Join us for a panel discussion hosted by Don Roman, STMA President Emeritus, to explore the intersectionality of being Black and LGBTQ+ identifying as an artist in the South, and how these experiences may have changed (or not changed) over the past 60 years. The panel features artists Freddie Styles, LaSalle, and Rial Rye, and will be moderated by Demetri […]
We hope you’ll join us on Friday, October 11th, and Saturday, October 12th—for FREE! On Friday, we’ll have extended hours, open from 11 AM to 8 PM, in honor of National Coming Out Day, which falls on October 11th. This annual LGBTQ+ awareness day supports those “coming out of the closet.” At STMA, we celebrate, […]
Swap the savings during the annual SWAPtember event at 22 metro Atlanta attractions! Show your STMA membership card when you visit these participating Atlanta attractions between September 1-30, 2024 and receive $10 off a membership purchase. Or show your membership card from one of these participating attractions at Steffen Thomas Museum of Art and get […]
Swap the savings during the annual SWAPtember event at 22 metro Atlanta attractions! Show your STMA membership card when you visit these participating Atlanta attractions between September 1-30, 2024 and receive $10 off a membership purchase. Or show your membership card from one of these participating attractions at Steffen Thomas Museum of Art and get […]
Join us for this year’s Annual Members Meeting on September 8th at 2PM! The meeting will be followed by an acoustic performance at 3PM by singer/songwriter Jonathan McBee, sponsored by The Twelve Oaks. You won’t want to miss this. Jonathan has played in a number of venues (Eddie’s Attic, Red Light Café, many coffeehouses) solo […]
STMA is excited to host Laura Rice, one of two winners of The Charlie Boner Award for the Advancement of Art Education for Founder’s Day 2024! Laura became an art teacher when her three children were small because most of her study was in the Visual Fine Arts, and she felt teaching art was the […]
STMA looks forward to hosting Marjean Meadow, one of two winners of The Charlie Boner Award for the Advancement of Art Education for Founder’s Day 2024! When Marjean thinks about her journey as an art educator, she recalls fond memories of creating with her mother and grandmothers. Whether it was painting a Palomino horse or […]
STMA is thrilled to have Yu-Kai Lin, Atlanta arts advocate and owner/director of KAI LIN ART, as our speaker at this year’s Founder’s Day Celebration. Yu-Kai graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia with a Bachelor of Art in Music: piano performance. In 2018, he gave a TED TALK at Emory, entitled Living Creatively Through […]
Today is Sara Douglass Thomas’ birthday! She would have been 117 years old. Sara met and married Steffen Thomas in 1933 after a six-week courtship. They lived in Atlanta until 1941, at which time they moved to Stone Mountain where they built their home and raised their four children. She was always loving, kind, and […]
