The Creatives Project (TCP)

The Creatives Project is proud to launch Good to Be Seen, an exhibition curated by Sidney Pettice (), recipient of our inaugural Curatorial Fellowship.

In collaboration with , Good to Be Seen activates six digital billboards throughout Downtown Atlanta with artwork by Rita Harper (.p), Montenez Lowery (.l), and Chip Moody (.moody)

Through photography and image-making, the exhibition celebrates Black Southern life, care, collectivity, and everyday moments that deserve visibility in public space. The project challenges stereotypical representations and offers a more nuanced portrait of Atlanta and its communities.

Running from June 8 to September 30, 2026, this exhibition coincides with the 2026 World Cup, offering heightened public visibility and a unique opportunity to engage both local and international audiences through contemporary art in the public realm.

The TCP Curatorial Fellowship is funded in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from our sponsoring partner, Atlanta Downtown.

For Material Memory, TCP Resident N. Masani Landfair brings a practice rooted in collage, photography, repurposed materials, and installation.

Born and raised in South Chicago, Masani’s work reflects on industrial decline, environmental damage, and the resilience of nature reclaiming space. Working with found objects and layered materials, she explores healing, sustainability, memory, and transformation through processes of reconstruction and reuse.

A Found Object / Collage / Mixed Media Artist, Poet, and Photographer, Masani has exhibited nationally and internationally, with work featured in The Black Collagist Book and in the collection of the Illinois State Museum.

Through Material Memory, participants will engage papermaking and bookbinding as tactile, collaborative processes centered on accumulation, storytelling, and material transformation.

Join Masani and Lex Turnbull for this two-part workshop exploring handmade paper, collage, and sculptural books.

📍 Goat Farm — Studio S105 Porch
📅 June 6 + June 13
⏰ 10AM – 2PM
🎟 Limited spots available

For Material Memory, TCP Resident Lex Turnbull brings a multidisciplinary practice that moves fluidly across video, printmaking, sculpture, and installation.

A southerner and self-described “jack-of-all-trades,” Lex approaches art as a way of exploring — and exploiting — our understanding of reality, embracing both its comedy and tragedy. Their work investigates communication, interconnectedness, and the fragile boundaries we construct around ourselves, our bodies, and our environments.

Through papermaking and bookbinding, Lex’s approach to material becomes a way of thinking through touch, accumulation, transformation, and the temporary structures we create for protection and survival.

Join Lex and N. Masani Landfair for Material Memory, a two-part workshop exploring handmade paper, collage, and tactile storytelling.

📍 Goat Farm — Studio S105 Porch
📅 June 6 + June 13
⏰ 10 AM – 2 PM
🎟 Limited spots available
🔗 Registration: Link in bio.

Material Memory: Papermaking & Bookbinding

Join TCP artists in residence Lex Turnbull () and N. Masani Landfair (.masani.landfair) for a two-part, hands-on workshop exploring material transformation, storytelling, and tactile making.

This workshop invites participants to slow down and engage with paper as both a medium and a vessel for memory. Working with organic materials and found elements, you’ll create handmade paper and transform it into a bound, sculptural book through collage and simple binding techniques.

Session 1: Papermaking
📅 Saturday, June 6 | 10 AM – 2 PM
Create your own handmade paper using pulp, fibers, and embedded materials. Participants are encouraged to bring organic elements (leaves, fibers, etc.) or small personal items to incorporate into their sheets (photos, scraps of fabric, thread, plastic bits, etc.).

Session 2: Bookbinding & Collage
📅 Saturday, June 13 | 10 AM – 2 PM
Using the paper created in Session 1, participants will explore collage and bookbinding techniques to create a unique, hand-bound book.

The finished product will be something unique to the maker and push the boundaries of what makes a “book”.

Details
📍 Goat Farm (porch outside Studio S-105)
👥 Limited to 10–15 participants
🎟 $7 Donation Fee
✨ Ages 12+
 🌱 All levels welcome — no prior experience needed
🔗 Registration: Link in bio.

Join us on June 2 for Dual Concepts, a teen art exhibition presented by ChopArt, () in partnership with Atlanta Mission, (atlmission) and The Creatives Project.

This exhibition marks the culmination of our outreach collaboration with youth at Atlanta Mission’s My Sister’s House and features artwork created by teens alongside TCP resident artists through workshops in photography, collage, ceramics, portraiture, and experimental making.

More than art instruction, these sessions became spaces for self-expression, confidence-building, collaboration, and community care.

For many of the teens involved, this is the first time their work will be publicly exhibited and offered for sale. Every cent from artwork sales goes directly back to the teens.
Come celebrate these young artists, support their creativity, and experience an evening centered on art, community, and connection.

🗓 June 2, 2026
⏰ 7–9 PM
📍 Bellows Film Lab
1140 Euclid Ave
FREE + Open to the Public

A special thank you to our incredible cohort for the care, creativity, and dedication they brought to this collaboration with the teens:


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Picture your studio here! 📍

We are partnering with a few of our friends to bring you CTR Culture Studios: Atlanta’s hub for Art & Digital Possibilities and applications are open now.
We’re talking 10,000 sq ft of creative infrastructure in the heart of the city, inside one of Atlanta’s most iconic properties. This is where working artists, cultural collaborators, and creative businesses get space, tools, and a real platform at the intersection of media, technology and storytelling in the heart of Downtown ATL.

What’s inside: 🎨 7 affordable dedicated studios 🖥️ Gallery + projection mapping lab 🎤 Reservable event space for panels, workshops & performances 🤝 Shared flex, conference & collab spaces 📡 Digital media tools + mentorship access 🎬 Exhibitions, screenings, live programming & more.

Who should apply? Are you a creative who is interested in pushing your practice through storytelling and technology while engaging with the public? Do you run a do-good organization needing a space to present your platform?

This is a place where the public watches culture get made and we’re thrilled to welcome the first members of the community.

CTR Culture Studios will be the new home of , , and Fulton County’s Public Art Futures Lab (), three Atlanta institutions whose work will live, grow, and be experienced right here, in the heart of Downtown.

Who’s next? Tag a friend!

📅 Apply by June 15
📅 Selections announced July
📅 First activations August

Picture your studio here! 📍

We are partnering with a few of our friends to bring you CTR Culture Studios: Atlanta’s hub for Art & Digital Possibilities and applications are open now.
We’re talking 10,000 sq ft of creative infrastructure in the heart of the city, inside one of Atlanta’s most iconic properties. This is where working artists, cultural collaborators, and creative businesses get space, tools, and a real platform at the intersection of media, technology and storytelling in the heart of Downtown ATL.

What’s inside: 🎨 7 affordable dedicated studios 🖥️ Gallery + projection mapping lab 🎤 Reservable event space for panels, workshops & performances 🤝 Shared flex, conference & collab spaces 📡 Digital media tools + mentorship access 🎬 Exhibitions, screenings, live programming & more
Who should apply? Are you a creative who is interested in pushing your practice through storytelling and technology while engaging with the public? Do you run a do-good organization needing a space to present your platform?
This is a place where the public watches culture get made and we’re thrilled to welcome the first members of the community.

CTR Culture Studios will be the new home of , , and Fulton County’s Public Art Futures Lab (), three Atlanta institutions whose work will live, grow, and be experienced right here, in the heart of Downtown.

Who’s next? Tag a friend!

📅 Apply by June 15
📅 Selections announced July
📅 First activations August

TCP is thrilled to welcome Sidney Pettice as our inaugural Curatorial Fellow Fellow for summer 2026!

In collaboration with , Sidney will activate six digital billboards in Downtown Atlanta with artwork by Atlanta-based artists from June 1 to September 30, 2026. This exhibition coincides with the World Cup, offering heightened public visibility and a significant opportunity to engage with both local and international audiences.

Sidney Pettice is a Southern-born-and-based curator and writer. She received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, focusing on African Diasporic Art History, her M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and in the fall will begin her PhD in American History at the University of Tennessee. Her work aims to blend the analysis of Black history with cultural criticism and visual art.

“I aim to center the expansion and further documentation of Black history, culture, and vernacular through extensive writings and research on Black American artists, writers, and cultural critics, highlighting the Diaspora as a whole with a keen, continued focus on Southernness. I fell in love with the arts through Southern Institution. My practice is exemplary through published works and curated exhibitions that cover topics such as self-presentation and Blackness, histories of Southern ritual practice and folklore, as well as the breadth and richness of Black music culture.”

This exhibition is funded by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly, and the National Endowment for the Arts and by our sponsoring partner Atlanta Downtown, Inc.

Open Studios at Goat Farm

This coming Saturday & Sunday — May 2–3 — join us for Open Studios during the Indie Craft Experience () at Goat Farm ()

TCP Studios S-104 & S-105 will be open 12-5pm.
Come meet our TCP artists:


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Spend time in their studios, see the work up close, and support their practice.

We’ll have small works available—including works on paper and more intimate pieces—perfect for starting or growing your collection.

We’re honored to have received so many strong and compelling submissions for the 2026–27 TCP Artist Residency a Goat Farm. 

As we begin the review process, we’re excited to introduce the artists, curators, scholars, and cultural leaders who will help select the four Atlanta-based visual artists for TCP’s 2026–27 cohort. 

Please join us in welcoming and celebrating this year’s panelists. We’re honored to have their voices, insight, and leadership guiding this year’s selection process. 

1.Miranda Kyle, —Curator,  Indigenous Arts of the Americas. Michael C. Carlos Museum | Emory University 

2.Yu‑Kai Lin, .kai.lin — Owner & Director of Kai Lin Ar, a champion of emerging Southeast-based artists.

3.Artemus Jenkins, — Interdisciplinary lens-based artist and cultural ethnographer exploring energetic memory within the African Diaspora.

4.Emily Baker, — Atlanta artist, researcher, and Assistant Professor of Sculpture at GSU, investigating manufacturing industries, identity, and the evolving relationship between workers, technology, and the future of labor. Yufei Ren

5.Shannon Morris, — Curator and writer engaging global contemporary art across academic, public, and private spaces, currently serving as Gallery Director of the Spruill Centre for the Arts’ Spruill Gallery.

6.Crystal Jin Kim, — Filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist from Atlanta, currently serving as the 2023–2025 Filmmaker-in-Residence with the Atlanta Film Society.

7. Lauren Harris, — Curator and cultural strategist with 15+ years of community-centered arts leadership, currently Program Director at The Black Embodiments Studio.

We’re so grateful to each of you for lending your wisdom and energy to this process.

Let’s get ready to dive into the applications. Stay tuned for updates!