If you’re looking for something “different to do” this weekend – well here’s your answer!

Consider a visit to “Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden” – located at 200 North Lewis Street in Summerville, Georgia – it was once home to world-renowned folk artist Howard Finster and now preserved by the Paradise Garden Foundation.

Finster had (and continues to have) an impact on pop culture – says Tina Cox, Executive Director of the Paradise Garden Foundation.  His artwork for the Talking Heads album “Little Creatures” garnered great accolades for Album Cover of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine in 1985.  Paradise Garden has been featured in music videos for REM, and also a number of other artists.  Finster also had a cameo in the REM video for the popular “Radio Free Europe” in the early 1980’s and then there’s the time Finster spoke on the phone with celebrated artist Andy Warhol.  Cox recalls that Finster said that he had no idea that he’d been talking to Warhol, and he was also on the “Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson.

Finster asserted that he was inspired by God to use his artwork – and his garden – to share the gospel with the world.  

He died in 2001 – but remains a fixture in pop culture in places like New York City and here in Northwest Georgia.  His reputation continues to grow – and it inspires many others.

Learn more about Howard Finster – Paradise Garden – and the Paradise Garden Foundation at www.paradisegardenfoundation.org.