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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.

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?

This is a thematic group exhibition of site-specific installations featuring 6 regional artists. Approaching drawing as a verb (draw: to pull or drag) these artists pull a variety of materials through space, asking us to follow the action, feel the tension, and re-consider the present.

SUMMER CAMP Ages 6-10 Instructor: Soynika Edwards-Bush and Tori Caldwell Students will explore different art mediums including paint, clay, collage, color, and mixed media watercolor, drawing, and movement with local artist Soynika Edwards-Bush.

SUMMER CAMP Ages 11-15 Instructor: Elizabeth Brooks Time travel through art history with artist Elizabeth Brooks. Campers will use paint, sculpture, and mixed media to create expressive interpretations of portraiture and landscape while looking at examples from the masters throughout art history.

SUMMER CAMP Ages 6-10 Instructor: Fran Carvajal Explore the illustrations of your favorite books by making paintings and art projects that tell fantastic stories with local artist Fran Carvajal.

In honor of the tremendous work mounted by the artists featured in Soil: Radical Empathy in the Act of Remembrance, join us for an intimate dinner, featuring a performance and meaningful discussion.