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.
Coming soon
Memory in the Material by Olu Amoda
On view April 22 - June 18, 2025
Opening reception: April 24th at 12 PM
Memory in the Material is a series of sculptures by Olu Amoda inviting viewers to reflect on how memory is preserved and reimagined through assemblage. At the heart of this process is quilting—the tender act of joining fragments, and stitching stories into layered compositions that speak to memory, continuity, and repair.
Through the weaving of disparate elements, Amoda reveals the emotional and cultural resonance embedded in the objects we leave behind. Memory in the Material exists as a public meditation—on the histories these materials hold, the shifting nature of identity, and the trends of time towards transformation.
Olu Amoda is a dual citizen of Nigeria and the United States, and an artist whose sculptural language, developed over the past four decades, is defined by its distinctive character and material beauty. Working across sculpture, murals, furniture design, and multimedia, Amoda is best known for repurposing industrial debris—rusty nails, metal plates, bolts, pipes, and rods—into intricate works that explore the layered realities of contemporary life. His human, animal, and abstract forms reflect on themes such as identity, conflict, consumerism, and economic disparity.
Amoda earned a degree in sculpture from Auchi Polytechnic in Nigeria and a Master of Fine Arts from Georgia Southern University in the United States. His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), Museum of Art and Design (New York), Skoto Gallery (New York), Didi Museum (Nigeria), WIPO Headquarters (Switzerland), and Art Twenty One (Nigeria). He has also completed residencies at Villa Arson (France), The Bag Factory (South Africa), Appalachian State University (North Carolina), and the New York Design Museum.
Memory in the Material is by Olu Amoda, presented as part of the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District’s ART in the PARK series, and curated and produced by Dashboard.
Previous artwork
Stem by Stem: Alien Boy Gives Me Flowers by ENESS
On view February 13th - March 14th
Stem by Stem was originally commissioned by Mirvac for the foyer of the Telstra building to welcome back staff after Sydney lockdowns with the notion: stem by stem, petal by petal we welcome you. Now these adorable inflatable creatures with digital doe-eyes have brought armfuls of fresh flowers to Woodruff Park.
Previous Artwork: Radiant by Eddie Farr
December 5, 2024 - January 17, 2025
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.
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: Los Trompos by Esrawe + Cadena
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.
Previous Artwork: "Taino Night Glow" by ARRRTADDICT
October 1 - 31, 2024
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 28 - September 21, 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 17 - March 17, 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.