Our piece this week is a painting made by former Maconite, Jim Carson, now of Saluda, North Carolina. It is painted in oil on canvasboard- simply a sheet of primed […]

  Welcome to Get to Know Us, a Q/A series giving readers a personal look into the lives and careers of MAS staff members. Today’s guest is Paul Fisher, MAS […]

By Christopher Collier, guest writer of the MAS   Educators and civic leaders founded the Museum of Arts and Sciences in 1956, envisioning the expansion and enrichment of the educational […]

“Study in Pathos” is by famed German-born Georgia sculptor and painter, Steffen Thomas. Our piece is a small study that was one of many begun in the 1930s and continued […]

  Just to mix things up a bit from the weeks of realist style paintings we’ve enjoyed- I’ve latched on to this porcelain sculpture by South Korean born artist, Kyungmin […]

Eric O’Dell is a long time beloved human fixture of the Macon, Georgia art scene. He is both a practicing studio artist and professor of art at Mercer University (where […]

This week’s piece I chose from our permanent collection is this skillful and evocative painting of a woman lost in her thoughts while she performs a perfunctory kitchen task; shelling […]

A County-Wide Discussion of Why Culture Matters This plan will give us the tools to use art and culture to ensure access to arts and arts programming for ALL Macon […]

My selection this week is a brand new acquisition. We received this only in May of this year and accessioned it into our collection at the June Board of Directors […]

This painting is “ Bohemian Family,” painted by Russian born artist, Roman Chatov, in 1968. While Roman’s work lands mostly in realism and representation, he paints from his sensibilities and […]