Lisa Conner speaks to the audience last Sunday at STMA in rural Buckhead. LEIGH LOFGREN/Staff
The daughter of Steffen Thomas and Sara Douglass Thomas, Lisa Conner, with some of the artwork in the museum. LEIGH LOFGREN/Staff
A selection of the silent auction items. LEIGH LOFGREN/Staff
Damon Mescudi, director of the St. Clair Renaissance Studio with Darrien West, CFO of St. Clair. LEIGH LOFGREN/Staff
The audience listens to presentations. LEIGH LOFGREN/Staff
Another of the silent auction items was a Steffen Thomas print. LEIGH LOFGREN/Staff
Crystal Jackson in front of one of Steffen Thomas’s sculptures. Crystal is the marketing & social media director for the museum. LEIGH LOFGREN/Staff
The Steffen Thomas Museum of Art (STMA) held its annual Founders’ Day Sunday to honor the life of founder Sara Douglass Thomas and to present the Charlie Bonner Award for Advancing Art Education.
Museum board president Kay Meier welcomed guests before Lisa Conner, founding director, raised a toast to her mother, Sara.
Therese Avedillot, collections manager of the Steffen Thomas Legacy Archive, then …