Name: Poets and Artists from PASAQUAN come to Macon
Start: 2026-06-13T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Museum of Arts and Sciences

Poets and Artists from PASAQUAN come to Macon

Sixth Annual PASAQUAN PRESERVATION SOCIETY Literary Showcase - - Artists in Tow - - John "Johnny Mo" Mollica, Michael Pierce, Flournoy Holmes, Steve Sweetser and Visionary Dirt.
Eddie Owens Martin
1908–1986
Eddie Owens Martin was born in 1908 in rural Marion County, Georgia, to a family of sharecroppers. To escape his abusive father, he ran away from home at age fourteen to New York City, where he hustled to make ends meet by conducting tea-leaf readings and engaging in prostitution. He began drawing and painting, selling his work at outdoor markets and festivals. During an illness in the 1930s, Martin had a vision of deities from the future who told him he was going to become a “Pasaquoyan” and gave him the name St. EOM. In 1957 Martin returned to Georgia, moving into the family home he inherited. He began altering the house and grounds to pursue this personal religion and establish a highly decorative world of his own called Pasaquan.
After Martin’s death in 1986, a group of his friends and supportive artists formed the Pasaquan Preservation Society and began caring for the site. In 2008 Pasaquan was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
In 2014 the Pasaquan Preservation Society, Columbus State University, and Kohler Foundation, Inc., collaborated to conserve the site. Pasaquan was gifted to the university for long-term stewardship, and six hundred works by Martin, including paintings, works on paper, textiles, furniture, and jewelry, were gifted by the foundation to the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.