Artist Members
Below is a list of the local artists who are members of the DCAC. We appreciate their involvement in and contribution to the promotion of arts in Dawson County. Many volunteer their time to the Center and teach in the community. Some have websites with more information about their art. Click on the links below to go to learn more. More artists’ links are being added all the time.
Critters 2023
We had another awesome display of creatures - furry, scaly, feathered, slithering, creepy, aquatic, and everything in between. This all media exhibit featured some of the funniest, silliest, coolest looking animal art on the planet. This favorite Bowen show makes art...
John Seibel
John Seibel’s professional career in photography spans nearly two decades and began in Austin, Texas photographing landscapes and cityscapes with a strong focus on architectural details. Feeling the need for a change in location, he and his wife Mimi explored several...
Janet Rodekohr
Janet lives in Bishop and discovered watercolor after she retired from the University of Georgia in 2001. She grew up on a Nebraska farm and nurtures a love for animals and rural scenes. She likes to find bold layers of color combined with the delicate interpretation...
Dan Tomberlin
Dan Tomberlin is a professional artist that creates original art on paper with pencils, pen and paint. He settled in Dahlonega a few years ago and sells and exhibits locally and as well as nationally. He studied art at Auburn University, Georgia State University and...
Dave Bogle
As a kid I was always drawing and building something. My Mother was an accomplished artist and I guess, creativity runs in my genes. I was introduced to oil painting years ago, by a well-known Atlanta artist, Elsie Dresch, who was my teacher. Many years past by and...
Mary Bogle
As I reflect on my life and how I got started into painting, it was when I got laid off from the Corporate World and decided to retire. When I lost my adoptive Mom, I felt such a void in my life. Elsie was an artist herself and has always encouraged me to paint. I...
Jim Evans
I’m so grateful for the gift of painting in my life, thanks to my amazing Mother, who is herself, a brilliant artist. I never imagined that I would even attempt to paint, as art was just not a passion for me growing up. I did not go to school to study art, nor had I...
BRUNCH & BOUQUETS August 24
Tracey Smith, Bowen Board Member and owner of Rachel Remington Design of Dahlonega worked her magic before a crowd of 80 ladies from all over North Georgia. They dined on gourmet quiche and salad provided by Yahoola Grill of Dahlonega, GA. They watched and laughed as...
2021 Juried Photo Exhibit
This year, the Bowen Center for the Arts sponsored and hosted “STILL,” a Juried Photography Exhibition. It featured 56 photographers and 167 photographic works produced by photographers from all over the state of Georgia. They entered one of the two categories which...
Bert Grant
Bert Grant is self- taught artist. His works over the past 15 years have been an effort to represent some of the beauty that he has encountered in his travels and attempt to share it with others primarily by way of painting and some photography. Much of these works...
Tom Reed
Tom Reed Graduated from the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies in Daytona Beach, FL back in the days of Film and darkrooms. He worked in a variety of photography jobs, mainly in audio-visual business when slides were done with multiple projectors. He was also a...
Janice Edens
Janice Edens, a Dawson County resident for the last 11 years, has been interested in photography since she received her first Brownie Box Camera when she was 8 years old. While in her early 20s, she bought her first SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera and was a film...
Jane B. Broaddus
Fabric is the foundation from which I create images by adding beads, buttons, found objects, and fiber in its various forms. I especially enjoy the spontaneity and surprise of collage. In some of my works, the goal is to express my odd sense of humor and hopefully...
Jeanne Tompkins
My work reflects the foci in my life, love of nature and people and life situations in rural towns and cities by capturing quiet images or ones that show the character of rural areas and urban communities, the emotions of those around me. I passionately continue my...
Fred Dorr
Education: Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Puget Sound, 1963 Professional: Fred is a signature member of the Transparent Watercolor Society of America (previously Midwest Watercolor Society) and the Georgia Watercolor Society. He is one of the original members of...
Cynthia Carney Todd
After raising a family and enjoying a career in the California Aerospace industry, Cindy Todd discovered photography. She and her husband decided to relocate to Georgia, and she bought a camera to record the people and places of her childhood before leaving friends...
Dru Stowers
Dru Stowers began taking art classes as an adult and has continued her education with study and workshops throughout the country. Dru enjoys painting a variety of subject matter in different media. Most of her work is started on location and finished in the studio....
Joyce Fox
After years of observing the tiny universe visible only through her microscope, Joyce Fox opened her eyes to a new and exciting world. Using a retirement gift of painting supplies, she set out to capture this newly discovered and surprisingly large world. Joyce...
John Bradley Fox
John Bradley Fox (aka Brad) is a microbiologist-turned photographer. Originally from Tennessee and having lived o Atlanta for many years, Brad purchased a home in Dahlonega in 2011. He is still teetering on the edge of retirement, braved the traffic on 400 twice a...
Ann Alexander
Ann Alexander got a late start to painting. She first picked up a paintbrush after her children left the nest for college, simply as an outing with friends. That fateful excursion led to a passion she never knew existed, studying and learning from the ground up about...