Carnegie Visual Arts Center

Archive for July, 2007

Garden Views of Decatur and Morgan County, Alabama

By Admin • Jul 28th, 2007 • Category: For Sale

If you’ve ever wanted to see how people of the South who love the land make gardens for themselves and their friends, pick up this book and look through it. Garden Views of Decatur and Morgan County, Alabama was created as a fund-raiser for the City’s Carnegie Visual Arts Center by Charles Seifried & Jim […]

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2007 Camp Carnegie a huge success!

By Admin • Jul 18th, 2007 • Category: News

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 […]

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Carnegie Kicks Off Community Service Project: Luv Luggage

By Admin • Jul 18th, 2007 • Category: News

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 […]

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Sentell Donation of Folk Art to Start Carnegie Permanent Collection

By Admin • Jul 18th, 2007 • Category: News

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 […]

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Of Stone and Ore by Dennis Brickell

By Admin • Jun 27th, 2007 • Category: Calendar, Exhibitions

[ June 27, 2007 to July 4, 2007. ] David Bricknell, an art educator in Eva, Alabama, is an accomplished sculptor who works in stone and bronze. He will be the featured artist during Camp Carnegie 2007, and his work will be the basis of this year’s camp theme.

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