Atlanta Contemporary

We’re a 2026 Artist Choice Winner! 

Atlanta Contemporary is among 28 organizations chosen by artists to receive an unrestricted grant from Ruth Arts. This year, artists—including choreographers, visual artists, performers, writers, and musicians—were invited to nominate organizations that are generating and encouraging deep study and strengthening their communities’ critical understanding of and investment in art and ideas.  

We are so excited to be among such a great group of organizations and are thrilled to have our work recognized by artists. 

About Ruth Arts: National in scope, Ruth Foundation for the Arts (Ruth Arts) is dedicated to meeting the evolving needs and lived experiences of artists, communities, and arts organizations whose work is anchored by the visual and performing arts. For more information about the awarded organizations, visit rutharts.org.

Closing May 17: Curator Anna Akpele brought together Jean Shon, Natalie Rose Eddings, and Brittany Adeline King for an exhibition season that has unfolded across the building’s most intimate spaces. 

In Sliver Space, “Bleed” by Jean Shon works with paper, text, and trace to explore how memory surfaces through stain and absence. In the Secret Garden, “A Litany for Shelter” by Natalie Rose Eddings examines labor, rest, and who gets to feel protected in public space. In Chute Space, “Dokafleh” by Brittany Adeline King conjures dolls from archival images, fabric, and video, weaving Liberian histories together with her own story of homecoming. 

Don’t leave without seeing all three. Admission is always free. 

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Last chance to see Unbound Narratives: Embodied Language, on view through May 17. 

Curated by Karen Comer Lowe, the exhibition gathers Bethany Collins, February James, a’driane nieves, and Gabi Madrid around a shared question: what happens when language leaves the page? Across painting, sculpture, film, and installation, these four artists locate words, histories, and memories inside the body where they’ve been living all along. 

Admission is always free. 

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