Jean Shin is an internationally recognized artist who works with multiples of objects to transform the everyday into decadent interpretations of identity and community. She uses materials that range from prescription pill bottles to sweaters\, and often obtains them as secondhand objects from people in participating communities. These objects transform...
Come celebrate the grand opening of Out of the Box: A Juried Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition! Feel the heat and excitement of live iron pour demonstrations with Sloss Metal Arts of Birmingham\, Alabama. Experience live music and savory tastings paired with walking tours of 12 contemporary sculptures installed around the illuminated...
<div data-canvas-width=\'522.9206494844781\'>Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four excavates the nightmarish persecution of Elizabeth Ramirez\, Cassandra Rivera\, Kristie Mayhugh\, and Anna Vasquez—four Latina lesbians wrongfully convicted of gang-raping two little girls in San Antonio\, Texas. The film begins its journey inside a Texas prison\, after these women have spent nearly a...
<div data-canvas-width=\'522.9206494844781\'>Jackson is an intimate\, unprecedented look at the lives of three women caught up in the complex issues surrounding abortion access. Set against the backdrop of the fight to close the last abortion clinic in Mississippi\, Jackson captures the essential and hard truth of the lives at the center of the debate over reproductive healthcare...
Join the Jule Collins Smith Museum for their first biannual Community Day! This winter the theme is celebrating diversity in the Auburn community. Student groups from Auburn University and local community organizations will have displays about their culture or organization and facilitate activities for you to enjoy with friends and...
Make plans to attend this event to learn more about Joel Sartre and his work documenting the natural world through photography. Joel Sartore is a photographer\, speaker\, author\, teacher\, conservationist\, National Geographic fellow and regular contributor to National Geographic magazine. His hallmarks are a sense of humor and a Midwestern work...
<div data-canvas-width=\'522.9206494844781\'>Filmed with vérité intimacy for over a decade\, QUEST is the moving portrait of a family in North Philadelphia. Christopher Quest Rainey\, along with his wife Christine’a\, aka Ma Quest\, open the door to their home music studio\, which serves as a creative sanctuary from the strife that grips their neighborhood. Over the years\, the family...
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones is an artist/scholar whose work focuses on performance ethnography\, theatrical jazz\, Yoruba-based aesthetics\, Black Feminisms and activist theatre. Her performances include sista docta—a critique of the academy\, and Searching for Osun—a performance ethnography around Yoruba-based spirituality and identity. She has conducted theatre for social change...
Join Sarah Collins-Rudolph\, the survivor of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham and sister of Addie Mae Collins\, one of the four little girls killed in the bombing\, in the Haley Center for a conversation. After which\, she will join students and community residents for a candle light vigil...
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art will host a series of events including intergenerational\, interdisciplinary and interfaith discussions\, and a panel which will include Dr. Wayne Flynt\, professor emeritus of the Auburn University Department of History and the Rev. Dr. Otis Moss\, III\, senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ...
Join the Jule Collins Smith Museum for the first Spring Community Night! Artist Laura Murray will visit to share her work as an illustrator and talk about her coloring book Amazing Alabama. Expect to run into some critters you will find pictures of in the Audubon exhibition\, enjoy tasty treats\,...
<div class=\'article_body\'> The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art is holding a special preview of “The Third Poetry: The Transcendent Art of Walter Inglis Anderson.\' During an illuminating curator talk\, Mattie Codling discusses the celebrated artist’s career\, prolific body of work and place in the arts and crafts and...
