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Sunday, October 22 - 12:00PM to 2:00PM
Pasaquan; 238 Eddie Martin Rd, Buena Vista, GA
Join us for a tour of Pasaquan. There will be a signup sheet at the conference for people interested in visiting Pasqaun and joining the group tour. The tour will begin around noon and will take approximately 1-1.5 hours.
This is an off-site experience locateda about 45 minutes away from Columbus. You can either drive yourself or carpool with other attendees as space allows. We will be organizing a carpool at the conference.
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Pasaquan is a 7-acre internationally recognized visionary art environment, developed by Eddie Owens Martin, a self-taught Southern artist. Martin began work on the site in late 1950s and continued for the next 30 years, creating six major structures, mandala murals and more than 900 feet of elaborately painted masonry walls.
The site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and lavishly fuses African, pre-Columbian Mexico and Native American cultural and religious symbols and designs, along with motifs inspired by Edward Churchward's books about "The Lost Continent of MU."
Following Martin's death, Pasaquan began to fall into disrepair. Columbus State University partnered with the Kohler Foundation Inc. and the Pasaquan Preservation Society to restore the artistic masterpiece. Columbus State University developed a mission, vision and education goals that celebrate and champion the humanitarian values Eddie Martin exhibited in his work and staff work to preserve, maintain, provide access to and assist in the interpretation of Pasaquan for visitors.
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