Mobile and Baldwin County News
Self-taught artist Grantham Unknown left New Orleans calling its arts scene 'spiritually desolate' and found new footing in Mobile, where he now co-manages the Lupercalia Gallery on Dauphin Street.
Israel Rodriguez moved to Mobile in 2018 to dance with Mobile Ballet and has since built a filmmaking career that earned him Best Local Filmmaker in the 2026 Reader's Choice…
Katia Garza moved to Mobile in 2017 to help with Mobile Ballet's 'The Nutcracker' and stayed to build a dance-teaching career, winning Best Arts Educator in the 2026 Reader's Choice…
Atlanta improvisational duo Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel brought its genre-blurring, no-two-shows-alike sound to downtown Mobile's Blind Mule, pairing an instrument played without touch with a Southern slide-guitar tradition.
In a 2009 interview, Mobile collage artist and cartoonist Ryan Jetten discussed his rise through the city's gallery and coffee-shop art scene, his long-running comic strip The Squares, and his…