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July 21, 2022 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm –
Join us on Thursday, July 21st at 6pm for a curator talk with Y. Malik Jalal. All are welcome to hear Jalal speak about the inspiration and meaning behind the current exhibition Surplus in Pantomime.
July 25, 2022 – July 29, 2022 @ 8:00 am – 3:00 pm –
Experiment with textiles! Campers will bring their ideas to life by making their own patchwork scene using needle and thread, fabric scraps, beads, and found objects. Tell stories through the South American folk textile tradition of Arpilleras.
July 28, 2022 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm –
FuckUp Nights Vol. VII is happening at ACOC Thursday, July 28. Purchase tickets now to hear Docia Miskov, Bryan Goodwin, and Scott Tindle share their professional FuckUp stories with food and drinks.
August 4, 2022 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm –
Join us on Thursday, August 4, for a discussion led by Aaron Levi Garvey. Garvey is the curator for the current exhibition Flashing the Leather, which through the work of multiple artists, takes a deep dive into baseball’s social underpinnings, using metaphors, concepts and superstitions from the sport.
August 12, 2022 – October 29, 2022 @ –
The Lost Cause merges art history and contemporary imagery to construct an alternate reality, critiquing representations of race, masculinity and ultimately exploring “history” as a malleable and inherently creative enterprise. The work reimagines symbols and elements of history and imbues them with a new mythology replete with iconography that subverts white male gaze.
August 12, 2022 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm –
Start your Artwalk at Alabama Contemporary! We’ll open Brandon Dean’s new exhibition, The Lost Cause, with an artist talk at 6 p.m. and sling drinks and Wild Things Ball tickets all night.
September 9, 2022 – November 26, 2022 @ –
Guest curated by curatorial collective Triptych Arts, this exhibition looks at the different codices of Black folk magic and its widespread international iterations that continue to challenge Eurocentric modernist binaries.
September 9, 2022 @ 6:00 pm – 9:30 pm –
Start your Artwalk at Alabama Contemporary! We’ll open the new exhibition, Between the Snakes curated by Triptych Arts, and sling drinks and Wild Things Ball tickets all night. The Mobile Animation Film Festival will kick off in our 3rd Floor Terrace Room at 6:30 p.m. too, so wander upstairs to take in an animated short or two (or ten).
September 24, 2022 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm –
During this soft opening of the newly renovated African American Archives building, renamed the Historic Avenue Cultural Center, hear about future plans for this space, the upcoming exhibition, and witness or participate in the first “Community Mapping” session in which locals are encouraged to share their memories and stories. This event is free and open to the public.
September 29, 2022 – November 3, 2022 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm –
Thursdays, 5:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Instructor: Kyle Miller
In this Thursday night beginners’ ceramics class, instructor Kyle Miller guides students through introductory handbuilding techniques – pinch pot, slab, coil, and beginner sculpture – to create functional ceramic ware.