How legacy gets made
Wednesday, Nov. 4 — How we create our legacy says as much about us as what we leave behind.
✈️ Curator Lauren Tate Baeza left Atlanta for Cape Town, South Africa, on Monday. Behind her are the High Museum of Art’s new Nigeria galleries, which she opened Oct. 16 after five years of searching for 20th-century Nigerian works, many by artists who never had gallery representation. Baeza and her collaborators built the rooms around art schools that carried Nigeria from colonial rule into independence and around the teachers and students who kept the work moving. The works will rotate. The framework stays.
👣 Along the Stone Mountain Trail in DeKalb County, Georgia State University students are working with residents to co-design public art projects for a 5-mile stretch from the Avondale Estates MARTA station to Clarkston. Residents, local business owners, and MARTA employees have been invited to weigh in on things like colors and styles – while sharing neighborhood histories and stories – through December. The process is supported by an AI model designed to make community input easy and accessible to all.
One legacy is being handed off. The other is being drafted, in real time, by the people who live it.
What are you building that will outlast you?
—Sherri Daye Scott
🎉 Bike. Walk. Scoot. Stroll. Westside Stride is back and bigger than ever thanks to Atlanta Streets Alive! Join us Sun., Nov. 8, for a free, family-friendly block party on Howell Mill Road featuring local food, music, vendors, and plenty of fun. SPONSOR MESSAGE
Leave curious
🇳🇬 Hours before her flight, Lauren Tate Baeza talked us through the High Museum’s new Nigeria galleries: what’s on the walls, what’s still waiting in storage and why she hopes you’ll leave with more questions than answers.
Ready for a Game of I Spy?
SPONSORED BY THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART
🔍 Step inside the miniature worlds that shaped a generation of readers. I SPY! Walter Wick’s Hidden Wonders brings together Wick’s meticulously hand-built photographs, optical illusions, and search-and-find puzzles in the largest survey of his work to date.
Community by design
🚸 A painted crosswalk in Clarkston started it all. Now Georgia State students are asking the people who walk, bike and live along the Stone Mountain Trail to help design the public art coming to its crossings.
🎉 Bike. Walk. Scoot. Stroll. Westside Stride is back and bigger than ever thanks to Atlanta Streets Alive! Join us Sun., Nov. 8, for a free, family-friendly block party on Howell Mill Road featuring local food, music, vendors, and plenty of fun. SPONSOR MESSAGE
Art Happenings
2026 ATL StyleWriters Jam | Nov. 6-8 | Berne Street SE Bridge Underpass.
🖼️ “Flip Side” Closing Workshop & Artist Talk | 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Nov. 7 | Whitespace Gallery (pictured).
🆕 “Coordinates Unknown” & “Grounded” Opening Reception | 7-10 p.m., Nov. 7 | Echo Contemporary Art.
🗣️ KIM OUELLETTE “Emerald Tears”: Artist Talk | 12 p.m., Nov. 8 | Marcia Wood Gallery.
💬 ADAMA Arts Salon 82 | 2-3 p.m., Nov. 8 | ADAMA at Pittsburgh Yards.
🌍 “La aleatoriedad de los símbolos” Artist Talk | 6:30-8:30 p.m., Nov. 10 | MOCA GA.
Post of the Week
📸 A legacy, collected.
Atlanta-born photographer Tyler Mitchell’s 2022 work “Don’t give me no itty bitty tiny tub, I need the whole entire complete deep blue sea!” is the first of his pieces to enter the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s permanent collection. It was created as part of a Frieze Masters commission and is the first of Mitchell’s mirror works.
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🖋️ Today’s Sketchbook was edited by Julie E. Bloemeke.
