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April 2021
April 2021 Main Gallery Exhibit ‘A Cast of Blues’ by Sharon McConnell-Dickerson
After some years of creating figurative sculptures and full-body life-casts, she began life-casting faces of blues musicians. After years of work, she has now cast 60 faces of musicians! A Cast of Blues is a multi-media, disability friendly and interactive educational, one-of-a-kind collection of blues musicians’ life-cast masks. This exhibit presents an up close and very personal view of the actual faces that the musicians themselves modeled for and left to us. This is a “please touch” exhibit. The artist…
Find out more »Object.ive Subject.ive Art Exhibit
The show encompasses both traditional and digital media work of Kelsey Cockrell, Audrea Powell, London Roberts and Sarah Upchurch. Cockrell, graphic designer from Vicksburg, will display prints that focus on her graphic design skills combined with other disciplines, such as illustration and photography, for unique and visually interesting designs. Powell, a studio artist from Starkville, will show collaged portraits. Using female subjects, her portraits express the beauty of hair through color, while others are presented as playful illustrations. Roberts, a…
Find out more »Beyond the Material: Photographs by Gretchen Haien
“Beyond the Material,” an exhibition of two photography series by artist Gretchen Haien, will be on display at the MUW Galleries until April 23. Haien is a professor of art and gallery director at Belhaven University in Jackson and has exhibited regionally and nationally. One of the series featured in the exhibition, entitled “Interior Frontiers,” was awarded the 2005 Mississippi Arts and Letters Award in Photography. “In our temporal and chaotic world, Gretchen Haien’s images provide glimpses of history both…
Find out more »Noon Tunes with Shane Tubbs
Join Main Street Columbus in the Trotter courtyard, each Wednesday in April! Grab lunch, listen to some live music, and enjoy this FREE event! Lunch will be available for purchase from Zachary's!
Find out more »May 2021
The Barn House Concert Series with Will Kimbrough and Cary Hudson
One of the top songwriters and performers around, Will Kimbrough is one of the most sought after musicians and producers in the music business. He has written songs for Jimmy Buffett, Todd Snider and many more and performs not only solo but also in Emmylou Harris's band The Red Dirt Boys and the side group Willie Sugarcapps. Will Kimbroughs guitar and multi-instrumental prowess makes him an in-demand producer and session musician. Some of his latest productions include Shemekia Copeland, Radney…
Find out more »June 2021
The Barn House Concert Series with Wild Ponies and Anse Rigby
Although they're based in Nashville, Wild Ponies have always looked to Southwest Virginia where bandmates Doug and Telisha Williams were both born and raised for inspiration. There, in mountain towns like Galax, old-time American music continues to thrive, supported by a community of fiddlers, flat-pickers, and fans. Wild Ponies pay tribute to that powerful music and rugged landscape with their most recent release, Galax, a stripped-back album that nods to the band's history while still pushing forward. Doug and Telisha…
Find out more »August 2021
Watermelon Slim in the Columbus Arts Council Omnova Theater
If you purchased a ticket to the originally scheduled show, we still have your information and that ticket will be honored. Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans has built a remarkable reputation with his raw, impassioned intensity. HARP Magazine wrote “From sizzling slide guitar…to nitty-gritty harp blowing…to a gruff, resonating Okie twang, Slim delivers acutely personal workingman blues with both hands on the wheel of life, a bottle of hooch in his pocket, and the Bible on the passenger seat.” Paste Magazine…
Find out more »September 2021
42nd Annual Prairie Arts Festival
With over 200 exhibitors this festival has been a tradition in downtown West Point since 1979. The Prairie Arts Festival has been recognized as one of the "Top Twenty Events" according to the Southeastern Tourism Association. As one of the largest arts and crafts festivals in the country, Prairie Arts attracts crowds of more than 25,000. This Arts and Crafts Festival is held each year on the Saturday before Labor Day from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. in West Point's…
Find out more »The Barn House Concert Series with Randall Bramlett and Clay & Jodi
Jesup, Georgia native, multi-instrumentalist Randall Bramblett may be known as Southern Rock Royalty for playing on stage with rock heroes like Bonnie Raitt, The Allman Brothers Band, Steve Winwood (16 years), Widespread Panic. And respected for his songwriting - he penned the title track for the Grammy nominated Blind Boys of Alabamas new album, adding to a long catalog of songs covered by Raitt, Gregg Allman, Bonnie Bramlett, Hot Tuna, Delbert McClinton and more. But its Brambletts own career as…
Find out more »Market Street Festival
Market Street Festival will take place on September 17 and 18, 2021. All facets of the festival will continue and vendor space and sponsorships are available. Vendor applications are online at marketstreetfestival.com or, for more information, contact the Main Street office at columbusmainstreet@gmail.com. The deadline for vendor applications is July 31,2021.
Find out more »Downtown Art Walk
Main Street Columbus and Columbus Arts Council would like to invite you to the 2021 Downtown Art Walk, a night of art and music. Join us inside participating businesses as artists will be selling their work and outside, local musicians will line the sidewalks! This family-friendly event is free and open to the public!!
Find out more »October 2021
Cotton District Arts Festival & Taste of Starkville
Applications for villages and competitions will open July-August, so subscribe to the Starkville Area Arts Council newsletter or follow them on Facebook for updates!
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