Media Coverage
“Futurist” by Shannon Lake, Pierce’s Corner, Suwanee (click on image for video).
2025
July 31, 2025
Saporta Report “Reporter’s Notebook: Gwinnett supports public art, leadership changes, events announced”
July 25, 2025
Gwinnett Daily Post “Explore Gwinnett hands out $100,000 in placemaking grants to local communities”
April 9, 2025 Lawrenceville Arts Commission Awarded 2025 Project Grant from Gwinnett Creativity Fund
Lawrenceville Arts Commission Current Project, Magnolias on a Sweet Breeze Georgia Gwinnett College Community Mural Project
2024
July 2024
Gwinnett Forum “FOCUS: Sugarloaf CID plans Gateway Monument at I-85”
May 23, 2024
Metro Atlanta CEO “Explore Gwinnett Awards Over $175,000 in Project Grants Through Gwinnett Creativity Fund”
March 2024
Rough Draft Atlanta “Applications Open for 2024 Gwinnett Creativity Fund”
March 2024
Gwinnett Creativity Fund media release – LINK
2023
August 7, 2023
July 2023
Southwest Gwinnett magazine
June 2023
https://www.gwinnettforum.com/2023/06/news-explore-gwinnett-awards-183000-to-arts-groups/
Gwinnett Forum
2022
10/13/22 - Explore Gwinnett celebrates Artober with more than $150K in grants to local nonprofits
5/23/22 - Suwanee Public Arts Commission Gets Creative in Solving Problem with Amphitheatre
5/22/22 Explore Gwinnett awards over $115K to local arts and cultural organizations
What’s going on in Suwanee! Muralist Corey L. Barksdale
In the News
“Explore Gwinnett recently awarded a total of $50,000 in grants to eight Gwinnett County non-profit arts and culture organizations through the Gwinnett Creativity Fund. These awards will assist organizations to continue and grow their operations, as well as support continued post-COVID recovery.”
— Karen Huppertz, For the AJC
“Explore Gwinnett, the county’s convention and visitors' bureau, has awarded the Suwanee Public Arts Commission a $10,000 Gwinnett Creativity Fund project grant.”
— Karen Huppertz, For the AJC
“Suwanee Performing Arts Receives Grant From Gwinnett Creativity Fund.”
— Suwanee Magazine
“At a time when many arts-focused organizations have had to cancel events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Explore Gwinnett has found a way to help. For the first time, Explore Gwinnett has awarded a total of $51,000 in grants to 10 Gwinnett non-profit arts organizations through the Gwinnett Creativity Fund.”
— Karen Huppertz, For the AJC
“Explore Gwinnett, the county's convention and visitors' bureau, has awarded the City of Suwanee Public Arts Commission a grant.”
—The Patch
“The program’s goals are to “allow non-profit arts organizations to grow and evolve, provide programmatic and educational opportunities, engage underserved audiences and enhance Gwinnett’s economic development and cultural landscape.”
— Todd DeFeo for Patch
“A Gwinnett Creativity Fund grant has helped community non-profit, Button Art Inc. to install two Button Sculptures at the Infinite Energy Center in Duluth.”
— Karen Huppertz, For the AJC
“A new grant program for Gwinnett County nonprofit arts groups affected by the Covid-19 pandemic has launched with the application process set to start next week.”
— ARTSATL Staff
“Sugar Hill’s Broad St. Concert Band was recently presented with a grant of $1,500 from Explore Gwinnett’s “Gwinnett Creativity Fund.” The band was one of 10 local nonprofits to receive the grant, and the resources will be used to support the organization’s arts-focused mission and operations following event cancellations and venue closures during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
— Gwinnett Daily Post
“The program’s goals are to “allow non-profit arts organizations to grow and evolve, provide programmatic and educational opportunities, engage underserved audiences and enhance Gwinnett’s economic development and cultural landscape.”