Tiny Doors ATL opens studio at Atlantic Station

Tiny Doors ATL, the arts group that creates the tiny doorway installations placed around the city, has opened its first public art studio at Atlantic Station.

Located at 1380 Atlantic Drive NW, Suite 14100, the 1,541 square foot studio is the first of its kind for the organization and will allow the public a behind-the-scenes look into the popular art project.

Principal Artist and Founding Director, Karen Anderson Singer, will focus on providing a free, informative and immersive experience for studio visitors of all ages. The Tiny Doors ATL studio will offer a look into the creation of the installations with monthly open-studios, as well as an overview of the art project’s history. Retired doors are on display and Tiny Doors ATL merchandise is available for purchase. Singer is planning to bring unique programming to the studio, including an artist talk series and participation in Atlantic Station’s public events.

“Since the beginning of Tiny Doors ATL, the goal of each location has been to bring the community together in an authentic way. I wanted my studio location to do the same,” said Singer. “Atlantic Station is a thriving neighborhood in the heart of Atlanta. The property is natural a draw for people, and I’m excited to expand on the partnership here to create cool and interesting installations for our visitors.”

Since launching the art project in 2014, Singer has created more than 21 tiny door installations in Atlanta.

Emory professor wins Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Jericho Brown, Emory’s Winship Distinguished Research Professor in Creative Writing, has won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his latest collection, “The Tradition.”

In selecting Brown’s book for the honor, the Pulitzer board called it “a collection of masterful lyrics that combine delicacy with historical urgency in their loving evocation of bodies vulnerable to hostility and violence.”

“I have known about the Pulitzer Prize and understood its prestige since I was in elementary school and Rita Dove won it,” Brown says. “And I’m so glad I understood it as one of the possibilities for a writer even when I was a kid. Understanding it as a possibility doesn’t mean I ever expected to win it, and getting the news that I won is the very best thing to happen to me in 2020 by far,” he adds. “I didn’t expect to win it because when I write my poems I mean to be as subversive and radical as possible.”

Since being published in April 2019, “The Tradition” has received glowing reviews lauding Brown’s “compelling and forceful” brilliance for raising “imperative questions” that capture the intimate stakes in broader worries about safety, terror, freedom and love.

Brown invented a new poetic form called the “duplex” to challenge the existing rules of poetry while his words challenged the contradictory myths and culture of the nation.

The Pulitzer is the latest honor for Brown, who previously has been named the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry.