Art and Design

Through 43 powerful portraits—personally painted by former President George W. Bush—and their accompanying stories, Out of Many, One reminds us of the ways in which America has been strengthened by those who left their home countries to live in the United States.

Meet Jasmine Nicole—printmaker, muralist, and 2021 Midtown Heart of the Arts artist-in-residence.

Atlanta History Center is a founding partner and host site for two installations in Midtown Alliance’s Heart of the Arts program.

Explore the lives of four pioneering women who played a vital role in shaping the landscape of our city and state.

Learn how to conduct historic neighborhood and historic house research.

Founded by the Cherokee Garden Club of Atlanta in 1975, the Cherokee Garden Library is named for the state floral emblem of Georgia, the Cherokee rose (Rosa laevigata) and is one of the special collection libraries of the Kenan Research Center.

Photographer Boyd Lewis snaps a self-portrait in the rear view mirror of his car.

Students attend a ballet class at Norma’s Academy of Fine Arts on Campbellton Road in southwest Atlanta on November 17, 1973.

Guy Sharp, a meteorologist on WXIA-TV, gets into costume for a dinner party announcing the release of a sequel to the movie Planet of the Apes.

An unidentified duo boogie at a school gym in Atlanta, ca. 1970.

A sculpture of a child on a horse in front of the CNN Headquarters and the Omni International Complex in 1985.

Governor Jimmy Carter spends time making art with an orangutan in 1971.

Joel Chandler Harris gained international prominence for his volumes of Uncle Remus folktales.

In 1887, Atlanta adopted a new city seal prominently featuring the mythical Phoenix.