Once again Georgia Trend helped sponsor Marietta's Chalktoberfest, a beautiful weekend of street artists, craft beer and vendors of all kinds. The winner this year was Cuong Nguyen for an amazingly detailed painting, shown above. Take a look at some…
Twelve individuals and organizations from around the state recently received 2017 Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities. Gov. Nathan Deal and First Lady Sandra Deal presented the awards in partnership with Georgia Humanities and the Georgia Council for the…
The Georgia Council for the Arts, which is under the umbrella of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, recently announced the recipients of funding for fiscal year 2018. One hundred dance companies, museums, theaters, colleges, cities and multi-disciplinary arts organizations…
Georgia’s music scene is the primary reason National Geographic chose to include our state in its listing of Best Trips 2017. With more than 1,000 live music venues, we have something to offer just about everyone, along with a notable…
More than a quality-of-life endeavor, the arts -- both commercial and nonprofit -- are an enterprise with a large impact on Georgia's economy -- $62.5 million annually and 200,000 jobs. Hear what Executive Director of the Georgia Council for the…
Northeast Georgia’s go-to organization for arts events, The Arts Council, has planned a varied line-up of music performances for its 2017 Summer MusicFest™. Bring your lawn chairs, blankets and picnics to The Arts Council Smithgall Arts Center lawn, 331…
Last month, the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame inducted its 2016 class of five honorees: humorist Roy Blount Jr. and journalist Bill Shipp, as well as posthumous awards to novelist Brainard Cheney, social activist Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and short-story writer and Pulitzer Prize winner James Alan McPherson.…
Georgia Trend helped sponsor this past weekend's Chalktoberfest, a festival of beer and chalk art on the Marietta Square. This year we sponsored the Chalk Twins, Devon and Lexi Fulmer, who created St. Ambrose in chalk, based on the painting by Matthias…
Macon's rich and diverse musical heritage -- from the Allman Brothers to Otis Redding to Rolling Stones piano/keyboard player and background vocalist Chuck Leavell -- is seeing a surge of interest with the recent installation of a dozen plaques around town marking…
The art of Timothy Hedden at the Tubman Museum in Macon. Photos by Ben Young
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