Place to see: Cabbagetown Mural, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Cabbagetown District Sign
At the edge of Atlanta's 120-year-old Cabbagetown neighborhood, where last century's factory houses are reborn into a new breed of crafty homes and hipster lofts. Cabbagetown still has some of its old vibe of toil and trouble, but today that historical character is stickered, tagged, painted over, and redressed with ever-changing street art and front porches with dangling stained-glass window installations.
About this place:
The wall along Wylie Avenue, on the south side of the Krog Street Tunnel in Atlanta's Cabbagetown and Reynoldstown neighborhoods, has long been a canvas for public art, graffiti and tags both petty and artful. Late last year, someone with an airbrush came in (on whose dime I don't know) and painted a holiday mural at the mouth of the Krog Tunnel, letting everyone know that this was, in fact, a place for public art (both good and bad), and that the local neighborhood was embracing the space.
The mural even frames a past attempt to dress up the art in the area — a pair of simple mosaic pieces depicting the train yards, greenery, and churches in the area.
Best of all, taggers and public artists in the area haven't done much to deface the new mural. There's plenty of other space for them to work in the tunnel and on the surrounding walls, and they've taken advantage of it, while respecting the good spirit of the airbrush work. Public art, at its best, has a rapport with the public, doesn't it?
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Discovered by Will Hindmarch
on 27 January 2008.
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