Fulton County Public Art Program

New Workshop Alert! Join the Public Art Futures Lab at Peachtree Library for A Deeper Vision | Alt Text + Art, a collaborative accessibility workshop exploring how artists, writers, curators, technologists, and arts workers can think more deeply about ALT TEXT and accessibility in the digital space.

Featuring Design Researcher Abigale Stangl and Assistant Professor in the School of Industrial Design at Georgia Tech , this communal workshop will combine conversation, reflection, and hands-on writing exercises centered around describing visual art for audiences engaging through screen readers and other assistive technologies.

Participants will experiment with different forms of description, from functional alt text to poetic interpretation, while asking larger questions about access, interpretation, and what becomes newly visible through language.

🗓 Saturday, May 23
⏰ 1 - 3 p.m.
📍 Peachtree Library Branch
🎟 Free with RSVP
🤚 ASL interpreters on site
♿️ Accessible parking

This workshop is part of an ongoing Public Art Futures Lab initiative around accessibility, digital engagement, and the upcoming 63rd Annual Fulton County ADA Celebration on July 23.

We want to extend special thanks to our conversation and email group on this topic including Fulton County Dept of Diversity and Civil Compliance, Ari Hammond, Dhruv Kulkarni, Susanna Lee, and Alec Guthrie.

Link in bio for full details and free RSVP!

Happy Mother’s Day from Fulton Public Art!

Basil Watson .sculpture
Cradle (The Future in Our Hands), 2010
Bronze Composite, White Marble base

The seated mother encircles and supports the joyous child who reaches for the sky.

The child, like the community, is cradled in her arms, buoyant and full of energy as he raises his hands and head in expectation, praise and thanks.

This piece is located at Neighborhood Union Heath Center - 186 Sunset Avenue, NW Atlanta, GA 30314

Enlightenment Now!

Hosted at Villa Albertine’s Night of Ideas returns to Atlanta on Wednesday April 29, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. at The Carter Center - FREE and open to the public with RSVP!

From early evening into the night, the program features talks, a civic market, Virtual Reality experiences, music, and participatory exchanges exploring civic engagement, youth participation, and new forms of utopia.

The event explores how youth and civil society can help reimagine democracy. Grounded in Atlanta’s dynamic context, discussions will also highlight the role cities play in advancing inclusive and sustainable futures through innovation, social justice, and climate action.

Enlightenment Now! invites us to revisit and reimagine how we can shape our shared democratic future.

Curated and organized by Villa Albertine Atlanta, in partnership with The Carter Center,  Fulton County Arts & Culture’s Public Art Futures Lab, and Atlanta Design Festival. 

As part of this evening, the Public Art Futures Lab will present a VR screening program featuring four films from the Institut Français XR Catalogue, offering audiences a chance to step into 360° storytelling environments that expand how we experience art, culture, and narrative. Following the event, this program will extend to select Fulton County libraries, creating additional opportunities for residents across the county to engage with these works. RSVP and learn more through the link in our bio.

2026 edition of Night of Ideas in Atlanta is presented by Villa Albertine Atlanta, with The Carter Center, in partnership with Atlanta Design festival and Fulton County Arts & Culture. This program is made possible thanks to Albertine Foundation with the support of the Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation.

✍️ What’s the issue with AI and art? Help us read the room!

Join us at makerspace for a free working session led by .disalvo Carl DiSalvo and Catherine Wieczorek of .gatech Georgia Tech’s Public Design Workshop.

They’re bringing together artists, curators, and cultural workers to think through what AI means for creative practice right now.

This isn’t about having the “right” answer. We’re interested in hearing from artists working across digital, analog, and hybrid practices we don’t mind whether you’re excited, skeptical, critical, or still figuring it out. All perspectives are welcome.
Together, we’ll map questions, surface tensions, and build language around what feels at stake and working toward a shared framework shaped by the people in the room.

🗓 Saturday, April 25
⏰ 1 - 3 p.m.
📍 Freeside Atlanta, 3043 Commerce Way, Atlanta, Georgia 30354

Important Notes:

✔️ Free with RSVP
✔️ Attendees must provide their own transportation to the site
✔️ Ages 18+

Follow the link in the bio for RSVP and info!

This project is funded by .network with support from Public Art Futures Lab.

We’re excited to announce the 2026 Public Art Futures Lab Artists-in-Residence, in partnership with Downtown Atlanta Inc. and MARTA Artbound! 
This year, because of the incredibly strong pool of proposals, MARTA Artbound will support two artist groups for the first time, expanding the residency and marking a new chapter for the residency program.

Together, these artists are reimagining public art in ways that respond, evolve, and invite participation across , the Community, and Fulton County as a whole.  

Meet the Artists-in-Residence:

Ivan Reyes | Downtown Atlanta Inc. AiR: is a creative technologist exploring accessibility, cultural identity, and “technology as magic” proposes a participatory AR “Memory Garden,” where community contributes digital objects that bloom into a shared, evolving digital landscape.

Sophia Edwards | Downtown Atlanta Inc. AiR: .edw is a visual artist working at the intersection of storytelling, craft, and digital media, presents Quilt Tiles, a projection mapping installation that transforms community-submitted images and stories into a generative patchwork rooted in Black quilting traditions. *Sophia’s photo is by Gabrielle Thandiwe Bates  

A2D | MARTA Artbound AiR: Luther Ocasio  + Garrett Braun  are an artist duo creating immersive, responsive environments will develop Signal Garden: Transit Bloom, bringing Atlanta’s ecological identity into transit spaces through living projections of native plant life shaped by the rhythms of daily movement. *A2D’s photo is by

M.E.A.T. | MARTA Artbound AiR: Orlando Kenny , Matias Cevallos   , Alex Suarez , Fiona Kelly-Lopez , and Khalid Diab   up this organization of musicians, engineers, and creative technologists.  will develop interactive instruments that invite MARTA riders to generate sound together, turning transit into a space for play and connection.

🔗 Visit the link in bio to learn more

If you ask us what Public Art Futures Lab has been up to we can tell you, but we’d rather show you!

Spring has been full of workshops, field trips, and exhibitions! Adventures like our Arts + Tech Ecosystems Tour at where we explored immersive projection environments and got a behind-the-scenes look at the tools and workflows shaping real-time digital production at a program that is responsive to industry changes. Our next Arts + Tech Ecosystems tour features with .atl on Friday 4/17

Back at the Public Art Futures Lab artists dove into building their own virtual worlds in a hands-on workshop with and learning how to bring their work into and navigate self-built VR galleries. Watching ideas take shape in real time (and then walking through them) never gets old.

And so many of you came out to see Resonant Ecologies: Lichen, Mold & Sensing Stones an interactive exhibition that was part of the Atlanta Science Festival exploring art, environment, and technology through responsive works. Sound up 🔊 to hear Sonifying Clinate Infrastructures: Sensing Stones and Lichen Mediations: Materializing Q***r Entanglements in Sonic Environments. Huge thanks to artists Allie Teixeira Riggs .teixeira.riggs , Shelly Boehm .3d , and Heidi Biggs , along with Heidi’s incredible team: Alexander Cohen, Beilei Chen, Renny Hyde, Supratim Pait, Maha A. Sidid, and Zheng Wang, and Atlanta Science Festival volunteer, Melanie, for creating such a thoughtful and engaging experience for our community.

Grateful for all the artists, partners, and participants who continue to shape this growing arts + tech ecosystem around public art 🌱 🪩

FIELD TRIP ALERT 🔔: The Arts + Tech Ecosystems tour series continues on Friday 4/17

Join the Public Art Futures Lab for a behind-the-scenes visit to at .atl - a unique partnership supporting DIY, experimental, and tech-integrated artists in Atlanta’s creative community.

🗓 Friday, April 17, 2026
⏰ 2-4 PM
📍 The Bakery Atlanta & The Supermarket

During this 2-hour visit, participants will:
• Learn about the history and mission of The Bakery Atlanta
• Take a guided tour of The Supermarket, a 12,500-sq-ft multi-use art and event space
• Hear about how they platform tech-based artists
• Connect with others working across art, technology, and community practice

Originally created for Public Art Futures Lab artists-in-residence, the Arts + Tech Ecosystems tours introduce artists and the public to the spaces, people, and organizations shaping creative technology in Atlanta.

🎟 Registration required
🚗 Attendees provide their own transportation
👨‍👩‍👧 Minors must be accompanied by an adult
🔗 RSVP at the link in bio

Slides #2 Photo by Streetcat Media
Slides #3-6 Photos by Blake Pipes