On Thursday, August 22, 2019, the Dixie Art Colony Foundation will host PART IV of a two-year series about Alabama’s New Deal Art Projects. The series features Dixie Art Colonists that participated in "The Great Depression" era federal art programs. This program, we will feature Dixie Art Colony instructor Anne Wilson Goldthwaite and her Tuskegee, Alabama post office mural titled The Road to Tuskegee.
The LUNCH & LEARN program will begin with a Dutch treat lunch and presentation at 11:30 am in the meeting room at Tallassee's Cafe 1220, located at 1220 Gilmer Avenue in Tallassee, Alabama. After the lunch and presentation, those interested will travel approximately 15 minutes to the Tuskegee Post Office located at 401 North Elm Street in downtown Tuskegee, Alabama to see Anne Goldthwaite's post office mural titled The Road to Tuskegee.
The presentation will also include information about Goldthwaite's fascinating life and career, details about her Atmore post office mural titled The Letter Box, and rare photographs of Goldthwaite from the Dixie Art Colony scrapbooks.
Reservations are required. For more information or to make a reservation, call the Dixie Art Colony Foundation at 334-513-1086 or email us at info@DixieArtColony.org