The 200 Buttons of Gwinnett

By Vivian Crawford

The other day, I was on a walk with my family on the Greenway Trail in Lilburn. We happened upon this painting, and I was confused as to why there were two holes in it, but after further investigation, I noticed that it said something about a button project. I later looked this up and found out that the county of Gwinnett was in the process of placing 200 button sculptures around Gwinnett as a public art project. Now you might be thinking why buttons and why 200 of them?! Well, it turns out that Gwinnett County was actually founded by a man named Button Gwinnett over 200 years ago. This project started in 2018, which was the 200th anniversary of the second largest county in GA by population, Gwinnett County! Now that’s enough history for right now; take a look at some of these beautiful paintings placed around Gwinnett!

Title: “Kaleidoscope”

Artist: Katie Janson

Location: GJAC

Title: “A Bot’s Best Friend”

Artist: Lance Campbell

Location: Corners Connector

Title: “Suburban Safari”

Artist: Lance Campbell

Location: Technology Park Atlanta

Title: “Wings In The Willow”

Artist: Lance Campbell

Location: Peachtree Corners Bridge

Title: “Field Sparrow”

Artist: Francis Byrd

Location: Spring Hall Event Center

Title: “Garden Back Path”

Artist: Vickie McCrary

Location: Greenway Trail

Title: Community Participation

Artist: Everyone!

Location: Main Entrance of city hall and the Gwinnett Library

This one may seem a little weird because yes it is blank, but the beauty of this one is that it is a blank chalk board open to the public to draw on!

Title: “JAZZ”

Artist: Bill Stevens

Location: Gas South Arena

Title: Community Participation

Artist: everyone!

Location: Hudgens Center for Arts and Learning

This is another chalkboard one:)

I challenge you guys to visit these sculptures listed here, and send in pictures to journalism.advisor@scholarsguild.net!!

For more information go to https://www.buttonart.org/.