Colquitt will be hosting the Global, Mural, Arts and Cultural Tourism Conference in Oct. The Legacy of the conference will be the mural tribute to Agriculture painted on the 100ft tall peanut silos in downtown Colquitt. These silos are working silos, meaning they are full of peanuts waiting to be made into peanut butter or oil or put into a Nestle or Hershey candy bar. Since Colquitt is the center of the peanut industry, the best quality peanuts grow in the rich, fertile, sandy land of Southwest Georgia and north Florida. These peanuts go into candy and peanut butter. Peanuts of lesser quality are made into peanut oil and used to fry Tarrer Inn’s wonderful fried chicken. It is perfect that the Colquitt/Miller Arts Council chose to paint a tribute to Agriculture on these silos. Birdsong Peanut Corp graciously granted the Arts Council permission to use the silos as the latest canvas in Georgia’s First Mural City.

The great news is that the muralist, Charlie Johnston from Winnepig, has arrived in Colquitt to paint his interpretation of South Georgia agriculture. If that strikes you as strange, the mural committee carefull screened applicants and chose Charlie because of his ability to paint beautiful, natural faces. So welcome, Charlie, to our wonderful community.

Colquitt is a national model for community development through the Arts and Culture and the murals set the tone of beauty and caring for the palce where we live.