Twenty or so prominent new residents have moved into Suwanee! The fifth installment of the city's popular SculpTour temporary sculpture exhibition was installed in early May. The 2017-19 exhibit will officially kick off at the SculpTour Sip & See event on May 20 from 5:30-9:30 pm 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.

Over the past dozen years or so, the City of Suwanee has undertaken initiatives to transform Suwanee into a distinctive, desirable place to live. Cities have long considered public art a key component of a vibrant community — an essential element of placemaking and city design, a tool for promoting community connectedness and economic development, and a means of providing people with experiences.

Suwanee launched its public art initiative in 2008 with the formation of the City Council-appointed Public Arts Commission (PAC), 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. With goals to enliven Town Center, attract visitors, and stimulate interest in Suwanee's public art program, SculpTour adds to the sense of dynamism, energy, rhythm, and ritual in the city.