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City Of Suwanee Announces Three-Story Mural For Newly Renovated Municipal Courthouse
The City of Suwanee has completed renovations to its nearly 60-year-old municipal court building, including a three-story addition.
11/24/2020
The City of Suwanee has completed renovations to its nearly 60-year-old municipal court building, including a three-story addition of approximately 8,600 square feet to the existing 3,200 square foot building. The building – which was Suwanee’s original city hall – received an expanded lobby to accommodate court session crowds, doubled court clerk work space, and added new space for the police Special Enforcement Unit
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In keeping with the city’s request of developers to commit one percent of construction costs toward public art, a large mural will be painted on a three-story wall. Hapeville, Georgia muralist Lauren Pallotta Stumberg was selected by the Suwanee Public Art Commission out of the twenty-four artists from across the world who responded to the request for qualifications for the project.
Stumberg received her BS in fine arts from the University of Michigan, with post graduate work with the University of the South Pacific. Her public art commissions can be seen in Norcross, Peoplestown, Hapeville, Cabbagetown, Decatur, Old Fourth Ward, Midtown and Southwest Atlanta. Stumberg leads Think Greatly, LLC, an art and design incubator in Atlanta which enables her to support public art development through community engagement and female-driven collaborations. She is represented by dk Gallery in Marietta.
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A colorful abstract of magpies will cover the entire three-story wall and wrap around to the smaller retaining wall in front of the building. It will also include two free-standing five-foot-tall metal magpie sculptures. Stumberg frequently uses abstracted magpies in her work, having been inspired by an English nursery rhyme that translates one’s fortune based on the number of magpies one sees.
“It is this perception of the magpie that inspires my work – the notion that the bird is an omen of change, and change, good or bad, is often invaluable,” said Stumberg. “In this way, the presence of the magpie is a calling to enter a crucible of the spirit. It asks you to rethink social norms, to shift perspectives, to be open to personal transformation.”
This press release was produced by the City of Suwanee. The views expressed here are the author’s own.