“The purpose of this AICP workshop will be unlike many of the past. We will review, but not reinvent, the vision and plans that have been already forged. We are the fresh eyes asked to see the barriers to plan implementation and answer the question, ‘Why have these plans not been implemented?’” – Gary Cornell, FAICP
The workshop will take place on Saturday, April 26th as part of the American Planning Association’s National Planning Conference being held in Atlanta.
“You can truly feel the energy of artists as they make good things happen on a street that’s been in need of good things for a while.” – ATL Urbanist
http://atlurbanist.tumblr.com/post/73323099424/atlantas-mammal-gallery-brings-creative-energy-to-a
http://clatl.com/atlanta/the-mammal-gallery-brings-humans-to-downtown/Content?oid=10152993
Come one, come all, to one of Atlanta’s coolest streets
The walls were painted pink-and-yellow zigzags, and a cast of characters outfitted in white tuxes and animal heads ignited an abandoned nightclub, turning the space into a carnivalesque, Dada-influenced funhouse without mirrors.
http://hyperallergic.com/79289/detritus-blossoms-in-an-abandoned-nightclub/
The most thought-provoking aspect of the evening was the knowledge that Coleman and Detweiler had actually committed to living exclusively in this space — eating, sleeping, showering, creating — for three weeks. Remnants of this experience were visible here and there — a portable shower like something used for camping, a homemade tent filled with pillows and blankets for sleeping, a toilet — and provided a more resonant layer of meaning to what otherwise might have seemed mere spectacle.
Dashboard Co-op’s “No Vacancy, An Alternative Residency,” in which two artists are holed up in an undisclosed vacant Atlanta property for three weeks, is an effort to turn it all down and to see what kind of art develops in the relative silence and isolation.
On a forgotten block of Downtown Atlanta, four artists are literally changing the face of Atlanta. Their tractor-green lifts move on the building faces like dancing robot arms, lit up against the dark Atlanta skyline.
http://purgeatl.com/2012/10/26/saving-atlanta-painting-through-the-night/
