CCAD and Franklinton wave their flags back and forth
Tim Rietenbach’s honors class at Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD) class are creating a community flag for Franklinton. The Public Art Community Engagement honors seminar created the Flags for Franklinton initiative after receiving an $8,175 grant from The Columbus Foundation, which allowed them to make 500 flags for the neighborhood as it works to grow and reinvent itself.
The Neighborhood Design Center (a nonprofit group working with small businesses and neighborhoods), is making an arts master plan for Franklinton and reached out to CCAD to participate. Students took a bus tour of the neighborhood last spring, and Rietenbach asked the class, “If there was to be some sort of public art in the community, what should it be?” A student suggested a community flag, and the idea took off from there.
The class went back to the community to ask for ideas and had students help create a coloring-book template for residents to draw versions of the flag. And while students are still working out how to distribute the flags, the goal is to start handing them out in early May. (deb)
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