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.”
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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…
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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…
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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:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Orphic: CSU Senior Art Exhibition Featuring artists John Styron, Jose Rosario, Jessica Kennedy and J. Allen Vanderford, Jr.. Work will be on display in the Ilges Gallery. May 5, 6 p.m., Corn Center for the Visual Arts, 921 Front Avenue, Columbus American Women in History Please join the National Infantry Museum Kids program to explore the role women have played through the history of the United States. $10 per youth student. May 5, 10 a.m….
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Julianne David works out of her dining room. The space is intended to be a dining room, anyway, but is given over entirely to canvas and paint. Not that David has much time to work. “I squeeze in [art] during nap times, after bed, before they wake,” she says of finding time for art while raising three sons. “They like to help me paint.” Painting was not her first path, or even her second. She…
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