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...
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...
The Common Book Program is pleased to partner with the Jule Collins Smith Museum to offer a screening of the 2017 movie adaption of <em>The Circle</em> by Dave Eggers. The movie will be introduced by Dr. Andrea Kelley who is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the School of Communication and Journalism.
“Immanuel: A Symposium” will take place at JCSM on the afternoon before the opening of Leo Twiggs: Requiem for Mother Emanuel. It will provide the opportunity to discuss the African American church\, and its historical and contemporary role as both sanctuary and location for civic and political activism. Taking the...
This rap-punk-rock documentary tells the story of Iranian musician Shahin Najafi who is forced into hiding after hardline clerics issue a fatwa for his death\, incensed by a rap song that focuses on the oppression of women and human rights abuses. Shahin’s frantic escape leads to an impossible romance when he falls in love...
<span class=\'au_today_p\'>Join Birmingham Audubon and Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art for an evening celebration of early Alabama naturalist Phillip Henry Gosse\, with special guests Gary Mullen and Taylor Littleton\, authors of \'Phillip Henry Gosse: Science and Art in Letters from Alabama and Entomologia Alabamensis.\' This free\, public event...