Pasaquan

Pasaquan is a visionary-art environment on seven acres of sandy, pine-surrounded land near Buena Vista, Georgia. Beginning in 1959, self-taught artist Eddie Owens Martin, known as St. EOM, transformed an 1880s farmhouse and the surrounding family farm into a compound of painted concrete walls, totems, mandalas and buildings. The complex includes the enlarged farmhouse with a circular temple, a Kiva, a garage, a Pagoda and a Studio, all linked by colorful walls and sculptures. Martin decorated surfaces with oil paint and with hammered, scalloped metal trim, and the site holds over 2,000 works of art and craft. The nomination presents Pasaquan as a nationally significant example of 20th-century visionary art, tied to Martin's religious beliefs and Southern origins. It is recognized for his artistic reputation, for the quality of its construction and color, and for an unusually intact condition compared with similar sites. Today it serves as a museum and work of art.