The American Folk Art Museum & Gallery outside Tallahassee Florida is the workplace of a highly-regarded self-taught grassroots artist. Using found objects from her junkyard, Mary L. Proctor (known as "Missionary Mary") crafts three dimensional assembled works from buttons, mirrors, jewelry, and other odds and ends. Some works are inspired by bible scripture and others by memories of her grandmother or her childhood. Most include written messages of spiritual truths or life lessons. Missionary Mary's junkyard is now known as the American Folk Art Museum.

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The Gryphon Tea Room, housed in an adapted turn-of-the-century pharmacy, serves tea, coffee, sodas and light meals. Students, as well as locals and tourists, relax in the tea room while admiring the antique furnishings. Fourteen original stained glass windows with a mortar and pestle motif convey the original purpose of the shop. The stained glass ceiling is something to see.

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Hosting more than 80 studios, galleries and small shops, Railroad Square is the creative haven of many Tallahassee artists and other small businesses. Railroad Square is a thriving art park filled with galleries, working studios, shops, and the only cafe in town that is built out of a real railroad caboose.

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The Telfair Museum of Art traces its history from 1886 when the Telfair family home opened to the public as an art museum and school. It now boasts three diverse sites -- the original building, the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, a National Historic Landmark building; the Owens-Thomas House, also a National Historic Landmark; and the recently completed Jepson Center for the Arts, a contemporary building which houses 20th- and 21st-century art. The Telfair Academy on Telfair Square houses the Bird Girl statue that was featured in the book and movie, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."

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