How SculpTour People’s Choice voting works, and how a sculpture stays in Suwanee

To vote for the SculpTour People’s Choice Award, open the City of Suwanee’s SculpTour page and click the like button next to your favorite sculpture (City of Suwanee). That is the whole method the city describes. It has not published a voting deadline or a date for naming the winner. The same page says visitors can buy select pieces. The city’s public art page says it typically buys at least one sculpture from each SculpTour for its permanent collection with privately donated money (City of Suwanee). And proposals for the 2027–2029 exhibit are being accepted now.

The current show is the 2025–2027 SculpTour, the 8th edition, with 24 new sculptures placed throughout downtown. The city calls it the largest exhibit to date (City of Suwanee). Explore Gwinnett presents this edition (Explore Gwinnett).

Visitors vote for the SculpTour People's Choice Award by clicking the like button next to a sculpture on the city's SculpTour page. (City of Suwanee, checked Oct 17, 2026)

How People’s Choice voting works

The city’s instruction is one sentence: “Let us know which piece stands out to you by clicking the like button next to your favorite sculpture to cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award.” The like buttons are on the city’s SculpTour web page, so you vote online, not at the sculpture.

What the city had not published as of October 17, 2026:

• A closing date for voting.
• When or how the winner is announced.
• Whether the People’s Choice result plays any part in which piece the city buys.

So vote once you have seen the pieces, and don’t assume there is time to wait. The same page links to recordings of the artists describing their works in their own words (City of Suwanee). They are worth a listen before you choose.

Where the 24 pieces stand

The city’s 2025–27 brochure maps the exhibit across Suwanee Town Center and Town Center on Main (SculpTour brochure). The brochure is an image, so the zones below come from reading its numbered map by eye. Treat them as approximate. Titles and artists match the city’s SculpTour page.

A sensible order on foot follows the table: start near City Hall, work around Town Center Park, cross to Station Park and Main Street, then finish through Town Center on Main and PlayTown. Our SculpTour guide shows every current piece as a wall label.

Artists to look for

Several artists have more than one piece in this edition. Olu Amoda of Smyrna, Georgia, has three: Firelanye, Miles and Esther 2022. Bill Brown, Jonathan Bowling, Hanna Jubran and Jack Howard-Potter have two each.

Two names will be familiar from earlier work in town. Phil Proctor of Newnan, Georgia, whose Betelgeuse is in this show, built the Ultimate Participation Trophy in Town Center Park out of thousands of donated trophies (City of Suwanee). Jim Collins, here with Walking Watcher – Fish Tender, already has one of his sitting figures, Audubon Watcher, at Sims Lake Park (City of Suwanee).

Buying a SculpTour piece

The city describes SculpTour as a walkable art encounter that invites visitors to “explore, appreciate, and even purchase select pieces” (City of Suwanee). Our sources don’t say which pieces are for sale, what they cost or how a sale is handled. Rather than guess, ask the city. City Hall’s main number is 770-945-8996, and the building at 330 Town Center Avenue is open to the public weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (City of Suwanee).

How a sculpture joins the permanent collection

SculpTour is a rotating exhibit, but it also feeds Suwanee’s permanent public art. The city says it typically purchases at least one sculpture from each SculpTour, again using privately donated funds (City of Suwanee). It does not say how that piece is chosen, so a People’s Choice win is a signal of popularity, not a guarantee of a permanent home.

The program sits inside a longer public art effort. Suwanee launched its public art initiative in 2008 with a City Council-appointed Public Arts Commission (City of Suwanee). Since 2008 the city has also encouraged developers to put one percent of construction costs toward art in their projects. Works already in the permanent collection include Remembrance, unveiled September 11, 2013 in Town Center Park with a steel relic from the World Trade Center, by Statesboro artist Marc Moulton; a section of the Berlin Wall; and Shimmering Echoes, Koryn Rolstad’s suspended sculpture in the City Hall lobby since 2010 (City of Suwanee).

Who pays for it

No tax dollars. The city says SculpTour is entirely funded through donations (City of Suwanee). The program has run since 2011, and by its sixth installment it had brought 92 sculptures to a walkable one-mile area of downtown, per the city’s historic timeline (City of Suwanee).

Proposals for 2027–2029

The city’s SculpTour page says it is “Now accepting proposals for 2027-2029 sculptures.” Artists should get the call and its deadline directly from that page; we have not confirmed a deadline, fee or selection date. The city also hasn’t announced when the current pieces come down. Explore Gwinnett’s event listing runs to March 30, 2027, but that is a listing window, not a city closing date (Explore Gwinnett).

What we could not confirm

• The People’s Choice voting deadline and winner date.
• Prices, and which pieces are for sale.
• Which piece, if any, the city will buy from this edition.
• Exact placements. The brochure map gives approximate zones only.

If you spot a change on the ground, a moved piece or a new sign, tell us and we will update this page with the date we checked.

Questions people ask

Written by the Downtown Suwanee Guide Editorial Team. AI tools help us draft; people check every fact against its source before it publishes.