ART in the PARK
ART in the PARK presents engaging and often interactive public art installations in Woodruff Park on a rotating basis. Each art installation is launched with an opening party featuring live music and activities.
On view now
Los Trompos by Esrawe + Cadena
On view November 1 - 30, 2024
This wildly creative and colorful international art installation is sure to make heads spin - literally. Functioning as both artwork and play, the installation is a gathering place for relaxation, social interaction and entertainment. Los Trompos features a set of larger-than-life, three-dimensional spinning tops in a variety of colors and shapes. The colorful surfaces of each top are created in part by fabric woven in a traditional Mexican style. The fabric is stretched over the modules to seat several people at once. Through interaction and collaboration, Los Trompos comes to life and gives new meaning to the art of play.
Esrawe + Cadena, with over 25 years of experience and an extensive and diverse list of clients and projects in Mexico, North, Central and South America, is more than a highly creative strategic-design-firm; they are a multidisciplinary workshop that brings together design expertise, market experience, solid research, analysis and good old-fashioned creative talent.
Upcoming artwork
Radiant by Eddie Farr
Opening party: December 5th from 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Eddie Farr’s Radiant invites viewers to immerse themselves in a symphony of light and movement, drawing inspiration from nature's elegance and the festive spirit of the winter season. Installed along the central path of Woodruff Park, the work features towering conical sculptures that spiral upwards, evoking the dynamic sway of pine trees in a gust of wind. Warm, glowing tones radiate from within each structure, creating an interplay between light and form that echoes both organic rhythms and technological precision.
Farr’s background as both a musician and visual artist is palpable in the work's carefully orchestrated design, where each illuminated element seems to hum with harmony, resonating with the celebratory energy of the holidays. As visitors stroll through the park with these glowing sculptures, Radiant offers a moment of reflection—an opportunity to connect with the beauty of seasonal transitions and the timeless joy that accompanies shared spaces of light.
Eddie Farr is an Atlanta-based artist exploring physical and digital technology. He holds a B.A. in Music and an M.M. in Music Technology from Georgia Southern University. Farr has performed internationally as a musician and exhibited visual works at venues such as the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, ArtFields, The Atlanta Beltline, and Shedspace at Whitespace Gallery. A Hambidge Fellow and participant in the Fulton County Futures Lab residency, Farr's current installation, Color of the Horizon, is on view at South River Art Studio through June 2025. He is preparing for a solo exhibition at Echo Contemporary Arts in Fall 2025.
Previous artwork
"Taino Night Glow" by ARRRTADDICT
On view through October 31st
Inspired by the beauty of Puerto Rico’s El Yunque rainforest, this glowing installation is an immersive experience that invites you to venture into a colorful, luminous wooden forest created to honor Caribbean Indigenous culture.
Lisette Correa, better known as ARRRTADDICT, is a Puerto Rican artist from Ft. Lauderdale, living in Atlanta, GA. She focuses on creating art that portrays the vibrancy of Puerto Rican and African American culture with loose lines, bold typography and bright colors. Her ARRRT exudes positivity while embracing culture, spirituality, healing and evoking the change our community needs to be unified and treated equally.
Previous Artwork: "Millennial Pink" by Mike Stasny
August 28th - September 21st, 2024
Millennial Pink is a 30-foot inflatable made of big, bouncy bubble shapes. Artist Mike Stasny created the piece as a whimsical tribute to Millennials and the signature shade of pink that came to be associated with an entire generation. This massive sculpture invites visitors to walk through it and find inspiration in the whimsical design.
Michael "Mike" Stasny is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator from the Midwest working and based out of Atlanta for the past 10 years. His primary focus is “creative space design” in which he activates under-utilized locations with imaginative experiences that activate
community in time, culture, the economy, and space. Michael is associated with a variety of art collectives including the Dashboard Co-op, Goat Farm Art Center, Knock Knock. He is also founder of Sumptuary. Mike’s current primary focus is MOM SAID IT’S FINE gallery -an open studio, showroom, and space for creative collaborations.
Previous Artwork: "Prismatica" by RAW Design
February 17th - March 17th, 2024
Initially created for the 2014 Luminothérapie Competition in Montreal, Prismatica's success has propelled the installation to travel across North America. The installation in Woodruff Park consisted of 25 colorful pivoting prisms. The prisms act as kaleidoscopes that glimmer under natural light by day and provide atmospheric lighting by night. Each one is mounted on a base containing a projector that gives the installation a new dimension after nightfall. The rotation of the prisms triggers variable-intensity bell music. Visitors can walk among them to see city life in every color of the spectrum, and turn the prisms to make the colors dance.
RAW Design is one of Toronto’s most vibrant and respected architectural and design studios. Cited as the 2009 Ontario Best Emerging Practice, they possess an international design sensibility and wisdom combined with a wealth of recent local experience. Unconcerned with stylistic expectations, RAW focuses on both the understanding of site opportunities and client-specific objectives.