Twenty or so prominent new "residents" have moved into Suwanee just in time for the fifth installment of the city's SculpTour.
The 2017-19 exhibit will officially kick off at the SculpTour Sip & See May 20 from 5:30-9:30 at Town Center Park. This new event will include guided wine tours of the art and an opportunity to meet some of the featured artists and discuss their work, as well as a performance of Memphis by the Aurora Theatre on the Town Center stage.
Suwanee launched its public art initiative in 2008 with the formation of the City Council-appointed Public Arts Commission, established to create programs that bring and promote public art in Suwanee, and to work with and encourage developers to use one percent of construction costs to include public art or support public art as a component of new projects. Three years later, the first SculpTour was launched.
Since 2011, the award-winning SculpTour program has brought 79 sculptures to a walkable one-mile area of downtown Suwanee, not to mention the 11 pieces in the city’s permanent collection.
