Posts Tagged ‘art’
Arts Education Workshop 4/18/23
Amp Up Arts and Mobile Arts Council invite you to a FREE full-day workshop on growing arts education in Mobile and surrounding areas. We will begin with action steps for implementing teaching artist residencies and arts programming in schools through in-school instruction, after-school programs, and community events. In the afternoon, we will review available grants…
Read MoreMarch Artist Member of the Month
Congratulations to our March Artist Member of the month, Nancy Goodman! Nancy was born in New England, moved to Colorado as a teenager and then to California for college. She made her first quilt for her firstborn about 45 years ago. A few years later she moved to New Mexico and finally to Alabama. Along…
Read MoreMarch Exhibitions: Not Without Water & Blue Mind
This March, MAC’s Gallery @ Room 1927 will feature two exhibitions: “Not Without Water” by Pier Hardin and “Blue Mind” curated by Kathy Martin Not Without Water depicts the environments that could not exist without water. Surreal and abstract forests, bog plants, cypress knees, swamps, mythical caves, carp, lily pads, insects, and frogs—water is their…
Read MoreFebruary Artist Member of the Month
Congratulations to our February Artist Member of the Month, Muffinjaw Designs! Muffinjaw Designs is a group of local artist that joined together while studying glass at The University of South Alabama in 2016. The group is comprised of Freddie Blache, Caroline Gratton, Gage Nobles, and Tres Johns. Muffinjaw Designs creates handmade, functional, and decorative glass…
Read MoreFebruary Exhibitions: Visual Arts Achievement Program & Young at Art
This February, MAC’s Gallery @ Room 1927 will feature two exhibitions: The District 1 Visual Arts Achievement Program and Young at Art. The Visual Arts Achievement Program provides opportunities for students in grades 6 through 12 to be recognized for their contributions to the visual arts at the local and state levels. View the statewide…
Read MoreJanuary Exhibitions: “Body of Work” & “Friends and Figures”
This January, MAC’s Gallery @ Room 1927 will feature two exhibitions: “Body of Work” by Louis Tooker and “Friends and Figures” curated by Jessica Maples. For the past twenty-five years, Louis Tooker has joined with fellow artists to draw from live models, many of those sketches making up Body of Work. He finds figurative studies…
Read MoreDecember Member of the Month: Central Arts Collective
Established in 2017 to fill the need for affordable studio spaces for local artists, Central Arts Collective is a group of about 20 individual working artists who strive to craft community through service and arts cultivation in Mobile. Each artist occupies a studio space within the same building of Central Presbyterian Church located at 1260…
Read MoreNovember Exhibitions: Ty Tover & Lynne Weeks
This November and December, MAC’s Gallery @ Room 1927 will feature two exhibitions: “I am Light” by Ty Tover and “All About the Dress” by Lynne Weeks. These exhibitions will hang from November 3rd through December 21st, 2022. Read more about these exhibitions below! Tyrome “Ty” Tover – TOSH TOVAR | Art Therapy Paintings –…
Read MoreOctober Exhibitions: L.A. Stevens, Art of Engineers, & WGAS
This October, MAC’s Gallery @ Room 1927 will feature three exhibitions: the Watercolor & Graphic Art Society’s “Annual Fall Show”, “Confusion” by L.A. Stevens, and “Airbus Art of Engineers.” These exhibitions will hang from October 5th through October 30th, 2022. Read more about these exhibitions below! As a non-profit organization, the object of the Watercolor…
Read MoreAzalea City Art Quilters & 2022 Throwdown Artists
This September, the Mobile Arts Council’s Gallery @ Room 1927 is hosting two new exhibitions. Viewpoints by the Azalea City Art Quilters features works from over 10 different art quilt collections completed by the group since 2020. The 2022 Throwdown Artists features works from this year’s 10th Annual Throwdown competitors – Mayssam Iskandar, John Halliday,…
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