Pasaquan - Buena Vista Georgia - DJI Phantom 3 Aerial View
This video was filmed on November 10, 2015 with a DJI Phantom 3 quadcopter.
About Pasaquan:
Location and History
Located near Buena Vista, Georgia, USA, Pasaquan is a world-renowned visionary art site that was created by the late Eddie Owens Martin, between the mid-1950s and his death in 1986. For a more detailed history, go to:
The New Georgia Encyclopedia: St. EOM
Ownership
Since St. EOM's death and until recently, Pasaquan was owned by the Pasaquan Preservation Society, a private, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization. In June of 2014 Pasaquan Preservation Society deeded Pasaquan to The Kohler Foundation for complete restoration. At the end of the restoration process Pasaquan will go to Columbus State University.
The Preservation Effort
Thanks to The Kohler Foundation of Wisconsin, Pasaquan is currently undergoing complete restoration, a process which is expected to take approximately two years. Upon completion of restoration, The Kohler Foundation will gift Pasaquan to Columbus State University.
Pasaquan is a 7-acre (28,000 m2) compound near Buena Vista, Georgia. It was created by an eccentric folk artist named Eddie Owens Martin (1908-1986), who called himself St. EOM. An internationally renowned art site, it consists of six major structures including a redesigned 1885 farmhouse, painted concrete sculptures, and 4 acres (16,000 m2) of painted masonry concrete walls. In September 2008, Pasaquan was accepted for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.[1]
Martin inherited the land from his mother and, using proceeds earned from fortune telling, transformed the house and its surrounding land. In an article on the outsider artist, Tom Patterson describes Pasaquan as “one of the most remarkable folk art environments in America— a sort of mock pre-Columbian psychedelic wonderland of brightly painted totems, curved and angled walls and walkways, and wildly ornamented structures that [Martin] called “temples” and “pagodas.”
Pasaquan in Buena Vista, GA
I visited Pasaquan in 1999. Lost the original footage but found an old VHS tape. This is the work and house of the folk artist St. OM.
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St. EOM of Pasaquan slide show 2018
St. EOM of Pasaquan
Opening Art Reception: November 8, 2018, 6:00–8:00 pm
Book Signing with Tom Patterson: November 8, 2018, 5:30–8:00 pm
Pasaquan Panel Discussion: November 9, 2018, 1:00–3:00 pm
The Lyndon House Arts Center is pleased to announce the new exhibition St. EOM of Pasaquan, and related events, a book signing with author Tom Patterson and the Pasaquan panel discussion.
Eddie Owens Martin, or St. EOM of Pasaquan, was a self-taught artist who, while living in his home town of Buena Vista, created a spectacular art site. Pasaquan, recently renovated and under the guidance of Columbus State University, is a unique and internationally recognized visionary art environment. Lyndon House Arts Center has the pleasure of filling the galleries with St. EOM’s numerous artworks from paintings, drawings, sculptures as well as garments and adornments.
We are happy to host author Tom Patterson, whose publication, St. EOM in the Land of Pasaquan: the life and times and art of Eddie Owens Martin, has just been re-printed by UGA Press. Tom Patterson will be in the gallery to sign copies on Thursday, November 8 beginning at 5:30 pm. Books are available for purchase that evening courtesy of Avid Booksellers.
The Pasaquan panel discussion welcomes Professor Michael McFalls, Columbus State University and Director of Pasaquan, historian Fred Fussell, the Pasaquan Preservation Society president, Annie Moye, Author Tom Patterson and others on Friday, November 9 at 1:00 pm. This panel will include the story of Pasaquan, the importance of preserving visionary art and its legacy as well as the wonderful tales of the extraordinary St. EOM from those who knew him well.
This exhibit and events are supported by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Public Impact Program, University of Georgia Press, LaGrange Art Museum, Columbus State University, Pasaquan Preservation Society, Michael Pierse, Pasaquan and Avid Booksellers.
In the Land of of Pasaquan: The Story of Eddie Owens Martin originated from the LaGrange Art Museum, and is made available by the courtesy of Columbus State University, Columbus State University Foundation, Inc., Pasaquan in Buena Vista, Georgia, and through a gift by the Kohler Foundation, Inc.
Lyndon House Arts Center, located at 211 Hoyt St in Athens GA, is a facility of the Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services Department and is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) through the appropriation of the Georgia General Assembly. GCA is a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information please call 706 613 3623.
Lyndon House Arts Center is operated by the Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County Georgia Arts Division, in the Leisure Services department, as a center of excellence for the benefit and cultural enrichment of youth and adults. The gallery exhibitions, professional art studios, historic house museum, workshops, art meetings, special events, art classes and open studio membership provide area citizens with a positive experience in the visual arts, encouraging all of our community to foster appreciation and to include the arts in every day life. The center was renovated and significantly expanded through SPLOST and re-opened in 1999. © 2018
Pasaquan at Columbus State University
Go behind the scenes of CSU's newest cultural crown jewel in Buena Vista, Georgia.
EOM Eddie Martin , Pasaquan, GA
Located in western Georgia near Buena Vista, GA. Conservation made possible by Parma Conservation and Kohler Foundation, summer 2015, Pasaquan, GA.
Pasaquan Promotional Video 2016
Pasaquan is one the most interesting places I have every had the opportunity to film. I have spent the better part of 2 years documenting the restoration of the Pasaquan property located in Buena Vista, Georgia. This promo was created to show the progress that has occurred at the compound.
St. EOM of Pasaquan
A look at the folk-art oddities of Pasaquan in Buena Vista, GA. This story was featured on This is Atlanta with Alicia Steele, a Telly Award-winning and Emmy-nominated magazine show on PBA, Atlanta's PBS Station. View more from This is Atlanta at
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Shop Local campaign for Buena Vista/Marion County Chamber of Commerce in partnership with local FBLA chapter. Buena Vista, GA
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ST. EOM'S PASAQUAN
A day at St. EOM's PASAQUAN:
I built this place to have somethin' to identify with, cause there's nothin' that I see in this society that I identify with or desire to emulate. Here I can be in my own world with my temples and designs and the spirit of God. I don't have nothin' against other people and their beliefs. I'm not askin' anybody to do my way or be my way. Although, when I'm dead and gone, they'll follow like night follows day.
St. EOM to his biographer, Tom Patterson, 1985
Eddie Owens Martin was born at the stroke of midnight July 4, 1908. His father was a Southwest Georgia dirt farmer, an uneducated sharecropper whose only apparent interest in his son was as a farm laborer who could toil without payment in producing the annual cotton crop. Eddie, however, was different from the other five children in the family. Secretly assisted by his mother, he learned to read. He soon contemplated an existence far beyond that of the backbreaking day labor in the fields of Marion County. At fourteen, following an incident during which his father cruelly killed a puppy that Eddie had received as a gift from a neighboring black family, he left home. After wandering around Georgia and Florida for several months as an itinerant fruit picker, young Eddie drifted north. He eventually found New York City, where he stayed until the mid-1950s.
In New York, Eddie Martin's creative individualism developed beyond that which could scarcely have been imagined by the young farm boy in Georgia. He quickly became a savvy street character in Greenwich Village. He connected with the city's provocative underground culture and the struggling artists, the musicians, the poets, the beggars and bums of lower Manhattan all became members of his newly found family. For more than thirty years he survived in New York, employing whatever means were necessary to get by. He often worked as a fortune teller in Manhattan tea rooms, and he prepared and sold meals of soul food to other displaced Southerners. The New York art scene fed his expanding flamboyant personality and fired his artistic spirit. All the while he was a habitual visitor to the city's museums, libraries, studios, and art galleries. He absorbed New York hip culture like a colorful sponge.
At a time in the late 1930s, during an extended and fever-ridden illness, Martin experienced the first of a series of phenomenal visions that would prompt and continue to drive his artistic efforts for the rest of his life. In the initial vision, he was confronted by a trio of extraordinarily tall personages who identified themselves as people of the future -- special envoys from a vaporous land called Pasaquan, a place where the past, the present, the future, and everything else all come together. He had been chosen by them, he later reported, to delineate an understanding of the peace and beauty that the future might hold for mankind, if mankind would take heed. On that day, Eddie Owens Martin of Marion County, Georgia, became St. EOM -- the one and only Pasaquoyan of the Twentieth Century.
The empowered visitors in his vision offered him extensive instructions on how to ritually prepare for the proper conduct of his personal daily existence. They revealed how he was to communicate with and receive cosmic instruction from the energies of the universe, and how to follow a course that would enable him to artfully render the futuristic world of Pasaquan in paint and pen, metal and concrete. The most compelling instruction that he received from them was this: To return to Georgia and do something. That is precisely what he did -- for over thirty years.
The result is St. EOM's PASAQUAN.
Q the A Podcast Episode 12: St. EOM and Pasaquan
Located near Buena Vista, Georgia, USA, Pasaquan is a world-renowned visionary art site that was created by the late Eddie Owens Martin (St. EOM), between the mid-1950s and his death in 1986. Join us as we explore the man and the religion of Pasaquan.
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This 1200± sq. ft. home is situated on 3± acres. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room, and kitchen with dining area. There is also a large porch on the back. It will need some rehab.
Be sure to watch the video for more information about this home!
This property is in our auction of foreclosed houses for sale in Georgia for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Office. Some of these homes come with additional deed restrictions. Download and read the complete Contract Package for terms and conditions and disclosures (under Documents link above) prior to bidding.
Pasaquan and The Story of St. EOM
Eddie Owen Martin, who later called himself St. EOM, dedicated 30 years of life to building an artistically and culturally fascinating piece of work that was his home.
St. EOM, Pasaquan, and Fortune-Telling
The Poor Man's Psychiatrist project - Spring 2011
Pasaquan - May 25th 2016
This video and stills, except for a few ground level photos, were filmed with a DJI Phantom 4 quadcopter.
The artist-restorers are planning to finish their work the end of June. The grand re-opening will be Saturday, October 22nd.
Go to the CSU Pasaquan web page here:
About Pasaquan:
Location and History
Located near Buena Vista, Georgia, USA, Pasaquan is a world-renowned visionary art site that was created by the late Eddie Owens Martin, between the mid-1950s and his death in 1986. For a more detailed history, go to:
The New Georgia Encyclopedia: St. EOM
Ownership
Since St. EOM's death and until recently, Pasaquan was owned by the Pasaquan Preservation Society, a private, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization. In June of 2014 Pasaquan Preservation Society deeded Pasaquan to The Kohler Foundation for complete restoration. At the end of the restoration process Pasaquan will go to Columbus State University.
The Preservation Effort
Thanks to The Kohler Foundation of Wisconsin, Pasaquan is currently undergoing complete restoration, a process which is expected to take approximately two years. Upon completion of restoration, The Kohler Foundation will gift Pasaquan to Columbus State University.
Pasaquan is a 7-acre (28,000 m2) compound near Buena Vista, Georgia. It was created by an eccentric folk artist named Eddie Owens Martin (1908-1986), who called himself St. EOM. An internationally renowned art site, it consists of six major structures including a redesigned 1885 farmhouse, painted concrete sculptures, and 4 acres (16,000 m2) of painted masonry concrete walls. In September 2008, Pasaquan was accepted for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.[1]
Martin inherited the land from his mother and, using proceeds earned from fortune telling, transformed the house and its surrounding land. In an article on the outsider artist, Tom Patterson describes Pasaquan as “one of the most remarkable folk art environments in America— a sort of mock pre-Columbian psychedelic wonderland of brightly painted totems, curved and angled walls and walkways, and wildly ornamented structures that [Martin] called “temples” and “pagodas.”
The Colors of Pasaquan | GPB News
Go inside St. OEM's Pasaquan with this video featuring the preservationists who are working hard to restore one of Georgia's treasures.
This video is part of a special GPB Pasaquan feature, including two radio stories and two slide shows. Get the full experience at gpb.org/???
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