Carnegie Visual Arts Center

[ August 26, 2008; 5:00 pm; ] If you have a piece of art from the Cast Iron Pour and want to protect it from rust you can season it like cast iron cookwear. If you have any burrs on your art, tap them off with a hammer before you start this process.

Wash art in hot, soapy water. Scrub off rust with […]

[ August 22, 2008 4:00 pm to August 23, 2008 4:00 pm. ] The popular Artist Sidewalk Sale has been steadily growing for the past five years. We are excited that it will be a two-day event this year. In addition to two days of great art for sale and viewing, we are presenting a live band concert on Friday August 22 featuring Barnstormers. Their edgy folk and […]

This year at the 5th annual Camp Carnegie, art campers explored the different types of sculpting and 3-dimensional art in a variety of mediums. Tammie Jacob returned for her 3rd year as Camp Director. She is an elementary art teacher for the Decatur City School system during the school year. Camp dates started at the […]

The Carnegie Visual Arts Center, in partnership with Decatur Heritage Christian Academy, is pleased to announce an exciting new community outreach project designed to meet a specific need for foster children in Morgan County and the surrounding areas-Luv Luggage. Children come into foster care with very few possessions-and those are often carried in plastic sacks […]

The Carnegie was recently given ten paintings by Mose Tolliver and Jimmie Lee Suddeth. These pieces, donated by Mr. Lee Sentell, director of the Alabama Tourism Bureau, are significant examples of Alabama folk art. The donation was announced at the Annual meeting in April. Because of this generous gift, the Carnegie will now seek to […]

This year at the 5th annual Camp Carnegie, art campers explored the different types of sculpting and 3-dimensional art in a variety of mediums. Tammie Jacob returned for her 3rd year as Camp Director. She is an elementary art teacher for the Decatur City School system during the school year. Camp dates started at the […]

By Ken Retherford DAILY Weekend Editor
The metal-frame doors on Decatur’s historic Carnegie building look more like the entrance to a convenience store than a blossoming arts museum. But that will change after the Boeing Co. presented the Decatur Arts Council today with $20,000 of a $40,000 grant to help transform the old […]

By Patrice Stewart DAILY Staff Writer
Turning the former Carnegie Library into a visual arts center is getting closer to reality, with restoration expected to start in a few weeks.
A new drive to attract individual donors with art event invitations has just begun, while several large donations have moved the fund-raising effort toward […]

By Scott Parrott DAILY Staff Writer
The Decatur Arts Council plans to select a firm soon to renovate the Carnegie Visual Arts Center in hopes of opening it by spring 2002. Birmingham architecture firm Sherlock, Smith and Adams will choose from prospective renovators Oct. 16. The same firm determined the Church Street Northeast […]

By Jean Hindman DAILY Staff Writer
Artists, photographers, sculptors and potters of the Tennessee Valley — work is about to begin on the Carnegie Visual Arts Center in Decatur.
City Council members voted 5-0 Monday to accept a $683,330 bid from Baggette Construction Inc. of Decatur to turn the former Carnegie Library on Church […]