Exhibitions

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.

Campers are invited to explore a wide variety of art-making techniques to discover materials and applications that best represent them and their intended creative message. New materials will be introduced on each day of camp including papier-mâché, colored pencil, clay, paint, ink, glass, markers, and more.

Black River is a series of works by the artist Charles Edward Williams that acts as a composite portrait of the relationship between the artist and his father. Throughout this developing series, Williams uses biblical parables and modern narratives to explore the profound act of forgiveness between father and son.

Innovation and resourcefulness can be seen all over the island of Cuba as people and businesses solve everyday problems with the materials they have available. In the spirit of “doing more with less”, campers will collaborate on projects that utilize traditionally discarded and overlooked materials while learning how to be more environmentally responsible.

In this installation, Jenny Day’s raucous use of materials – blown glass, mirrors, wood, fiber, fur, semi-precious stones, beads, bits and baubles – establishes a sculptural feast of celebratory chaos. Drawing on her deep concern for the planet’s ecological health, Day invites us to see that what we build eventually falls down and what we attempt to discard may return to haunt us.

Senior Studio classes are tailored to suit the needs of seniors, and accommodate participants with low-vision and physical disabilities. Senior Studio offers an opportunity for [...]

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.

Join us for this special workshop with visiting artist Harriet Frank to incorporate the use of storytelling into watercolor creations!

This exhibition is an anti-retrospective guided by artist Pinky/MM Bass, a pillar of the Southern art scene. Building on a long history of collaboration, Bass is creating work that both enlists and pays homage to the folx that have impacted her work and life over her long career.

Curated by Micah Mermilliod in partnership with The Do Good Fund for ACAC in the fall of 2024, this exhibition is on view at the University of Alabama Gallery in Tuscaloosa. Through the lenses of 8 photographers, history and modernity intersect, and the ordinary becomes extraordinary. While not always traditionally beautiful, the allure, honesty, and unpredictability found in these everyday moments resonates like jazz through humid Southern air.