The Tougaloo Art Colony at Tougaloo College is sponsoring, for the sixth year, a week-long Indulgence in the Visual Arts workshop for artists, art educators, and art students. The workshop will be held from July 26 until August 2, 2002. For more information, write or call the Registrar, Tougaloo Art College, P.O. Box 578, Jackson, MS 39174.
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The Georgia Literary Festival (formerly known as the Eatonton Literary Festival) will take place on August 3, 2002, in Sparta, where Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer will be featured along with other authors from the Georgia Piedmont. In 1921, Hancock County’s rural black and white people inspired Toomer to write Cane, one of the most evocative books about the South between the two world wars. Other writers to be recognized are the Beman Brothers, local colorist Richard Malcolm Johnston, and Joe David Brown, author of Paper Moon. For details, call 706-485-0388 or see www.gsu.edu/eatonton. 
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The Art of the Book: 20 Years of Art and Design from the University of Georgia Press will be on display at the Georgia Museum of Art, in Athens, September 1-30, 2002. The University of Georgia Press was founded in 1938 and is now one of the largest publishing houses in the South. It publishes 80-90 titles each year, in a range of academic disciplines as well as books of interest to the general reader, and has nearly a thousand titles in print. The exhibition focuses on the art and design of book covers published by the Press during the past two decades. For details, call 706-542-4662 or visit the Web site www.uga.edu/gamusuem. 
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The Historic New Orleans Collection announces the opening of A Visible Presence, A Legacy of Service: 275 Years of the Ursulines in New Orleans on Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 533 Royal Street. The exhibition will remain on view through Saturday, December 14. The Ursuline nuns came to New Orleans from France in 1727 to educate women and administer the colony’s military hospital. In the ensuing centuries, the Ursulines have been a visible and enduring presence in the city.
The exhibition illuminates the history of the order’s activities in New Orleans through paintings, objects, books, and documents. Visitors to the exhibition will be able to hear recordings of the oldest surviving manuscript music in the Mississippi River Valley and listen to recorded translations of letters written in 1727 by Ursuline nun Marie-Madeleine Hachard to her family in France. A noteworthy document on display is a letter written by President Jefferson to the nuns in 1804.
A Visible Presence, A Legacy of Service is free and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, visit the Historic New Orleans Collection on the Internet (www.hnoc.org) or call 504-523-4662.
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is located at 222 Fifth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37103. For details, including a copy of the document about the Walkway of Stars, call 615- 416-2001 or visit www.countrymusichalloffame.com.