Luther Williams and Jackie Robinson manifest for Spirits in October 2012. Photo by Milton Heard, courtesy of Riverside Cemetery Conservancy Are you feeling lucky? If not, maybe the chance to stand face-to-face with John Heisman, legendary namesake of college football’s highest honor, will lift your spirits. He passed away long ago, but his spirit lives […]

The 2013 Cultural Awards honors those who have made significant contributions to arts and culture in Central Georgia. In honor of National Arts and Humanities month, Macon Arts Alliance (a Knight Arts grantee) will present the 2013 Cultural Awards on October 15 at 6 p.m. at the Douglass Theatre in downtown Macon. The free event […]

One City Art Festival logo. I had a front row seat at the first meeting of what would become the One City Art Festival. Jeff Bruce, director of exhibitions at the Tubman African American Museum, had mentioned getting a group together to talk about a visual art festival to me several times. When the meeting […]

Art Matters was announced in April 2013. Macon Arts Alliance (a Knight Arts grantee) announced today that Steve Murray has been named critic-in-residence as part of an arts journalism project in collaboration with Mercer’s Center for Collaborative Journalism. Art Matters: Engaging the Community through Embedded Arts Journalists is a one-year initiative designed to engage the […]

One City Art Festival logo. Earlier this month, I posted about the official announcement of the One City Art Festival, Macon’s first, city-wide visual art festival. The event, which is a collaboration of six local arts organizations, is scheduled to kick off on Thursday night at a pop-up gallery in the former Karsten and Denson […]

“Shaggy Land,” 2010-2011, 76 x 66, acrylic on canvas. The Museum of Arts and Sciences will present “The Sunrise Show,” a solo exhibition of paintings by Corrine Colarusso, from October 1 to November 3. Her paintings are described by museum spokesperson Melanie Byas as “detailed and layered in curious ways, radiating with luminous color and […]

“Tartuffe” at Mercer’s Back Door Theatre. Mercer’s Theatre Arts department announced its 2013-2014 production schedule in May, and it looked promising to me. I was especially excited about a couple of the comedies planned for this year, so don’t be surprised to hear a lot about their shows over the next year. The first production of […]

One City Art Festival poster. Six of Macon’s major visual arts presenters have joined forces to celebrate unity and collaboration. This October, the Tubman African American Museum, the Macon Arts Alliance, the Middle Georgia Art Association, the Contemporary Arts Exchange: Macon, the Museum of Arts and Sciences, and the 567 Center for Renewal will present […]

There’s a well-documented problem with Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades. The snakes, which are not native to Florida, are most likely the result of pets that either escaped or were released into the wild. They are so numerous that the state of Florida recently sponsored the Florida Python Challenge, which incentivized the hunting and […]