Upcoming Events
There is always something going on at the Columbus Arts Council! Check out the side panel for more event information or go to our "Calendar" page for a quick glance at this months events.
In celebration of the 2017 Mississippi Bicentennial, the Columbus Arts Council has committed to engaging at least 200 artists/performers during 2017. Mississippi has always proven to be fertile ground for raising extraordinary talent. This is our way of saying we think the entire world could be enriched and entertained simply through the many hard working, talented Mississippians prevalent in all fields of arts and entertainment.
Vienna Boys Choir
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War of the Worlds
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Lisa Howorth is a native of Washington, DC. She and her husband, Richard, opened Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi in 1979. She taught art history at the University of Mississippi and has edited two non-fiction books: an anthology, The South: A Treasury of Art Literature, and Yellow Dogs, Hushpuppies, and Bluetick Hounds, a quiz book based on the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. She received the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1996 and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship in 2007. Her first novel, Flying Shoes, was published in 2014, and her writing has appeared in the Oxford American and Garden & Gun. She is currently at work on a second novel set in Washington in 1959.
Deborah Johnson was born in Missouri but grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. She moved to Mississippi after having lived many years, first in San Francisco and then in Rome, Italy where she worked as a translator, editor of doctoral theses, and a broadcaster at Vatican Radio. Her two novels have appeared on numerous recommended reading lists with The Secret of Magic winning the prestigious Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction in 2015 and The Air Between Us receiving the Mississippi Library Association Award for Fiction. Deborah lives in Columbus where she is finishing her latest novel. She is an Instructor with Stanford University’s Online Writing Program.
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