Week 3 Picture Update

New Pictures from Love Affair 2010

2010 Love Affair

The 2010 Love Affair has come and gone, but we've captured it on film (so to speak!) so you can enjoy it all year long! We'll update the blog periodically with new pictures, so keep coming back to see if you're in any of them!
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Art in the Heart of Downtown!

Our Downtown Merchants have dressed up their windows with beautiful art to help celebrate “The Love Affair” in downtown Tifton.

We are so excited, said Fran Kinchen of the Downtown Main Street Office, our local artists and high school students have pulled out some of their magnificent art pieces so that we can display them in windows throughout downtown Main Street. We are excited to be a part of Love Affair as it celebrates 30 years of Art! Downtown Main Street has lots of activities planned on the evening of April 30 as we bring Art Alive in Downtown Tifton.

Join us for an exciting evening beginning at 4:30 p.m. with the “Happy 30^th Birthday” Love Affair Parade, our kids will kick-off Love Affair with a dressed-up walking parade from Fulwood Park to the Tifton Museum of Arts & Heritage where we will have an array of Children’s Art Exhibits coupled with the Awards Ceremony and Window Contest winners.

Three Graces at the Lankford Manor will have Poetry Café with Jeff Newberry & Open Mic Performers at 6pm; also from 6-7pm, there will be Art Exhibit at the Atlantic Coastline Artist Guild; then there is Jazz in the Myon Courtyard with Jim Newton and Friends, and do not miss “Steel Magnolias” at 7pm at the Tift Theatre for the Performing Arts.

We look forward to an exciting evening in Downtown Tifton as we celebrate The Love Affair 30 Years of Art in the Heart! We invited everyone to come join us on April 30.

Table Decorating Contest at the Picnic in the Park!

Remember this post, about the Picnic in the Park? If you don't, click on the word "post" to read all about it. For those of you who know about the Picnic in the Park, held during the Love Affair, did you know that there is a table decorating contest? How easy could it be to win a great prize? Really now, most of us set the table every day, with little or no reward, and here's a chance for tickets for 8 (yes, EIGHT!) to the Annual Broadway and Bubbly event at the Tifton Theatre, featuring Broadway show tunes and a champagne reception! This event is on May 15 at 7pm. So go buy your table for the picnic and start brainstorming some great decorating ideas. I have mine already, so don't blame me if I win!

Tifton Collects!

Tifton Collects! Highlights of 30 Years of Love Affair Art,” an exhibit at the Tifton Museum of Arts and Heritage, will be the kick-off event for the 30th anniversary of Tifton’s Love Affair Fine Arts Festival. A reception celebrating the opening of the exhibit is scheduled for Friday, April 16th, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

More than 50 artists are represented in the show which will feature art that has been purchased at the festival or at support events from its inception to the present. The art is from the personal collections of Tiftonites who have consistently collected Love Affair art over the years, or who have participated in the Purchase Award program.

A popular feature of the exhibit will be the works of favorite artists from the earliest years of the festival. Included will be illustrations and paintings by the late Marshall Smith, paintings by the late Nelle Johnson, and by Annette Swan, Kippy Hammond and Mary Alice Applegate, plus jewelry by long- time festival favorite, Charles Pinckney.

Potters from the past include Thad Brewer and George and Stephen Hawks, and Jim Minchew’s popular “hound dog” sculptures which, organizers say, will bring smiles and memories.

More recent artists will be represented by glass maker Tadashi Torii, potter Marty Haythorne and Giana Eden, woodturners PAL and Donny Crocker, sculpture by Teena Watson and Don Haugen, paintings by Vincent Keesee, Scott Coleman, Gina Harmoung, Troy Criswell, Mary Ann Cox, Marilyn Dale, Randy Gibbs, Georgia Roswell, and photographs by Dick Madden.

These are only a few of the artists that will be featured in the exhibit, according to co-chairs Syd Blackmarr and Jeannie Rigdon. “Our goal was to show the “best of the best” Love Affair art that has been collected and enjoyed in people’s homes or offices for three decades,” said Blackmarr.

The “Tifton Collects!” Exhibit will be open following the reception on April 16 through April 28th . Hours are Sundays 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., Tuesdays through Fridays, 11 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. and Thursday evenings 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.

For information, contact Jeannie Rigdon 382-5083 or Syd Blackmarr 388-1090. Admission is free, but donations are welcome and encouraged.

This exhibit will be followed by the annual Children’s Love Affair Exhibit, also at the Museum, opening Friday afternoon, April 30.

Tifton's Steel Magnolias!

Don't miss Tift Theatre's production of Steel Magnolias set for April 22 -30. Show times 7 p.m. nightly (except Sunday, April, 25 -- a 3:00 pm matinee). According to Director, Dottie Freeman, rehearsals are going well and she promises a very funny and entertaining show. The show stars Dr. Erin Campbell as M'Lynn, Michelle North as Truvy, Susan Say as Quiser, Dottie Freeman as Clairee, Shadae' Dennard as Annelle and newcomer, Kelcie Gilmore as Shelby. Veteran actress, Bonnie Young, was originally cast to play the part of Clairee, but due to a family emergency, she has had to step down and Dottie is going to play the part.

Set aside one evening to enjoy the beautiful art displays downtown, catch these crazy ladies in Steel Magnolias and plan on dining in one of the fine downtown restaurants! For more information call Dottie at 229-386-5150 or email her at dfreeman@tifton.net.