StreetArtMap.org features maps & walking tours of Atlanta mural locations and other interactive content to explore popular neighborhoods across the city. It is one of the most useful websites for Atlanta artists and art enthusiasts we’ve seen, and represents an incredible feat of dedication, careful documentation, exhaustive photography, and a generally enviable love of all things creative.
We are blessed to know Arthur Ruddick, and his generous personality benefits all those lucky enough to cross paths. His retirement hobby is a painstaking catalog of Atlanta street art, elevated graffiti, and monumental mural installations. Every artist I know has consulted his extensive maps for one reason or another. His modesty and pleasant nature are disarming and delightful.
In 2019, Ruddick calculated that Atlantas would soon surpass 1000 extant murals (literally nobody else has that information), and although that may seem trivial or arbitrary, it has been a great source of pride to live in an urban area with such a dense concentration of public art and a place with people willing to turn 1000 walls into something energetic, greater, and more thought-provoking that stone.
After gathering some of the brightest minds and most influential figures of the Atlanta mural & street art community, Art launched a media awareness campaign “Celebrating 1000 Murals in Atlanta” (#ATL1000) that also produced new exhibitions on downtown digital billboards, helped sponsor a celebratory mural at the Krog Tunnel, and support Power Haus Creative’s goals for the Goddess Glow Project, empowering black women artists.