53 youth received experiences in art education through five youth summer art camps offered by the Turner Center for the Arts. Students enjoyed participating in drawing, painting, mixed media, collage, culinary arts, and ceramics projects. Class disciplines offered during summer camps will continue throughout the year. Visit turnercenter.org/classes or contact Art Education Administrator Hailey Rathmann at [email protected] or 229.247.2787 for full list of available art experiences.

The Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts honored Ramiro Santillan with the 2025 Art Educator of the Year award at the Gallery Exhibit Opening Reception on June 9.

The Turner Center for the Arts has announced five youth summer art camps available for ages 5-12, with one-day, two-day, and four-day options. All summer camps take place on the Turner Center Campus and are designed to interject imagination and creativity into the summer months. Spots in each camp are limited.

The Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts will launch a ceramics artist-in-residence program in the summer of 2025. The program is designed to benefit recent high school or college graduates, as well as other artists who are early in their artistic careers. The program will provide artists with affordable supplies and a studio space to use for the creation of their own artwork, and in exchange, the artists will provide services or products for the Center. These might include studio work, teaching, or other areas of expertise.

Turner Center for the Arts offers several programs and classes for youth and adults. Among these are Weekday Pottery Classes, with five weekly class times available for beginners to create using clay. Several of the Center’s repeat students shared their backgrounds and reasons for joining classes, and each expressed a common theme – that they wish they had joined the classes sooner.

The Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts and its Young Writers League (YoWL) presented the winners of the 5^th Annual “Art of Writing” Contest at a March 17 awards reception held in the art galleries.

Middle and high school students in south Georgia and the surrounding areas competed in the free contest that resulted in 156 written works focused on this year’s theme, “Courage,” and for $3,000 in cash prizes and publishing awards. Sponsors and partners for the contest include the Georgia Council for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Greater Valdosta United Way, Valdosta Daily Times, Snake Nation Press, and South Georgia Regional Library.

The Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts is seeking photography and guitar instructors to add to its creative team.

The Center is actively seeking a photography instructor to lead regular four-to-five-week courses. The Center is also seeking guitar instructors to expand current music programming through private lesson offerings.