Wildlife Arts Festival

The Wildlife Arts Festival celebrates Thomasville's sporting culture at the start of Georgia's quail season, welcoming world-renowned wildlife artists to Thomasville Center for the Arts, housed in the 1915 East Side School. The Fine Art Show and Artisan Market brings more than 70 sporting and wildlife artists and artisans from across the country, with live music, workshops, wildlife encounters and local flavors under the oaks, and entry is free. The Land & Lore Series adds talks, films and lectures on local ecosystems, and the Bird Dog Bash at Sugar Hill Barn at Pebble Hill Plantation brings supper, a live auction, bonfires and music from Trillium and Jason Byrd.

Our take: Come Friday morning for Art in the Wild, when festival artists paint en plein air in the Red Hills.