✍️ Leave your mark

How legacy gets made Wednesday, Nov. 4 — How we create our legacy says as much about us as what we leave behind. Curator Lauren Tate Baeza left Atlanta for Cape Town, South Africa, on Monday. Behind her are the High Museum of Art’s new Nigeria galleries, which she opened Oct. 16 after five years of searching for 20th-century Nigerian works, many by artists who never had gallery representation. Baeza and her collaborators built the rooms around art schools that carried Nigeria from colonial rule into independence and around the teachers and students who kept the work moving. The works will rotate. The framework stays. Along the Stone Mountain Trail in DeKalb County, Georgia State University students are working with residents to co-design public art projects for a 5-mile stretch from the Avondale Estates MARTA station to Clarkston. Residents, local business owners, and MARTA employees have been invited to weigh in on things like colors and styles – while sharing neighborhood