The Blooming City

city-wide social sculpture

The Blooming City supports ongoing efforts to redeem what has been left behind in our rural communities by employing the practices of movement and music, garden literacy education, and social interaction. Using the past as a liberating force to embolden the present, we are imaginatively sowing wildflowers, hosting art | flea’s and parlors, and creating movement and music processions to carry us through the world we dream.

glo is collaborating with the Mayor’s Office to realize the next phase of community generated goals mapped in Palmetto’s Planning Commission through a city-wide project in which social interaction is key and the artist is a catalyst for transformation. Palmetto is a small, rural 170-year old community, and the final stop of MARTA in Fulton County, where folk are limited by economics and geography with little opportunities to experience the arts. The Blooming City activates Historic Downtown “in-between” places and sites and is dedicated to how art shapes the community, environment, and makes each of us better. In addition to providing opportunities for working together across sectors, The Blooming City reflects our commitment to bridging the gap between art and life; work that explores connection, and deeply researched inter-disciplinary histories.

A diverse set of initiatives—parlor conversations, Art | Flea markets, live art processions, art & ecology classes, community sowing, and sculpture — are organized within and across the existing structures of Historic Downtown to maximize access for the community. This choreographed field of creative openings will subtly reveal Palmetto as a blooming city all the time. 

glo aims to redefine rural. The Blooming City helps to expedite change and live in the truth of the needs of Palmetto, to thrive. The partnership with the Mayor’s Office and Palmetto Arts Council will help build relationships with local visionaries for an expanded project, including Norfolk Southern, Coweta Historical Society, local Senior Center, and MARTA.

2025 SCHEDULE
Community Sowing
Sundays, March 30, 10 AM - 1 PM, April 6, 2 PM - 5 PM
meet at Food Pantry building, 548 Main St. Palmetto, GA 30268

Register at site.

Heirloom Seed Packets
Valentine's Day, Palmetto City Hall

Art + Ecology workshops
Coming soon! mornings and afternoons
on-campus, Downtown prairie spaces

Art | Flea
summer!
vacant outdoor spaces, Downtown Palmetto

Processions
Fridays, Fall 2025
Palmetto Historic Train Depot

PROJECT LAUNCH: April 7, 2024

In partnership with Mayor's Office of Palmetto, City of Palmetto, Palmetto Arts Council, and South Fulton Arts. The Blooming City is made possible with space support from Kong Ventures, AT & T, City of Palmetto, and Steve Nygren.

Collage drawings by Ashley Ianna Daye.

The Blooming City 2025 is made possible with major support from Fulton County Arts & Culture. Gratitude.