“Southeast’s Largest Outdoor Art Gallery” Expands in Midtown Atlanta
10/02/2025
Midtown Alliance, the nonprofit organization dedicated to improving Atlanta’s most walkable neighborhood, today announced the expansion of the Southeast’s Largest Outdoor Art Gallery, featuring more than 200 new works from talented professional and amateur artists displayed on light pole banners along Peachtree Street and other thoroughfares.
Recognized as Atlanta’s heart of the arts, Midtown hosts the largest concentration of arts and cultural venues in the South, attracting some 7M visitors annually. Midtown is also a premier destination for public art in the city, with more than 70 murals and sculptures on view in the outdoor spaces between buildings. Public art invites discovery and delights people as they explore their city on foot. A recent community survey led by Midtown Alliance found 56% of respondents spend time admiring art in the district at least twice per month.
Midtown Alliance’s work to raise the district’s profile as a place where art is celebrated and created has yielded many wins for the city in recent years. The organization manages an artist residency program in partnership with commercial property owners, a robust schedule of free community events and programming built around performing arts, rotating public art installations and public gathering spaces decked out with compelling art.
Following a call for entries in mid-2025, Midtown Alliance received nearly 800 submissions from local artists and some outside Atlanta. The artists range from practicing professionals to hobbyists and students. Midtown Alliance convened a juried competition to select art for the program. Featured works shown on the banners range from oil paintings and photography to mixed media and illustration.
This latest expansion of public art in Midtown arrives just in time for the 2025 Atlanta Pride Parade, which welcomes tens of thousands of participants and spectators to the district on October 12, and the Georgia Veterans Day Parade that will take place on November 8.
Midtown Alliance plans to keep this new wave of street banners up for roughly one year before assessing the gallery’s future direction and rotating in new artwork. The decommissioned vinyl banners will then be gifted to the individual artists that were featured in the outdoor art gallery.