ATLANTA -- Elevate Week, the Office of Cultural Affairs' large scale public art project, will begin Friday, Oct. 18 at locations throughout the city.

Muralists and performance groups will create art with the theme "Transit: Time, People and Places" through Saturday, Oct. 26.

"I am excited by this year's program because it is a testament to the evolving role of public art in the cultural and economic development of Atlanta," Eddie Granderson, public art program manager for the Office of Cultural Affairs, said in a statement. "We are growing Atlanta's reputation as a cultural destination through public art."

MARTA has partnered with the program to design a special Elevate bus. Route 49 will drive past much of the Elevate artwork, giving riders the opportunity to see it.

The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art is the first institution in the Southeast to present the nationally touring exhibition, “Posing Beauty in African American Culture.” Featuring more than 75 photographs by leading, emerging, and amateur photographers, “Posing Beauty” explores ways contemporary understanding of beauty has been informed by the works of photographers and artists dating from 1890 to the present.  The exhibition will be on view Sept. 5 through Dec. 7, 2013. The exhibition is curated by Deborah Willis, Ph.D., one of the nation's leading historians of African-American photography.

ATLANTA -- Jazz musician Roy Ayers will give a concert at the Wren's Nest this weekend.

Ayers will perform on Saturday, July 20 as part of the Jazz at the Nest concert series. Doors open at 5 p.m., with the music scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.

Attendees are invited to bring blankets, lawn chairs and picnic baskets to the outdoor concert.

The Wren's Nest, home of "Uncle Remus" writer Joel Chandler Harris, is located at 1050 Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard in Atlanta's West End.