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1 Musician Dawn Landes. 2 Kids enjoy making giant bubbles. 3 Clyde Jones. 4 Geoffrey Neal. 5 Chatham Arts Council’s Mayme Boyd, Selbe Bartlett and Kristi Kerins. 6 Diali Keba Cissokho leads a drum circle. 4
clydefest Photography by MORGAN CARTIER WESTON
The Chatham Arts Council hosted the 22nd annual ClydeFEST April 14 at the Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center. The event honors all things creative and is named for Bynum artist Clyde Jones, known for his fantastical wooden critter sculptures. Children of all ages enjoyed face painting, music and creating their own colorful critters, plus drum, music and dance performances. New this year was “The Locals” exhibit, which showcased nine commissioned works by local artists. Each piece was inspired by a fellow Chatham County resident, past or present; muses included enslaved poet George Moses Horton, ClydeFEST emcee Pam Smith, and of course, Clyde Jones himself. cm 5
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C H AT H A M M AG A Z I N E
SUMMER 2024
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