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Refinery29 Brings 29Rooms To Atlanta And BOSSIP Gets The Scoop From Local Atlanta Artist Neka King
We’re just a week out from the Atlanta opening of Refinery29’s annual immersive festival 29Rooms: Expand Your Reality visit to Atlanta from August 29 – September 8. This will be the first time the event has come to Atlanta, so it’s probably appropriate that this is also the first time 29Rooms is adding The Art Park, a new artist collective initiative, which invited one local artist in each city to transform a geometric playground into a canvas for creativity. We spoke with Atlanta’s pick, NNEKKAA, an interdisciplinary artist and Georgia State grad known for creating visual,digital and print-based media, inspired by her personal experience as a Southern, black American female. Check out our interview below:
BOSSIP: So Neka have you been pretty busy preparing for the 29Rooms opening in Atlanta?
NNEKKA: Yes, I’ve been pretty busy. I’ve been trying to work on my own process and also eagerly awaiting to see the final project in person.
BOSSIP: We love your work, should we expect to see some of the same type of graphic designs you’ve become known for at 29Rooms or are you doing something completely different?
NNEKKA: Yea you’ll definitely see some similar figures, I’m still dealing with a lot of black figures in an Afro-Futuristic way but it’s just going to be blown up and much bigger and larger scale so I’m excited to see the effect it has at that size.
