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PHOTO BY JAVE BJORKMAN
Faces
FROM TOP Celebrating the unveiling of
Bicentennial Park, located on Clinton
Street in East Macon. The sculpture park
is the signature project of the Macon200
Bicentennial Committee. For decades,
Melgenia and Miles Redd have built one of the
largest privately owned collections of Black art
in the Southeast: the Redd Family Collection,
with over 800 pieces. The latest exhibition,
Melodies & Merriment: Seeing Sound in
Black Art, is currently on view at the historic
Douglass Theatre annex through Dec. 21.
Mercer University's President-Elect Dr.
Penny L. Elkins with Mercer graduates and
Mercer Student Government Association
President Alisha Mitchell and Chief of Staff
Deven Jackson after the University's Board of
Trustees announced her selection as the 19th
President of Mercer.
Mercer University, Macon-Bibb County, Knight Foundation, Peyton Anderson Foundation, and
partners broke ground on Mercer School of Medicine, set to open in fall 2028. The new
150,000 square-foot campus will anchor a Riverside Drive development of residential lofts,
retail, and offi ce space.
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