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Suwanee votes to keep sculpture for permanent collection

Eight steel goats, weighing about 100 pounds each, by Atlanta artist Phil Proctor symbolize the concept of awareness. All of the goats in ‘The Herd’– save one – have their faces to the ground, seeing only what is in front of their noses. One goat raises his head to experience the beauty of his surroundings. Courtesy City of Suwanee
Eight steel goats, weighing about 100 pounds each, by Atlanta artist Phil Proctor symbolize the concept of awareness. All of the goats in ‘The Herd’– save one – have their faces to the ground, seeing only what is in front of their noses. One goat raises his head to experience the beauty of his surroundings. Courtesy City of Suwanee
By Karen Huppertz
March 23, 2017

Suwanee citizens have voted and selected ‘The Herd’ by Phil Proctor as the 2015-2017 Suwanee SculpTour People’s Choice winner. The Suwanee Public Arts Commission, using donated funds, will purchase the eight goats that reside in the cemetery at the corner of Buford Highway and Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, making them the newest additions to Suwanee’s permanent art collection.

‘The Herd’ isn’t the only sculpture being given an extended stay. Fan favorites ‘Dancer XX’ by Jack Howard-Potter, and ‘Friends’ by Nnamdi Okonkwo have been retained for a second round of SculpTour. The artists of these two pieces were selected as prize winners by the Public Art Commission, along with: ‘Corey’ by Jonanthan Bowling, ‘Sunflower Gate’ by Andrew T. Crawford, ‘Love Hurts’ by Benson Sculpture and ‘The Three Muses’ by Hanna Jubran.

The public art encounter has brought a total of 79 sculptures to a one-mile area of downtown Suwanee during its past four installations, as well as 14 permanent pieces owned by the city.

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