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Artists Showing Begins May 15
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May 13, 2008, 07:56

The Bainbridge-Decatur County Arts Council will be featuring a show at the Firehouse Gallery with local artist Dargan Long and A Photographic Essay by Richard T. Bryant. This wonderful show will open with a reception on Thursday, May 15th from 5 - 7 P.M. The public is invited to attend this must see show. 

Dargan Long, southern artist, grew up in southwest Georgia.  As a young boy, he spent much of his time on his grandparent's farm near Bainbridge. His grandmother, a watercolor artist, introduced him to painting at an early age.  She instilled in him a love for art and a desire to paint.  After many years of farming, he was finally able to pursue a career in art.  He is mainly a self-taught artist, but has studied with many talented artists at the Art Student's League of New York City.  He attended painting classes taught by Frank Mason, Jack Faragasso, George Passintino.  He attended additional workshops taught by Daniel E. Greene, Ray Vinella and David Leffel.  Although his passion is for portrait painting, his works include landscapes, wildlife, and still life paintings in oil and watercolor.  Dargan's work will be in the Jimmy Harrell Gallery.

Richard T. Bryant is a native of Oklahoma with a graduate degree in Ecology from the University of Tennessee.  In recent years he has resided in Georgia and New Mexico.  The Flint River: A Photographic Essay will take your breath away.  His pictures of our beautiful river are unbelievable.  His photography has graced scientific illustrations for technical publications such as Fishes of Tennessee and Mussels of Alabama, and articles in National Geographic, Audubon, Smithsonian, and Georgia Wildlife Federation's Flint River and Fire Forest.  He has exhibited his photography at The Hubbard Museum of the West in Ruidosa NM, The Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, the Albany Museum of Art, and his work dominates the permanent exhibits designed into the Flint RiverQuarium.

Richard has extensively photographed the rivers, forested landscapes, and wildlife of Georgia.  The collection in this exhibit primarily represents the lower Flint River Basin of Southwest Georgia.  The beauty represented in this show from the Flint River Watershed includes its rivers, its woodlands, and its wildlife, all captured through Richard Bryant's eyes.

This Photographic Essay is sponsored by the Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center at Ichauway.

The show will be open to the public Friday, May 16th, Saturday, May 17th, Sunday, May 18th Friday, May 23rd Saturday, May24th, and Sunday, May 25th.  Friday hours will be from 1 - 4 P.M. Saturday hours are from 10 A.M. - 2 P.M. and Sunday hours are from 1 - 4 P.M.

The Arts Council hopes you will take advantage of this wonderful show.  Hope to see you there; don't forget the reception on the 15th of May.