Since the fall of 2015, Columbia College has celebrated the centennial of the nearly-one-year teaching residence at the Midlands women’s college of one of the giants in American art – Georgia O’Keefe. Jackie Adams, the college’s art gallery coordinator, notes the importance of that year. That was the year that her style changed, from one influenced by her New York teachers to the direction that would win her worldwide acclaim. Columbia artist Judy Hubbard, who mounted an O’Keefe-themed exhibit at the college’s gallery, believes that O’Keefe’s “isolation” in Columbia gave her the space to find what was within herself, to become “Georgia O’Keefe.”