Explore Atlanta culture in a new interactive online project by Google Arts & Culture, in collaboration with 30 local organizations including Hammonds House Musuem at g.co/exploreatlanta
ATLANTA (June 8, 2021) – Today Google announced its partnership with 30 world-class Atlanta institutions to bring the city’s culture – past and present – online on its Google Arts & Culture platform and app at g.co/exploreatlanta.
For the first time, everyone everywhere can engage with organizations — including Hammonds House Museum — across the city in one digital location and discover its unique culture. As travel and tourism opens, Google Arts & Culture hopes Atlantans will be reminded just how much their city has to offer, and that visitors will be encouraged to discover the city for themselves.
Atlanta is the first city in the American deep south and fourth in the U.S. to be featured in Google Arts & Culture’s global initiative to capture and share the unique culture of cities. Along with Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Charlotte, Atlanta joins European cultural hubs on the platform including Milan and Naples, Italy, Lyon, France, and Hamburg, Germany.
“We are excited to be a partner in the Google Arts & Culture Atlanta Project,” states Donna Watts-Nunn, Director of Operations at Hammonds House Museum. “This is an amazing opportunity to show the world the wealth of cultural, historical, culinary and arts offerings available in Atlanta. We look forward to welcoming visitors to Hammonds House Museum – in person and online – and sharing the cultural diversity and important legacy of artists of African descent.”
In the Hammonds House Museum section of the Google Arts & Culture Atlanta Project online visitors will discover interactive stories from recent exhibitions including Nu Africans by Grace Kisa and Maurice Evans which addresses the notion that Africans of the diaspora, through their individual circumstances, have evolved into their own tribe. Inspired by legendary warriors and queens from the African continent, models were styled in elaborate costumes with striking headpieces and crowns; Masud Olufani’s Translocation & Transfiguration which explores how the social complication of “blackness” in America has served as a catalyst for the creative brilliance, cultural inventiveness, and spiritual resilience characteristic of the African diaspora; and Shanequa Gay’s vibrant and immersive community-focused LIT WITHOUT SHERMAN: A Love Letter To The West End. They will also be able to explore some of the museum’s permanent art collection including works by Romare Bearden, Robert S. Duncanson, Louis J. Delsarte, Tina Dunkley, LeRoy Clarke, Nellie Mae Rowe and many others. A virtual tour of the museum’s current exhibition, Departure by Charly Palmer, can be viewed on the museum’s website.
“We are thrilled to showcase Atlanta’s rich culture and historic art scene for everyone to explore and enjoy online at Google Arts & Culture,” said Hetal Joshi Gordon, Director, Global Client Lead and Site Lead for Google’s Atlanta Office. “From the city’s historic museums to global cuisine and innovative spirit, Atlanta is unique and joyful. We want to give a special thanks to our 30 local partners, without their support the world would not be able to experience this vibrant and charming city.”
The new Atlanta page brings more than 130+ stories, 4,800+ artworks and artifacts, and 30 partners spotlighting the city’s murals and neighborhoods, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, rap music and classical orchestra, local figures who made national history, fine arts, food, and more.
Now, anyone, anywhere can experience Atlanta by downloading Google Arts & Culture’s Android or iOS app or by visiting Google Arts & Culture.
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Google Arts & Culture puts the treasures, stories and knowledge of over 2.000 cultural institutions from 80 countries at your fingertips. If Google’s mission is to make the world’s information more accessible, then Arts & Culture’s mission is to make the world’s culture accessible to anyone, anywhere. It’s your doorway to explore art, history, and wonders of the world. Discover stories about cultural heritage ranging from Van Gogh’s bedroom paintings, Puerto Rico’s heritage, Sports in Australia or the women’s right movement to ancient Maya temples, Japanese Food and Indian Railways.
Hammonds House Museum’s mission is to celebrate and share the cultural diversity and important legacy of artists of African descent. The museum is the former residence of the late Dr. Otis Thrash Hammonds, a prominent Atlanta physician and a passionate arts patron. A 501(c)3 organization which opened in 1988, Hammonds House Museum boasts a permanent collection of more than 450 works including art by Romare Bearden, Robert S. Duncanson, Benny Andrews, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Hale Woodruff, Amalia Amaki, Radcliffe Bailey and Kojo Griffin. In addition to featuring art from their collection, the museum offers new exhibitions, artist talks, workshops, concerts, poetry readings, arts education programs, and other cultural events throughout the year.
Located in a beautiful Victorian home in Atlanta’s historic West End, Hammonds House Museum is a cultural treasure and a unique venue. For more information, and to see how you can support their mission and programming, visit their website: hammondshouse.org.
MEDIA: Images to go with this release are in the Hammonds House Museum Dropbox here: http://bit.ly/HammondsHouseMuseum. For more information contact Karen Hatchett at Hatchett PR, karen@hatchettpr.com.