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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.
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.
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?