Art and Design

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.

In the summer of 1885, artists from the American Panorama Company in Milwaukee began developing sketches for The Battle of Atlanta painting.

Atlanta architect and developer John Portman transformed the downtown Atlanta skyline and contributed to the revitalization of the inner city beginning with construction of the Merchandise Mart in 1961.