Programs

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 [...]

Saturdays, 2 - 4:30 p.m. Instructor: Cherrelle Smith Tap into and explore your “laisse couler” energy – a French creole phrase for ‘let it flow’– with local artist Cherrelle Smith. With acrylic paint, we will explore techniques, textures, and tones as we enjoy creating art from within.

Saturdays, 2 - 4:30 p.m. Instructor: Cherrelle Smith Tap into and explore your “laisse couler” energy – a French creole phrase for ‘let it flow’– with local artist Cherrelle Smith. With acrylic paint, we will explore techniques, textures, and tones as we enjoy creating art from within.

Alabama Contemporary Art Center will be closed Friday, September 21, and Saturday, September 22, 2018, for a private event. Please check out our upcoming events [...]

Ages 12 & up Fridays, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Friday is Art Making day! Students will focus on an art medium each month. Students will create 3 experimental projects and 1 final zine project; young artists will explore concepts of negative space, perspective, and composition while familiarizing themselves with contemporary artists. 

Join us for a night of music with exhibiting artist Abe Partridge as he releases his new album, Love in the Dark. Doors open at 6 p.m. Show starts at 7. Tickets are $1. Talk about a deal...

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.

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.

Photographer Julia Gorton will turn her camera on the Mobile scene and turn a portion of our Video Gallery into an Open Portrait Studio. If you were ever in a band, past or present, a showgoer, promoter, record store owner, bartender, or scene supporter in any way, we invite you to drop by and have your portrait made by Julia. Each portrait will be displayed in January 2024 in the upcoming Hurricane Party exhibition.

Join us for the final screening of our Cuba Premieres film series! Curated by local filmmaker, Gideon Kennedy, this collection of short films from “The Golden Age of Cuban Cinema” will kick off with Octavio Cortazar’s Por Primera Vez (For the First Time), followed by five short films by experimental Cuban filmmaker, Santiago Alvarez, whose “nervous montage” style is considered the precursor to the modern video clip.