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With Augusta’s thriving arts’ community, there’s always some type of art event opening in the area.
Some create a buzz that lasts for longer than the exhibit itself. One of those was Drake White’s “Toi Et Moi” show from December 2022.
Augusta Good News was all of a week old when I published that initial article on the art show which paired White’s portraits of area artists with a work they’d created. The reception was packed with crowds flowing out of the building to stand on the sidewalk, and it got a lot of positive responses at the time.
White won the 2024 Arts Professional Award from the Greater Augusta Arts Council, and it was talked about at the arts council awards ceremony.
At the recent Augusta Poster Show in July, I talked with someone about the CANDL Gallery, where the Toi et Moi exhibit had been held, and Toi Et Moi and the crowds it drew, came up once again.
See some of White’s portraiture in the “Artist(s) as Muse: Photographs by Drake White” exhibition, which is on display at the Morris Museum of Art through Jan. 4, 2026. There will be an artist talk and reception from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 2 at the museum.
White also has an upcoming show at CANDL Fine Art that features his photography, but this time from a different angle.
“His photographs are based on the idea that looking at an object and seeing it can be, and often are, separate experiences,” according to a news release.
POEISIS, is “an exhibition of his investigations into the idea of how framing, color, and light affect perception,” and it opens at CANDL on Oct. 3 with a reception and runs through Nov. 7.
Speaking of the Morris Museum of Art, there are two other events there this week.
At noon Friday, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 “Foreign Correspondent” will be part of the Films on Friday program, and on Sunday, hear Chris Ndeti at 2 p.m. in a free concert.
Current Morris exhibitions include “In the Summer Sun of the Hillside: The Agricultural South.”
“Drawn from the permanent collection, the seventeen paintings in this exhibition—many rarely exhibited and more than a few never exhibited before—celebrate the everyday in their depiction of agriculture and the rural life it has supported from time immemorial throughout the American South,” according to the Morris Museum of Art website.
It will run through Feb. 8, 2026.
And it’s the final days of “The Opry, Summer 1946: Photographs by Ed Clark.”
“The photographs in this exhibition were shot by Ed Clark for ‘Life’ magazine before, during, and after a Grand Ole Opry performance at Nashville, Tennessee’s famed Ryman Auditorium on a Saturday night in July of 1946,” the website said.
It closes Oct. 12.
Charmain Z. Brackett, the publisher of Augusta Good News and Inspiring: Women of Augusta, has covered Augusta’s news for more than 35 years. She’s won multiple Georgia Press Association awards, is the recipient of the 2018 Greater Augusta Arts Council’s media award and was named Augusta Magazine’s best local writer in 2024 and 2025. Reach her at charmain@augustagoodnews.com. Sign up for the newsletter here.
Chairman, thanks for all you do for not only the arts, but the community as well.