The Goat Farm offers evening full of art for ATL Art Week

September 26th, 2024

Orange poster for SITE that has a long black triangle with an eye at the end, with the letters S T and E around it. — The Goat Farm's SITE exhibition will feature art installations, live performances, exhibitions, and open studios on October 5th, 2024. (Courtesy of The Goat Farm)

Atlanta’s Goat Farm recently reopened its doors after a successful phase one of its renovation project, quintupling the size of its campus and offering a myriad of spaces for living and creative work.

The 10-acre property will join in Atlanta Art Week, presenting SITE, a monumental evening of art installations, live performances, exhibitions and open studios on Oct. 5. Goat Farm Managing Director Allie Bashuk and the High Museum’s Lauren Tate Baeza, who curated a special exhibition within SITE, joined Jacob Smulian of “City Lights” to discuss the evening.

The Goat Farm’s 12 acres will be completely open to the public on and features “a mix of augmented reality, musical performances, dance, film screenings, food trucks and [most] of our studio tenants are going to have open studios,” said Bashuk. “It’s going to be art everywhere around every single corner.”

Tate Baeza put together a special exhibition for SITE, called “the end is near, the end is beginning,” that brings six short art films by women artists of African descent. According to Tate Baeza, “The theme connecting these is the decidedly black and feminine approach to and navigation through the concept of the end of the world.”

That isn’t to say that the pieces will all be doom and gloom, as the theme expands into the aftermath of apocalypse. “It will be a powerfully suggestive experience that encourages audiences to seek the light of dawn after the darkness,” Tate Baeza said.

More information on SITE can be found at the Goat Farm’s website.