Member Organizations

Providing leadership, guidance, experience and expertise, the following groups and organizations are active partners in bringing the visual and performing arts to the Medical College of Georgia and the MCG Health System hospitals and clinics. Through their participation, they are helping MCG to enhance the healing process, enrich the community and encourage wellness.

The Art Factory

Augusta's only non-profit community school of the arts that offers classes and camps in visual arts, dance, theater, music, and writing.

Augusta Concert Band

We are an adult, all-volunteer, community band that serves the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia and South Carolina. Our first goal is to provide quality concert band music to the citizens of the Central Savannah River Area.  Our second goal is to maintain an organization that permits talented local musicians to continue to enjoy performing well beyond their school years and to make a contribution to arts in the CSRA. Our third goal is to preserve and continue the great American traditions of fine community bands and the performance of marches.

Augusta Museum of History

The Augusta Museum of History is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting history in relation to the past of Augusta and its environs for the education and enrichment of present and future generations.

Broad Street Artists

Broad Street Artists was established in 1994 by the City of Augusta and local artists to provide working studios for visual artists, to preserve historic buildings, and revitalize the downtown area. The project has now grown to include many galleries and artists’ studios.

Visitors to the galleries will find original paintings in all media and genres as well as photography, works in clay, glass, jewelry, fiber, metal and wood. Most galleries are open Tuesday through Saturday and all welcome visitors.

On the First Friday of each month a “First Friday” celebration is held. Galleries and studios are open those evenings to debut new works (from 5 until 10 p.m.) The public is invited.

Garden City Chorus

We are the Augusta, GA chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of BarberShop Quartet Singing in America, Inc (S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A).

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Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art

Founded in 1937 and housed in Ware's Folly (ca. 1818) and the Walker-Mackenzie Studio (ca. 1907), the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art serves as the Central Savannah River Area's only independent non-profit visual art school and gallery.  The Institute is proud to offer visual art education opportunities for students of all ages and interests. Quarterly studio classes and workshops are available in a wide range of media, from drawing and painting to photography, weaving, clay, and sculpture.

Greater Augusta Arts Council

The GAAC is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1968 by the Greater Augusta Chamber of Commerce, the Junior Women’s Club, and the Junior League of Augusta to serve as the umbrella organization for the arts in the CSRA. In 1987, a Cultural Action Plan (CAP) was developed for Augusta by civic, educational, community, and arts leaders. The GAAC accepted the responsibility for implementing the CAP and expanded its board to include individual artists and representatives from arts groups, business, education, and government.

Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History

The mission of the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History is to promote the legacy of Ms. Lucy Craft Laney through arts and history.  We accomplish this awesome task by educating and exposing children and adults of the CSRA, the State and beyond to the arts, history, literature and leadership through exhibits and programs.

The Morris Museum of Art

The Morris Museum of Art, located on the Riverwalk in downtown Augusta, is home to a broad-based survey collection of Southern art. As a museum dedicated to exhibiting and exploring the art and artists of the South, the Morris is preserving and enhancing a cultural legacy. The museum is housed in the Augusta Riverfront Center, a unique adaptation of office space to a museum setting. From the main entrance atop the Riverwalk, visitors enter an elegant lobby of classic design, and then proceed through a series of galleries showcasing an extensive collection of Southern art.

For further information about the MCG Arts Council or becoming a member organization of the council, please contact:

Bill Andrews
President, MCG Arts Council
Associate Professor
Dept. of Medical Illustration
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, GA 30912-0300
Ph: 706/721-3266
Fax: 706/721-7855
E-mail: bandrews@mcg.edu