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<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f275bede-3344-d3ad-3d6a-7e3801d95e42"><span>Local organizations paired with CityScapes Artwork to create a hand-drawn print that depicts well-known businesses, restaurants and landmarks in the area. The artwork will be sold to benefit nonprofit organizations in Gainesville.</span></span></p>

Local organizations paired with CityScapes Artwork to create a hand-drawn print that depicts well-known businesses, restaurants and landmarks in the area. The artwork will be sold to benefit nonprofit organizations in Gainesville.

Local organizations in Gainesville are selling a limited number of custom prints depicting historic businesses, restaurants and landmarks as a way to raise money for nonprofit groups in the area.

Businesses across the city worked with custom advertising company CityScapes Artwork to create a hand-drawn piece of art for local organizations to sell in support of their causes.

Greg Magee, a public relations employee for CityScapes Artwork, said only about 1,000 copies of the artwork will be printed. These prints are then sold to anyone willing to purchase them, and whatever profit is made is donated back to the organizations.

Nonprofits like House of Hope and the Alachua County Humane Society are some of the organizations that will benefit from the print’s profits.

The artwork is best described as a “talking time capsule,” Magee said. He said the artwork represents aspects of historic and modern Gainesville that would resonate with residents.

“It’s a feel-good project, but it also is a really unique piece of artwork,” Magee said.

The project was funded by businesses who wanted to be represented in the artwork, he said. A copy of the artwork will be given to these businesses to display at their locations with the hope of customers seeing the artwork and wanting to purchase one for themselves.

Magee said the amount of history in Gainesville made the city a prime destination to do this project.

In addition to historic businesses, the artwork included popular geographic locations in Gainesville such as Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park and Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park.

Sierra Davis, a 20-year-old UF health education and behavior junior, said she thinks this project is a great way to highlight and support the Gainesville community.

“This drawing is a really good way for students and residents to memorialize the city,” Davis said.

Contact Catie Wegman at cwegman@alligator.org and follow her on Twitter: @catie_wegman.

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Local organizations paired with CityScapes Artwork to create a hand-drawn print that depicts well-known businesses, restaurants and landmarks in the area. The artwork will be sold to benefit nonprofit organizations in Gainesville.

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