The Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts and its Young Writers League (YoWL) hosted the 4th annual Art of Writing Contest, sponsored by the Georgia Council for the Arts, Greater Valdosta United Way, the Valdosta Daily Times, and Snake Nation Press. Middle and high school students in Valdosta, south Georgia, and the surrounding areas were invited to participate in the contest. 141 submissions were received based on this year’s theme, “Imagine.”
Read MoreEmerson Rados, a fifth grade homeschool student, has won the 2024 Spring Into Art Invitation Design Contest sponsored by Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts.
Read MoreThe Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts will host American Idol finalist Megan Danielle, from 7 pm to 9 pm at the Turner Center Art Park, 605 North Patterson Street, on March 29, 2024.
Read MoreThe Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts will host the Lloyd Carter Band from 7 pm to 9 pm at the Turner Center Art Park, 605 North Patterson St., on Fri., March 22, 2024. The concert is the second of 10 free, live performances in the 2024 Levitt AMP Valdosta Music Series, sponsored by the Mortimer and Mimi Levitt Foundation and The Price-Campbell Foundation.
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Turner Center will host its final concert of the 2023-2024 SCORE Music Appreciation Concert Series featuring the Sons of Mystro, duet violinists, on March 19, 2024, at 7-9pm. The concert takes place within the Turner Center art galleries, located at 527 N. Patterson Street, in Valdosta.
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The Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts has announced the opening of the 2024 Levitt AMP Valdosta Music Series with a performance by Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. on Friday, March 15 at the Turner Center Art Park, 605 N. Patterson Street, from 7-9pm. Perhaps best known for his triumphant run on Season 6 of America’s Got Talent, Murphy will bring his talents to the Turner Center Art Park, showcasing his soulful singing abilities alongside his dynamic backing musicians, the Landau Big Band.
Read MoreAnda Chance, an accomplished artist, considers education to be her true career.
Chance instructs monthly colored pencil classes at the Turner Center for the Arts. Classes are beginner friendly, and students will learn color pencil skills and a deep appreciation for and understanding of pencils as a fine art medium. When asked about what a colored pencil class includes, Chance said “My classes focus on the basics of art, color theory, composition, and expression. I prefer students bring in their own ideas so that we can explore them together.”
Read MoreThe Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts will host the artwork of students from approximately 50 regional schools in the Youth Art Month exhibition, opening on Sunday, Feb. 25, from 1-4 p.m. Travis Pate State Farm Insurance Agency is the sponsor of Youth Art Month 2024.
Read More10 Weekly Outdoor Concerts, Free to the Community, March 15 – May 17
The Turner Center for the Arts will launch its second season of the Levitt AMP Valdosta Music Series on Friday, March 15, in the Turner Center Art Park. The March 15 concert will kick off ten consecutive weeks of FREE, live music events for the community.
Read MoreKamryx Davis, an Interdisciplinary Studies student at Valdosta State University, has been exploring various artistic fields since childhood.
Davis has been a guitar student at the Turner Center for the Arts for nearly a year, taking classes through The Hal & Jill Project: Beginning Guitar Lessons. When asked why she decided to learn guitar, Davis said, “Guitar is my instrument of choice because I want to play an instrument that doesn’t require me to blow on it to produce sound – and I was inspired by the many cool guitar riffs I’ve heard.”
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