SEASIDE Institute™ has announced speakers for the 2025 SEASIDE Prize™. These dynamic individuals will join us February 7-9, 2025, as we honor the career achievements of Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson.
Dolores Hayden
Dolores Hayden is professor emerita of architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale University. She is the author...
By Nathanael Fisher, ECTC Producing Artistic Director/CoFounder
Last year, Season 11 ended with a beautiful and magical show – Mary Poppins. Hillary Marshall Anthony and Vincent Pelligrino, along with 20 other cast members and a spectacular creative team co-created a wealth of magical, heartwarming and inspirational moments on our stage...
Will YOU Join Us?
By Zandra Wolfgram
Looking for fun? You have arrived. As a member of Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation (MKAF), you are already aboard the “bus to fun town.”
Take it from the MKAF’s CEO of Fun, Demetrius Fuller.
“We really want to up our fun factor in all we do— including raising...
850 Midlife and Hydrate 30A will be hosting a watch party in The Chapel of 30A on October 17 at 6 p.m. featuring the PBS documentary, “The (M) Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause”. This film explores the hidden impact of menopause on women's lives. Menopause has ramifications beyond...
by Kimberly Stanley, Seaside Institute
SEASIDE Institute™ recently held their Speaker Series, an event where distinguished speakers and authors engage in discussions with the public. The series opened with Ray Gindroz, a renowned architect celebrated for his passionate advocacy of new urbanism. Gindroz’s presentation offered an in-depth look at his...
Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County Announces Installation of 10 Murals In U.S. Highway 98 Pedestrian Underpass
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The Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) is proud to announce that original murals commissioned and created by 10 local artists were recently installed on the walls of Walton County’s first pedestrian underpass at U.S. Highway 98 in Inlet Beach, which opened to the public over Labor Day...
The SOFO Cinema program, presented by the Sowal Foundation and sponsored by the St. Joe Company Foundation, is making waves along the Emerald Coast. This innovative initiative is designed to spotlight local filmmakers and their short films on a monthly basis at a variety of rotating venues. With its...
by Kimberly Stanley, SEASIDE Institute™
SEASIDE Institute™ and Franklin Tomorrow will be hosting a Vision City Conference, October 15-17, in the heart of downtown Franklin, Tennessee. This marks the second collaboration between the two influential nonprofit organizations. In 2004, the Institute worked with Franklin Tomorrow and other local Tennessee organizations...
Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County and South Walton Artificial Reef Association Collaborate To Expand North America’s First Underwater Museum of Art with Sixth Sculpture Deployment
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Seven new sculptures were recently added to North America’s first permanent Underwater Museum of Art (UMA) in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Grayton Beach State Park in South Walton, Fla.
Named by TIME Magazine as one of 100 “World’s Greatest Places,” and a 2023 CODAworx Award winner...
Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County Announces Artists Featured in Foster Gallery Partner Exhibition at Coastal Branch Library
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The Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) is proud to announce that The Foster Gallery’s summer rotation of artists will be featured in a partner exhibition at the Coastal Branch Library located at 437 Greenway Trail in Santa Rosa Beach. Original work by fifteen regional artists will be...