UPDATE (04/05/2023): We regret to announce that poet Joy Harjo has cancelled her event at Middle Georgia State University scheduled for April 11. The School of Arts and Letters is working to replace this event with other dynamic speakers. For now, we invite you to join us at any of the many events part of the 2023 Arts Festival – “Reclaiming the Native South.” The arts festival runs through April 14, and the list of events can be found here.
Acclaimed Indigenous literary, visual, and performing artists will be among the headliners of the 2023 Arts Festival hosted by Middle Georgia State University’s School of Arts & Letters. The free festival takes place March 27-April 14.
Built around the theme “Reclaiming the Native South,” this year’s Arts Festival features a reading and book talk with author Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (Eastern Band of Cherokee); a discussion panel featuring Tracie Revis, (Muscogee (Creek) and Euchee), director of advocacy for the Macon Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative; a film screening with Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery (Lumbee), historian and documentary film producer; and a musical performance and storytelling presentation with Randy Kemp (Muscogee (Creek), Choctaw, and Euchee), an interdisciplinary artist and storyteller.
The festival will explore the richness and deep roots of Native American arts and culture in the South, particularly in the Middle Georgia region, home to Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. Most festival events will take place on the University’s Macon Campus and are free and open to the public.
The headline events are sponsored by the Middle Georgia State (MGA) School of Arts & Letters, with generous support from Georgia Humanities Council, and from the Georgia Council for the Arts. Additional support comes from the MGA Foundation, the Office of Student Affairs, and the Honors Program.
Learn more about the 2023 Arts Festival and view the schedule of events here.
