Art on the Atlanta BeltLine returns for a seventh year beginning Sept.10. The exhibition, which will feature more than 150 works of art in various disciplines, will kick off with the annual Lantern Parade along the Eastside Trail that same day.
The Lantern Parade, which drew 60,000 people last year, will step off from the Irwin Street end of the Eastside Trail and make its way to Piedmont Park starting at 7:15 p.m. Participants create their own luminaries to carry, often in wacky costumes.
Billed as the south’s largest temporary art exhibition, the BeltLine will become a public art gallery through November. Many artists featured in the 2016 exhibition are returning for the third, fourth, or even fifth year to showcase their work on the BeltLine, including Berlin-based muralist Addison Karl and TinyDoorsATL. New this year will be George King Architects, a London-based firm that will install a large-scale sculpture for the exhibition.
Atlanta Music Project, a local organization that provides music lessons to underserved youth, will host a musical performance again this year.
The exhibitions and performances will be centered around these areas of the BeltLine:
- On the northern Eastside interim hiking trail between Montgomery Ferry Road and Monroe Drive
- On the Eastside Trail between Monroe Drive and Irwin Street
- On the southern Eastside interim hiking trail between Kirkwood Avenue and Memorial Drive in Reynoldstown
For more information, visit art.beltline.org.
Participating Artists
- Luke Achterberg
- Karl Addison
- Formations Studio
- TinyDoorsATL
- UP and Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta
- Cash Barnes
- Hannah Betzel
- Charlie Brouwer
- olive47
- Neil Carver
- ARCY
- Owens + Crawley
- Leland Drexler-Russell
- Nghi Duong & Mandy Palasik
- Will Eccleston
- Experience Collective
- Anna Gromova
- Ben Janik
- Jarus
- Nick Kahler
- Helena Kang
- Ray Katz
- JD Koth
- Deborah Landry
- Beju
- Andrew Light
- William Massey
- Ryan Mathern
- Atlanta Celebrates Photography
- Kemp Mooney
- Dorothy O’Connor and Craig Appel
- Oktawian Otlewski
- Posts for Peace and Justice
- Indie Craft Experience
- Sanithna Phansavanh, Brandon Sadler, Peter Ferrari
- Cat Chiu Phillips
- Nathan Pierce
- Phil Proctor
- Alex Rodriguez DMD
- Maxwell Sebastian
- Jason Smith
- Michael Stasny
- W(,)
- Jeff Whipple
- Mike Wsol
- Frank Yoculan
- Niki and Arian Zarrabi
- Jane Zhu
- Harry Zmijewski
- Atlanta Taiko Project
- Hillside Presbyterian Church Handbell Choir
- Atlanta Music Project
- Dance Canvas
- Beatrix Clark
- Farmer Greenthumbs
- Crossover Movement Arts
- Tray Dahl & the Jugtime Ragband
- Distilled Butter
- Flight of Swallows
- CORE
- Mark Gindick
- Gateway Performance Productions
- Eric Thomas and Elevate the Quest
- Mike Lowery and Sarah Neuburger
- Mike McDaniel
- Awalim Dance Company
- Pete Peterson and the Blues in the House Band
- Ghosts Project
- Saira Raza, Jeremi Johnson, and Sanam Azeem
- Mausiki Scales and the Common Ground Collective
- Soul Food Cypher
- Michael Standard and Aleksandra Tevdoska
- Thorkmorton Ukulele Band
- Toni Marie Young
