By Summer Stanley. Think Sex and the City. Think vintage classic style with a young, edgy twist. Southern Dropout’s monthly trunk show at Mint Gallery delivers Carrie Bradshaw’s ideal shoes and more minus the Manolo Blahnik price tag. Tucked away nearby the Sampson Street lofts, Mint Gallery is nestled in a mostly residential area along John Wesley Dobbs Avenue. A non-profit gallery, Mint is renowned for promoting local artists, those fresh as well as seasoned. The cheap drinks and good music at the parties they host doesn’t hurt either.

By Madison Massey. “It is important to know the local art scene and what is happening in our corner of the art world,” validates local Atlanta artist, Nicole Merkens. Art is one of Atlanta’s driving forces attributed with keeping up our nation-wide reputation as an eclectic entertainment metropolis. The laid back mother of two, living and working out of North Fulton, is just one of many artists helping to keep Atlanta’s art scene alive.