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January 13, 2023 – May 20, 2023 @ –
For the last two years Abe Partridge has made regular visits and embedded himself in several communities of Appalachian religious snake-handlers. After much time spent, he was given permission to document his experiences; the music, rituals, and stories that called to him. This is an exhibition of new work exploring those experiences, made in direct collaboration with this community.
February 3, 2023 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm –
We are looking for high school students (9th-12th) to participate in this year’s Region 1 Poetry Out Loud Competition! Poetry Out Loud is a national arts education program that encourages the study of great poetry by offering free educational materials and a dynamic recitation competition for high school students across the country. This program helps students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about literary history and contemporary life.
February 15, 2023 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm –
The BLACC, or Black Life Arts & Culture Coalition, is a committee of Black community leaders and allies committed to affirming and celebrating Black life and culture through the arts in Mobile. Learn more about the BLACC, upcoming projects and how to get involved, over drinks, Tiny Bites by Stephanie Roy, and music from DJ Rodski.
February 25, 2023 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm –
Join exhibiting artist Sally Heller in a workshop assembling flora using your own brand of handy-work: twisting, knotting, or weaving small elements into unknown floral-like entities. Materials include: pipe cleaners, scraps of styrofoam, yarn, wiffle balls, beads, needles, thread, wire and other bits.
March 4, 2023 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm –
Saturday, 1 – 4 p.m.
Instructor: Micah Mermilliod
Discover lumen prints, a camera-less photographic process where you will create unique photographic images using black and white photographic paper, objects, and light. In this 3-hr. class students will learn about the history of lumen printing, then experiment with the printing process.
April 7, 2023 – May 5, 2023 @ 9:30 am – 12:30 pm –
Ages 6 – 11
Fridays, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Homeschool families unite! Throughout this 4-week course, your young artists will experiment with materials and mediums like acrylic painting, collage and assemblage, mixed media, and watercolor, while learning about contemporary art and artists on view.
April 13, 2023 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm –
Join us for a special preview and opening reception for Soil: Radical Empathy in the Act of Remembrance.
April 14, 2023 – July 15, 2023 @ –
In partnership with the Mobile County Remembrance Project, ACAC commissioned 5 artists working with concepts of Black Identity and Remembrance to create new work in response to research gathered around lynchings in Mobile County during what the Equal Justice Initiative recognizes as the Era of Racial Terror from 1877 to 1950.
April 28, 2023 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm –
Join us for a night of music with exhibiting artist Abe Partridge as he releases his new album, Love in the Dark. Doors open at 6 p.m. Show starts at 7. Tickets are $1. Talk about a deal…
May 12, 2023 – July 15, 2023 @ –
This multi-media installation by Jamie Robertson examines the socio-political and spiritual relationship between Blackness, water, and memory. Through photography and video, the Gulf states of Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama’s individual histories are illuminated through their bodies of water. Below the surface, surrounded by the living presence of Water’s memory, the camera serves as a device for entry into the spiritual realm. Water is personified, its bones counted and picked clean from its past. What remains?