ACAC Satellite

ARTS AND CULTURE VENUE | ART EDUCATION SPACE | 2-YEAR STUDIO AIR PROGRAM

 

Alabama Contemporary is making big moves this year, and this includes moving our Mobile arts programming hub to 561 St. Francis Street. 𝘈𝘊𝘈𝘊 𝘚𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦 will function as short term office space for our staff while our main galleries at 301 Conti Street undergo redevelopment, and long term as a collaborative community studio space that houses ACAC’s Artist in Residence program, education programs, and pop up exhibitions.

 

Huge thanks to building owners the Meaher family for their unflinching faith and desire to see this space leveraged for community benefit, @tall.arch for lending their expertise to create a beautiful design concept, and @electclements & Strong Foundation for their heroic demo work to give ACAC a fresh, blank canvas. We’ll be rehabbing this space in the first half of this year, and hope to welcome folks in the fall (opening TBD). If you’re as excited as we are about this new (2nd) home, please consider giving what you can to the cause by renewing your membership or donating to the “ACAC Satellite” campaign at alabamacontemporary.org/donate.

 

As we embark on a statewide program schedule that sites projects and programs with partner institutions across Alabama. Our priority in this transition is to keep the critical opportunities we offer intact, and to keep a strong footprint in Mobile. 561 Saint Francis Street is a 2,500 square foot warehouse in downtown Mobile, an old Loomis truck depot. We are currently working on an adaptive reuse renovation to establish the space as a permanent satellite location to house and support the creative community through opportunities in studio residency, arts education, and community centered programming. “ACAC SATELLITE” will serve as the long-term home for the current two-year studio Artist in Residence program, temporary administrative hub for the project granting and proposal opportunities we steward, and a site for arts education and public programming. 

A larger plan to renovate the space is underway, but we intend to begin activating the space in 2025 through pop-up programming that will tie in the community and maintain arts and programming access. This will be the permanent home for the Artist in Residence program specifically, and a vital resource for the local creative community through programming, paid opportunities for artists, and arts education.