Miranda Kyle

Arts & Culture Program Manager, Atlanta BeltLine, Inc.

Atlanta

Miranda Kyle is the Chief Curator of Art on the Atlanta BeltLine and Project Manager of Arts and Culture for Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. Since her appointment in 2017, she has restructured ABI’s Public Art Program, managed an NEA Our Town grant to create and implement an Arts and Culture Strategic Implementation Plan for ABI, and overseen the commissioning of hundreds of art activations along the corridor. In her role as the Project Manager for Arts and Culture she supports the department of Community Engagement and Planning by managing relationships with outside arts organizations and institutions such as the National Black Arts Festival, the Woodruff Center for the Arts, Southern Fried Queer Pride, and Artlanta Gallery. She ensures the local creative community is integrated into the process of the public art program with programs like Family Paint Day, and the Special Projects platform that asks the communities on the BeltLine to put forth their ideas for exhibitions. Additionally, Kyle works on interdepartmental collaborations with the Planning and Landscape Architecture Departments to incorporate art into trail design, engage developers to consider public art in their construction, and advise on secondary design elements like benches and future transit stops.

Miranda Kyle was raised between the swamps of the Cape Fear River Basin and the hollers and wilds of the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina. She received an undergraduate degree in Fine Art from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2005, a postgraduate degree from the Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland in 2007, completing her MFA in Sculpture at The Savannah College of Art and Design in 2015. She has exhibited and curated across the U.S. and internationally. In addition her fine art and curatorial practices, Miranda is most proud of her ability to cook biscuits over an open fine. Currently based in Atlanta, Miranda can often be found in a tree reading a book when not in her studio.