“Cavalcade of Stars” on exhibition at the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center from November 11, 2022 - January 28, 2023.

Joni Mabe is the creator of Everything Elvis at the Loudermilk Boarding House Museum in Cornelia, Georgia. Mabe began making Elvis inspired work in 1977. She also began acquiring Elvis-related memorabilia and purported relics of the King and eventually based her graduate show around this burgeoning collection of artworks and carefully selected objects. The work was then incorporated into her Traveling Panoramic Encyclopedia of Everything Elvis which travelled for 14 years across the country and Europe before being permanently installed in the boarding house museum.

For the Madison Morgan Cultural Center, she will be presenting a group of her glitter mosaics. These portraits feature Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, Ty Cobb, Steve McQueen, P.T. Barnum and other luminaries of the entertainment world—a true Cavalcade of Stars.

Mabe earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Georgia. Her multimedia sculptures and installations have been exhibited at the South Bank Center in London, England, The Honolulu Academy of Art, Hawaii, The Ernie Wolfe Gallery in Los Angeles, and the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York City. Her work is in the permanent collections of the High Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta; the Telfair Museum, Savannah; the Morris Museum, Augusta; the Mobile Museum, Mobile, Alabama; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport.