Tuesday, July 31, 2007
News Freedom Park art exhibit canceled
Posted by Mara Shalhoup on Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 8:14 PM
A public art exhibit that art advocates claimed was responsible for pushing the popular Art in Freedom Park exhibit out of the park is now abandoning the venue.
Embracing Differences, a display of 40 billboard-sized paintings submitted by local artists, will no longer be held in the city's sole "art park," Freedom Park. The exhibit also will be postponed from September 2007 to mid-2008, according to a July 28 letter to Embracing Differences' partners, artists and volunteers.
The letter echoes some of the allegations raised by proponents of Art in Freedom Park, namely that the city created cumbersome guidelines governing art installations in Freedom Park:
You may know that a few weeks ago, the City of Atlanta instituted new permit guidelines for art exhibitions at Freedom Park. After review of these new parameters, and careful consideration, it became apparent that this location was no longer fitting for the scale of the event we wish to produce.
Art in Freedom Park supporters had claimed Embracing Differences was getting preferential support when it came to the city's new guidelines. Now that Embracing Differences is ditching Freedom Park, that doesn't seem to be the case.
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