Dr. Aron Myers, Director of the John G. Riley Center & Museum will present on the museum’s upcoming fall exhibition, “African Americans in Tallahassee: The Antebellum Period.” Using oral histories, artifacts, photography, and new maps and illustrations, the exhibit highlights select Tallahassee families who trace their ancestral roots back to one of the many plantations that stretched across Leon County.

Join Gadsden Arts for an ART-venture this summer to Gainesville, where art and nature collide in the heart of wild Florida! Explore cultural treasures at the Harn Museum of Art, a nationally accredited museum with an expansive collection of more than 13,000 works of art

In honor of animal therapy month, Midtown Reader will invite Tallahassee Memorial Animal Therapy to a Kidtown Story Hour alongside their R.E.A.D.s program. They will be reading Madeline Finn and the Therapy Dog!

Take a trip to Argentina and experience the culture, music, and food, while never leaving Tallahassee.  Enjoy live music sung and performed by the Seth Hull Trio. A discussion on Argentinian music will follow.

This exultant, brilliant, and searing masterpiece by James Baldwin explores faith, family, and the gulf between black men and black women, between black fathers and black sons.

The Rocking Chair Horse is an original award-winning play written by Bev DeMello. This staged workshop has been conceptualized by Michelle Nickens and Theresa Prow Davis. In The Rocking Chair Horse, daughters accept and reject parts of their mothers’ narratives, bringing them anxiety as well as happiness in a family with generations spanning over 100 years.

Celebrate the incredible art of nature illustrated through the magnificent biodiversity of the Florida Panhandle. Join expert guide and outdoor educator, Ryan Means for this rare opportunity to tour and learn the past history of the Apalachicola Lowlands Preserve. 

The Tallahassee Swing Band is North Florida's favorite dance and wedding band! The band began in the 1970's with the sole purpose of keeping alive the music of the big band era. The band has expanded its repertoire beyond big band, jazz, and swing to include waltzes, polkas, rock 'n roll, and Motown.

On Saturday, October 27th, 2018, a white supremacist, further radicalized by the political climate at the time, walked into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh with four semiautomatic assault weapons. Award-winning filmmaker and Pittsburgh native Trish Adlesic who was in the city that day spent much of the next three years working to bring the story of this horrific event to the screen.

Nan Liu’s recent oil paintings reflect his experiences in Tallahassee, Florida. In his landscape series, he seeks to express the joyous sensations he feels from the natural world, especially in the many undisturbed and undestroyed locales.

While in North Florida, Liu enjoys the rich natural beauty of the lake, gardens, and national parks. He enjoys the quietness, the purity, and the open natural space. He tries to guide the spectators to pay attention to this quiet, co-existing reality in our daily lives that is too easy to overlook amid the bustle. Nan Liu wants spectators to feel reawakened and cherish the intact natural landscape.

On June 8, local painter Tracy Foutz-Hunt's solo show "Repurposed" opened at COCA's City Hall Galleries. This collection consists of old papers repurposed as a tribute to the draftsmen who drew the originals. Many of the objects they reproduced are obsolete now, as the drafting tables once employed are now replaced by laptops. The paints Tracy applies over these papers are mostly translucent, allowing for delicate lines and figures to peep through.

Read the COCA Spotlight article about her on the Tallahassee Democrat.

Every Thursday, the COCA Classifieds newsletter provides art industry info, including calls to artists, professional development, funding resources, and more.

Our Arts in Education newsletter has resources for teachers, students, caregivers, and arts advocates on the first Tuesday of every month.

Snapshots of TAG is our monthly newsletter that provides you with the next six weeks of events on every First Friday of the month. To be included, include your event by Friday, July 28!