When online email marketing company MailChimp recently moved into a new 126,000-square-foot office space in Atlanta’s Ponce City Market, its employees found themselves staring at a lot of blank walls. So it did what many young companies these days are doing: It filled its large industrial office space with gigantic street-style works of art.But instead of commissioning individual artists, the company hired Mónica Campana, executive director of Living Walls—a local nonprofit that recruits nationally and internationally renowned artists to paint public murals in Atlanta—to curate the MailChimp walls. The company gave Campana carte blanche to select a group of American and international artists to paint eight individual murals on the cavernous interior of what is part of a redeveloped 1920s Sears, Roebuck, & Co. store and warehouse distribution center.“Projects like this help create a healthier arts ecosystem here in Atlanta,” MailChimp marketing manager Lain Shakespeare said in an email. (MailChimp is a financial sponsor of Living Walls but paid Campana and the artists directly for the artwork.)
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June 4, 2015
General News
