stuart Gerber

Artist Bio:

Klimchak is a composer, performer, and percussionist. He specializes in music for theater, dance, and film. Stuart Gerber is an Atlanta-based percussionist who has performed on international stages as soloist, chamber musician, and improviser.

Website: http://klimchakmusic.com

Title: Trio for Two Percussionists and an Urban Woods

Description:

An after-dark, ears-only performance blending the Beltline’s environmental sound with eerie composed & improvised percussion music.

Year: 2011

Name: Knitterati

Artist Bio:

The Knitterati is a collective of eight Atlantans who enjoy knitting and crocheting as a productive excuse to hang out, catch up, and show support for the Beltline.

Website: http://theknitterati.wordpress.com/

Title: Communitree

Description:

Knitted and crocheted tree coverings showcase the Atlanta BeltLine through colors and patterns as unique as the Atlanta community.

Year: 2011

Name: Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons

Artist Bio:

The Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons produces community-built lantern parades featuring giant puppets, marching bands, and floating flowers.

Website: http://www.gratefulgluttons.com/

Title: BeltLine Lantern Parade 2011: Old 4th Ward Park

Description:

The Lantern Parade graced the Historic Fourth Ward Park with a community art lantern procession of more than 400 people. The audience brought lanterns made at home and from many of the Krewe’s lantern workshops.

Year: 2011

Name: Kyle Brooks

Artist Bio:

Kyle Brooks is a southern, neo-folk artist. He lives in Atlanta and leaves art in public places for people to enjoy.

Website: http://www.blackcattips.com/

Title: BeltLine Bears

Description:

The BeltLine Bears are built from loops just as the Atlanta BeltLine is a loop that ties Atlanta together. The bears are colorful and similar, yet unique.

Year: 2011

Name: Living Walls: OverUnder, Labrona, and Gawd

Artist Bio:

OverUnder works primarily on the street applying his work with wheatpaste and paint.
Canadian artist Labrona is best known for his extraordinary paintings on freight trains that roll all over the US and Canada.  Gawd is a self-taught artist from Montreal. His paintings can usually be seen on walls, galleries, and freight trains all over North America, England, and France.

Website: http://N/A

Title: Untitled

Description:

This mural champions the pedestrian over automotive transit. The colors speak to the multicultural and varied communities that make up Atlanta. Stylistically, the piece works in each artist’s vocabulary, with an emphasis on a flattened picture plane, resulting in a crammed, detailed composition even with simple forms: a surreal piece that depicts monumental figures traversing a landscape of vehicles as a metaphor for Atlanta.

Year: 2011

Name: Lonnie Holley

Artist Bio:

Holley began his artistic life in 1979 by carving tombstones for his sister’s two children who died in a house fire. He made other carvings and assembled them in his yard along with various found objects. The artist has exhibited in Birmingham Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, American Folk Art Museum, the High Museum of Art, and Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England.

Website: http://N/A

Title: Hands Along the Rail

Description:

Hands Along the Rail pays tribute to all of the workers who worked tirelessly and without recognition to build American railways.

Year: 2011

Name: Loss Prevention Collective

Artist Bio:

Loss Prevention Collective is a multi- disciplinary collective of artists specializing in hand-painted murals and design. Originally conceived in Los Angeles in 2006, their work has been featured in film, television, and print campaigns.

Website: http://N/A

Title: Steel Fabric

Description:

Steel Fabric is a portrait on the façade of the Stein Steel Factory and an homage to the fabricators of the Reynoldstown institution that runs parallel to the Atlanta BeltLine corridor.

Year: 2011

Name: Lucha Rodriguez & Paco Vergachette

Artist Bio:

Lucha Rodriguez was born and raised in Venezuela. She has produced various “pink projects,” ranging from etchings, monoprints, and serigraphs to immersive surreal environments.  Paco Vergachette was born and raised in Maracaibo, Venezuela. His work is minimalist in nature with bright colors and geometric forms favoring small details such as dots and patterns.

Website: http://www.love-lucha-now.org/

Title: Caja Correa

Description:

CAJA CORREA is a collaborative sculpture by local artists Lucha Rodriguez and Paco Vergachette. The intention of the piece is to bring upbeat energy of transformation and movement to Atlanta’s Public Art BeltLine initiative. The duo will combine their bold visual styles and sensibilities to create a modular sculpture that will bring both organic and structural design elements into play. The organic creatures erupting and breaking through the cube structures is a sign of change and birth of the new, the fresh and daring. The piece embodies change taking over the BeltLine. The creatures create a semi-circular path around the cubes and then go back into the ground, leaving just parts of the elongated bodies visible on the ground. Bright, bold colors coming in and out of the ground as a symbol of artistic conquer.The modular sculptural piece will be made on wood and coated with exterior paints and sealed to withstand the elements.

Year: 2011

Name: Lucha Rodriguez & Paco Vergachette

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Name: Maria Ciavarro & Katie Hall

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Maria Ciavarro and Katie Hall are best friends who complement each other in personality and talent. They have undertaken several projects as a team – non-profit, private, and commercial.

Website: http://N/A

Title: Birds in Flight

Description:

Birds in Flight is secured atop metal posts of varying lengths further heightening the flocking sensation of their existing mosaic work on the Lucille Avenue bridge. The force of each bird on the path disturbs the soil – unearthing colored glass, and showing the inspiration held just beneath the surface of all things. One need only look a bit deeper with the hope and spirit of imagination.

Year: 2011

Name: Maria Ciavarro & Katie Hall

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Name: Mike Carpenter

Artist Bio:

Michael Carpenter is a local artist/carpenter and founder of MDC Interiors who works with multiple mediums, including concrete, paint, wood, and glass.

Website: http://www.mdcinteriors.com/

Title: Concrete Chess Table

Description:

Chess tables are a great way to promote community by providing space for individuals to gather and play chess. The game of chess also challenges people to think critically and to engage with people in a social and stimulating environment.

Year: 2011

Name: Mike Jensen

Artist Bio:

Mike Jensen utilizes patterns, geometry, fractals, and strange attractors, using a variety of media in his work.

Website: http://www.atlantaconcreteartist.com/

Title: Gnomon

Description:

Utilizing the earths rotation, this sculpture employs the raking light of the sun to create an ever changing pattern of shadows.

Year: 2011

Name: Misao Cates & Kim Fong

Artist Bio:

Misao Cates designs theater costumes and art for special events. Observer participation is integral to fulfilling her overall vision.  Kim Fong is owner/lead interior designer for Studio Song. She creates beautifully inspired spaces to bring creative “light” to others.

Website: http://N/A

Title: Whispering Peace

Description:

Whispering Peace is inspired by the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of prayer flags that fly with hopes of peace. An on-site station with blank flags invites Atlanta BeltLine travelers to tie a flag inscribed with their own prayer. Whispering Peace transformed from the few flags pictures here to hundreds, blowing colorfully in the breeze.

Year: 2011

Name: Misao Cates & Kim Fong

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Name: Mr. Never Satisfied

Artist Bio:

Mr. Never Satisfied is an artist who taught himself how to paint on walls along the once neglected train tracks of the Atlanta BeltLine.

Website: http://N/A

Title: Could Be Better

Description:

A mural inspired by the hard work of skaters across Atlanta’s history, referencing the locations, tricks, and feelings of the skate community in Atlanta.

Year: 2011

Name: Nathan Sharratt

Artist Bio:

Nathan Sharratt studied Film and Animation at Pratt Institute and received a BFA in Sculpture in 2011 from the Savannah College of Art & Design. He currently lives and works in Atlanta, GA.

Website: http://nathansharratt.com/

Title: Musical Landscape

Description:

An interactive instrument that takes its form directly from the landscape, it translates the skyline into audible harmony, with your help.

Year: 2011

Name: Park Cofield and Company

Artist Bio:

Park Cofield is an Atlanta based theater director and puppet builder. His work is frequently based on odd, yet, true stories, historical fact, and the works of surrealist painters.

Website: http://www.parkcofield.com/

Title: The Ogre's Arm

Description:

Composed of monster hunters, musicians, folklorists, and entertainers, Park Cofield & Co. presented a variety show for all ages — complete with live music, traditional dance, and delights from around the world. Thrilling tales of monsters and curious creatures were told including stories of their recent adventure to the East to seek and capture the Shuntendoji, the most fearsome ogre of Japan!

Year: 2011

Name: Priscilla Smith

Artist Bio:

Smith is a native Atlantan whose most recent works were Reunion, a mural with projections exhibited at Atlanta Underground and directing “A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot” at Push Push Theater.

Website: http://N/A

Title: The View from Here

Description:

Priscilla Smith walked the entire Atlanta BeltLine loop in a day while videotaping and streaming the experience online. Here we see a photograph taken along the journey. Viewers experienced a real-time documentary coming to life as her journey unfolded. Look for the hyperlink to be added shortly!

Year: 2011

Name: Salakida Kali

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Year: 2011

Name: Sally Heller

Artist Bio:

Sally Heller assembles quotidian products into unexpected structures that challenge our notions of taste, status, and consumerism. She is represented by Gallery Bienvenu, New Orleans and Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta.

Website: http://www.sallyheller.com/

Title: Rest Stop

Description:

Rest Stop is a resting stop for birds that borrows from modernism, postmodernism and ancient ruins. This amalgam of variably shaped structures calls attention to the diverse nature of architectural styles that have shaped our culture over the years. Because this dwelling is for birds, it also references environmental issues such as the urgent need for rest stations for migrating birds to stop and gather strength for their remaining journey.

Year: 2011

Name: Sonic Generator

Artist Bio:

Founded in 2006, Sonic Generator is the contemporary music ensemble-in-residence at Georgia Tech dedicated to using technology to transform the ways in which we compose, perform, and listen to music. Sonic Generator’s experiments with new technologies have led the group to perform with wine glasses, iPhones, comic strips, car speakers, DJs, and a robotic drummer. The ensemble also frequently collaborates with visual artists to create video projections to accompany its performances.

Website: http://www.sonicgenerator.gatech.edu/

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Year: 2011

Name: Spiral of Sound Crystal Bowl Choir

Artist Bio:

Stephen Audy is an Industrial Design graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology has been a designer and artist in Atlanta for the past 15 years.

Website: http://N/A

Title: Peace Spiral

Description:

“Peace Spiral”, a labyrinth created with large translucent white crystal bowls that are played by members of the Spiral of Sound Crystal Bowl Choir becomes an intriguing opportunity for participants to contemplate peace, harmony and health within a pathway of meditative sound! Walking any labyrinth is an active meditation which becomes a metaphor for the journey of life, full of twists and turns, a separate journey for each and part of a larger experience for all.  Walking a labyrinth brings about the “relaxation response”, as also happens when experiencing the sound waves of crystal bowls!  Lowered blood pressure, deeper breathing, reduction of chronic pain, centering and focusing are long-term benefits gained from both these activities.

Year: 2011

Name: Stephen Audy

Artist Bio:

Stephen Audy is an Industrial Design graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology has been a designer and artist in Atlanta for the past 15 years.

Website: http://N/A

Title: Wanderers

Description:

Wanderers is a tribute to the men and women that worked, wandered, and lived on the tracks that once covered much of what is now the Atlanta BeltLine.

Year: 2011

Name: Taranji L. Alvarado

Artist Bio:

Website: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/taranjialvarado

Title: Community - A Sound Creation

Description:

Alvarado encouraged the audience at Gordon White Park, especially kids, to pick up kitchen tools and other items to start making sounds with the performance. It was a Sound Community!

Year: 2011

Name: The Imperial Opa!

Artist Bio:

The Imperial Opa Circus is a theatrical entertainment company based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Circus was founded October of 2009 with the motto: Inspire, Create and do Good.

Website: http://theimperialopa.com/circus/

Title: Opa!

Description:

A combination of narrative storytelling, stage and street performances, and a menagerie of over-sized puppet animals, creatures, and vibrant costumes, The Imperial Opa is a unique show featuring live, original music.

Year: 2011

Name: Thomas Barnwell and Laura Hennighausen

Artist Bio:

N/A

Website: http://N/A

Title: Green Reclamation (Stripes on Stripes)

Description:

Stripes on Stripes simultaneously provides a pleasant public space while phytoremediating plants extract dangerous heavy metals from the soil. Together they work to create art that is both reflective and environmentally conscious.

Year: 2011

Name: Tim Frank

Artist Bio:

Tim Frank is a practicing architect and a design educator who examines the significance of emerging technology within the sustainable design process.

Website: http://www.timfrankarch.com

Title: Re-Pairing Terrain

Description:

This column field registers the solar effect of BeltLine earth banks and the ground surface that once connected the contiguous communities of Westview and West End.

Year: 2011

Name: Travis Smith

Artist Bio:

Travis Smith is an Atlantan, a software developer, and a self-taught artist.

Website: http://www.mrpurty.com

Title: in between is mine

Description:

In Between is Mine is a collection of totem pole-like columns made of recycled materials and wood. The construction and placement simulates a grove of trees, meant to reference the use of limited natural resources.

Year: 2011

Name: Twinhead Theatre

Artist Bio:

Twin Head Theater inspires and entertains the Atlanta community while leading a new generation of theatrical performance by developing and producing plays, films, and performance-based events.

Website: http://www.twinheadtheatre.org/

Title: Murder on the BeltLine

Description:

A murder mystery one act play, the comedy troupe produced a Benefit to Benefit the BeltLine, wherein actors told a hilarious story of murder, intrigue, and dancing to HasselHoff.

Year: 2011

Name: Will Eccleston

Artist Bio:

An incessant tinkerer, Will Eccleston began pursuing kinetic sculpture in 1997. His work is occasionally critical and almost always whimsical.

Website: http://vimeo.com/kinetiscape

Title: Uniman

Description:

A human-powered interactive kinetic sculpture made of recycled motorcycle, bicycle, tractor, and car parts. He is a ten foot man sitting atop a unicycle. Opposite him is a place for the public to sit and pedal. When you pedal, he pedals his unicycle while waving his arms up and down for balance.

Year: 2011

Name: Zentropy and Crossover

Artist Bio:

N/A

Website: http://N/A

Title: Semi-Spontaneous Music & Dance

Description:

This participatory event offers an opportunity to experience more fully the beauty and the intriguing sight lines and perspectives of the Historic Fourth Ward Park. Freestyle Polers vault over obstacles and fly through the air using wooden staffs in a dance form created by Crossover Movement Arts Artistic Director Blake Dalton.

Year: 2011

Name: Arseni Zeitsev

Artist Bio:

Joining Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) to pursue a Masters of Design Studies, Arseni is continuing to pursue bridging the gap between digital design and the process of fabrication at a variety of scales. He earned a Masters of Architecture at GaTech with extensive experience and academic concentration in digital fabrication processes. In the past, Arseni has collaborated on and completed projects locally as well as internationally. Arseni has taught digitally provocative courses at GaTech that have been showcased. He is an architect in training, designer in multiple media and product developer: always learning – always doing.

Website: http://anonymousstudio.com/

Title: TiredOUT

Description:

Recovered tires creating something beautiful through the recycling of tires: they become the building blocks to create a highly sculptural and, at the same time, spatial artifact.

Year: 2010

Name: Arturo Lindsay

Artist Bio:

Dr. Arturo Lindsay is an artist-scholar who conducts ethnographic research on
African spiritual and aesthetic retentions in contemporary American cultures. His
research findings are manifested in works of art, as well as, scholarly lectures and
articles. A native of Colon, a seaport city on the Caribbean coast of the Republic of
Panama, Lindsay migrated with his parents to New York City at age 12 and settled in
Brooklyn, New York.

Website: http://www.arturolindsay.com/

Title: Sanctuary on the BeltLine

Description:

Environmental art: bamboo, granite, wood and mulch. This environmental art installation is intended to be a sacro-secular space wherein a visitor can pause for an aesthetic and meditative moment.

Year: 2010

Name: Beacon Dance Company

Artist Bio:

Beacon Dance is a professional performance organization presenting classes, workshops and performances to the general public. The mission of Beacon Dance is to develop people’s understanding and appreciation of the art of movement as a means of communication.

Website: http://www.beacondance.org

Title: A Bountiful Feast

Description:

A visual and performance art project by Beacon Dance, led by choreographer and dancer D. Patton White. Beginning with story circles the artists will gather oral histories and accounts to inform their movements and dialogue. A site sculpture will then be installed to be followed with an opening performance in June and a closing performance with de-installation in October.

Year: 2010

Name: Blacki Migliozzi, Pattie Acevedo, Elizabeth Oscar Maynard and Mikhail Ally

Artist Bio:

N/A

Website: http://N/A

Title: The Massive Diorama Project

Description:

Mixed (sculpture and painting). This is a large-scale diorama portraying Atlanta city-life through painting and sculpture with a large cityscape, train winding through its environment and tree sculpture.

Year: 2010

Name: Brooks and Company

Artist Bio:

The mission of Brooks & Company Dance is to educate and entertain audiences through performance of choreographic works influenced by dance and cultural history, current political and social climates, and the pure joy of movement.

Website: http://www.brooksandcompanydance.org/

Title: Ment

Description:

Brooks & Company Dance merges cyclists, dancers, graffiti, percussionists and aerialists for a celebration of the new life the BeltLine will bring to the corridor neighborhoods.

Year: 2010

Name: Cabbagetown Artist Tribe

Artist Bio:

N/A

Website: http://N/A

Title: The Pardoned Eden

Description:

This work is a community-building, visual art installation representing transitions from stagnation to animation and reclaiming historic industrial spaces for art, interaction and collaboration.

Year: 2010

Name: Charlie Smith

Artist Bio:

Charlie Smith has a colorful artistic life that encompasses family, sculptural creations, performance art and the curation of interactive exhibits & happenings. The works created are made from metal materials sometimes mixed with wood, concrete, glass, stone and light. His use of volume, line, shape, form, and texture lend to intriguing playful and deliberate iconic and symbolic creations. His aesthetic is very unique and resonates with the environments and communities that he creates and affects through his work.

Website: http://www.charliesmithstudio.com/

Title: Transformational Transportation Way

Description:

Recycled and steel. Created with the intention to inspire and examine the roots of our existence, past, present, future and to celebrate both personal and group change.

Year: 2010

Name: Claudia Rebola Winegarden and Ali Mazalek

Artist Bio:

Responsive Objects, Surfaces and Spaces (ROSS) is as a creative design and technology research program that explores how emerging technologies weave across all facets of our lives and communities, from shared knowledge and shared environment, to shared performance and shared play.

Website: http://ross.gatech.edu/

Title: SonoScape

Description:

Interactive digital sound sculture. Art as play and play as art: a modular, self-sustainable digital sound sculpture integrated into the outdoor environment for creative expression and play.

Year: 2010

Name: Corrina Sephora Mensoff

Artist Bio:

Corrina Sephora Mensoff  is a visual artist who specializes in metal work, sculpture and mixed media in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. Her artwork uses depiction of boats and ships as a metaphor and story telling tool. She also incorporates other media such as printmaking, paper collage and animation.

Website: http://N/A

Title: BeltLine Be Green

Description:

Forged and fabricated steel, wood. This spiral, waves of the ocean spiraling growth of natural forms, the cycle of life, now and future biking, recycling, a pause for a new view.

Year: 2010

Name: David Landis

Artist Bio:

David Landis received his BBA and MFA from Georgia State University and was an adjunct professor at Georgia State University’s sculpture department. His work ranges from large-scale public commissions to smaller private works. He is an active member of Atlanta’s art community by being on a number of community panels, giving lectures, and conducting public art tours.

Website: http://landissculpture.com/

Title: Cycles

Description:

The work is composed of abstracted ginkgo leaves flowing in a rhythmic circle, implying motion, change, and the seasonal and generational cycles of life.

Year: 2010

Name: Dodekapus Artist Collective

Artist Bio:

Dodekapus is a diverse collective of Atlanta based artists focused on cross media collaboration and providing support as well as resources for local emerging and peripheral artists.

Website: http://dodekapus.org/

Title: Wickerpus

Description:

A towering 20ft of organic materials to be used for gatherings in-the-round. Inspired by Burning Man wicker projects, Wickerpus lends itself as an inspiring, eco-friendly and welcoming think-tank meeting space on the BeltLine.

Year: 2010

Name: Doria Roberts

Artist Bio:

A regular on the national singer/songwriter circuit, Doria Roberts creates songs that have been described as “a delicious, bohemian blend of folk, jazz and pop”. Doria’s versatility as a songwriter and entertainer is never lost whether she is performing solo or with her band.

Website: http://www.myspace.com/doriaroberts

Title: West End Music on the BeltLine

Description:

A free, outdoor jazz concert in Gordon White Park on the West End Trail.

Year: 2010

Name: Dropsonic

Artist Bio:

Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia rock ‘n’ roll trio Dropsonic blends elements of indie rock outfits such as the Jesus Lizard and Shiner with the raw raucousness of classic rock icons such as Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. Featuring the fierce and stunning lead guitar work of Dan Dixon, the adventurous and melodic bass lines of David Chase, plus the arena-ready Bonham-esque drum pummelings of Brian Hunter, Dropsonic is steeped in rock tradition but casts a keen eye toward the future with complex lyrics that call to mind Paul Westerberg in the dimming days of the Replacements and early solo Bob Mould.

Website: http://www.myspace.com/dropsonic

Title: Music on the BeltLine

Description:

A free, outdoor concert on the Somerset Stage on the Eastside Trail.

Year: 2010

Name: Emily Kempf

Artist Bio:

N/A

Website: http://N/A

Title: Collabodoodle

Description:

A mixed-media, public mural painting with a side of music & fire.

Year: 2010

Name: Emma Adair

Artist Bio:

N/A

Website: http://N/A

Title: Be My Solar Friend

Description:

Recycled, wood, metal and building materials. A solar powered, interactive sculptural figure with a light triggered heart. The sculpture is made almost entirely of reused materials and supports “green” thinking.

Year: 2010

Name: Etienne Jackson

Artist Bio:

N/A

Website: http://N/A

Title: Reflections: Revolving Community

Description:

A structure that captures reflections from the surrounding environment to emphasize the relationship between manmade objects, human intervention and nature.

Year: 2010

Name: Eugene Cooke-Gebsite

Artist Bio:

Geb is the spirit of the earth in Kemetic (Egyptian) mythology.  It is said that he mated with the goddess of the sky to give birth to the conditions necessary for human existence. For over 15 years, Gebsite has been cultivating beauty and abundance through artistic expression and sustainable food systems worldwide.

Website: http://gebsite.com/

Title: Living Labyrinth

Description:

Earth work: sand, stone, mulch, soil and plantings. This piece provides a space where BeltLine travelers can step aside for a moment of meditative reflection. The natural materials and growing plants illustrate our collective return to sustainable living.

Year: 2010

Name: EVEREMAN

Artist Bio:

Evereman is a street artist working in Atlanta, Ga. Evereman is about sharing and giving, as opposed to taking. Evereman is about co-operation, as opposed to competition.  The idea is to keep the art in circulation on the street. If you come across an Evereman, enjoy the moment, you are at a crossroads. One road leads to the status quo. You may take the piece home with you and have it as your own. The other road leads to a deeper thought process about ourselves and our society. Think of who may next see the piece and the pleasure it may bring them. Leave the piece for others or, if you take the artwork, then please relocate it for others to enjoy.

Website: http://evereman.com/

Title: 4U ATL

Description:

Wood, aluminum, paint, metal. Several large wooden EVEREMAN pieces with magnets and keychains attached for folks to take with them.

Year: 2010

Name: Eyedrum

Artist Bio:

Eyedrum is a non-profit organization developing an interdisciplinary approach to the arts by incorporating a wide range of contemporary art, music, and new media in its gallery space.

Website: http://www.eyedrum.org/

Title: Eyedrum on the BeltLine

Description:

Improv performances by the Eyedrum artists’ community and others.

Year: 2010

Name: Giwayen Mata

Artist Bio:

Giwayen Mata is the award-winning, dynamic, soul-stirring, all-sistah, dance, percussion, and vocal ensemble that celebrates the richness of traditional Afrika by exhibiting its exemplary art forms. The ensemble performs traditional, contemporary and original pieces that address issues pertaining to people of color, women, and the environment.

Website: http://www.giwayenmata.org/

Title: Evolution

Description:

Giwayen Mata celebrates the uplifting, unifying, transformation of our Atlanta communities through a 45-minute concert of dances, rhythms, and songs of the African Diaspora.

Year: 2010

Name: Grady High School Jazz Ensemble

Artist Bio:

The promising future of jazz music is evident by listening to GRADY JAZZ, a diverse group of musicians from Grady High School in downtown Atlanta. This urban jazz group has performed alongside professional musicians at The Five Spot, the High Museum’s “Allure of the Automobile” and at numerous other events.

Website: http://N/A

Title: Sunset at Somerset

Description:

A free, outdoor concert on the Somerset Stage on the Eastside Trail.

Year: 2010

Name: Gregor Turk

Artist Bio:

Known for his public art installations, ceramic sculpture, photography, and mixed-media constructions, Gregor Turk often incorporates mapping imagery and cultural markings into his artwork.   His response to his surroundings, whether in his hometown, Atlanta, or while traveling, serves as a major impetus for much of what he creates.

Website: http://gregorturk.com/

Title: Misinformation

Description:

Four different way-finding signs painted on sentra, roughly 3 by 2 feet in size and are placed along the BeltLine corridor, each featuring an absurd map of Atlanta reconfigured as other cities.

Year: 2010

Name: Hense 2010

Artist Bio:

Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, HENSE is a visual artist who has been applying paint to surfaces for almost two decades. He creates free-formed paintings and public mural installations using a combination of abstract lines, shapes and organic forms to produce compositions. The work has been described as a fluid, playful, explosion of pastels. The artist may best be known by his moniker, HENSE that been located in the public realm since he began his career in the early `90`s painting walls and writing graffiti in and around Atlanta.

Website: http://www.hensethename.com/

Title: Untitled 2010

Description:

Exterior latex and aerosol on concrete. An abstract blend of lines, shapes and color, which create energetic and sophisticated compositions. These pieces are intended to give color and life to stark grey walls.

Year: 2010

Name: Heston

Artist Bio:

Born on the Island of Dominica (British West Indies), singer/songwriter HESTON grew up with music all around him. HESTON possesses one of those rare, “instant classic” voices laced with confident sensuality, informed by the best side of mellow 70’s soul. Nostalgic, yet very much his own style, HESTON’s music is beautiful, lyrically refreshing, vocally and melodically unique, timeless, rich and soulful.

Website: http://www.myspace.com/hestonmusic

Title: West End Music on the BeltLine

Description:

A free, outdoor jazz concert in Gordon White Park on the West End Trail.

Year: 2010

Name: Hormuz Minina

Artist Bio:

After moving to Atlanta from Bombay India, Hormuz Minina began a series experimentations within avant-garde art, film and music. His self taught artistry is improvised and spontaneus and draws from Zoroastrian ideals of knowledge, truth and a love for nature.

Website: http://www.minina.org

Title: Zoroastrian Blessing and Promontory

Description:

Two site-specific ritual performance and installation pieces which will beautify and transform the space to take the viewer along a path originally made by the homeless population now moved away, an area Minina has spent the last seven years documenting.

Year: 2010

Name: Indigo Sunset

Artist Bio:

The brainchild of John Beal (keys), Indigo Sunset is a brotherhood of accomplished musicians with varied artistic influences, who initially only played together casually. Their sound can be described as structured chaos, a dynamic blend of spices, sounds, and stimuli – jazz, pop, hip-hop, funk, and rock captured seamlessly within recognizable song structures.

Website: http://www.myspace.com/indigosunsetband

Title: Sunset at Somerset

Description:

A free, outdoor concert on the Somerset Stage on the Eastside Trail.

Year: 2010

Name: Jason Freeman, Michael Nitsche, Carl DiSalvo

Artist Bio:

UrbanRemix is a collaborative and locative sound project with a goal to design a platform and series of public workshops that would enable participants to develop and express the acoustic identity of their communities, and enable users of the website to explore and experience the soundscapes of the city in a novel fashion. The project was conceived of and is directed by Jason Freeman, Michael Nitsche, and Carl Disalvo, who are professors at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Georgia. It is made possible by the invaluable work of numerous students and designers, and supported in part by the Music Technology program, the Digital Media program, and the GVU center at Georgia Tech.

Website: http://urbanremix.gatech.edu/

Title: Urban Remix

Description:

A series of public walks at which participants use mobile phones to collectively construct an interactive audio map to document the sounds of the Beltline. Anyone can download the Urban Remix mobile application to capture and contribute their own sounds and images of the BeltLine, and anyone can use the Urban Remix web site to explore the contributed sounds and mix their own soundscapes of the Beltline.

Year: 2010

Name: JD Koth, David Lougee

Artist Bio:

My work explores different interactions between humanity and nature. I utilize installations as well as sculptural objects to address issues ranging from growth and decay to how we perceive reality according to one’s scale. The inherent beauty I find in landscape on the micro and macro levels influence my work aesthetically, while also inspiring an objective way of approaching my creation process conceptually. Whatever medium I wield is stretched beyond its common use, emphasizing the unique elements of the material and its possibilities. I collaborate with the material at hand carefully not imposing too much influence hence allowing its natural tendencies to peak through.

Website: http://jdkoth.com/

Title: Cultivated Chaos

Description:

Kudzu, branches, logs, grass and rope. This hut is intended to create a space for Atlanta BeltLine users to interact with through new forms of natural abstraction.

Year: 2010

Name: Jeff Morrison

Artist Bio:

Morrison Design, LLC is a fully licensed, LEED-accredited architectural design firm with a specialty in historic preservation.

Website: http://morrisondesignllc.com/

Title: Cribbing

Description:

Celebrating the transformation from infrastructure to amenity, Cribbing is a composition of serpentine timber walls reconnecting visitors to the site, nature, and history.

Year: 2010

Name: Jeffry Loy

Artist Bio:

Jeffry Loy has been an active participant in the Atlanta art scene for the past twelve years. Graduating from the Atlanta College of Art in 1996 with a BFA in Sculpture and Photography, Loy currently works from his studio in The B-Complex, an artist-owned community located in downtown Atlanta. Using a collaborative approach with each client, Loy custom designs architectural elements to give visual energy to a stagnant space; personalizing a residence or invigorating a commercial environment.

Website: http://firesculptor.com/

Title: Stargazers

Description:

Hand forged steel, LED’s, solar panel, acrylic globes. Two 15′ tall hand forged steel blooming trees, each containing 4 steel flower pods with 3 illuminating globes per pod; the sculpture will engage the viewers during the day and night with solar powered programmed RGB LED’s.

Year: 2010

Name: Jessica Sherwood

Artist Bio:

Jessica Peek Sherwood has been an advocate of new music since attending college at the University of Michigan. An active free-lance musician, she has performed with the Atlanta, Alabama, and Charleston Symphony Orchestras, and the Atlanta Opera and Atlanta Ballet Orchestras.

Website: http://www.sonicgenerator.gatech.edu

Title: Inspired by Nature...

Description:

A performance by a flautist mixed with electronic music with the intention to produce music evocative of nature.

Year: 2010

Name: Karen Cleveland, Megan Dunkleberg and Refugee Family Services

Artist Bio:

N/A

Website: http://N/A

Title: Global Garden Project

Description:

A mosaic mural collaboration between refugee youth and community volunteers depicting a garden made of flowers native to Georgia and the home countries of the refugee community.

Year: 2010

Name: Katie Hall

Artist Bio:

“Mosaics are my vehicle through which I can make sense of a complex world and communicate my thoughts and emotions. I strive to portray this by letting the materials I am working with guide me. Most of the time my ideas are site specific. I create a mosaic tile art to be in harmony with its natural setting and to bring positive energy to the environment. By combining form, color, texture, and space my mosaic tile art is integrated with its surroundings and explores its relationship to locale.”

Website: http://katiehallmosaic.com/

Title: BeltLine Takes Flight

Description:

A mosaic tile installation on an existing train bridge. The flocking birds represent the life that is evolving with Atlanta’s BeltLine.

Year: 2010

Name: Kebbi Williams and Friends

Artist Bio:

West End resident Kebbi Williams is a tenor saxophone player, composer, producer, arranger and teacher based in Atlanta, GA. Considered by many to be amongst today’s leading improvisers on tenor saxophone, he can be heard playing R&B, avant-garde jazz, hip-hop, reggae, Latin and Afro-beat. From a family of musicians, Kebbi’s sound is uniquely and commandingly his own.

Website: http://www.myspace.com/kebbiwilliams

Title: Concert

Description:

A free, outdoor jazz concert in Gordon White Park on the West End Trail.

Year: 2010

Name: Kevin McFoy and the Common Article III

Artist Bio:

Kevin Dunn has been a respected musician in the Atlanta scene since the late ’70s. With the recent release of his CD, “No Great Lost: Songs 1979-1985″ his music is becoming known to a new generation of fans. Rolling Stone’s Anthony DeCurtis says, “A smart, engaging, innovative artist whose groundbreaking work has been unjustly overlooked–until now.”

Website: http://www.myspace.com/kevinmcfoydunn

Title: Music on the BeltLine

Description:

A free, outdoor concert on the Somerset Stage on the Eastside Trail.

Year: 2010

Name: Klimchak

Artist Bio:

Multi-instrumentalist Klimchak is known for his compositions and performances for dance, theater and live solo performances. These usually incorporate improvisation & playing of over 100 instruments in a single show. Klimchak specializes in electro-acoustic music for theater, dance and live solo performance.

Website: http://klimchakmusic.com/

Title: Marimba Lumina and Percussion Discussion 5x5

Description:

Five percussion duet performances under bridges along the Atlanta BeltLine using the sonics of percussion to draw attention to the unique environments along the path. Using many styles and artists, Klimchak hopes to connect the natural and manmade environments.

Year: 2010

Name: Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons

Artist Bio:

The Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons produces community-built lantern parades featuring giant puppets, marching bands, and floating flowers.

Website: http://www.gratefulgluttons.com/

Title: BeltLine Lantern Parade

Description:

The Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons led a lantern parade along the Atlanta BeltLine’s Eastside Trail. The Krewe produced 12 large BeltLine lanterns and held lantern-making workshops for the public.

Year: 2010

Name: Larry Jens Anderson

Artist Bio:

Larry Jens Anderson’s work is saturated with the influence of his mid-western family.  Anderson received his MVA from Georgia State University, and was a drawing, painting, and printmaking professor at The Atlanta College of Art from 1982 until 2006. Currently Anderson is a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta. Anderson works primarily in charcoal, pencil, and collage, but has worked with installation, video, and sculpture throughout his career as well.

Website: http://N/A

Title: Locked Out

Description:

This installation is about being denied equal rights in a country that has at its foundation, “all men are created equal.” It is also about the homophobia and the legislation of it that not only affects the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities, but also their friends and families.

Year: 2010

Name: Lisa Tuttle

Artist Bio:

N/A

Website: http://sandlerhudson.com/

Title: Poetic Pathway

Description:

Photographic images and text on vinyl and aluminum. This installation is a visual/literary collaboration featuring a diverse group of talented Atlanta poets, who have written works about evocative Atlanta sites, neighborhoods or people.

Year: 2010

Name: Loss Prevention Collective

Artist Bio:

Loss Prevention Collective is a multi- disciplinary collective of artists specializing in hand-painted murals and design. Originally conceived in Los Angeles in 2006, their work has been featured in film, television, and print campaigns.

Website: http://N/A

Title: Dusted

Description:

Latex enamel. This installation depicts the future role the BeltLine will be playing in the emergence of more greenspace within the Atlanta corridor and hopes to reflect the transformative nature that murals can have on a community.

Year: 2010

Name: Matthew Proctor and Friends

Artist Bio:

N/A

Website: http://N/A

Title: Tunnel Concert

Description:

Multiple musicians reverberate in an all-acoustic concert from the leading edge of the musical page accompanied by visuals provided by Projexorcism.

Year: 2010

Name: Michi Meko

Artist Bio:

My work as a multiple disciplinary artist draws influence from rural southern culture and contemporary urban subcultures. I have developed a system of gathering that allows hybridizing and remixing the contents into a multilingual dialect that endows ordinary and rejected objects with historic and spiritual powers. By reworking and mashing up iconography the works began to establish a new identity. An identity with possibilities of life to come, giving voice to the forgotten and demonstrating significant resiliency and strength that offers hope and possibility. The works allude to conditions both physical and psychological. This work is a proclamation of perseverance and remembrance.

Website: http://michimeko.com/

Title: Coexist Project

Description:

Mixed media/purple martin gourd bird house colonies. Coexist will create a natural sound installation that houses the voices of different birds. This installation stands as a metaphor for the idea and slogan “wrong side of the tracks.”

Year: 2010

Name: One Love Generation

Artist Bio:

One Love Generation (OLG) is a 501c3 non-profit organization empowering youth to inspire positive social change through art, service and awareness.

Website: http://onelovegeneration.org/

Title: The Living Peace Sign

Description:

The “living PEACE symbol” is a simple, yet powerful concept whose beauty is shown through its expansion and contraction.

Year: 2010

Name: Paper Twins

Artist Bio:

Nica and Edgar A. English met each other while making coffee. Their love for Os Mutantes, Manu Chao, French films and river dancing brought them together. During the summer of 2009, they started to make art and decided to share it with the world. They knew they needed a name, and taking Os Gemeos as an inspiration, decided to call themselves Paper Twins.

Website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/papertwins/

Title: The Wanderers

Description:

Wood, paint and stencil. The Wanderers is a series of wooden installations with lights that illustrate narratives from an underground group of people who make train traveling their lifestyle.

Year: 2010

Name: Park Cofield and Company

Artist Bio:

Park Cofield is an Atlanta/Los Angeles based theater director and puppet builder. Park has written four plays for the stage, designed and conceived three original puppet shows, three site-specific street performances, two puppet films, and a playwright auction fundraiser event. His work is frequently based on odd-yet-true stories, historical fact, and the work of surrealist painters.

Website: http://www.parkcofield.com/

Title: See the Gyrastacus

Description:

A series of site-specific performances based on 19th century Southern hunting legends. Be among the first to “See the Gyrastacus,” a horrible and unique specimen of nature.

Year: 2010

Name: Phil Proctor

Artist Bio:

Phil Proctor is an artist who has been living and working in southeast Atlanta for the past eight years.  Originally from south Mississippi, he holds a BFA from the University of Southern Mississippi and an MFA from East Carolina University. Phil Proctor enjoys working with “solid” materials like metal and stone and uses them in a manner that accommodates the natural tendencies of those materials. He utilizes the colors and textures that occur as a result of natural oxidation and patination.

Website: http://philproctor.com/

Title: Bud

Description:

Steel and aluminum. Bud is a wind powered kinetic sculpture intended to link the concept of human environment and the way we understand that concept through systematic principles such as science and mathematics.

Year: 2010

Name: Rey Maurice

Artist Bio:

Rey Maurice’s alternative soul band has acoustic, jazz, rock, R&B and neo-soul influences. Lead Vocals/Acoustic Guitar: Rey Maurice, Background Vocals/Electric Guitar/Acoustic Guitar: Chris Blackwell, Bass: Jeff Brown, Drums: Mike Brown, Background Vocals: Valerie Zapora.

Website: http://www.myspace.com/reymaurice

Title: Sunset at Somerset

Description:

A free, outdoor concert on the Somerset Stage on the Eastside Trail.

Year: 2010

Name: Rod Pittam

Artist Bio:

Rod Pittam creates impressionistic landscapes and architectural works in oils, watercolor and pen & ink. He has had solo gallery shows and has won awards in juried art festivals.

Website: http://www.pittamassociates.com/

Title: Historical Vignettes of the West End

Description:

Image printing on vinyl. Vignettes of some key historical landmarks in the West End – presented on two 4′ x 8′ banners located near Gordon White Park.

Year: 2010

Name: SCAD – Jeffrey Pruitt, Julianne Steger, Sarah Williams, Savannah College of Art & Design Sculpture Program

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Title: BELTLINE

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Wood, paint , photovoltaic lighting. This piece explores the idea of signage and forced perspective through engaging the viewers on the BeltLine path, while establishing itself among Atlanta’s social landscape.

Year: 2010

Name: SCAD – Jeffrey Pruitt, Julianne Steger, Sarah Williams, Savannah College of Art & Design Sculpture Program

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Name: Sixfold Collective

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This collective is comprised of Atlanta-based artists who work individually in a variety of disciplines ranging from drawing, painting, and printmaking to sculpture, metal work, fiber arts, and mixed media installation. They have been working together since 2008, and their different projects utilize a combination of these skills. Current members of the group are Terri Dilling, Amandine Drouet, Susan Ker-Seymer, Leisa Rich and Ann Rowles. Collaborating artists have included Corrina Sephora Mensoff, Susan A. Cipcic, Mary McCarthy and Alison Weldon.

Website: http://www.facebook.com/sixfoldcollective

Title: Recurrence

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Steel, fabric and plant materials. A spiral-shaped sculpture of fabric, steel and plants, incorporating a blue and white palette representing the natural forces of wind and water, signifying energy and abundance.

Year: 2010

Name: Spencer Murrill

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Title: Forward March

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Spray and enamel. This mural is intended to examine the systems of value within and outside of graffiti culture. It is not graffiti.

Year: 2010

Name: Staci Stone

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Title: Even Terrain

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A community garden planted along the rail lines, inviting participants to the site. Staci will also be passing out materials for participants to make their own “Earthwork.”

Year: 2010

Name: Story Messengers featuring Akbar Imhotep and Adebisi Adeleke

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Akbar has traveled throughout the Southeast capturing and enrapturing his audiences with his old Samsonite suitcases filled with puppets and props that semi-magically becomes a puppet stage.

Website: http://www.akbarstories.com

Title: Turtles, Railroads and The A-T-L

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Storytelling of original and African folktales told along the BeltLine. The stories’ subjects will cover the railroads’ development in Atlanta, how the BeltLine came to be, and where the BeltLine may be going in 50 years.

Year: 2010

Name: Tae Earl-Jackson

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Title: A single scoop of ice cream is never enough

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Glass Cutlet, repurposed metal chair frame, metal and wood. This site-specific installation creates an environment where thoughts are captured, and time is uninterrupted and savored like a single scoop of ice cream that is never enough.

Year: 2010

Name: Terri Dilling

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Terri Dilling has developed a visual language that explores the beauty and complexity of the natural world. She is inspired by the patterns and structures found in nature, ranging from plants and flowers to molecules and microscopic cells. She also references forms and patterns created by humans, including architecture and textile designs. Her art is a mix of macro and micro viewpoints, of structured order and random marks that occur during her creative process. Terri received a BA from Indiana University, a BFA in Drawing, Painting & Printmaking from Georgia State University and has also studied visual arts in England, Spain, and Italy.

Website: http://terridilling.com/

Title: Burgeoning

Description:

An installation of hundreds of paper flowers arranged in a large ring that celebrates the burgeoning of the BeltLine. This installation will grow and change color over time, relating to natural bloom cycles.

Year: 2010