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Remembering the Avenue is a civic practice exhibition curated through Alabama Contemporary's Guest Curator Program that enlists the local community in mapping the history, legacy, and possible futures for historic Davis Avenue.

Since the mid-1980s, Mobile, AL has been home to a growing punk cultural scene. Transitory in nature, as with any punk scene, the scene in Mobile has cycled over the decades through fleeting phases and times of burgeoning richness. Through a partnership with 309 Punk Project (Pensacola, FL), this exhibition aims to collect, archive, and preserve some of that lightning in a bottle.

Climate Change—the largest environmental challenge of our time—is the result of a vision of progress forged in the nineteenth century when fossil fuels spurred industrialization on a global scale. Picturesque America, published in 1872, captured the beginning of US industrialization in lush illustrations that placed railroads and factories in expansive horizons that symbolized boundless possibility. This exhibition places these nineteenth-century views of progress in dialogue with Allison Grant’s contemporary photographs of the chemical and fossil fuel industries in West Alabama.

This exhibition explores the interconnected waterbodies of the Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Gulf as fluid sites of memories and pathways for the Caribbean diasporic people. Artists Keysha Rivera, Trecha Gay Jheneall, and Keiaria Williams use textile works, installations, photography, and mixed media to represent the prevalence of water as a form of remembrance through the process of creation.

Scholars Dr. Kern Jackson from the University of South Alabama, Dr. Julia Cherry from the University of Alabama, representatives from Mobile Baykeeper, Grant, and Cribelli will discuss climate change and themes addressed in the Dangerous Landscapes exhibition, nineteeth-century industrialization, and how Alabama is impacted to this day.

In salute to the historic Central High School, we will host an afternoon celebration at the Historic Avenue Cultural Center featuring a presentation from members of the Central High School Alumni Association, sharing memorabilia, experiences, and watershed moments, with music from The Avenue Youth Choir and the Calloway-Smith Middle School Band. This event is free to the public with light refreshments provided.

Ages 13 - 18 Instructors: Muffinjaw Designs In this 4-week introductory class with the talented folks at Muffinjaw Designs on our 3rd Floor teens will journey into learning the captivating art of hot glass work!

Thursdays, 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. Instructor: Colleen Comer In this 4-week workshop, artist Colleen Terrell Comer introduces participants the building blocks of visual art: mark making, composition and color. This course is structured to provide students with the skills and techniques necessary to create their own paintings and help develop their personal painting style.

Kindred Yoga will join us on the terrace at ACAC on the last Saturday morning of every month, from 9-10 a.m. This drop-in session will feature a 45-minute yoga flow followed by 15 minutes of mingling with fresh, cold-pressed juices for sale from Ginger & Spice.