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Milledgeville industrial artist Matt McGee of Hard to Find Ironworks installs the sign he was commissioned to create for Digital Bridges. McGee, along with along with local mechanical artist Garnett Grant, installed the sign Friday, July 16. Contributed photo
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Artist contributes to look of Knight Innovation Center
MILLEDGEVILLE —
Digital Bridges doesn’t simply recommend that Milledgeville explore the panoply of products and services offered by the local business community, it’s making itself a showcase of the work available from local businesses.
Pedestrians and commuters passing the Knight Community Innovation Center on Hancock Street can now enjoy one of the latest works by local industrial artist Matt McGee in the Digital Bridges logo rendered in aluminum on the Center’s storefront facade.
“Digital Bridges commissioned Matt McGee to interpret the organization’s logo in his chosen medium as a means of celebrating the creative and artistic talents present in Milledgeville-Baldwin County,” Digital Bridges Director Heather Holder said. “The eye-catching interpretation Matt envisioned for Digital Bridges’ logo is just one more example of how you don’t have to leave Milledgeville to obtain creativity and craftsmanship that can’t be found anywhere else.”
Already represented through an abundance of public and private ornamental metalwork in and around Milledgeville, McGee said the sign work for Digital Bridges was especially challenging as it marked his first major aluminum installation.
“Aside from the attention to detail required to align all the different pieces together, the biggest melding is in the joining of the new alloys to the old building,” McGee said. “It’s neat how the shiny aluminum shows off the old building and draws attention to the many intricacies that help create its character.
“I think that is the wonderful thing about this town [Milledgeville]: There is a lot of neat stuff here that people don’t notice until they take the time to look.”
And as McGee’s shiny new aluminum sign does for the Knight Community Innovation Center’s storefront, Digital Bridges hopes initiatives like the shoplocalmilledgeville.com website will do for the entire Baldwin County business community: Find technological solutions to help people better appreciate the diverse economic environment around them.
See Milledgeville’s newest piece of public artwork and find out more about what Digital Bridges is doing to find innovative uses of technology to improve the Milledgeville community by stopping by the Knight Community Innovation Center, located at 127 W. Hancock St. in downtown Milledgeville, or visit them on the web at thedigitalbridges.org.
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