Alabama Masters:  Artists and Their Work was produced in conjunction with the Alabama Year of the Arts, an initiative of the Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

For teachers using the Alabama Masters book in lesson plans, please click here.

Alabama Masters:  Artists and Their Work features forty-two artists and is a partnership publication between the Alabama State Council on the Arts and six major art museums in the state. The full color paperback features an essay and images of each artist’s work, with the goal of honoring the individual artists and highlighting museum collections. The selection of artists was based on guidelines determined by the museum directors. Al Head, executive director of the Alabama State Council on the Arts and Gail C. Andrews, the R. Hugh Daniel Director of the Birmingham Museum of Art, contributed essays. Georgine Clarke, visual arts program manager at the Alabama State Council on the Arts, coordinated the publication.

The National Endowment for the Arts has funded a series of projects throughout the country under the broad heading of American Masterpieces, and this publication is Alabama’s contribution. It is a major step toward compiling the state’s visual arts history, cultural fabric, and national contributions of its artists.

The six participating museums are Birmingham Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art at Auburn University, Mobile Museum of Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan. Featured master artists range from turn-of-the-last-century painters John Kelly Fitzpatrick, Anne Goldthwaite, Louise Lyons Heustis, John Roderick Dempster MacKenzie, and Clara Weaver Parrish to contemporary artists Kerry James Marshall, Frank Fleming, William Christenberry, and Dale Kennington.

The book is available for a $25 donation to the Alabama Craft Council, 201 Monroe Street, Suite 110, Montgomery, Alabama 36104-3721. For additional information, contact Georgine Clarke at georgine.clarke@arts.alabama.gov

Links:

http://www.800alabama.com/

http://www.arts.alabama.gov

http://www.arts.endow.gov/

Art Exhibitions

Alabama Artists Gallery The Alabama State Council on the Arts is proud to showcase the work of  Alabama artists in its Montgomery gallery in the RSA Tower  Hours are Monday - Friday 8 a.m - 5 p.m.     CELEBRATING CONTEMPORARY ART IN ALABAMA November 20, 2009 - January 15, 2010

Pinky Bass Barbara Lee Black Annie Kammerer Butrus Gary Chapman Glenn Dasher Randy Gachet Nancy Goodman Sheila Hagler

Murray Johnston Dale Lewis Steve Loucks Christopher McNulty Ted Metz Scott Meyer Robert Michelson John Phillips

Amy Pleasant Nathan Purath Guadalupe Robinson Carolyn Scherer Scott Stephens Rachel Wright

 

The exhibition Celebrating Contemporary Art in Alabama: The Nature of Being Southern was held at the Johnson Center for the Arts in Troy from August 14 through November 8, 2009 and was the result of a collaborative effort between the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Troy-Pike Cultural Art Center, Inc. and Troy University. The presentation established for the first time a survey of works by a uniquely identified group of Alabama artists. These artists have received Individual Artist Fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Selection for these fellowships, currently given in the amount of $5000, requires an application, followed by a panel review by experts in the field, and finally approval by the full Council. Guidelines for the program state that the awards are made “based on merit of work, career achievement, career potential, and service to the state.” Specifically, considerations focus on the excellence of the work and the professional commitment of the artist.  The staff at the Johnson Center issued invitations to participate in the exhibition, resulting in positive responses from 41 artists who had been honored by the Council from 1987-2009. Works include the full range of visual art:  sculpture, drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, craft and experimental approaches. Because of space limitations, The Alabama Artists Gallery selected works by 22 of the initial artists to continue the exhibit in Montgomery. This is a celebration of excellence like no other. This is an opportunity to view the best of creativity—art made with passion, purpose, knowledge, and understanding of process and materials. This is a chance to look at recent art developments, to view contemporary expression, to study growth and change in an artist’s work, to enter the dialogue. This is an opportunity to understand the best of Alabama.

Georgine Clarke, Visual Arts Program Director, Gallery Manager

Click here for past exhibitions

 

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Features

The Alabama Legislature has approved the issue of a new Support the Arts auto tag. Proceeds from the sale of the tag will be used to fund a variety of school and community projects. Buy one the next time you renew your auto plate or exchange your current plate for one of the new Support the Arts plate at your county Probate Judge's Office.

For an application for funding your project, please click here

If you have already received a tag grant and need to complete a final report form, please click here

National Endowment for the Arts

Many of the programs and services of the Alabama State Council on the Arts as well as those of local arts groups in Alabama are made possible by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. (Listing of most recently awarded NEA grants in Alabama.)

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Current national arts news including coverage of the Congress and NEA as well as features on arts activities in various states.

Arts Wire Current News
Current news and events reported by Arts Wire.

National Government Links

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• U.S. House of Representatives
• U.S. Senate
• Legislative Information at the Library of Congress
• White House

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AlaWeb
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Grant Awards List

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