THOM 9 | Fall / Winter 2017

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Letter From the Editor built It’s been just over a year since our family settled into a new place to call home. Although we vowed to never live in an old home again, this one was hard to resist. to last The property was like many old homes in the South when we found it. Aged and weathered, it was struggling to survive the wear imparted by the people who had lived there for more than 160 years. It stood tall and proud, but tired, like it had been trying to say something and no one was listening. During the renovation, many asked why we bought it. Admittedly, it was a touch crazy given the home’s desperate condition, so, that was a fair question to expect. We said many things, mainly that it needed to be saved and that it just felt right. Now, after a year of living within its walls, I have come to understand that it was much more than that. This home felt like an ideal place to build a life upon because it had been built to last – much like Thomasville. their life’s work. Though many of them hail from outside of Thomasville, they all contribute to our sense of place, whether through the art they have created here or the ideas they share with us for a boutique hotel, an urban neighborhood, a creative business incubator, an innovative learning center for our youth, and a culinary arts program. While our work at the Center for the Arts is artscentric, we are driven by a desire to contribute in meaningful ways to the place where we do our work by creating experiences where lasting connections and memories are made. If you haven’t paid us a visit lately, you should. One step inside our historic building and our new studios and you’ll see we’ve been designing a new experience that’s meant to last. Our beautiful city of just under 20,000 has a deep sense of place and has obviously been built to endure. You see it on a slow drive past the old homes on our oak lined streets and can feel it on a stroll along the sidewalks edging our historic buildings. Progress has been tempered by a nod to our history, land and legends, so that what has emerged is a place intended to last for many, many lifetimes. To me, that’s what makes it feel right. In this issue, you’ll meet artists from all walks who have made their appreciation for place a part of Michele Arwood Executive Director Thomasville Center for the Arts 3
No. GUEST EDITOR BRIAN PATRICK FLYNN SAVING PLACE Outside of today’s 140-character, Snapchat-filtered, digital universe there is an alternate, more authentic movement afoot. It’s why the South is hot, vinyl is reborn, historic buildings are restored and print is not, in fact, dead. Good Grit The Character Of The South FORD FRY LEGACY OF TRAVEL GRITTY CITY GUIDE EYE ON DESIGN Good Grit Display Until 10/31/2017 HARVEST SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER Founded 2015 | 6 issues/year Founded by Laura Bento in Birmingham, Alabama, Good Grit is based on a progressive platform that squarely addresses misconceptions about the South. Its loud-and-clear voice for Southern culture, makers, creators and pioneers makes this publication built to last. OKRA Founded 2017 | 6 issues/year From the Mississippi Delta comes a look under the Southern surface. The South’s “please and thank you” culture is illuminated in Okra by a cast of people and places who are not perfect but full of life and, most importantly, real. Paprika Southern Founded 2013, 2015 Print | Quarterly This ethereal publication is part art, part place and part style. Models that look like your neighbors adorn style spreads in settings both aspirational and inspirational. Co-founder Siobhan Egan’s work has appeared in THOM. 7 BATTLE OF THE BLING: LUXE NFL STADIUM MATCHUP THE Arts & Culture ISSUE For Floridians. By Floridians. FLAMINGO Founded 2016 | Quarterly Unifying Florida’s cultural and natural resources in one statewide publication requires unlimited creativity. Stunning photography ties the pages together and tells the story of place in a smart package that is worth your time. 45 WAYS TO GET CULTURED MUSICIANS, MOVIES, MUSEUMS & MORE SONGSk THE SEA: THE MUSIC INSPIRED BY JIMMY BUFFETT D irector BARRY JENKINS RETURNS HOME UPLAND SHOOT DOWN IN OKEECHOBEE GREGG ALLMAN His Life P Final Album 4
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