Posts Tagged ‘art’
April Artist Member of the Month
Congratulations to our April Artist Member of the Month, Renee Wallace! Living the art life is a dream come true for Renee. Being on the Gulf Coast and witnessing the unique and beautiful coastal area inspires Renee’s art in almost every medium. Sketching and painting were her first loves. She uses soft graphite to sketch…
Read MoreApril Exhibitions: A Ménage à Trois & Not Without Water
This April, MAC’s Gallery @ Room 1927 will feature two exhibitions: “A Ménage à Trois” by Frank “Chip” Mayes and “Not Without Water” by Pier Hardin. Frank “Chip” Mayes began painting in 1960 and is a painter of Oils, Acrylics, and Designers Gouache. He enrolled in college as an art major. Being one of the…
Read MoreChickasabogue Park – Conference Center Window Design Contest
The Mobile Arts Council is searching for an artist to create a design to be laminated inside the windows of the new Chickasabogue Conference Center entrance. The chosen winner will receive $5,000. Submissions are due by the end of day on May 31st, 2023. Eligibility: • Artist must be 18 years of age or older and must reside…
Read MoreKites Over Mobile: Sketch Day
Mobile Arts Council is celebrating Mobile Parks and Recreation’s Kites Over Mobile with a Sketch Day! Join us on the SECOND DAY of this weekend event from 12 noon to 5 pm. We encourage you to bring your drawing materials along as we will have minimal drawing materials available. Bring the whole family to this…
Read MoreArts 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…
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