McEachern Art Center

We had a fantastic soft opening for Mercer University’s BEAR Day, and now we are ready to welcome the public! Come see To Beginnings anytime from 4-8 pm Thursday-Saturday. https://den.mercer.edu/the-mac-opens-eclectic-show-featuri/

We’ve missed you! We’ll be reopening with our last show for the semesterTo Beginnings, our fine art and design students’ senior projects. Join us tomorrow at 6pm for the opening.

The Plunkett 2021 Lecture

Today! We will be broadcasting the Plunkett Lecture here on Facebook Live at 5:30 PM with Dr. Tiffany Momon of the Black Craftspeople Digital Archives. Find our more about what she does here: https://blackcraftspeople.org

We’re live with Charvis Harrell at the Creative Placemaking Leadership Conference discussing Bias in Creative Placemaking!

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT TONI ARDIZZONE: Toni Ardizzone is a painter combining a blue-collar skill set with refined methods to create tactile paintings and large-scale assemblages. She received her BFA from Indiana University in 2006 and MFA from Florida State University in 2020. The driving idea behind her work is death within life, constructed through a humanist lens and influenced by her personal experience with chronic disease. Ardizzone’s prolific body of work has led to sever...al solo exhibitions across the United States as well as international recognition. In 2019, Ms. Ardizzone was selected for two artist residencies including Ayatana in Quebec, Canada and the Palimpsest Project in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her public murals have been commissioned by Facebook, SXSW, Austin City Limits Festival, and the City of Thomasville, Georgia. She currently resides in Austin, Texas. Check out Toni's free artist talk on Zoom and on Facebook Live on Thursday from 4-5 PM!

Read about our current exhibit and upcoming artist talks in The Telegraph!

Enjoy our virtual artist talk with Jude Anogwih, one of our featured artists for TAUT: MFAs Revisited

Today is the day! Reserve tickets on Eventbrite if you want to watch through Zoom or click our Facebook page at 4 PM if you want to watch on Facebook Live. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jude-anogwih-virtual-artist-ta

Today, our current featured artist Charvis Harrell addressed a Mercer University Art History course. Cartoon Violence layers portraiture, cartooning, Black history, and cultural symbolism into a powerful exhibition. This is the last week the show will be open - stop by the MAC by Oct. 3 to see it!

Thank you to all who joined us for Mrs. Payton's artist talk. Check out the video in the link below to see MAC director Ben Dunn talking to The Telegraph & macon.com about her story and the gallery available for view at Frances Sewell Plunkett Gallery. https://www.macon.com/article245946090.html

Tomorrow we will tell this story. Join us on Facebook Live at Faith of the Dreamer by Gwendolyn Payton. https://www.ajc.com//a-degree-/YLJ2JGOSSBHXFIMUR5237ZAEKU/

"When violence can be carried out on a huge scale without consequences, rather with reward for the oppressors, it becomes a regular way of life." Our featured artist Charvis Harrell writes in RECOUNT magazine about the same themes in his show, Cartoon Violence now on exhibit at the MAC. Come see the works featured here and more in a larger than life format, and even bring a group or a class to talk to Charvis in person! http://recountmagazine.com/to-be-black-in-the-shadows-of-c/

If I make you believe you’re nothing from nothing, you’re going to believe it’s impossible to be something. If I tell you you’re greatness from greatness, it’ll be easier for you to accept. Thank you, @zhrvys, for your brilliant Artist Talk, and thank you for all who came to the opening of Cartoon Violence. Stop by the MAC between now and October 16 to view the show! @ McEachern Art Center

Tomorrow is the Artist talk for Cartoon Violence: Elegy and Testimony with Charvis Harrell! There are only a few seats left so please reserve your spot in advance. Weather permitting, we will have an outdoor gallery out from 12-3 PM, and we will also be observing regular gallery hours from 4-8 PM. So spend some time at The MAC with us! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/charvis-harrell-artist-talk-at

ANNOUNCING Our next exhibition will be Charvis Harrell's Cartoon Violence: Elegy and Testimony. We will open with a unique outdoor sidewalk display and artist talk on August 29. Through art, Harrell seeks to shine light upon the unsightly realities that people live with. Refusing to revolt, he continues his journey to examine the darkness. In 2019, Harrell was featured in the State of the Union National Juried Exhibition. Cartoon Violence will show how the imagery used to... describe Africans in America and their descendants has had a long, cruel history, from the coat of arms of one of the first transatlantic slave vessels "The Good Ship Jesus" to the present-day use of mascots and logos. By exposing the way these images have been used, the lasting effects they can have on identity and esteem, and how they have added to the hardships African-Americans have endured, this artwork is an effort to start a dialogue that begins to look past stereotypes and deal with people as individuals. The show will run from August 29-October 16.