City of Sugar Hill Unveils "Sweet Life" Mural ■ The City of Sugar Hill recently unveiled “The Sweet Life” mural – created by local artist, Jennie Osiek. The large, colorful mural is located on the old City Hall building, now home of the “Suite Spot” – a small business incubator offering co-working space and dedicated workspaces. Last year, the City of Sugar Hill This mural is sent out an RFP, very symbolic calling on local of what Sugar artists to submit their renderings Hill is becoming. for the City’s first official mural. Out of It’s a piece of 20 different renderings all the new submitted, a public arts things we are committee selected doing and I’m 10 finalists to then be released to the public for proud of it. voting. Of those finalists Osiek’s mural won. - Sugar Hill Mayor, Steve Edwards Osiek, a professional graphic designer by trade, is a Sugar Hill resident and wanted to create something representative of the community she loves. “I wanted to portray an active and happy community, but something that is also pleasant and calming. I incorporated the tree to tie it into the City’s logo,” she explained. “This was probably the most heartfelt project and community-based project that I’ve ever done. I keep telling everybody that I
Artist, Jennie Osiek and City officials unveiled the mural at a ribbon cutting event on February 12th in front of many excited Sugar Hill residents.
painted my heart on the wall. I was very thankful that I got that opportunity, “ she continued. The plan is to eventually create even more murals throughout the City. “We’re doing everything we can to build a sense of community and place and we believe that public art is an important aspect of that, “ said Council Member, Brandon Hembree.
The North Gwinnett Middle School musical theatre troupe receives “Outstanding Performance Award” ■ The North Gwinnett Middle School musical theatre troupe received an “Outstanding Performance Award” at the Junior Theatre Festival, which took place at Cobb Galleria from January 13-15th. They finished in the top 9 out of 111 competing groups from all over the country as well as New Zealand and Japan. For being recognized as an “Outstanding Performance,” the North Gwinnett Middle School winning group was invited to perform in front of an audience of 6000 guests on the main stage before attending a premiere screening of Disney's "Newsies" film. The Junior Theater Festival is the world’s largest celebration of young people and musical theater. Produced by the Junior Theater Group and iTheatrics the event takes place every Martin Luther King Jr. weekend in Atlanta.
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