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The Arts


AtlantaShare This Experience With a Friend

Atlanta's thriving arts and culture scene offers sites and experiences unmatched in the South.

Visit the High Museum of Art for a rich educational experience, or catch a show at the magnificent Fox Theater. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Ballet and Atlanta Opera all boast first class performances throughout the year.

Visit the Center for Puppetry Arts or Dad's Garage Theater if you are looking for an outrageous or mildly eccentric show. From historic to modern culture, you'll have fun experiencing Atlanta!
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Known as the “Artland of Georgia”, Watkinsville is brimming with all types of creative arts. Happy Valley Pottery is a local gallery with eight working artists on site.

Farmington Pottery, DeWitt Pottery and Art Masters Gallery and Framing and Chappelle Gallery all carry local and regional arts including some sculptures, glass, metal, wood and more.

Sunshine Village features antiques and art including oils, acrylics, and water colors. Georgia Originals carries only Georgia Made/Georgia Grown products.
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Long known for it’s history and heritage, Savannah is also a magnet for the arts. Home to Johnny Mercer, Flannery O’Connor and Conrad Aiken, Savannah’s international presence is enhanced with festivals spotlighting Music, Jazz and Film.

The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) keeps the fresh edge of creativity alive at the Sidewalk Art Festival, through a full performance schedule at the Lucas Theatre and galleries throughout the city.

The Telfair Museum of Art is home to a new state of the art Jepson Center for the Arts and offers both modern and historic venues for some of the finest collections around.
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Folk TheatreShare This Experience With a Friend

If you want to delve into the true character of a region and area inhabitants, there is no better way than to experience the Folk Life plays found in Georgia. Swamp Gravy, Georgia’s Official Folk Life Play, will delight and entertain you with real life stories from rural south Georgia.

Accompanied by original music and performed in a cotton warehouse the award winning performances will introduce you to characters you’ll never forget. In Sautee, Headwaters: Stories From a Goodly Portion of Beautiful Northeast Georgia, reveals heartfelt stories about life in Georgia’s mountains.
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Little Richard, James Brown, Otis Redding, Trisha Yearwood, B-52’s, R.E.M. and the Allman Brothers are just a few of the more than 450 Georgia musicians who are celebrated at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Macon.

“Otis Redding: I've Got Dreams To Remember” is on display through September 10, 2008. Athens has a music vibe that is explosively energetic with hundreds of bands calling Athens home who play jazz, classical, blues, country, hip hop, rock, and every kind of alternative genre.
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