Amaki’s art captures the lives of African women of the Diaspora through media from everyday life (photography, quilts, buttons, boxes and household items). Her work redefines the lives of past and present African American heroines and heroes and contrasts their depiction in the mainstream media. She has published a number of articles including “Art: The Paul Jones Collection in Art” and Everyday Life: The Paul Jones Collection, an exhibition catalog by the Marietta-Cobb Museum of Art,...
Mark Jarman, Vanderbilt University, is the author, most recently, of Zeno’s Eternity, from Paul Dry Books. He has also published three books of essays about poetry, The Secret of Poetry (Story Line), Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry and also from Paul Dry Books, Dailiness: Essays on Poetry. His honors include the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poets’ Prize, the Balcones Poetry Prize, three grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship in poetry. He...
Karen M. Gravel, Lord Aeck Sargent Planning and Design, Inc. is a historic preservation architect practicing in Atlanta. She serves as a principal, the director of Historic Preservation and chair of the governing board for the company. She is a Kentucky native, having graduated with a degree in history from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1993, before earning a Master of Architecture from Georgia Tech in 1999. She has been working on old buildings for the past 25 years, including...
Dr. Mab Segrest, Connecticut College, is the former Fuller Matthai professor of Gender and Women's Studies, She is the author of Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South, an outstanding book on human rights in North America and Editor's Choice for the Lambda Literary Awards and Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (both published by The New Press), as well as of Born to Belonging: Writings on Spirit...
Dr. Lisa Hinrichsen, associate professor of English at the University of Arkansas, teaches modern and contemporary southern literature, transatlantic modernism, contemporary multicultural writing and ecocriticism. She's the author of Possessing the Past: Trauma, Imagination and Memory in Post-Plantation Southern Literature (LSU) and co-editor, along with Gina Caison and Stephanie Rountree, of Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity and the Cultural Politics of Television (LSU), Remediating...
Karen M. Gravel, Lord Aeck Sargent Planning and Design, Inc. is a historic preservation architect practicing in Atlanta. She serves as a principal, the Director of Historic Preservation and chair of the governing board for the company. She is a Kentucky native, having graduated with a degree in History from Centre College in Danville, KY, in 1993, before earning a Master of Architecture from Georgia Tech in 1999. She has been working on old buildings for the past 25 years, including...
The Old Courthouse parking lot will be closed Tuesday, September 17, for an event. View the interactive parking map to locate alternative parking lots.
The Milly Farmer's Market is TODAY. The market is open from 4 to 7 p.m. and can include locally sourced and grown products, handmade natural household cleaning supplies, freshly baked bread and pastries, fresh eggs, locally raised meats, pork, duck, and rabbit, wildflower bouquets, bagged local compost, potted plants and succulents, local honey, corn and other seasonal vegetables, seasonal fruit, locally-raised and made goat soaps, natural oil-based skincare and beard products, handmade...
The Milly Farmer's Market is TODAY. The market is open from 4 to 7 p.m. and can include locally sourced and grown products, handmade natural household cleaning supplies, freshly baked bread and pastries, fresh eggs, locally raised meats, pork, duck, and rabbit, wildflower bouquets, bagged local compost, potted plants and succulents, local honey, corn and other seasonal vegetables, seasonal fruit, locally-raised and made goat soaps, natural oil-based skincare and beard products, handmade...
Nine distinguished speakers to take the stage at TEDxGeorgiaCollege In partnership with TED, the Leadership Programs at Georgia College & State University are bringing TEDx to Georgia College and to Milledgeville. TEDxGeorgiaCollege will be hosted Friday, Oct. 18, in Russell Auditorium. TEDxGeorgiaCollege will feature nine distinguished speakers and performers who will deliver talks on the latest ideas and research, all in the spirit of TED’s commitment to “Ideas Worth Spreading.”...
