the contemporary arts exchange

About Me

the contemporary arts exchange (aka the studio) is an inmate run asylum providing studio space to artists in all media for over 20 years. located in downtown macon, georgia at 590 mulberry street above michael's restaurant, the exchange is currently home to:
maryann bates || shannon bridgeman || dean brown || ben dunn || craig burkhalter || craig coleman || heatherly darnell || jonathan dye || kristy edwards || chad fletcher || terry jordan || catherine liles || peter nishanian || brian o'dell || eric o'dell || reginald solomon || david sutton || eric wakefield || tabitha walker || sam zellner
our studios are open to the public on the first friday of every month with members or outside shows in the main gallery. every spring and fall we have our own big shows, food and refreshments provided.
By the way, check out the book about the restoration of St. Joe's. You can purchase it at the Golden Bough. Bring your copy to first friday and have it autographed by the artists' featured within its pages.
Another Great book to check out is 'Angels Over Macon', a photography art book by Maryann Bates. Buy it directly from her or @ The Golden Bough. DON'T buy it from major chain bookstores: Maryann gets none of the sales from those places. SUPPORT LOCAL ARTISTS!
Congratulations to all the winners of the MAGA Film Festival, including CAE's own Reggie Solomon, who won third place in the music video competition (2007) for his self-produced "Coyote Music" video!
Be sure to meet and greet us all this First Friday, November 7th. It's our Yearly Fall Members show, and you're sure to see some great new art by some great local artists! Hang out, talk a while, spend a bit here and there...it's a great time.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

artists, art lovers, art buyers, love buyers, co-conspirators, criminal masterminds, baby jesus, and nude models.

My Blog

WISHBONE CD Pre-release party by The Fellas

September 5, 2008 First Friday 7 p.m. until Come by The Gray Room at the far end of the second floor, last door on the left, to meet and possibly jam with Reggie and some of his friends during the spe...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:52:00 GMT

New Partnership for CAEM!

CAEM is happy to announce a more 'physical' partnership for our gallery: Heatherly Darnell is now working as Gallery Manager for Macon Arts! Macon Arts, a local non-profit art...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:54:00 GMT

New CAE Gallery Art Blog!

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Posted by on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:40:00 GMT

ART SHOW MARCH 7TH

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Posted by on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:29:00 GMT

And the award goes to...

For those of you who don't know, last night the Contemporary Arts Exchange was honored as a recipient of the Macon Arts Cutural Award for "significant contributions to the arts and cultural life of Ma...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:10:00 GMT

Ill-timed Valentines by Mark Watkins

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Posted by on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:01:00 GMT

Should we do an International Exchange?

Happy new year to all our friends! Promises to be a good one, and with the new year comes new ideas... Whilst on the phone with Mr. Wakefield this morning, I began batting around the idea o...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:01:00 GMT

That Fruit & Vegetable Song is on Internet Radio in Spain!

You know that song about the "fruit and vegetable stand"? Yeh, that one. Well, the full length version of that little ditty can be heard on The Global Virtual Radio Show on the worldwide web! It's an ...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:52:00 GMT

Artists have higher chance of getting laid?

*article pasted from Netscape News*Interesting! Guess Who Has the Most Sex? Artistically creative people, as well as those who are reckless, violent or impulsive, have more sexual partners than...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:54:00 GMT

Amped: Stirring It Up

Read Maggie Large's review of Dubshak here.
Posted by on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:49:00 GMT