When artist Jack Pait moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 1981, the face of the city was bare. The street art movement hadn’t reached southern soil yet, and the population of Atlanta idled around a comfortable two million, establishing Atlanta as a medium-sized city. Now, 34 years later, Pait looks out over a transformed city as a figurehead of the Atlanta street art scene. He is best known as the art alias Evereman and started the Evereman Project, a guerilla art movement.

“Atlanta is fertile ground right now to be an artist,” Pait tells The Creators Project. “Compared to other major cities, there are more affordable places to live, there are a lot of grassroots organizations popping up that are making art happen on their own terms. I think an artist could come here and have freedom that they might not have in New York or LA. There’s these other places that are more sewn up and have their established players, but people can come here and create their own identities.”

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