Carnegie Visual Arts Center

Archive for March, 2010

American Girl Fashion Show

By Admin • Mar 16th, 2010 • Category: Past Events, Uncategorized

The American Girl Fashion Show will be held, Saturday, March 27th, 2010, at the Historic Princess Theatre on Second Avenue in Decatur, Alabama. The show is hosted by the Junior League of Morgan County, a group of women that has been serving this community for sixty-one years. This year’s show will benefit the Hand’s on [...]

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Design/ Sponsor a Dragonfly

By Admin • Mar 16th, 2010 • Category: Calendar, Past Events, Uncategorized

[ May 2, 2010 7:00 pm to August 14, 2010 7:00 pm. ] The dragonfly designs for the 2010 Carnegie Arts Trail: Dance of the Dragonflies have started rolling in… Preview the designs and get more information…

Design concepts are viewable at http://www.danceofthedragonflies.yolasite.com. Click on an artist / designer name to view their submissions…

There is still time to sponsor a dragonfly or submit your own [...]

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Embracing Art

By Admin • Mar 16th, 2010 • Category: Calendar, Current Exhibit

[ June 18, 2010 5:00 pm to July 29, 2010 5:00 pm. ] A Coming Together of Amateur & Professional Artists

This exciting show will be presented for the eighth year and this year features 70 artists from the North Alabama area and beyond. Works in a variety of mediums will be presented for viewing. Juried awards will be given for Best of Show 1st, 2nd [...]

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Transformations: The Art of Bruce Larsen

By Admin • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Calendar, Past Exhibits

[ May 1, 2010 11:00 am to June 12, 2010 6:00 pm. ] Bruce Larsen is one of Alabama most recognized native artists, known for his uncanny ability to take natural objects found in the environment and man-made objects from junk heaps and fuse them into sculptures with line and texture rivaling traditional art mediums. Transformations: The Art of Bruce Larsen features new works from his Medius Terra [...]

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Out of the Kitchen…

By Admin • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Calendar, Current Exhibit

[ April 1, 2010 11:00 am to April 24, 2010 6:00 pm. ] An art exhibition created to help women artists reclaim their inner artistic spirits and in turn, help raise awareness and money for women fighting cancer. The show features works by Jennie Roles-Walter, Jennie Couch, Carol Ann Morris, Sharon Saraceno-Prosser, Karen Ingle and Kathy Mullins. These artist are from various backgrounds, locations and seasons in life. [...]

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Fri. @ 5 is April 16th

By Admin • Jan 27th, 2010 • Category: Calendar, Fri. @ 5

[ March 19, 2010; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Swing by the Carnegie for another lovely Fri.@ 5. View the exhibit “Out of the Kitchen…” and meet the artists.  Enjoy delicious appetizers provided by sponsor Timbuck2′s and complimentary beverages. Fri. @ 5 is a monthly member event. Suggested donation is $5 for members and $15 for member’s guests. Attendees should be 21 years of [...]

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Youth Art Month Exhibit

By Admin • Jan 6th, 2010 • Category: Calendar, Past Exhibits

[ March 12, 2010 11:00 am to March 20, 2010 11:00 am. ] The Carnegie Visual Arts Center presents the 7th Annual Youth Art Month Exhibit, in coordination with area art teachers who submitted works by their current students, ages 5 to 18 years of age. See the amazing creative abilities of the Decatur area student artists.

Youth Art Month is an annual observance each March [...]

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Observations and Encouragements – An Exhibit by Rickie Higgins

By Admin • Jan 5th, 2010 • Category: Calendar, Past Exhibits

[ February 4, 2010 11:00 pm to March 6, 2010 11:00 pm. ]
After earning a BFA degree from Auburn University in 1991, Rickie found the real world demanding of his time, painting sporadically if at all. Frustrated for years, he began to question his desire to create, his ability to paint, even his being an artist. Unable to fulfill his artistic burn, his wife Rebekah gave him [...]

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