Buena Vista, GA – On Saturday, November 1st, Artists and
musicians of all varieties well gather At Pasaquan, near Buena Vista, Georgia,
to pay tribute to the artistic legacy of Eddie Owens Martin, who created the
globally famous visionary art environment. The artists will gather for a day to
show their support for the preservation of Martin’s acclaimed environmental art
masterpiece at an event called Artists for Pasaquan. The assembled
artists and musicians, who will come from all around the South, will display
their recent work and play music for the visiting public.
Included among the many artists and musicians who will
appear at Pasaquan are:
Butch Anthony, a young eccentric
artist from Seale, Alabama, who makes sculptures from found objects, paints
pictures, and creates unique exhibits all based on his own style of artistic
expression – intertwangelism;
Ned Berry, a prolific traditional Georgia potter
who makes utilitarian as well as eccentric forms in high-fired stoneware. Berry grew up in Columbus,
Georgia, and now lives in Harris County;
Rick Edwards, a singer/songwriter
from Columbus, Georgia. Edwards is the founder of
the Chattahoochee Folk music Society. As a youth, he befriended Jimmie Tarlton,
the American music legend who wrote Columbus Stockade Blues and Birmingham
Jail. At the time, Tarlton was an elderly man living in public housing in Phenix City, Alabama,
and Rick Edwards was an aspiring
guitarist still in high school;
Jake Fussell, who is a student in the Southern Studies
program at the University
of Mississippi, will play
old-time Southern folk and blues music. During the past year Fussell has
performed with Mississippi-based blues bands at the House of Blues in New Orleans, at various blues festivals in Finland, Switzerland,
Italy,
and at music venues all around the Southeast. He appeared solo last year on the
Prairie Home Companion radio program and was recently a featured performer at
the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Macon;
Christen Holloway is a senior art major at
ColumbusState University.
Holloway is a devoted volunteer at Pasaquan who has spent months learning St.
EOM’s eccentric dance moves from vintage documentary film of the artist. She
will perform dance, Eddie Martin-style, on the Pasaquan dance circle at the
event;
Bond & Meg Anderson live at Parrott, GA. Meg
is an artist who is a member of the well-known artistic Tilley family from
Parrott. Bond Anderson creates huge percussion musical instruments that he
installs for use out-of-doors at schools and park playgrounds worldwide.
Approximately
three-dozen additional artists and musicians are expected to participate at
Pasaquan on November 1st. Visitors are welcome to bring their own
picnic lunches, although a variety of food will be available for purchase at
the event.
Artists for Pasaquan is
timed to coincide with this year’s Rural America Festival in Buena Vista. The Rural
America Festival is a celebration of life and culture as it is lived in
rural America.
The annual event, which features a parade, music, crafts, children’s
activities, food, and fun, is staged every year in Buena
Vista on the first Saturday in November.
Saturday, November 1, will be the final opening day at
Pasaquan during the 2008 season. The site will not be open again for public
tours until the first Saturday in April, 2009. Admission to Pasaquan is $5.00
per person. Children under six are admitted free.
For more information on Pasaquan or for directions on how
to find it, go to http://www.pasaquan.com.
Contact:
Fred C. Fussell
(229)
649-6957
fcfussell@gmail.com