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Buckhead Village is excited to announce that it is the latest Jamestown property to adopt “The Collision Project” – Jamestown’s art-centric initiative aimed at connecting artists to on-site, public art opportunities across Jamestown’s portfolio worldwide – with the debut of a painted mural and multi-dimensional textile install by local artist and founder of L.A.S. Collective, Lisa Soltis. Aligning with the property’s ever-evolving art and design community of retailers, Buckhead Village joins Jamestown’s Ponce City Market (Atlanta), Industry City (Brooklyn), Raleigh Iron Works (Raleigh), and Groot Handlesgebeouw (Rotterdam, Netherlands) properties that have already implemented the program.
“The Collision Project is an important element of our placemaking program that activates our properties as canvases for creative expression,” said Michael Phillips, President of Jamestown. “Lisa Soltis’ mural and textile sculpture at Buckhead Village will enliven the streetscape and add a new layer of experiential art to the property.”
A mixed media artist with over two decades of experience in art and design, Lisa specializes in leading mixed media projects and installations for the experiential event and marketing industry. Tapping into her passion for two-dimensional art combined with her extensive experience with photography, ceramics, mixed media sculpture, and jewelry, Lisa sets out to create tactile and textured pieces that viewers can touch, walk beneath and around, and be fully immersed into a one-of-a-kind, captivating experience.
Breathing new life onto the walls of Buckhead Village’s popular gathering space, The Veranda, the towering 13-foot mural creates a tactile and immersive experience, aiming to dismantle society’s perception of how to view art with a purposeful combination of material elements, new age techniques, and playful movement. The mural – composed of materials that wear and weather mixed…
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