Art Rudick, founder of the Atlanta Street Art Map, did a walking tour of the 2026 Forward Warrior festivities. He writes about the highlights of this year’s murals.
As the founder of the Atlanta Street Art Map website, I have been cataloging and mapping street art in Atlanta since 2017. Out of my own personal interest, I have been keeping a running total of Atlanta’s mural count. When the count exceeded 2,000 murals at the end of 2025, I was inspired to document…
Going by viewership alone, the FIFA World Cup soccer championship is the world’s largest event. On a planet with 8.3 billion people, it is estimated that 1.5 billion of them will be watching the World Cup’s final match. Teams from 48 countries will compete between June 11 and July 19 across 16 North American cities,…
Did you know that Atlanta has a graffiti piece that’s 655 feet long and 100 feet wide? Here’s an even more interesting trivia fact: If you have ever driven the John Lewis Freedom Parkway, you were probably within a few feet of that very graffiti piece and didn’t even realize it. Sometimes, street art is…
As of the end of 2025, the walls of Atlanta have more than 2,000 murals and sanctioned graffiti pieces. Obviously, they didn’t paint themselves — so how did we get there? This topic could easily fill a book. In an article of this scope, I can only scratch the surface, focusing on just a few…
Liminal spaces are places that you might pass through, not places where you intend to remain. Taken from the Latin word limen — meaning threshold — liminal spaces can indicate periods of time; for example, the days between graduation and a first job. In the physical world, liminal spaces fall into two major categories: Let’s…
Ironically, The Drip Invitational — a live art event prominently featuring graffiti — was inspired by a complaint to the city about graffiti. Geoffrey Milspaw, who owns 727 Humphries St., received a citation from the city of Atlanta for graffiti on his building; many municipalities consider graffiti to be a public nuisance contributing to urban…
Graffiti has the power to consume abandoned properties as naturally as moss covers a damp rock, their artistic transformation serving as visible evidence of a vibrant and often secretive style writing culture. Style writing is considered by many to be the most skillfully executed, intricate and artistic level of graffiti. In an art-imitates-life moment, the…
Pop Quiz: Which Atlanta neighborhood has the highest incidence of llama sightings? If you guessed East Atlanta, you would be correct! East Atlanta is not only home to a llama preserve, you can also find llama pub crawls, llamas featured in the annual neighborhood parade and the animal has also been adopted as one of…
Atlanta’s Pittsburgh and Adair Park neighborhoods host some of the city’s most active street art scenes. These three people helped make that happen. :: How did Atlanta’s Pittsburgh and Adair Park neighborhoods become two of the city’s best venues for street art viewing? Let’s start from the beginning: In the 1890s, an African American neighborhood…
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