In honor of the current pop-up exhibition, Homestead Extinction, a panel of experts will delve into the American Dream that is homeownership, or the death thereof, hurdles, innovation, and possible solutions. Entry and refreshments by donation.
This drawing course led by local artist Anna-Marie Babington is a meditative and fun way to flex your people-sketching muscle while building community. Class will happen each Tuesday at 6 PM for 3 weeks starting on April 14, but is also open for drop ins at $25/night or $75 for all sessions.
For this networking series, we’ll be back AC Satellite to show off Homestead Extinction, a pop-up artist takeover by Tony Rodrigues, talk about teaching opportunities, our upcoming education pavilion, and all the exciting possibilities in this new experimental studio space.
On March 19, join us at the home of ceramicist Susie Bowman in Fairhope, Alabama, where we will break bread over what it takes to sustain a practice in the deep Deep South. Susie will give us a first hand look at her home studio and soda kiln.
Homestead Extinction
In this brand new body of work, Tony Rodrigues tackles the growing housing crisis with paintings full of crushed marble that rupture and disrupt idealized subject-matter of a world in the wrong kind of excess. Through depicting a fictional “neighborhood”, Rodrigues explores not only what we desire from our lived spaces, but the dilapidation, entropy and rot that riddle a broken system.
For the first of many Family Studio programs at AC Satellite, Eleanor Brindle, local author and illustrator of the high-contrast board book The First Days will team up with our friends at Kindred Yoga to open the New Year with clarity, calm, and creativity.
Interior
This exhibition grows from a body of work by Abe Partridge, recounting his time in the religious communities of rural Appalachia. It is the culmination of a 2.5 year process that models ways art and other forms of cultural production can expand meaning across religious, cultural and geographic divides. Originated in 2022 by Alabama Contemporary, With Sign Following is on at Kentuck at Queen City in March 2026.
We’re back in the regular Artwalk rotation starting January strong with a pop-up exhibition featuring Mobile’s own, Kandon Kyser. Kyser will take over AC Satellite at 561 Saint Francis Street in the second week of January with Diaries of a Workaholic, a multidisciplinary installation that is as prolific as it sounds.
Neu Dawn, the hybrid fashion/art/music brainchild of Courtney Matthews, is back for its 8th iteration. This creative project brings together over 70+ creatives to experiment with large-scale multimedia pieces paired with costumes designed around the Pantone color of the year and a song selected by Matthews.
This Artwalk, we’re giving thanks and keeping things low key with a potluck feast as we settle in and find comfort in the Nora Ephron classic, Julie & Julia. We encourage all who want to break bread with us to bring a cozy dish to share, and/or a canned food donation that we will deliver to our friends at Love All Pantry.
The Historic Avenue Cultural Center is hosting it’s annual Block Party Saturday, October 18th as a Community Healing Festival, in celebration of HACC’s two year anniversary with food, activities and pop-up programs to emphasize art, equity and healing.
Led by local artist Anna-Marie Babington, this is a drawing course fit for all skill levels. The event will begin at 6 P.M. on the second floor of Sophiella Gallery. Entry costs $25 per person and we will offer paper and charcoal pencil packets for $5 to those who elect not to bring their own supplies.
Join us for a benefit sale of hand-developed photography prints, tests, hand-stitched, hand-rendered and handmade objects from the South’s most prolific creative hands. Event is free and open to the public but things will move fast to come early and ready to dig through a life-times worth of art and images.
Join us for a benefit sale of hand-developed photography prints, tests, hand-stitched, hand-rendered and handmade objects from the South’s most prolific creative hands. Event is free and open to the public but things will move fast to come early and ready to dig through a life-times worth of art and images.
Transience: Trace and Erasure in Lost Landscapes
Artists Angel Fernandez & Winter Rusiloski make work that directly responds to and engages with the landscape around them. Seeing place as a site of narrative power, politics, and identity; they document time, conditions and movement; Winter through alternative painting practices and Angel through sculpture and performance.
If you want to feed your inner hater, join Alabama Contemporary and Sophiella Gallery on Wednesday, August 13, for the second installment of our art history presentation series “Scoundrels in Art History”. We will be hosting a phenomenal panel of local community leaders to demystify and demonize some of the worst people in art history.
Do you think you know artists? Sure, you know their work, but what do they do when they aren’t on the clock? Join us at Oyster City Brewing Co for Artwalk on August 8th as we answer all of your most pressing questions about what your favorite local artists do in their free time! We will feature a series of Pechakucha presentations where local artists will be able to talk about their personal passions outside of the art world.
As always, we will have music curated for you by our in-house DJ, notary and personal chef, Micah Mermilliod. Presentations begin at 7 P.M. sharp and while this is a free event, donations are greatly appreciated. All proceeds will help fund our culminating artist in residence program.
See you there!
Life of the Party
This exhibition of work by Southern artist Vitus Shell depicts Black youth from Dothan and the surrounding areas, as well as others throughout the Deep South to illustrate the aspirational goals of youths and how hip-hop culture can subvert cultural norms. Shell emphasizes joy and pride within his work, embracing the notion that existence is resistance.
Led by local artist Anna-Marie Babington, this is a drawing course fit for all skill levels. The event will begin at 6 P.M. on the second floor of Sophiella Gallery. Entry costs $25 per person and we will offer paper and charcoal pencil packets for $5 to those who elect not to bring their own supplies.
Join us on Wednesday, June 25, at 6 p.m. at B-Bob’s for a screening of To Wong Foo with popcorn by donation and the bar slinging cocktails for your enjoyment. Stick around after the movie for a special film-inspired drag show where you’ll see more legs than a bucket of chicken.
On Friday, June 13, Alabama Contemporary will be working in collaboration with Flip Side Bar and Patio to bring you a prideful PechaKucha lineup during ArtWalk! Our speakers include local staples of the LGBTQ+ community Wanda Doomy, Camille D. Sherrington and Michael Casper speaking about what pride means to them.
Get yer best cowboy duds on and join us Wednesday, May 28th at 6pm for a special screening of Blazing Saddles! This event will be in support of Shawn Campbell’s exhibition, Act III: Act of Acting Can You Kill A Cowboy?, and will be hosted at 75 Beauregard St.
As Pretty Does
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.
Join us at at our new building in downtown mobile for a hard hat tour of our future artist in residence space and get the nitty gritty on how you can become a resident artist for Alabama Contemporary.
This is a ticketed fundraiser and yard party, with a grits bar and familiar lawn games that have a Surrealist twist. Don your fancy hats and knickers and play a game of bizarre badminton or cornhole with anything but beanbags.
Join us at Cedar Street Social on Friday, May 9th at 7 P.M.. And remember, we aren’t afraid to hunt you down!
Led by local artist Anna-Marie Babington, this is a drawing course fit for all skill levels. The event will begin at 6 P.M. on the second floor of Sophiella Gallery. Entry costs $25 per person and we will offer paper and charcoal pencil packets for $5 to those who elect not to bring their own supplies.
Join us at the Historic Avenue Cultural Center as we honor the rich legacy and artistry of the Gee’s Bend Quilters. This special event will showcase an extraordinary collection of handmade quilts and will feature a live quilting demo sharing the time-honored techniques that have made Gee’s Bend quilts world-renowned.
Alabama Contemporary is popping up at Oyster City Brewing Co. for another PechaKucha, our monthly Artwalk rapid fire presentation series, this time honoring our furry friends. Presentations start at 7pm sharp, and will feature cat rescuer Allyson Clements, local wild man Daniel Presley, and niche internet micro-celebrity and Furry Ghostsocial.
LaVada Raouf, Merceria Ludgood, and Valerie George will gab about their favorite troublemakers and zealots of lore. At the tail end of Women’s History month, we will explore what all a woman can be, from activists, radical quilt-makers, gender bending and mystic painters, ravenous performance artists, and makers of weird and disturbing imagery.