16 maconmagazine.com | October/November 2026
12 Editor's letter
19 Faces
28 Gallery West lives on
30 What happens if artists
get a seat at every table?
40 Heroes Among Us:
Holly Roberts
48 In Memoriam: Alan Walden
56 Macon Fashion Week
struts down the runway
72 In Memoriam:
Larry Fennelly
77 Earning creative income?
Congratulations — but now
you owe taxes
90 Macon Chose Me:
Eric O'Dell
92 Fitness: Creative ways
for getting in shape
94 Eat Where I Eat:
Fresh Air Barbeque
96 My Macon: Jave Bjorkman
98 Cups and Water: The visual
mystique of sacred spaces
100 Top 10 in the 478
102 Five minutes with…
Paula Aguirre
Corrections: In the June/July
Music Issue, a typo misspelled
architect Neel Reid as Neel
Reed. We regret this error.
ON THE COVER
Macon-born Carrie
Preston is fearless
in the middle of
Central Park prior to
the "Elsbeth" season
release. Photo by Matt
Odom. Look: Cinq
á Sept. HMU: Betty
Salinas.
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