Experience Oakland Cemetery after dark at illumine, a unique arts event featuring colorful lighting, exhibits by Atlanta’s top artists, live music, and more.
Experience Oakland Cemetery after dark at illumine, a unique arts event featuring colorful lighting, exhibits by Atlanta’s top artists, live music, and more.
Historian and author Dr. D L Henderson explores the gravestones, epitaphs, and symbols in Oakland’s historically Black burial ground and South-View’s oldest historic section.
Historic Oakland Cemetery is Atlanta’s oldest public park and the final resting place of many of the city’s most noted citizens. Less than a mile from downtown, its 48 acres are full of treasures – history and gardens, sculpture and architecture, ancient oaks and magnolias.
Opening weekend of illumine 2025, presented in partnership with Cat Eye Creative, drew thousands of visitors to historic Oakland Cemetery—and it’s been lighting up the press ever since!
Historic Oakland Foundation’s Director of Adult Programs Sandy White and Cat Eye Creative Founder Adam Crawford recently joined Summer Evans on WABE’s City Lights to share the vision behind this year’s event and offer a glimpse into what attendees can expect.
illumine is almost here! Get in the spirit with the official illumine 2025 playlist inspied by this year’s theme: what remains.
On April 3, 2025, Historic Oakland Foundation officially opened the new Visitor Center, located at 374 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr SE.
Learn more about the Spring Plant Sale from Oakland’s Gardens Team!
Burial grounds have long served as cultural and artistic gathering spaces. Oakland’s upcoming event illumine will modernize this tradition by illuminating the cemetery with art installations.
Announcing the artists of illumine 2025, in partnership with Cat Eye Creative: Vanna Black, Kevin Chambers, FRKO, Bojana Ginn, Angie Jerez, Navin June Norling, and VAYNE.
Historic Oakland Foundation is thrilled to share that the new Visitor Center across from the cemetery’s western gate is near completion and has “soft opened” to the public.
