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We Let the Dawgs Out Public Art Exhibit

Downtown Athens, Athens, GA
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Ranked #13 of 15 attractions in Athens
4.0 of 5 stars 4 Reviews
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“Another example of Athens becoming an Art destination”
- 13 Mar 2012
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Athens, Georgia
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“Another example of Athens becoming an Art destination”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 13 March 2012

Public art in athens is continues to expand. Kids love the scavenger hunt to try to find all the Dawgs and the different artistic expressions representing a theme, The public bus shelters are other great examples - some of those examples incude a music note and yellow school bus shelters.

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Athens
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“Flowers on a bulldog????????”
2 of 5 stars Reviewed 24 December 2011

Some are just plainly unattractive. This is not art that I find appealing. Just another opportunity to get more public funding for the art community, which it did.

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Athens, Georgia
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“The dogs have run away...mostly”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 13 June 2011
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I have lived in Athens for several years and always enjoyed driving/walking past these dog statues, but they have (mostly) been removed. They were auctioned off for charity so the loss was a gain for some, I am just glad we were not told they went to a "farm" to live out their last years.

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Athens, Georgia
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“We Let The Dawgs Out”
5 of 5 stars Reviewed 6 October 2008

One of my favorite things in Athens (or should I say 36 of my favorite things) is the "We Let The Dawgs Out" statue display. The Athens-Oconee Junior Woman's Club created a public art exhibit for Athens which features 4-foot fiberglass bulldawgs painted by local artists throughout Athens-Carke County. The purpose of this project was to allow the art industry... More

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