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FLAUNT2013 | It's About Time!
FLAUNT2013 saw Thomasville Center for the Arts partner with Main Street Thomasville and the Thomas County Public Library System to bring together public art and literature for Thomasville's first One Book celebration, featuring The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom.
THE POWER OF COLLABORATION
The local library was searching for a platform to launch the very first One Book Project in Thomasville, GA. Thomasville Center for the Arts’ public art team was looking for a cause to support. Public Art Director, Darlene Crosby Taylor, and former Thomas County Public Library Director, Nancy Tillinghast, discuss how collaboration in a small community enables big things to happen.
FLAUNT2013 | It's About Time!
For FLAUNT2013 | It's About Time the word was literacy, and all of Thomasville got on board. Life-sized paper mâché figures were installed downtown, live-action paper mâché models came to life in stores and on the sidewalks, and artists created book-inspired window installations. The event kicked off on Friday, September 6th when the clock struck 6:00 PM, and artists, Center members, and sponsors met at 118 Broad Street for a kickoff celebration, art auction, and juried art exhibition, where the library unveiled the title of the secret book (The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom) and a month-long celebration of art and literacy began.
This project was made possible through the passion and work of:
2 partners
30 sponsors
42 volunteers
18 partnering businesses
12 paper mâché artists
17 window installation artists
16 Plein air painters
12 live performance artists
3 paper installation artists
Mitch Albom, Author - One Book Project
and the community who supported FLAUNT2013: It's About Time!
From our author, Mitch Albom
"What I've learned on my journey is that time is precious. This is why we don't have unlimited time . . . It's not the amount of time you have in life, it's what you do with it. What Thomasville, GA did with my book was amazing. I never expected it"
If you are interested in the upcoming One Book Project in September 2020, please email trent@tcpls.org for more information.
Help us document past projects.
Did you attend any past FLAUNT events? Do you have memories or photos you would like to share?
Contact Darlene Taylor - dtaylor@thomasvillearts.org
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