Glass Cabin Exhibition

May 13 – 24, 2026

The Syd Blackmarr Arts Center
255 Love Avenue, Tifton

Exhibit Hours
12:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Exhibit Reception
Sunday, May 17th
3pm – 5pm

The Glass Cabin exhibit brings the book’s story to life through a mix of poetry, photography, and visual art. Featuring prints by Michael Johnson, the exhibit highlights pieces that use words from the poetry itself to form striking images, blending text and visuals in a way that deepens the story.

As you move through the space, you’ll follow the narrative of The Glass Cabin through different formats, including poetry, photographs, prints, and select objects connected to the book. Each element adds another layer, giving visitors a fuller sense of the themes, moments, and emotions behind the work.

This is an immersive, walk-through experience designed to let you engage with the story more tangibly, seeing how the words, images, and physical pieces all come together.

Special Events

From Scraps to Story: A Journaling Workshop

May 19th | 5 pm

From Scraps to Story: A Journaling Workshop invites you to turn the overlooked into something meaningful. Using repurposed paper and found materials, participants will create their own one-of-a-kind junk journal transforming scraps into a personal keepsake. Then, guided by the authors themselves, you’ll bring those pages to life with a poetry prompt inspired by their work. Just as their story is built from pieces of the past, you’ll craft something entirely your own proving that even the smallest fragments can hold a story worth telling. Pre-registration required.

Voices from the Cabin

May 21st | 5 pm

Voices from the Glass Cabin invites you to hear the words that built the story and the voices it inspired. Join the authors for a live reading from Glass Cabin, then experience the creative echoes as community members share original pieces written during the previous workshop. From page to voice, this evening brings together the origin of the work and the stories it sparked, celebrating how creativity continues to grow when it’s shared.

More About Glass Cabin

Glass Cabin by Tina Mozelle Braziel and Jim Braziel is a genre-defying work that weaves poetry into a meditation on labor, partnership, and intentional living. As described by Pulley Press, the book chronicles the couple’s thirteen-year journey constructing an off-grid home in rural Alabama using “salvaged materials like church glass and reclaimed wood,” positioning the cabin itself as both structure and symbol.

In an interview with Salvation South, the authors reflect on the process as “learning by doing, failing, and trying again,” revealing how the physical demands of building shaped not only the home, but the artistic and emotional landscape of the work. The process of building the home was “as much about making a life as making a structure,” emphasizing the book’s deeper inquiry into what it means to live deliberately.

Further insight from Tina Mozelle Braziel’s official website emphasizes the couple’s intention to build “something that could hold us, and the life we wanted,” a sentiment that resonates throughout the collection. Across these perspectives, Glass Cabin emerges as both an intimate love story and a broader reflection on creation itself. As Salvation South observes, the work ultimately “reimagines home as an act of collaboration and endurance,” inviting readers to consider how the spaces we build, in turn, shape who we become.