GMA: Gadsden Museum of Art

GMA: Gadsden Museum of Art "To inform, to educate, to inspire..." Admission is free. We are not affiliated with the Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts.

The Gadsden Museum of Art and History promotes an appreciation for all types of visual arts by hosting a variety of changing art exhibits each year, as well as pieces from its permanent collection. Additionally, it fosters a awareness and appreciation of local history through exhibiting artifacts, photographs, and decorative arts of historical significance of the Gadsden and Etowah County area.

06/11/2025

Mural installation in progress at GMA! Art for the Wall
Artist: Bill Beebe

06/11/2025

DON'T FORGET! Join the TODAY, June 11 for another Sip and Sketch!
"Bring your favorite drawing supplies and capture some nature or sketches of outdoor adventure objects. 🥾 🎒 🛶 🍂 🍃
We’ll be meeting up at the freshly opened YMCA Hub at 1000 Noccalula Road, Located behind Cahaba Cycles.
Park in the front parking lot and walk around! Bring a camp chair and your favorite snack and beverage and come sketch with us. We can sketch inside or get some nature into beautiful views right outside the back door.
Hope to see you there!"
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Join the Wednesday June 11 for another Sip and Sketch!"Bring your favorite drawing supplies and capture some nature or ...
06/10/2025

Join the Wednesday June 11 for another Sip and Sketch!

"Bring your favorite drawing supplies and capture some nature or sketches of outdoor adventure objects. 🥾 🎒 🛶 🍂 🍃

We’ll be meeting up at the freshly opened YMCA Hub at 1000 Noccalula Road, Located behind Cahaba Cycles.

Park in the front parking lot and walk around! Bring a camp chair and your favorite snack and beverage and come sketch with us. We can sketch inside or get some nature into beautiful views right outside the back door.

Hope to see you there!"

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NOTICE! One seat has opened for our Middle School camp. The camp is held 9 AM to 12 PM Tuesday - Friday. If interested, ...
06/06/2025

NOTICE! One seat has opened for our Middle School camp. The camp is held 9 AM to 12 PM Tuesday - Friday. If interested, please fill out a registration form here: https://www.gadsdenmuseum.com/campforms

NEW EXHIBIT OPENING!!!Amy Feger's "On the Grid/Off the Grid" will have its opening reception TODAY from 5 - 8 PM.---Amy ...
06/06/2025

NEW EXHIBIT OPENING!!!
Amy Feger's "On the Grid/Off the Grid" will have its opening reception TODAY from 5 - 8 PM.
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Amy Feger has lived in Alabama since relocating from Kentucky in 2002. One of the most ecologically biodiverse states in the U.S., Alabama is also under the greatest threat due to the historically toxic relationship between human industry and the landscape. Landscape is a perennial subject in her paintings as she has a keen interest in the natural sciences and a deep concern for the environment. Inspired by her observations and influenced by current events as well as visual representations of the land, such as historical paintings and digital maps, she creates drawings, digital images, plein air paintings, videos, and photographs that are the source materials and experiences which inform her artwork. Raising questions about the landscapes of humanity’s future, each painting reflects access to mediated reality as granted by technology.

Amy Feger grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, received her BFA from the University of Louisville, and her MFA in painting from the University of Alabama. She has been teaching studio art courses at the University of Montevallo since 2012. Her work has been exhibited at the Johnson Center for the Arts in Troy, Alabama; the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska; and, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA among others. In 2023, Feger received the Director’s Award for her submission Glitch, Looking Down-Loading Yosemite, Ode to Bierstadt at the 45th biennial Montgomery Museum of Fine Art and Montgomery Art Guild Museum Show: Alabama A-Z. In 2024, she was honored by the People’s Choice Award at B24 Wiregrass Biennial exhibition at the Wiregrass Museum of Art.

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NEW EXHIBIT OPENING!!!Celestia Morgan's "Disparities" will have its opening reception FRIDAY, June 6th, from 5 - 8 PM.--...
06/05/2025

NEW EXHIBIT OPENING!!!
Celestia Morgan's "Disparities" will have its opening reception FRIDAY, June 6th, from 5 - 8 PM.
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Disparities closely examine the everyday structures and unique challenges faced by marginalized communities. It builds on themes from a previous series called "REDLINE," which explored how racial zoning and housing discrimination have impacted these neighborhoods, including local grocery stores, restaurants, and polluted environments.

Each location tells a visual story, rich in meaning and layered with metaphors that reflect personal experiences. This work goes beyond the photographic lens, drawing inspiration from maps, minimalist art, painting, and sculpture. I intentionally incorporate recognizable elements, carefully considering their arrangement and utilizing color theory, light, space, and physical proximity. I aim to enhance the aesthetic quality while referencing the historical nature of discriminatory practices in our communities. This approach leads me to consider questions such as: What visual cues help us understand community spaces, and what might the future look like for these areas?

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NEW EXHIBIT OPENING!!!Mary Moore's "Whispers in Oil" will have its opening reception TOMORROW, June 6th, from 5 - 8 PM.-...
06/04/2025

NEW EXHIBIT OPENING!!!
Mary Moore's "Whispers in Oil" will have its opening reception TOMORROW, June 6th, from 5 - 8 PM.
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Mary Moore’s journey began with an appreciation for the beauty found in nature and history. Over the years, this grew into a hands-on passion, leading her to explore the rich textures and depth that oil paint offers. She also finds inspiration through the media and in the delicate details of florals, the serenity of landscapes, and stories of historical subjects. Mary occasionally ventures into portraiture through expressive brushwork. She strives to blend observation with emotion, inviting viewers into a world that feels both timeless and personal.

Other featured exhibitions:
Heather Baumbach's "Architecture of Release"
Celestia Morgan's "Disparities"
Amy Feger's "On the Grid/Off the Grid"
Jennifer Wallace Fields's "2 Cool 2 B 4gotten"

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NEW EXHIBITIONS OPENING THIS FRIDAY, JUNE 6TH, 5 - 8 PMHeather Baumbach's "Architecture of Release" Celestia Morgan's "...
06/04/2025

NEW EXHIBITIONS OPENING
THIS FRIDAY, JUNE 6TH, 5 - 8 PM

Heather Baumbach's "Architecture of Release"

Celestia Morgan's "Disparities"

Amy Feger's "On the Grid/Off the Grid"

Mary Moore's "Whispers in Oil"

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NEW EXHIBIT OPENING!!!Heather Baumbach's "Architecture of Release" will have its opening reception FRIDAY, June 6th, fro...
06/03/2025

NEW EXHIBIT OPENING!!!
Heather Baumbach's "Architecture of Release" will have its opening reception FRIDAY, June 6th, from 5 - 8 PM.
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Heather Baumbach’s work is inspired by her community, her travels, and the beauty of everyday life. She enjoys working with her hands, creating works notable for their deft finish and tactile nature. Her visual art has been exhibited at MASSmoca, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, The Wiregrass Museum of Art, The Georgine Clark Alabama Artists Gallery, Lowe Mill Arts, and The Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery at Marshall University. She also holds over 30 years of design and production experience in stage, television, and film, her credits including The Cherry Lane Theatre, The Theater Outlet, The Santa Fe Opera, The Los Angeles Opera, Maine State Music Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Carsey-Warner Productions and Comedy Central. Heather holds a BFA in Costume Design from UNCSA and an MFA in Visual Art from Lesley University. She is currently an adjunct professor in both the Art and Theater departments at The University of Alabama, Huntsville.

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The Gadsden Museum of Art is in need of a mural artist! The mural's theme is and must feature different types of exerc...
06/02/2025

The Gadsden Museum of Art is in need of a mural artist!

The mural's theme is and must feature different types of exercises that also include a person with a disability (wheelchair, etc.). The museum will pay the artist for their work as well as pay for materials.

Job stipulations and specifications:

* The mural will be 15’ X 30’
* The artist must not have done a mural in Gadsden, AL, before.
* Please submit a design by our DEADLINE: JUNE 20TH. You can submit a draft of your design by sending an email to: [email protected].

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NEW EXHIBIT OPENING!!!Amy Feger's "On the Grid/Off the Grid" will have its opening reception FRIDAY, June 6th, from 5 - ...
05/30/2025

NEW EXHIBIT OPENING!!!
Amy Feger's "On the Grid/Off the Grid" will have its opening reception FRIDAY, June 6th, from 5 - 8 PM.
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The paintings in One the Grid/Off the Grid arise from my awareness of living in the liminal space of “The Information Age” and “The Anthropocene.” Collectively, the artworks express the paradoxes of meaning relating to our present simultaneous realities. Living off the grid was once associated with hippies and the back to the earth movement of the 1970’s: people moved to a rural place, lived off the land, and sustained their existence in balance with nature, rejecting the corporate industrial systems supporting a capitalist economy. Since the 1980’s, living off the grid has become associated with far-right extremists who move to rural places as a rejection of government control and democratic social systems. For both counter-culture ideologies, to live off the grid, is to critique the system, to provide an alternate way of living, and to change the system from the outside.

The structure of the grid informs all manmade systems: Cartesian grids, power grids, fiberoptic networks, vector graphics, urban grids of public streets and roads. To be on the grid is to have a position within the system, to be connected in a network, to be complicit in the system, to be an observer of the accessible aspects of the system from within.

Since 2013, I have been exploring inaccessible mining and power production sites using Google Earth to explore hidden landscapes virtually. These digital excursions provide source images for this ongoing and ever-evolving series of metaphorical landscape paintings that reveal the layered histories of the toxic relationships between industry, development, society, and local ecologies.

During one early “virtual hiking” mishap, I discovered it was possible to pe*****te the thin layer of data that renders the digital landscape. By hacking the terra incognita of inaccessible, geologically rich mines and quarry landscapes in Google Earth’s 3D map renderings, these paintings offer perspectives that are both behind and within the scene. By collaging figures into an otherworldly and phenomenological landscape I visualize an explosive energy of fracture, the skeletal grid of virtual reality in a state of collapse.

My fascination with maps as representations of the landscape led me to Jorge Borges’ parable, “On Exactitude in Science” a chronicle of the creation of a 1:1 map of the world that became a separate and distinct reality. The story prompted me to recontextualize the internet, Google Earth in particular. Current technologies, including artificial intelligence and efforts to colonize Mars, manifest humankind’s excessive drive to advance knowledge, achieve power, gain wealth, and construct irrational and self-serving real and virtual monuments that attest to the merciless human indifference of these pursuits. The real world is being marginalized and treated inhumanly because reality, like Borges’ map, is “Unconscionable,” unwieldy, obsolete, and out-of-fashion.
Creating these paintings qualms my personal fears that hyper-real virtual representations found on the world wide web are uncanny and misinform humankind.

My paintings present a framework through which the complexity of hyperobjects can be understood. Because no single hyperobject can be represented, the artworks are catalysts for considering how to live in the time of hyperobjects. Each painting is a discourse on the imperfect and mediated reality as granted by technology. Ultimately, they raise questions about the real landscapes of our future.

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Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 3pm

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The Gadsden Museum of Art promotes an appreciation for all types of visual arts by hosting a variety of changing art exhibits each year, as well as pieces from its permanent collection. Additionally, it fosters an awareness and appreciation of local history through exhibiting artifacts, photographs, and decorative arts of historical significance of the Gadsden and Etowah County area. Admission is free.