Sprinkled around downtown Athens, you may have stumbled across one of many cartoon drawings by Augusta artist Jacob Boland.
Boland has spent the past year of the pandemic creating: creating books, creating cartoons and creating new ways to experience public art. Boland works as a photo and film teacher at the Jessye Norman School of the Arts, and he describes his cartoons as whimsical and rubbery.
Boland works on a number of projects in Augusta, Athens and Savannah. In these downtown areas, he puts up cartoon drawings on cardboard canvases on building walls and lampposts for passerby to admire or take.