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Art Sandy Springs is pleased to announce that the 2012 Art Sandy Springs Artist of the Year is William H. (Bill) Harrison, founding principal of the prestigious and award-winning Harrison Design Associates, Inc. firm: residential architects, designers, landscape architects and interior designers in the high-end real estate market. Bill and his talented team have been pioneers in many ways in the world of architecture, including creating the first house in the Southeast to be certified by three of the country's leading green initiatives and setting the benchmark for "environmentally friendly" homes.

Bill was honored last week at the Art Sandy Springs Action Board Meeting, where he generously donated several hundred of his beautiful coffee table books to Art Sandy Springs. ArtSS will sell the books for $30 and all proceeds will go toward promoting arts and culture in Sandy Springs.

Bill Harrison is a leading, internationally recognized architect and resident of Sandy Springs. His award winning designs can be seen in beautiful homes and commercial buildings throughout Atlanta, across the country and around the globe. Harrison Design Associates, Inc., of which Bill is founding principal, has flourished over the past 20 years and expanded to six offices in the U.S. and a new location in Shanghai, China.

Bill's philosophy is simple: "Architecture is more than a career, but an art that represents many lifetimes rolled into a lifelong passion meant to be lived and breathed."

Thank you, Bill Harrison, for giving Sandy Springs and our world such beautiful works of art in our commercial and residential communities. You are an inspiration to us all!

Phil Proctor, artist of the winning sculpture "Spider Walk", attended the maquette exhibit Opening Reception on March 2 with his family at the Abernathy Arts Center. .

While you may have to wait until this fall to climb and play on the Playable Art Park's six winning sculptures set to grace the Abernathy Greenway, you can "see" the sculptures on a smaller scale right now! Now on display at the Abernathy Art Center are Playable Art Park Maquettes, miniature versions of the winning sculptures in the process of being created in "life size form." The miniature display, set up by Playable Art Park Steering Committee and  Lauren Bernazza, Program Director of the Abernathy Arts Center, is part of the "Maquettes, Models, and Sketches: Public Art as Process" exhibition.The exhibit will be available for viewing now through April 13, with artist sketches and statements for each of the six selected sculptures. For the Abernathy Arts Center hours of operation and other details, click here.  

The Maquette of the Playable Art Park winning sculpture Wonderwall is on display at the Abernathy Arts Center now through April 13

Playable Art Park winning artist Phil Proctor comments on other maquettes with Executive Director of the Sandy Springs Conservancy Linda Bain at the Opening Reception .

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