Public Programs

Join us as we discuss Religious Iconography in Southern Art with Urban Wild artists, Merrilee Challiss, Byron Sonnier, Madison Faile, and Greg Skaggs.

Small Talks is an event where our community gathers and shares fresh ideas that they are passionate about. Think TED talks, but on a much more intimate scale. Spearheaded by Sean Sullivan, each season Alabama Contemporary will host three thematic "small talks" by local creative, experts, and enthusiasts from any field.

Brace yourself, things are about to get WILD. In celebration of All Hallow’s Eve and the closing of a decade we are hosting the biggest wildest party we can muster.

Join us for a talk and workshop led by Dr. Cynthia Huling Hummel, a fierce Alzheimer's advocate, artist, and author from Elmira, NY. Her recently [...]

Screening the 57th year of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, a pioneer of the film festival touring concept that has been presenting an annual tour of selected works from the festival since 1964. Including experimental, documentary, animation, narrative and hybrid works, AAFF is dedicated to artists who embrace the moving image as an art form.

Join us in Cathedral Square for a make and take holiday activity! Stay for amazing local vendors and activities for the whole family!

Different kinds of making require different kinds of skills, but artists also think about their work differently from medium to medium. Join elizabet elliott, Director of Exhibitions to unpack the three current exhibitions and to take a small dive into the ways materials inform thought process and vice versa. 

Bread and Puppet Theater encourages community engagement in each performance! If you are interested in joining The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus, come to the Alabama Contemporary Art Center on Saturday, November 24, 2018, from 1pm-3pm to be trained for Sunday night's performance.

In his first solo exhibition artist Y. Malik Jalal grapples directly with Mobile’s history as a port city, utilizing memorabilia and photography from Cleon Jones, Tommie Agee and Africa Town. The artist will be back to talk about his creative process, the materials he uses, and the aesthetic of black radicalism.

In this free workshop, ACAC Executive Director and Curator elizabet elliott will demystify the process of writing an artist statement from a curator's perspective.