East Atlanta Village
East Atlanta Village — the commercial and residential hub of East Atlanta — has developed a mural program that reflects the neighborhood's particular mix of long-term working-class residents and newer creative-class arrivals, producing work that is simultaneously more rooted and more experimental than the BeltLine corridor's more curated commissions. The concentration along Flat Shoals Avenue and Glenwood Avenue includes some of Atlanta's most frequently photographed outdoor work, with a community-first orientation that keeps the program responsive to the neighborhood rather than to national art trends.
Featured Artists
All artists →RIME
"EAV" is RIME's documentary portrait of East Atlanta Village's character — the food trucks, the dive bars, the community garden, the weekend flea market — rendered in RIME's photorealist detail across a corner building that makes the neighborhood's own street life visible from across the Flat Shoals intersection.
Nychos
"Eastside" applies Nychos's cross-section approach to the eastern box turtle — the most common reptile in Atlanta's urban forest patches, found in the backyards and stream corridors of East Atlanta — revealing the turtle's anatomy in saturated orange and purple against a backdrop map of the Intrenchment Creek watershed that runs through the neighborhood.
Gaia
"Atlanta Forest" maps the urban tree canopy that makes Atlanta the most forested large city in the United States — the white oaks, tulip poplars, and sweet gums that shade East Atlanta's streets — in Gaia's natural history documentation style, with the tree canopy's carbon sequestration capacity rendered as the counterargument to the city's continued canopy loss from development.