ESAC Exhibition: Women’s Art Collective & Mobile Watercolor and Graphic Society
Date/Time
Date(s) - May 3, 2024 - June 29, 2024
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location
Eastern Shore Art Center
Categories
WOMEN’S ART COLLECTIVE
On Display: May 3 – June 29, 2024
The Women’s Art Collective began as a group of Hattiesburg artist friends wishing to establish a community of support for themselves, their professional growth and their aesthetic development. During our monthly meetings we create a safe space for intellectual discourse on art, offer supportive critique and reflection on each others’ current work, and schedule regional exhibitions of WAC members. Established in 2011, they are 15 practicing artists whose work consists of ceramics, drawing, mixed-media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and fiber art.
Website: https://www.womensartcollective.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/womensartcollective
MOBILE WATERCOLOR & GRAPHIC ARTS SOCIETY
On Display: May 3 – June 29, 2024
The Watercolor & Graphic Arts Society is probably the oldest arts organization in Mobile and one of the oldest in the state of Alabama. The Society began as an outgrowth of the celebrated Bayou Painters group on June 5, 1948. It was then known as the “Watercolor Society of Mobile” and was open to artists throughout Alabama. There were originally twenty-two members including Genevieve Southerland, Edmond deCelle, William Bush, and the late Bea Q. Tucker. Since then, many well known and well respected artists have become members. Records indicate that the graphic arts addition began in 1954. Today there are nearly one hundred members.
As a non-profit organization, the object of the Society is to create, through education, more interest in the media of watercolor and graphic arts, and to promote finer watercolor and graphic arts exhibitions by Alabama artists. The Society holds a minimum of two exhibitions annually, at least one of which is always juried.