Media Coverage
Singleton Park Mural, Norcross, Georgia
2025 Placemaking Grant Recipient
2026
April 14, 2026
Gwinnett Forum, NEW for 4/14: New service, utility boxes, IRS letter
April 13, 2026
Gwinnett Daily Post Gwinnett Creativity Fund announces latest round of recipients
2026 Gwinnett Creativity Fund 2026 Project Grant Awards Press Release
April 1, 2026
Rough Draft Atlanta, New public art initiative brings Norcross identity to life with vinyl wraps
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, 2025Lawrenceville 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
https://www.gwinnettforum.com/2023/06/news-explore-gwinnett-awards-183000-to-arts-groups/
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.”