Alabama Contemporary Art Center

06/02/2026

Calling all creative kiddos! Alabama Contemporary Summer Camps have landed at the new AC Satellite, a collaborative community studio and experimental art space at 561 Saint Francis Street in Downtown Mobile. This year, our teaching artists are delving into parts of their own complicated practice to make fun and thoughtful activities for your budding art stars.

GRAFFITI with Brandin Stallworth () is our morning class for 11-15 year olds the week of July 13-17. The hallowed form of street art has been around since we lived in caves. There’s just something magical about drawing directly on a wall… so come draw on ours! Brandin Stallworth will show students the current tools and methods street artists use, and students get to try their hand while learning critical drawing and painting skills as well spacial planning.

Sign up for this class from 8:30am to 12:30pm, or pair it with Nadine Andrew’s Brooks’s () afternoon class, PERFORMANCE, for a full day of fun. For more info and to check out the full summer schedule, visit alabamacontemporary.org/camps.

06/01/2026

We opened 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘐𝘧 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘚𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴? in May at Gadsden Museum of Art and are still dreaming about it.

In Tibetan Buddhism, hope and fear are inextricably linked in a single word, re-dok. This is the ground of suffering, but also the condition of dreams. We aspire and we fear in a forever recurring cycle. Yet the dream itself operates as more than a private movie theater. It is also a cycle of domination. Each night we are beholden to go back. Eventually we spend a third of our life there. We are hostages.

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘐𝘧 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘚𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴? is about a special kind of figure who is native to the dream. He is of obscure intent. He is able to appear to be one thing but also stand for some other thing. The figure may appear to be a person or a table or a shoe or a mirror or your mother but actually stand for a starfish or a tomato or your mortality. This is his mask as he goes about his work: a form of processing that is parallel to our consciousness.

This show is curated by Mat Keel and Liz Lessner as Yes We Cannibal, and features the work of Lily LaGrange, Louisa Minkin & Francis Summers [LMFS], Jon Peterson, Jak Ritger, Panacea Theriac, and Tunde Wey, originated by Alabama Contemporary for Gadsden Museum of Art. This exhibition runs through June 26.

This exhibition and related programs are generously supported by Teiger Foundation (), Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (), and Alabama State Council on the Arts ().

06/01/2026

Work by Calder Kamin & Jacob Reptile, curated by ACAC's own Micah Mermilliod is on view at Mobile Museum of Art!

🌍 Exhibition Spotlight: Handle with Care 🌏​

Step into an imagined landscape where the everyday becomes extraordinary. Handle with Care is a brand-new interactive exhibition that explores the infinite potential of the materials we so often take for granted.​

Through the purposeful reuse of fabrics, plastics, and second-hand materials, these incredible artists have created alien lifeforms, vibrant flora, and unique fauna to populate a whole new world.​

Dig in during your next visit!​

🎨Description: Handle With Care exhibition

05/28/2026

New work is going up at AC Satellite, as we get ready for an animation pop-up on June 12 during .

A selection of animated short films from previous Mobile Animation Film Festival submissions curated by .t.hill will be screening throughout the night. Pop in for a few animated shorts and check out a selection of works from artist Diana Dyer’s MFA thesis exhibition that blends glass and woodworked sculpture with augmented reality, creating a hidden fantasy world behind a scannable code.

Members can grab a drink from the member bar from 6 to 9 p.m., and maybe we’ll give away an Art Yard Party ticket or two!

05/22/2026

On June 13, from 1 to 3 pm, the Mobile Medical Museum and Alabama Contemporary Art Center will present the opening reception of Evidence of Care, an exhibition of new multimedia work by Will Truran. Video displays, historical objects from the Museum’s collection, and donated materials from Mobile Infirmary and USA Health will be used to explore the past, present, and future of tool design, use and disposal in hospital systems.

In the artist's words: "After treatment ends and lives
are changed, the physical traces of caregiving remain behind. The materials, the sweat, and often the tears become evidence of the labor, urgency, and humanity found within systems of care. Evidence of Care is a multimedia art exhibition exploring the everyday medical materials that quietly support the work of medical workers."

This project was made possible by a grant from Alabama State Council on the Arts. Additional support provided by the Mobile County Commission.

Attendance is free for members and $7 admission for not-yet members. RSVPs are appreciated!

05/20/2026

Calling all creative kiddos! Alabama Contemporary Summer Camps have landed at the new AC Satellite, a collaborative community studio and experimental art space at 561 Saint Francis Street in Downtown Mobile. This year, our teaching artists are delving into parts of their own complicated practice to make fun and thoughtful activities for your budding art stars.

COLOR with Colleen Comer () is our afternoon class for 6-10 year olds the week of June 22-26. Explore the very basics of art practice in not so basic ways with local artist Colleen Comer. Your camper will learn all the rules of artmaking and the right ways to break them with daily art projects that push creative boundaries and experiment with color.

Sign up for this class from 1pm to 5pm, or pair it with Soynika Edwards-Bush’s () morning class, PAINT, for a full day of fun. For more info and to check out the full summer schedule, visit alabamacontemporary.org/camps.

05/19/2026

Back in April, we invited a panel of experts to AC Satellite to delve into the American Dream of homeownership, the housing crisis, the issues that riddle our system, and imagine solutions. Big thanks to panelists David Perkes, Ellis G. Foster, Booker Washington, Lisa McCarroll, and Beverly Reed, and moderator Keri Coumanis for guiding an incredible and necessary discussion. Special shoutout to , , , , and .arch for the connections that made this program possible.

And - artist and now lifelong friend to ACAC whose pop-up exhibition 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘌𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 inspired this program: work like yours is why we do this ❤️

05/18/2026

The Alabama Contemporary team has been out of office a lot this spring, but that doesn’t mean we’re laying low! 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨, work by opened back in March at Kentuck at Queen City and is on view through the end of this month. Here’s a look back at the beautiful opening and intimate acoustic evening with Abe that followed. Visit our friends at before May 24 to catch this exhibition before it’s gone again!

05/15/2026

We’re back at AC Satellite with for Family Studio! While adults, parents, and caregivers enjoy a slow-flow yoga session with Kindred, ACAC staff will lead children in expressive art-making activities, exploring themes in our exhibitions sited around the state.

FREE for Kindred & ACAC members, $15 for non-members

Registration encouraged, but not required at alabamacontemporary.org/events

05/13/2026

Calling all creative kiddos! Alabama Contemporary Summer Camps have landed at the new AC Satellite, a collaborative community studio and experimental art space at 561 Saint Francis Street in Downtown Mobile. This year, our teaching artists are delving into parts of their own complicated practice to make fun and thoughtful activities for your budding art stars.

PAINT with Soynika Edwards-Bush () is our morning class for 6-10 year olds the week of June 22-26. See how far your young Frankenthaler, Rothko, or Van Gogh can stretch their painting skills, guided by this experienced teaching artist and local celebrity. Campers are invited to explore a wide variety of painting techniques and discover new materials and applications that best represent them and their intended creative message.

Sign up for this class from 8:30am to 12:30pm, or pair it with Colleen Comer’s () afternoon class, COLOR, for a full day of fun. For more info and to check out the full summer schedule, visit alabamacontemporary.org/camps.