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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: 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.

SUMMER CAMP Ages 11-15 Instructors: Anne Carr & Zak Todd Get your hands dirty! Draw your own characters, learn the basics of sketching and illustration, then make it 3D. Campers will experiment with clay techniques and create their own ceramic sculptures.

Join us for one last look at Soil: Radical Empathy in the Act of Remembrance and hear a presentation on historical and generational trauma by Afiya K. Hooker.

The works in the exhibition contemplate how we overlay significance onto bodies, individuals, and objects based on their external features. The viewer is invited reconsider the surface as more than a mere façade, but as a dynamic realm where meanings are assigned, power is exerted, and our relationship with the world is negotiated.

SUMMER CAMP Ages 6-10 Instructor: Stephanie Bromley Students will explore different art mediums including painting, ceramics, sewing, collage, mixed media, and more.