Decatur’s New Postcards
Decatur Metro | May 26, 2011
From a City of Decatur press release…
The City of Decatur will debut a set of six postcards at the Decatur Arts Festival over Memorial Day weekend. The designs, created by five different artists, represent creative perspectives of Decatur.
The Decatur Postcards Project included a contest calling for artists and community members to submit original work that showed special places and visions of Decatur. We received over 50 submissions from artists and students. A jury of local business, arts, and community leaders judged the submissions and picked their top 5 choices and one student choice. Artists received an honorarium of $150 each and the images now belong to the City of Decatur for sale as postcards.
An exhibit showing each postcard will be on view in the lobby of the Old Courthouse on the Square during the Decatur Arts Festival. Postcards will be available for sale at the Arts Alliance Souvenir table. They will also be for sale at Seventeen Steps, 235-M Ponce de Leon Place. Postcards are 50 cents each.
The postcards and artists include:
- •“city of deCATur” – painting by James Dean
- •“Decatur Neon” – photo montage by Doug McMillen
- •“Celebration VII Series I” – photo by Joe Dreher
- •“Utility Cover” – photo by Joe Dreher
- •“Snowy Valentines” – photo by Sheila McIntosh
- •“Doors of Decatur” – photo montage by Sofia Rose Said
The postcards are the result of the Decatur Postcards Project sponsored by the Decatur Arts Alliance, the Decatur Downtown Development Authority, and the Decatur Tourism Bureau. Proceeds from the sale of the postcards will go into creating more Decatur postcards. The Postcards Project was spearheaded by Decatur resident Moira Bucciarelli.
Thanks.
Decatur card designs I would like to see:
1. Decatur- City of Homes, Schools, and Churches,
2. The City of Decatur- “Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong”
3. Decatur- “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” (last line on the courthouse Confederate memorial)
4. Decatur, Georgia- Birthplace of Football Legend Larry Morris
5. City of Decatur- Home of Mary McLendon, Leader of the Georgia Women’s Christian Temperance Movement
I can’t see all of the neon collage. How many of the places are closed now?
none closed yet (as far as I know).
Here’s the whole image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcmillend/5482945420/
Bought a set; nice cards; good deal. In fact, they were my only purchase at the Dec Arts Festival yesterday. Too hot to spend.