Atlanta sister city Residency

ATLANTA (February 22, 2024) – Fifty years ago this year, the City of Atlanta and then-Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson proudly announced Lagos, Nigeria as one of its first Sister Cities, brokering what would become a landmark connection of culture and commerce that continues to shape international relations between the two cities to this day.

Beginning in February, Atlanta Beltline will commemorate this decades-long cultural exchange with a 10-week artist residency and special exhibition, featuring two renowned, Lagos-based artists: Taiye Idahor and Kainebi Osahenye. Both were selected by exhibition creator and curator Lauren Tate Baeza, who also serves as the Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art for the High Museum of Art, known for its extensive Nigerian art and material culture collection. Idahor and Osahenye will embark on a full cultural immersion as they create their new works. Their pieces will then be publicly unveiled Saturday, April 27 and will become a centerpiece of the 2024 Art on the Atlanta Beltline exhibition season. Click to Read more here

Over the past 10 weeks, two Nigerian artists have been hard at work in makeshift art studios at Ponce City Market. As of last weekend, Atlanta BeltLine is the new home of “LagosAtlanta: Sister City Rising,” a special public art exhibition by renowned Lagos-based artists Taiye Idahor and Kainebi Osahenye, curated by the High Museum of Art’s Lauren Tate Baeza. 

Atlanta BeltLine’s ‘LagosAtlanta’ exhibition brings Nigerian artists to the Westside Trail

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by Isadora PenningtonMay 8, 2024 | 1:00 pm