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Finding Calm Amid Coronavirus: Learning Plein Air Painting with Julianna Wells

Posted on September 2, 2020January 15, 2021 by Editor - the Local

It’s still and quiet outside, a beautiful golden afternoon. The sunlight filters lazily across the grass. Big, humming carpenter bees wobble across the edge of the tree line, hunting for the clover flowers that have blossomed in the spring. It’s a calm day, a fine day. It’s also the middle of a pandemic. The guidance from the CDC, from our health experts, from our leaders, from our friends and colleagues, is to keep distant, to…

History Comes Alive at Historic Westville, Columbus

Posted on February 19, 2020January 15, 2021 by Editor - the Local

Since its inception in 1928, Historic Westville has been a unique place to experience 19th Century southern life. It is the third-oldest living history museum in the country, according to its website. Established by Colonel John West, it began as ‘The Fair of 1850’ in Jonesboro, Georgia. When Colonel West died, the historic village was moved to Lumpkin, Georgia and renamed Westville Historic Handicrafts in honor of its founder. The name was changed again in…

A Painter Comes Home: Katie Jacobson finds buzzing art community in hometown Columbus

Posted on June 14, 2019June 29, 2019 by Tom Ingram

There’s a great community here,” Katie says, “and coming home, I felt how strong it is. Everyone that I’m surrounded with wants this place to grow. It’s encouraging and it’s fun.”

Sometimes It Takes A Vision: New art gallery bridges past and present, art and underserved neighborhoods

Posted on May 17, 2019June 29, 2019 by Tom Ingram

Again and again, all signs pointed Dee Dee Tebeau to 2nd Avenue. Dee Dee was first drawn to the North Highland neighborhood by the example of Rob and Carrie Strickland, who help bring housing and educational opportunities to the area through their Truth Spring ministry. As the months went by and Dee Dee brought her son to Godwin Creek Golf Course to play, the question recurred, “how can I help the neighborhood?” She did not…

Creating Spaces: painter Betsy Eby talks about her artistic life, community and sharing space, both physical and beyond

Posted on May 17, 2019May 17, 2019 by Tom Ingram

There are stretches of the northwest coast where the gray-green Pacific Ocean crashes against the rocky shores of old growth conifer forests. It was there, in Seaside, Oregon, a village near the terminus of the Lewis and Clark Trail, hemmed by the Necanicum River to the north and Tillamook Head promontory to the south, where Betsy Eby grew up. I met with Betsy in her studio, a loft in the old Swift Mill. She showed…

Electric Panda: new tattoo shop owner makes award-winning work and a major contribution to his community

Posted on February 15, 2019September 2, 2024 by Tom Ingram

J-Bird’s path to entrepreneurship has been long, winding and often rocky. As you know, we at this magazine love a good redemption story, and when one of those stories culminates in good people providing killer body art to the community? Check it out:

Pasafest: first annual music and arts festival expands the legacy of St. EOM with a day of celebration

Posted on November 9, 2018 by Tom Ingram

On Nov. 10, long-time admirers and first-time visitors alike will enter a new phase in the life of Pasaquan, Eddie Owens Martin’s outsider art environment in Buena Vista, Ga., at the first Pasafest, a music and art festival combining the southeast’s best outsider art with some of our areas most interesting music in a one-day, fun-for-the-whole family celebration of all things beautiful and exuberant. When Eddie Owens Martin returned home to Buena Vista, Ga. to…

In Conversation with Bo Bartlett: “Parents”

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Tom Ingram

This second part of our interview series with acclaimed artist Bo Bartlett comes from an interview we conducted while he showed us around the Bo Bartlett Center, 921 Front Avenue, in May of this year. Our first installment found Bo discussing how the Center came to be and some of his feelings on art, particularly the way art can unite communities. In this part of the interview, we visit a specific painting currently hanging in…

Local Authors Spark Summer Reading

Posted on July 12, 2018 by Tom Ingram

It seems like the Chattahoochee Valley barely got to have a spring, and now the summer is here, bringing with it the excitement of summer reading challenges at area schools and libraries. As a mother of a four-year-old, I am always looking for books my daughter will be excited to pick up, watch intently, and eventually memorize so she can act out the story. I try to find activities with a balance between preparing my…

In Conversation with Bo Bartlett: The Bo Bartlett Center’s past, present and future, and finding common ground through art

Posted on June 14, 2018June 29, 2019 by Tom Ingram

On an overcast day, as the sun broke through a light rain long enough for me to walk from my car to the Corn Center for the Visual Arts, which houses the Bo Bartlett Center, I waited for Columbus-born artist of international renown, Bo Barltett, in the lobby area. I had visited The Center many times since the opening reception on Jan. 19, and I had always been struck by the contrast in these experiences—the…

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