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3 Cent Studio [Summer 2019]

Sparta, GA
Services: educational programming, design/build

Lifestyle CenterMD is a premier Integrative Medicine practice in the Atlanta area, providing a unique blend of personalized medicine that combines holistic methodology, lifestyle techniques, and conventional wisdom.  The vision of the clinic is to achieve whole health and wellness in individuals and communities through better lifestyle practice.  The design of the clinic's new home embodies these principles.  Breathing new life into a 30-year old home-turned-office, the renovation prioritizes landscape and natural lighting.  The new entryway encourages a healthy, garden walk through herbs and strawberries.  Inside, deep light wells daylight the vaulted flex space where group consultations, yoga, meditation, therapies, and lectures take place.

3 Cent Studio [Summer 2019]

Sparta, GA

3 Cent Studio aims to leverage the creative energy and know-how of college students to give new life to languishing structures that can become the community centers, storefronts, galleries, art installations, and public art for the currently underserved populations in rural Hancock County. For summer 2019, a cohort of art, film and architecture students undertook the mission of understanding the life, story, and potential of Sparta and greater Hancock County. These students represented a collaboration of different colleges in Georgia, including Spelman College, Georgia Tech, Kennesaw State and Georgia College and State University.

Students lived on historic Three Centuries Farm in Sparta for the duration of the project, working with local organizations and community leaders to identify, document and execute projects related to their respective creative disciplines. Utilizing a 19th century general store as their studio space, our film residents created multiple short film documentaries capturing the diversity of people’s stories in Sparta, our graphic design resident captured the rich palette of Hancock County to create a series of postcards and posters, and our the architecture residents re-imagined of a centuries old “tractor barn” into a community gathering space for art and film. In addition, the residents collaborated to create a July 4th celebration, featuring a commemoration of the tractor barn with the first screening of the short films.

Our summer 2019 program was fiscally sponsored by Second Story Gardens, a non-profit dedicated to creating educational programs for students to learn by doing.

Services: project management, educational programming, architectural design, community engagement