The 2025 Emerging Artists Exhibition features Calhoun Community College and Athens State University students who take classes at the Alabama Center for the Arts. This free exhibit is in our Walking Gallery (Visual Arts building) and is open to the public. This year’s exhibit features the works of 27 students with a total of 45 […]
Athens State University is proud to welcome alumna Ashley Hargrove, ‘11, accomplished actor, voiceover artist, and writer, for an inspiring conversation about her journey from student to a thriving career in entertainment. Joined by owner of GTK PR Talent Agency, LLC, Sherry Lee will share insights from the publicity and marketing side of the industry. […]
Paintings by Char Baxter, MFA in Integrative Art candidate Exhibit on 2nd floor Walking Gallery, ACA Visual Arts bldg. NOTE: ACA will be closed December 15, 2025 thru January 1, 2026 for winter break.
This is a workshop consisting of 4 evenings for anyone interested in exploring creativity. Less concerned with mastering a specific skill, we will explore how different visual, artistic techniques can provide an outlet for expression, creativity, and discovery. We will learn and explore many techniques based on drawing, painting, and other two-dimensional mediums, not with […]
Join us for an opening reception with MFA candidate and muralist, Sylvia Cortes. Come see her work, and enjoy conversation with the artist. Thursday, October 9, 4 to 5 pm Alabama Center for the Arts, Visual Arts bldg. Light refreshments provided. Bring a friend and stop in for a quick look. We look forward to […]
Artists reception with live painting demo by Dawn Whitelaw and Amy R. Peterson, featured artists of Serendipity and Serenity, in association with the Beverly McNeil Gallery of Birmingham, Alabama. “Serendipity and Serenity” are both themes that are at the heart of Amy R. Peterson’s latest paintings which depict places, moments, and faces of family life. These […]
In roaring twenties Chicago, Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the rap...until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess," Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search […]
In roaring twenties Chicago, Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the rap...until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess," Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search […]
In roaring twenties Chicago, Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the rap...until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess," Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search […]
In roaring twenties Chicago, Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the rap...until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess," Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search […]
This is a workshop consisting of 4 evenings for anyone interested in exploring creativity. Less concerned with mastering a specific skill, we will explore how different visual, artistic techniques can provide an outlet for expression, creativity, and discovery. We will learn and explore many techniques based on drawing, painting, and other two-dimensional mediums, not with […]
CALL TO ARTISTS! We are excited to again call ACA/Calhoun/Athens State students, alumni artists, faculty, and staff to submit art for the annual juried Festival of the Cranes Art Exhibition. We encourage innovative and progressive works that utilize a diversity of art forms and media that depict Whooping cranes, Sandhill cranes, birds, waterfowl, ducks, geese, […]
