In between Springboard and the Westobou Festival, the Westobou Gallery at 1129 Broad Street maintains the mission of building the community. Hosting six exhibitions each year, the contemporary gallery invites regionally, nationally, and internationally know visual artists to show at the brick-and-mortar fixture in downtown.
"The Morris Museum is a fantastic place that presents the very best of Southern art. The Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art has a long history of celebrating regional works in a nontraditional setting. What I feel Westobou brings to the landscape is this accessible, contemporary, white box, street-side gallery that can host a variety of unique visual arts exhibitions. People come into this space and tell us that they would never expect this sort of gallery in Augusta, that they've only been to places like this in larger, more modern cities," says Jilson.
Celebrating their tenth year in 2017, the board members, trustees, and employees of Westobou continue to cultivate the ever-evolving cultural landscape in Augusta, inviting some of the most talented artists in the region and beyond to assist them in inspiring and engaging the people of the city.
"We are doing as much as we can to be leaders and contemporary trendsetters," Jilson explains. "We want to be on the edge of what is great, and we want to be the organization that leads that charge locally. I think we are doing a great job, and the community is really responding."
