Carnegie Visual Arts Center in Decatur, Alabama
Kim Mitchell, Executive Director at Carnegie Visual Arts Center in Decatur, Alabama, talks about their building and exhibits at the Carnegie Visual Arts Center.
Old State Bank in Decatur, Alabama
Melinda Dunn, President of Decatur-Morgan County Convention and Visitor Bureau, visits with Brad Wiegmann in front of the Old State Bank about it's history and location.
Alabama Center for the Arts groundbreaking 7.10.2014
Calhoun Community College, Athens State University and state and local officials gathered July 10, 2014, to break ground on Phase II of the Alabama Center for the Arts in downtown Decatur. (Lucy Berry | lberry@al.com)
AAEA Fall Conference Featuring the Gee's Bend Quiltmakers
The Gee's Bend Quiltmakers, Mary Ann Pettway and China Pettway, were our guest speakers at the Alabama Art Education Conference in Decatur, Alabama. They also hosted two days of quiltmaking workshops, sharing songs and stories with our Alabama art teachers! Linda Miller was responsible for planning the conference and she says, We survived the ride that was our 2016 Alabama Art Education Association's annual Fall conference held here in Decatur. Tammie Bruton Clark and I would like to thank Jennifer Bunnell and the whole staff at the Alabama Center for the Arts - Athens State & Calhoun Community College for hosting our conference in their beautiful facility!! They are truly the gem of our city! Many thanks to the fabulous Gee's Bend quilters, Mary Ann & China Pettway, who spoke & sang their way into our hearts, one stitch at a time. We were surely blessed to have these two Alabama Treasures here in Decatur this weekend!
Many thanks to Melinda Dunn of the Visitors Bureau delicious food for our welcome reception at the Carnegie VisualArts Center, to Kim Vice Mitchell &Kate Klepper Cole, to Melinda Dunn & Judge David Breland for hosting tours of our fabulous historic city.
Many thanks go to the local businesses that donated their time and talents, and gifts for door prizes. There were enough gifts to give to all the 120+ participants!!
We would also like to thank the wonderful local Art teachers that helped host, made table decorations, stuffed packets, present workshops (or 2or 3...,) collected door prizes for our conference, and brought their high school Art Honor Society students to help with the presenters and run countless errands ---
We could not have done it without you!! Thank you! Thank you! From the bottom of our hearts! We are all so grateful to the city of Decatur and to Linda and Tammie! We had a fantastic time! Photo credits for this video go to Anna Nichols, Jessica Peppers, Shelly Bailey, Linda Miller, Tammie Clark, Nancy Raia, and Larry Gibson.
Bank Street Players All In the Timing: Variations on the Death of Trotsky
Variations on the Death of Trotsky from David Ive's All In the Timing
Presented by Bank Street Players at the Carnegie Center for the Visual Arts in Decatur, Alabama, Saturday, Janurary 25th, 2014.
Directed by Heather Kalonick
Leon Trotsky: Phil Fitzgerald
Mrs. Trotsky: Kathy Earnest
Ramon: Phoebe Fitzgerald
September Artist, Prentiss Douthit
Prentiss Douthit is our selected artist for September! ArtProfiler’s Artist Monthly highlights one artist per month for exceptional work in his or her chosen medium.
Prentiss lives, paints, laughs, and writes little stories in a sweet old house in Austin, Texas. He was born and raised in Decatur, Alabama, and earned a BFA in graphic design and painting from the University of Montevallo, a small liberal arts college in the literal center of the state of Alabama. After graduating, Prentiss worked in graphic design for the next twenty years running his own design and advertising business along with a successful line of custom invitations and announcements. There was a short time at the beginning of his design career when, after a bout of burnout, he toyed with painting portraits as an alternate path. He pursued this for a year or two but decided against it and put his brushes away for the next eighteen years.
Prentiss left graphic design and the beautiful state of Alabama in 2012 for Austin, Texas. He found himself welcomed in the arms of a giving, generous community, and so began his time as the Executive Director for the Hill Country Ride for AIDS, the largest AIDS fundraiser in Central Texas.
In 2017 Prentiss dove back into creative waters to produce a series of paintings for a near sellout show at the Lewis Carnegie Gallery in East Austin. 2018 finds him delving deeper into his creative ambitions while preparing for another one-person show in Birmingham, Alabama, scheduled for November 3, 2018.
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Frank Fleming: An Introduction
Frank Fleming is an artist whose work is featured in the Museum's permanent collection. This video is part one of three videos that explore his life and work.
Huntsville, Alabama | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:14 1 History
00:01:23 1.1 First settlers
00:02:41 1.2 Incorporation
00:04:00 1.3 Emerging industries
00:04:59 1.4 Civil War
00:06:46 1.5 After the Civil War
00:08:06 1.6 Great Depression 1930s
00:08:32 1.7 World War II
00:09:21 1.8 Missile development
00:11:11 1.9 Space flight
00:13:30 1.10 Biotechnology
00:14:43 2 Geography
00:16:19 2.1 Boundaries
00:17:12 2.2 Climate
00:20:33 3 Demographics
00:22:29 3.1 2010 census
00:24:08 3.2 Demographic distribution
00:24:17 3.3 Sex ratio and income distribution
00:24:28 4 Politics and government
00:26:03 5 Public safety and health
00:26:32 5.1 Fire
00:27:16 5.1.1 Volunteer organizations
00:28:02 5.2 EMS
00:28:36 5.3 Police
00:29:01 5.3.1 Police Academy
00:29:22 5.4 Hospitals
00:29:35 6 Economy
00:30:56 6.1 Retail
00:31:33 6.2 Space and defense
00:32:02 7 Infrastructure
00:32:11 7.1 Transportation
00:34:33 7.1.1 Public transit
00:35:14 7.1.2 Railroads
00:37:19 7.2 Air service
00:37:48 7.3 Ports
00:38:19 7.4 Bicycle routes
00:38:33 7.5 Utilities
00:39:27 8 Media and communications
00:39:37 8.1 Newspapers
00:40:59 8.2 Magazines
00:41:19 8.3 Radio
00:41:40 8.4 Television
00:43:38 8.5 Film
00:45:15 9 Education
00:45:24 9.1 K–12 education
00:47:35 9.2 Budgeting
00:48:05 9.3 Higher education
00:50:05 10 Culture
00:50:13 10.1 Historic districts
00:51:15 10.2 Museums
00:53:03 10.3 Parks
00:56:11 10.4 Festivals
00:59:34 10.5 Public golf courses
00:59:59 10.6 Private golf courses
01:00:50 10.7 Libraries
01:01:47 10.8 Arts associations
01:02:14 10.8.1 Arts Council
01:03:30 10.9 Performing arts
01:09:26 10.10 Visual arts
01:10:27 10.11 Convention center and arena
01:11:07 10.12 Local breweries
01:12:09 10.13 Comedy and other entertainment
01:12:34 10.14 Other
01:13:04 11 Sports
01:13:13 11.1 Current sports franchises
01:14:20 11.2 Past sports franchises
01:15:34 11.3 Stadiums
01:15:51 12 Notable people
01:16:00 13 Sister cities
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Huntsville is a city located primarily in Madison County in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama. Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County. The city extends west into neighboring Limestone County and south into Morgan County. Huntsville's population was 180,105 as of the 2010 census. Huntsville is the third-largest city in Alabama and the largest city in the five-county Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville, AL Combined Statistical Area, which at the 2013 census estimate had a total population of 683,871. The Huntsville Metropolitan Area's population was 417,593 in 2010 to become the 2nd largest in Alabama. Huntsville metro's population reached 441,000 by 2014.It grew across nearby hills north of the Tennessee River, adding textile mills, then munitions factories, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command nearby at the Redstone Arsenal. The National Trust for Historic Preservation named Huntsville to its America's Dozen Distinctive Destinations for 2010 list.