Carnegie Visual Arts Center

[ January 1, 2011 8:00 pm to December 30, 2012 8:00 pm. ]
2012 Exhibit Schedule
Let the Good Times Roll! Mardi Gras Comes to North Alabama
February 7 – February 25
Fri.@ 5 – February 17
Youth Art Month Exhibition
March 6  – 31
Fri.@ 5 – March 16
Telling Stories – Quilted Art by Yvonne Wells
April 10 – May 26
Fri.@ 5 – April 20 and May 18
Sense of Place
June 5  – July 28
Fri.@ [...]

[ October 7, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Phillip Ratliff, the Director of Education at the Vulcan Park and Museum and curator of the exhibit, will speak about the exhibit, and the connections of music and folk art. Concluding the talk will be a question and answer time.

Friday, October 7, 2011   Noon – 1PM

Lunch & Learn is free to the public, but reservations [...]

[ October 21, 2011; 7:15 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Directly after the October 21st Fri.@ 5 at 7:15 PM, downstairs at The Carnegie, Bobby Horton performs a musical telling of the connections between music and visual art. Bobby Horton is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and music historian. He has produced and performed music scores for ten PBS films by Ken Burns including “The Civil [...]

[ September 16, 2011; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] You can’t miss this one. Come to the Carnegie as we kick off the weekend fun with amazing Alabama folk art.  View the new exhibit The Music Lives On as you snack on delicious food courtesy of Simp McGhee’s, and enjoy complimentary beverages. Fri. @ 5 is a monthly member event. Suggested donation [...]

[ September 13, 2011 11:00 am to November 3, 2011 6:00 pm. ] The folk song traditions of Alabama and other parts of the South have transformed popular culture in America. Country music, rock ‘n’ roll, and other popular musical styles trace their beginnings to vernacular forms of music that include blues, gospel, Sacred Harp, and old time fiddling.
The Music Lives On: Folk Song Traditions Told by Alabama [...]

[ July 5, 2011 11:00 am to September 2, 2011 6:00 pm. ] Writer. Southerner. Icon. Eudora Welty has long been recognized as one of the great Southern literary voices of the twentieth century. However, to this day, many Americans do not know of a body of work she began long before her first published written work appeared in the popular American spotlight in 1936. The body of [...]