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Folk Art Park is a set of folk-art installations on leftover interstate bridge land above the I-75/85 Downtown Connector in Atlanta, created for the 1996 Olympics. ArtsATL included it in an August 2025 guide to the city's outdoor art.
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Folk Art Park
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Folk Art Park was created for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games under the Public Spaces Program of the Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta, and was the Georgia Department of Transportation’s first public art project, according to Downtown Atlanta. It reclaimed leftover portions of two concrete highway bridges above the interstate connector. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in 2017 that a 1994 design competition, won by University of Georgia art professor Robert Clements, led to 67 works by 23 southern artists across the two bridges.
The weathered pieces were restored in stages. The AJC described a partial reopening on 1 June 2017, and Downtown Atlanta, citing the Atlanta INtown paper, called the restoration complete that month. The City of Atlanta’s Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs later reported a final phase at Ralph McGill Boulevard and Courtland Avenue: Vollis Simpson’s “Windmills” were reinstalled in December 2019, and James Harold Jennings’s “Guitar Girls” in June 2020. Rough Draft Atlanta described the park as restored in May 2021.
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Downtown Atlanta describes installations at Piedmont Avenue and Baker Street and at Courtland Street and Ralph McGill Boulevard, on bridges over the interstate. The City of Atlanta reported its restoration finished in June 2020, and Rough Draft Atlanta described the park as restored in May 2021. ArtsATL's August 2025 guide to Atlanta's outdoor art includes the park.
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Public street intersections in downtown Atlanta, at Piedmont Avenue and Baker Street and at Courtland Street and Ralph McGill Boulevard, on bridges above the I-75/85 Downtown Connector, according to Downtown Atlanta.
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