‘Culinary Arts Class’ planned at Creative Arts Guild

DALTON, Ga. — The Creative Arts Guild’s “Culinary Arts Class” series continues this month with a timely session: “Lighten Up for Spring.” Chef Jasa Joseph will help you prepare flavorful springtime fare, demonstrating preparation of an appetizer, entree and dessert, each using sweet offerings of the season to awaken your taste buds after winter’s heavy meals. The class (reserved for adults 18 and up) is Wednesday, March 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. Cost for the class is $50 per participant. All materials and food are included. Class size is limited to 12 and slots fill up quickly. To register, go to www.creativeartsguild.org/culinary-arts. For more information about this or upcoming Creative Arts Guild culinary classes, contact cagarts@creativeartsguild.org or call 706-217-6677.

Heads UP! — The Inside Out Project is opening at the UnVacant Lot

THOMASVILLE, Ga. — The UnVacant Lot art park in the downtown Thomasville Creative District has become known locally for its stimulating exhibitions and community gatherings. This spring brings another engaging event at the Lot — one that reaches beyond the Red Hills region and aspires to a global impact. The Thomasville Center for the Arts has opened The Inside Out Project: Heads UP!. This independently organized, local exhibition is part of a large-scale participatory art project, originally created by artist JR, to transform messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. For the Thomasville installment of the Inside Out Group Action Project (the official designation for each local initiative), the Center challenged four local photographers — Justin Allen, Drew Balfour, Taylor Brandon, and Michael SeRine of Broad Street Media — to develop a collection of 80 larger-than-life portraits of an array of locals who are creating the Thomasville community with their Heads UP! The array of large format portraits of Thomasville characters you might — or might not — see every day around town asks you to put aside the distracting gadgets that can keep you from seeing the people around you. Everyone is invited to see Thomasville anew at The UnVacant Lot art park in the Downtown Creative District, from through May 10. Ultimately, documentation of the portraits — and the community viewing the portraits as well as the artists and subjects — become part of a global project that has so far embraced more than 260,000 people in 129 countries. Thomasville Center for the Arts’ version of this striking movement is powered by Hurst Boiler Company in partnership with Dr. Robin Wise, DDS with generous support from Lowes. Inside Out is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Everyone is challenged to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world. These digitally uploaded images are made into posters and sent back to the project’s co-creators, for them to exhibit in their own communities. Posters can be placed anywhere, from a solitary image in an office window, to a wall of an abandoned building, or in a full stadium. These exhibitions are documented, archived and made available online at http://www.insideoutproject.net/. The INSIDE OUT project is a creation of the artist JR, recipient of the 2011 TED Prize.

Professor to address Albany Chautauqua in history lecture series

TIFTON, Ga. — Educational lectures, entertainment, and recreation in an outdoor setting characterized the Chautauqua movement which began in the United States at Chautauqua County, N.Y., in 1874. Dr. Wendy Harrison, English Department Head and Professor of English at ABAC, addresses the New York startup of Chautauqua and how it spread to Albany, Ga., in a new installment in the ABAC history lecture series titled “The Georgia Chautauqua in Albany” on March 12 at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. The 7 p.m. lecture in ABAC’s Howard Auditorium is open to the public at no charge.  Previous speakers in the series have included Dr. Jess Usher on “An Examination of American Immigration History,” Dr. James Galt-Brown on “Lasting Impacts: 100 Years After World War I,” and Dr. Hans Schmeisser on “Henry Clay and the Making of America.” For more information on the lecture, interested persons can contact Harrison at wharrison@abac.edu.