Still riding high after my first Open House at Headlands Center for the Arts on Sunday, July 29th. Thanks to my husband, daughter and ten friends (three not down here) for gracing me with their presence, making for wonderful day.
Keep going to see the gallery of photos from my studio installation based on themes and objects from the novel-in-progress. In this case, Easter Sunday dinner table at Florida’s house. My goal was to create a small slice of southwest Georgia, complete with cricket sounds in the background.
I was as intrigued as the open house guests were by being able to walk into a physical space representing the one dimensional world of the manuscript. This gave me fresh insight into the characters, shopping for the curtains Florida would hang at her window, playing in mud to distress Cricket’s blanky, which is draped over her chair at the table. This gallery also includes video of the installation and audio of me reading.

In my attic studio, #10 in Bldg 960.

The installation: Sunday Dinner at Florida’s House, Easter, 2012

End table, Florida’s house.

Photo collection of characters’ cars.

Photos of 1960s Albany Movement. In the novel, fictional Fletcher was 18 and worked with the real life, iconic Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Sources:
• Lee Formwalt, Looking Back, Moving Forward (Albany Civil Rights Institute and Georgia Humanities Council, 2014)
• Mary Royal Jenkins, Open Dem Cells: A Pictorial History of the Albany Movement (Brentwood Academy Press, 2000)
• Danny Lyons, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement (The Lyndhurst Series on the South, 1992)

My peeps outside the studio.
Click PLAY button in the black strip below to hear “Piggly Wiggly” scene from my work-in-progress novel, Peach Seed Monkey, read at Headlands Summer Open House, July 29, 2018:

Reading in the East Room, Building 944 at The Headlands Center for the Arts.
7 responses to “Headlands Open House Gallery”
Brown Joan
July 30th, 2018 at 21:22
Charming! Sorry I missed it.
juditheloisehooper
July 30th, 2018 at 22:59
Great job making the written word into a visual and sweet to see my calla lilies.
Angela Mason
July 30th, 2018 at 23:18
Sorry to miss! It looks beautiful!
Tura Franzen
July 31st, 2018 at 01:58
So happy for you ❤️❤️❤️ Looks like a perfect day 💕
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Miranda Roehrick
July 31st, 2018 at 09:41
Love love love!
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 9:04 PM Peach Seed Monkey wrote:
> Anita Gail Jones posted: “Still riding high after my first open house at > headlands Center for the arts yesterday. Thanks to my husband, daughter and > 10 friends (three not down here) for gracing me with their presence, making > for wonderful day. Keep going to see the gallery of p” >
Denise Mozzetti
July 31st, 2018 at 10:59
Congratulations, Anita! I was thinking of you! I’m living up in Nevada City now, so I don’t get down much, but I do enjoy reading your posts.
Denise (708 Bradley)
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barbaraejones
August 1st, 2018 at 05:48
Delighted again with the products of your creativity. Every inch an artist.