A short day trip with a Thomasville’s Soho lunch, a visit to the Laura Pope Forrester homestead in Cairo with a museum and gift shop, plein air painting by Mary O Smith, and a chance to try your hand at sculpture.
After lunch at SoHo Restaurant on Broad Street we’ll carpool to Cairo to the Laura Pope Forrester homestead. Between the early 1900s and 1953 folk artist Laura Pope built an extraordinary garden around this rural antebellum residence with her 12-foot-tall sculptures gracing the front of the home. Both the eccentric home and property are in the middle of a huge restoration and you will get an insider’s look at the progress. We will watch oneof the finest master painters in the Southeast, Mary O. Smith, create a painting of the garden and statues. You can even try your hand at forming a mini-statue in Laura’s style.
Reservations can be made at the Pines & Palms website. $45 Adult; $40 Pines & Palms Member; $60 Pines & Palms Couple. (Pines & Palms membership is $35)
Phone: 816-309-5131
Email: GoArtists@PinesandPalms.org
2018/05/04 - 2018/05/04
Additional time info:
Backroads/Backrooms events precede Thomasville's first Friday Sip and Strolls and amphitheater concerts—stay for the day!
Soho Restaurant
1123 N Broad St, Thomasville, GA