Terri Dilling – Burgeoning
Terri Diiling proposes planting hundreds of paper flowers in a ring to the burgeoning of the Beltline. Following the seasons of growth, she will replace the flowers as they deteriorate and change their colors to follow natural cycles.
Tae Earl-Jackson – Untitled
Tae Earl-Jackson will create a seating environment that gives the feeling of sitting in a pasture. Built from a refurbished dining chair, the area will provide a place for a sole BeltLine patron to find solace.
EVEREMAN – EVEREMAN flowers and souvenir signs
Placing EVEREMAN boards and works all along the BeltLine in addition to workshops held by the artist. These works include the EVEREMAN imagery as well as takeaways in the form of magnets and other small objects displaying EVEREMAN's logo.
Katie Hall – Untitled
A site-specific mosaic tile installation that reflects the environmental and aesthetic parameters of the site.
Etienne Jackson – Reflections: Revolving Communities
A linear, minimalist sculpture where a stainless steel panel reflects its surroundings; the captured reflection, organic and distorted, is then juxtaposed to the linear and rigid construction of the sculpture.
Emily Kempf – Collabodoodle
Several events where participants are invited to paint and doodle over mural boards measuring four by eight feet. Between each event, the boards will be displayed across the BeltLine. Each time the boards are painted over again and again resulting in a continuously evolving work.
Hense – Untitled
A prolific street artist and muralist, Hense has been producing street graffiti and murals for over 10 years. He proposes producing several murals, each celebrating street art and the BeltLine.
Sixfold Collective - Recurrence
The spiral sculpture Recurrence, made of repurposed fabrics and steel, incorporates a palette of blues and whites to represent the natural forces of wind and water and to signify energy and abundance. As the sculpture spirals up from the earth, plants growing around and up the poles will provide its roots, tethering the artwork to the physical BeltLine site.
Sixfold artists are Susan Ker-Seymer, Corrina Sephora Mensoff, Terri Dilling, Amandine Drouet, Susan A. Cipcic and Ann Rowles (Previous contributions by Mary McCarthy and Alison Weldon).
Arturo Lindsay – Sanctuary on the BeltLine
Creating a contemplative and meditative space, the sculpture will create an aesthetic experience. The bamboo structure will house a boulder with seating to encourage the viewer to reflect in the space and in the surrounding BeltLine.
Jeffry Loy – Stargazers
Two 15-foot tall steel blooming trees, each with four steel flower pods with three illuminating globes per pod; the sculpture will engage the viewers during the day and night with programmed RGB LEDs functioning as a gateway to the BeltLine.
Michi Meko – Coexist
Two 15 to 19 foot tall aluminum telescoping poles holding two colonies of Purple Martin gourd bird houses. The bird houses will have varying sized holes to try to accommodate different sized birds. The hope is that coexistence will be encouraged by way of the defined environment. The piece will operate as a gateway into the BeltLine.
Corrina Sephora Mensoff – BeltLine Be Green
To encourage biking, recycling, and enjoying green space, the sculpture will show forged steel spirals wrapping a metal trash can as well as a bench. The spirals will also be woven in such a way as to create a bike rack.
Jeff Morrison – Cribbing
Three hundred fifty railroad ties will be used to create a walled pathway for participants to navigate. It will provide for contemplation and discovery for the viewer as the interplay and repetition of the ties are used within the curved pathway.
Spencer Murrill – Forward March
A graffiti inspired mural stylizing characters showing Atlanta's eclectic cultural scene. Done in black and white, the mural addresses the crisis of street art: how artists hold to what made the movement widespread but also how artistic traditions can inhibit creative discovery.
Rod Pittam – Untitled
Murals printed on 48" x 96" banners to be placed along the west side of the BeltLine.
Phil Proctor – Untitled
To define the composition and science of nature and energy through kinetic sculpture. Built from materials of structural purpose but with organic form and shape, the organic gesture of the moving sculpture will demonstrate man's desire to organize and define the chaos of the natural world.
Blacki Li Rudi Migliozzi, Elizabeth "Oscar" Maynard, Mikhail Ally, and Pattie Acevedo – Untitled
A life-size diorama containing a fabricated tree, canvas wall, and railroads. As the work disintegrates it will blend itself into its background of the BeltLine.
The Loss Prevention Collective – Untitled
Murals which are meant to comment on the role of street art beautifying their communities and reminding their audience of the BeltLine history.
Charlie Smith – Transformational Transportation
Symbolizing the forward thinking progress of transportation for the city of Atlanta, the sculptures serve as markers, tunnels and checkpoints for the human entity in the new BeltLine corridor.
Lisa Tuttle - Poetic Pathway
Several lecterns will house poems composed about specific sites, neighborhoods, persons, or experiences in Atlanta.
Arseni Zaitzev – TiredOUT
A pathway and structure created by organizing and stacking the tires found on the BeltLine into an organized structure. The recycling creates a navigable structure for the participant as well as a gateway and introduction into the BeltLine corridor.
Emily Adair – My Solar Friendship
A green solar-powered human figure seated on a wooden bench facing a vacant seat. The figure's posture invites passersby to take a seat. As the participant sits, a sensor triggers a light in the figures chest to shine.
Cabbagetown Artist Tribe – The Pardoned Eden
To embody the positive transformation of the BeltLine, The Cabbagetown Artist Tribe will install several resting automobile-dinosaurs flanking a garden of birds. A 12-foot-tall kaleidoscope will rest in the middle.
Megan Dunkelberg and Karen Cleveland – Untitled
Lending strength to refugee youth voices, Karen Cleveland and Megan Dunkelberg intend to have students generate flower designs and drawings inspired from lessons. These drawings will then be composed into a grid and used as a blueprint for mosaic tiles.
Eugene Cooke – Living Labyrinth
A living garden labyrinth will be installed along the BeltLine corridor for participants to navigate and enjoy. Built from natural materials and surrounded by flowers, the garden will reflect the abundance of the community's potential.
J.D. Koth – Cultivated Chaos
Using kudzu, logs, branches and grass, a fantastical structure will be constructed for participants to enjoy. The hut will also contain a relaxing swing to rest upon.
Paper Twins – The Wanderers
A series of life-sized people featuring solar lamps, The Wanderers is an illustrated narrative of different stories from an underground group of people who make train traveling their primary form of transportation as well as lifestyle.
Dodekapus Art Collective – Wickerpus
A 21-foot-tall wicker and natural material sculpture of a dodekapus (an octopus with four extra tentacles) will be installed on the BeltLine corridor.
Staci Stone – Sprawl
Grass tracks will be planted and manicured to represent the rail tracks now displaced. Continuing along the BeltLine corridor, the grass pathway will be nurtured to represent the regenerative process that will take place throughout the next twenty-five years of the BeltLine.
Gregor Turk – Misinformation
Four different way-finding signs, roughly three by two feet in size, will be placed along the BeltLine corridor, each an absurd map of Atlanta reconfigured as other cities.
Claudia Rebola Winegarden and Ali Mazalek – Sonoscope
An outdoor, interactive sonic play-space for a multi-generational audience. Solar-powered and equipped with motion sensors, visitors can create performances from their own movements and generated sounds all housed within multi-faceted abstract arches.