Mysterious creatures have taken up residence in the beautiful forests surrounding Fernbank Museum. A new exhibition in Fernbank’s WildWoods area, “Forest Forms,” features the larger-than-life metal sculptures by Atlanta artist Huelani Mei. They include a family of foxes, flowers, rabbits, and a snake archway. The outdoor experience is on view at Fernbank through September 29th.
“City Lights” producer Summer Evans spoke with Mei and Fernbank Museum’s VP of programming and collections, Bobbi Hohmann.
“We love WildWoods just like we love Fernbank Forest, but they’re two different spaces,” Hohmann said. “WildWoods is accessible immediately behind the museum, you access it from the terrace. It’s 10 acres of sloping kind of woodland area so we do sometimes have challenges installing outdoor exhibitions.”
According to Hohmann, WildWoods is a kind of multi-purpose area with elevated boardwalk areas and architectural pods.
“We always want to have an educational overlay on pretty much everything that we do,” she said. “So, as kids are exploring, sliding down the slides, going through the rope tunnels they encounter native plants and animals or even fungi. They can play in a creek! We also have adventure outposts, which is kind of like a multi-level tree house that again has some educational overlay.”
