Artist behind Tiny Doors ATL shows off a much larger piece

Karen Anderson, the artist also known as Tiny Doors ATL, introduced a “Not So Tiny Door” to her repertoire Thursday.

Standing outside the Hotel Indigo, dressed in a short, fuzzy orange jacket and a raspberry knit hat (to match her hair), Anderson was Lilliputian next to her newest creation.

That door, a blue-green giant, is 14 feet tall and weighs 300 pounds. That’s considerably bigger than her usual creations, which are all, well, tiny. (About 7 inches tall, each weighs less than a pound.)

“The world’s eyes are on ATL right now,” said the 36-year-old artist. “Atlanta has so much rich culture, it would be impossible to miss the street art here.”

It might be easy to miss street art that’s only 7 inches tall, so she amped up her scale.

“This was an opportunity for me to bring some street art in a big way.”

This door was sponsored by Indigo’s parent company, IHG Hotels, to welcome Super Bowl visitors with what they call “Home Team Hospitality.”

It will also give visitors an excuse to hunt out some other Anderson doors: in front of the Fox Theatre, on the BeltLine, at the Georgia Aquarium, at the Krog Street Tunnel, in Cabbagetown and a few other places.

The Ann Arbor (Mich.) native is an unabashed fan of her new home, even when Atlanta is embarrassingly paranoid about snow.

“A snow day is a state of mind in Atlanta,” said Anderson. “We all just agree that it’s going to be a snow day, and whether it snows or not doesn’t really matter.”

Karen Anderson