City of Atlanta commissions new mural West End Remembers

Yesterday the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs released word of a new public art commission by Malaika Favorite. West End Remembers will be the “first of many” public art projects to be incorporated into the overall Beltline design. Favorite (besides having one of the best artist names in recent memory) likes working with kids. Her Women of Brewster Place mural on Auburn Avenue was created with the help of neighborhood youth as well the Alliance Theatre as part of a community involvement effort to coincide with the theater’s production of the Women of Brewster Place.

Cleta Winslow, Council Member for District 4, comments:

This vibrant, colorful artwork will be an interactive and unique learning tool for the children of Brown Middle School, who will get the opportunity to work with Ms. Favorite to create the mural. This mural will also teach the children and the community about the West End’s history, and its cultural richness and diversity.

West End Remembers will be located on White Street under the Laughton Street Bridge. Of course, Atlanta newbies (of which I include myself, after seven years) should remember that the West End is: a) a much older and wholly distinct entity from the Westside Arts District and b) contrary to its name, is actually located to the south of Five Points station, not the west.

(Photo by David Dower)