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/.
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