It's that time again! The
Atlanta Beltline has posted their annual (going on their 3rd year) call for artists to bring awareness and publicize the city effort to build trails and transit along a historic 22-mile railroad corridor to connect 45 neighborhoods directly to each other. We participated last year by contributing a chess concrete table. The table was made from reclaimed wood and poured concrete, and each chess piece was made from leftover dowl pieces from past projects. We dipped some dowls into black paint to differentiate sets and capped off the queen and king pieces with. . . . well, bottle caps. We handpainted and acid etched the chess board and built in minimalist seating. We're not sure how much actual chess playing occurred as the table was in a more remote place off of Warner near Adair Park in SW Atlanta but we enjoyed being part of the event, nonetheless. And who knows, maybe truly engaging games did take place. . . we'd like to think so.
This year we are thinking of moving away from furniture and changing it up a bit. Perhaps a mural? We'll keep you posted as we brainstorm a bit more and as we get closer to the deadline of April 16th.
Click here for more information about the art
call. Below are some pictures of the chess table from last year.
First photo courtesy of
Atlanta Beltline and
Christopher Martin
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