Full Circle, a decade of remembrace - 9/11

About the Program

Category: Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation (Best in Category)

Year: 2012

Full Circle, a Decade of Remembrance-9/11 Remembrance Summit County, OH Population: 546,604 In honoring September 11, 2001, Summit County began the 9/11 Art Remembrance Project to give employees and citizens a way to express their individual feelings regarding the attack. It is an art project that gives tribute to those who lost their lives and the courage of those who were first responders to the tragedy. Each year, employees and citizens come together and create a meaningful collaboration of creativity using a different medium of art. The Full Circle, a Decade of Remembrance event honors 10 years of the Art Remembrance Project, bringing it to a close with the United States flag that hung off the Ohio Building the morning of the tragedy. Because the celebration was a 10th year tribute, the flag was retired in the final piece of art, bringing the project full circle. At the event, the American flag was properly folded and placed in a display box. Then, participants were invited to print the name of someone they lost within the decade on a piece of Mylar. The Mylar pieces were crumpled and placed in the display box on top of the retired flag creating a sea of floating names. The finished art project stands with nine other award winning art pieces in the Ohio Building. Throughout the past nine years, Summit County worked with an array of businesses, citizen, civilian groups, government employees, organization and schools for installments to the 9/11 Art Remembrance Project bringing nearly 4,000 participants.