Upcoming Events at the Columbus Arts Council

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Partial to Home Music Series

Shane Tubbs & Rufus Mason

These guys will play anything from old school country to Greenday on their guitars. Their music is described as music that your old man would listen to as well as music you wouldn't play when your old man is around.

 

March 1 at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $8 and can be purchased at the door.

 

Concert & Artist Series:

Tango De Celio, a  Latin dance program featuring harpist Anna Maria Mendietta on March 5th

 

Young People Artist Series featuring Rainbow Fish March 6&7

 Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad April 2nd

As an artist living around Columbus, have you wished for a way to meet other people with creative minds? Do you long for a place to gather and just chat about your passion?

 

There is an energy and renewal of creativity that comes with spending a few hours with like minded people, but finding a venue that is free of commitment of time and resources is not so easy. The Columbus Arts Council understands this and is hosting a  free evening for creative people to come to the gallery and spend a few minutes or a couple of hours meeting other area artists. It does not matter what kind of art you are doing or if you are full time, part time, or a hobbyist, come out and meet others who enjoy the gift of creative expression. We hope to make this a monthly meeting where information, enthusiasm and ideas are shared so that our local artists can return to their studio, kitchen table, or garage invigorated and inspired.



February Gallery Show: Birney Imes

The Chickenman's Dog, Lowndes County, Mississippi by Birney Imes, 1990 The Chickenman's Dog, Lowndes County, Mississippi by Birney Imes, 1990

Birney Imes

 

For more than 20 years Birney Imes roamed the countryside of his native Mississippi photographing the people and places he encountered along the way. Working in both black and white and color, Imes' photographs take viewers inside juke joints and dilapidated restaurants scattered across that landscape. There he introduces the viewer to, as one writes put it, "the characters and locales that linger in the margins of Southern memory and culture."

 

Imes' photographs have been collected in three books: Juke Joint, Whispering Pines and Partial to Home, and have been exhibited in solo shows in the United States and Europe. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, La Biblioteque Nationale in Paris and many public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

 

Throughout his career Imes worked with a tripod mounted roll-film camera loaded with black and white film. Even while making his acclaimed juke joint photographs, Imes continued to pursue a quieter, more intimate vision he saw in grays and blacks. This Rosenzweig exhibit draws from that group of pictures.



"Partial to Home" Opening January 5, 2012

The photo gallery requires at least Flash version 9.0.28.