ArtExpo 2011 to Preview Mobile’s Arts Season at the Mobile Museum of Art
Art lovers can get an early look at the region’s upcoming arts season this Saturday, August 20, when the Mobile Arts Council and the Mobile Museum of Art present ArtExpo…
Student Photography Exhibit ‘Moments Not Lost’ Opens at Mobile Arts Council
Twenty-one students from St. Paul’s Episcopal School will each display two photographs this month in “Moments Not Lost,” a photography exhibition at the Mobile Arts Council in downtown Mobile. The…
LoDa’s 4th Saturday Event Replaces Canceled 3rd Saturday Art Night in Downtown Mobile
The monthly rhythm of art in downtown Mobile shifted in early 2011, when organizers officially canceled the 3rd Saturday evening art event that had been created as a companion to…
Blue Velvet Studio Hosts Mosaic-Painting Party During January ArtWalk on Dauphin Street
Blue Velvet Studio turned the cold snap of mid-January 2011 into a reason to pick up a paintbrush, inviting guests and local artists to a free mosaic-painting party during Mobile’s…
Host Gallery Opens in Downtown Mobile, Ready for LoDa Artwalk Debut
MOBILE, Ala. — Downtown Mobile has a new art space. Host Gallery, owned by Tracy Host, quietly opened its doors last week with a soft opening that included the ceremonial…
Downtown Creative Wellness Foundation Awarded $2,000 Target Grant for Visiting Artist Series
The Downtown Creative Wellness Foundation (DCWF), a Mobile arts nonprofit associated with organizer Zach Depolo, has been awarded a $2,000 grant from Target to help fund its 2010-2011 Visiting Artist…
Family Ties: Painter Couple and Their Sons Share the Walls at Mobile’s Space 301
Space 301 in downtown Mobile hosted "Personal Interiors" in summer 2010, pairing paintings by married artists Alan Feltus and Lani Irwin with a photography and film collaboration by their sons,…
Local Playwright Danielle Juzan Premieres Art-World Comedy ‘Artbruted’ at Space 301
Mobile playwright Danielle Juzan's new comedy Artbruted, a witty send-up of the contemporary art world, made its world premiere at Space 301 for a single weekend run in May 2010.
Inside The Blind Mule: How a Downtown Mobile Bar Became an Unlikely Art Gallery
At The Blind Mule on North Claiborne Street, curator Zach Depolo has turned bar walls into rotating gallery space for emerging Mobile artists like Ryan Jetten, Sol Davis and Ashelea…
Inside The Paper Wasp: How a Mobile Bookbinder Brought Handmade Art to Dauphin Street
In a 2009 interview, Mobile bookbinder Wayne McNeil discussed opening The Paper Wasp Gallery and Bindery on Dauphin Street, a trunk-show style Book Fair, and an upcoming functional-art exhibition.