Atlanta mural artist — The Link at Columbia, Decatur East

DECATUR EAST
MURAL

Q: Where is Corey Barksdale's Decatur East mural located?

The mural is inside The Link at Columbia senior residence at 515 East Freeman Street, part of the Decatur East development in the growing corridor between Decatur and Avondale Estates, Georgia.

Q: Who commissioned the Decatur East mural?

The mural was commissioned through Fusion Architectural Interior Design and its procurement arm, FAID Procurement LLC, as part of the interior design build-out for The Link at Columbia senior residence.

Q: What inspired the Decatur East mural?

The mural draws on Corey Barksdale's Atlanta Reflections series, capturing the spirit, soul, and liveliness of Atlanta and bringing diverse cultures together to encourage residents and visitors to respect and learn from one another's differences.

A Corey Barksdale mural inside The Link at Columbia senior residence, commissioned by Fusion Architectural Interior Design for the growing Decatur East development.

Public art and placemaking

A mural celebrating Atlanta's spirit, soul, and diversity

Atlanta mural artist Corey Barksdale was commissioned through Fusion Architectural Interior Design to paint a large-scale hallway mural inside The Link at Columbia, a senior residence at 515 East Freeman Street in Decatur East — a new, up-and-coming corridor in the growing stretch between Decatur and Avondale Estates, Georgia.

The mural draws its inspiration from Corey's Atlanta Reflections series, built around an Atlanta skyline backdrop and figures caught in a festive, celebratory moment. It's meant to represent the spirit, soul, and liveliness of the city — bringing diverse cultures together in one scene to encourage the people who live with it every day to respect and learn from each other's differences.

The Link at Columbia, Decatur East

Decatur East is one of the newer, more exciting corridors taking shape between Decatur and Avondale Estates, and The Link at Columbia — a senior residence built out by Fusion Architectural Interior Design — is part of that growth. Corey Barksdale was brought on to fill a long interior hallway wall with a mural that would greet residents daily with color, movement, and a sense of home.

Wide view of the completed Decatur East mural spanning the hallway wall at The Link at Columbia, with silhouetted dancers and musicians against an Atlanta skyline — The finished mural spans the full hallway wall at The Link at Columbia.

Corey Barksdale detailing a black silhouette dancing couple with gold linework for the Decatur East mural at The Link at Columbia — Corey Barksdale detailing the black-and-gold silhouette dance figures that open the mural.

Corey Barksdale painting the Atlanta skyline backdrop of the Decatur East mural, reaching up to detail the building tops — Painting the Atlanta skyline backdrop that anchors the mural's Atlanta Reflections theme.

Inspired by Atlanta Reflections

Rather than start from a blank wall, Corey built the Decatur East mural around his existing Atlanta Reflections concept — a skyline rendered in warm reds, oranges, and blues behind patterned, silhouetted figures caught mid-celebration. The goal was a piece that feels like Atlanta itself: layered, diverse, and alive. Figures dressed in African-pattern textiles stand shoulder to shoulder with dancers and musicians against Decatur's own skyline nod, a visual reminder to residents and visitors that the city's culture is built from many different threads woven together.

Close-up of Corey Barksdale painting African-pattern textile detail on a silhouetted figure in the Decatur East mural — Detail work on the patterned clothing of the mural's silhouetted figures.

Completed jazz musicians and dancers panel of the Decatur East mural set against a colorful Atlanta skyline — The finished panel: musicians and dancers set against Atlanta's skyline.

The finished mural, from every angle

Once the scaffolding came down, the mural filled the hallway corner to corner — close enough to Avondale Estates and Decatur that it reads as a piece of both, and big enough that it takes a few different vantage points to see the whole thing.

Angled wide view of the completed Decatur East mural wrapping around the hallway corner at The Link at Columbia — The mural wraps around the hallway corner, connecting the skyline scene to the building's own architecture.

Front-facing complete view of the Decatur East mural's silhouetted dancers and musicians against the Atlanta skyline — A straight-on view of the dancers and musicians against the Atlanta skyline.

Close-up detail of silhouetted dancers and a saxophonist in African-pattern textiles from the Decatur East mural — Detail of the dancers and saxophonist, patterned in gold against the skyline.

Corey Barksdale painting architectural building detail on the Decatur East mural beside a hallway wayfinding map — Corey Barksdale detailing the building corner where the mural meets the hallway's own wayfinding signage.

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Corey Barksdale's Decatur East mural located?

The mural is inside The Link at Columbia senior residence at 515 East Freeman Street, part of the Decatur East development in the growing corridor between Decatur and Avondale Estates, Georgia.

Who commissioned the Decatur East mural?

The mural was commissioned through Fusion Architectural Interior Design and its procurement arm, FAID Procurement LLC, as part of the interior design build-out for The Link at Columbia senior residence.

What inspired the Decatur East mural?

The mural draws on Corey Barksdale's Atlanta Reflections series, capturing the spirit, soul, and liveliness of Atlanta and bringing diverse cultures together to encourage residents and visitors to respect and learn from one another's differences.

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