Beverly Buchanan

May 15 to September 20, 2009

Born in North Carolina, raised in South Carolina and educated at Columbia University in New York, Beverly Buchanan moved to Macon in 1977 and devoted her time to art. Buchanan's expressionistic drawings and paintings of rural southern architecture feature bright patchworks of color. Her "last can of paint" style is honest and improvisational, much like the shacks and country cabins she chose to paint. The Buchanan exhibition features works from the Museum's permanent collection.

Miraculous Minerals: Nature's Building Blocks

May 22 to November 2, 2009

Did you know that everything on planet Earth is made out of minerals? Miraculous Minerals shows you treasures from the Museum's permanent collection of rocks, seashells and fossils.  Visitors will learn how to identify different rocks and minerals, how living things can turn into rocks through fossilization and how beautiful seashells are formed in nature.

The PieperPower Collection: Photorealistic Watercolors

July 17 to September 29, 2009

Macon Power, a division of the PieperPower Company, presents the PieperPower Collection of Photorealistic Watercolors at the Museum of Arts and Sciences.
The PieperPower Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was founded by Julius Pieper in 1947.  Julius’ son, Richard Pieper, Sr., had a mission to collect fine art and place the pieces on display in the PieperPower company headquarters, but also to lend the collection to museums across the country. The PieperPower Company has realized Richard Pieper’s vision through the PieperPower Collection of Photorealist Watercolors.  This collection of over two dozen paintings in now traveling to communities across the nation where the PieperPower Company has branches, including Macon.