The UnVacant Lot

Banner| On Location: Revisited by Katherine Sandoz

Located in heart of Thomasville’s downtown Creative District at 217 West Jackson Street, this space provides a unique opportunity to showcase public art year-round and serves to actively engage our neighbors through experiences which feature unexpected ideas. The UnVacant Lot is equipped with outdoor furniture, Wi-Fi, and shade sales and is accessible to everyone at no charge.

A Special Thanks to our Generous Public Art Sponsors:

On Location: Revisited

Katherine Sandoz
Installed 2021, June 2026 | Ongoing

Katherine Sandoz, artist, has chosen two native plants—water-lily (Nymphaea odorata) and yellow-eyed grass (Xyris difformis)—to revisit her earlier iteration of two murals. She enlarges the plants and emphasizes their shapes and colors through further abstraction.

She has also created two fiber-based works that explore the layers, colors, and shapes of the flora. Both the murals and the fiber-based works are informed by the artist’s ongoing study of ecology, materials, and abstraction.

THE ARTIST

Katherine Sandoz is a Savannah, Georgia-based multi-disciplinary artist working in painting, fibers, wall treatments, and public art. Katherine Sandoz creates richly woven abstract ecologies inspired by landforms and native flora.

Using passages of transparent and opaque, warm and cool, and textured and smooth layers of water-based media, Sandoz creates dynamic compositions that allow the viewer to experience the subject matter from multiple vantage points simultaneously.

Sandoz holds two MFAs from the Savannah College of Art & Design, where she also taught illustration for nearly a decade. She is a frequent collaborator with artists across many disciplines, an independent curator, and an advocate of public art.

For the Love of You

Trish Land

Painted LIVE in 2025 during Stop and Smell the Roses! | Ongoing

Trish Land’s For the Love of You is her very own love letter to Thomasville, Ga. Full of Thomasville’s famous roses, Land is not only inspired by the beloved flower, but also by the people of Thomasville. The mural stems from a story of love and loss found amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Land, who hails from Albany, Ga., initially got involved with the Thomasville Center for the Arts when she applied for the Wildlife Arts Festival show four years ago.

A mural depicting a serene scene of a fresh spring surrounded by the iconic longleaf pine forest of the Red Hills Region, capturing the essence of a misty morning.

Morning in the Red Hills

Joe Cowdrey
Installed 2020 + 2022 | Ongoing
Morning in the Tall Pines + Morning at the Fresh Spring

In Morning at the Fresh Spring, Joe Cowdrey draws inspiration from the iconic attributes of the Red Hills Region and portrays the fresh and clean water of our region. Cowdrey’s other project, Morning in the Tall Pines, uses similar inspiration from the surrounding forested areas setting the scene for a misty morning in the longleaf pine forest.

Learn More