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By Admin • Dec 14th, 2007 • Category: Current Exhibit

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A Painter, a Potter, and a Poet: Mary Reed, Pam Brock, and Kay McWhorter

By Admin • Dec 4th, 2007 • Category: Calendar, Exhibitions

[ December 4, 2007 to January 12, 2008. ] Features three well known Decatur artists

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Wildlife in Woods by Dyrc Sybrans

By Admin • Nov 2nd, 2007 • Category: Calendar, Exhibitions

[ November 2, 2007 to November 24, 2007. ] Dyrc Sibrans, retired Decatur physician, has made painting and wood carving his new profession. His works reflect his love for wildlife and the great outdoors.

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See the Music by Brian Evans

By Admin • Sep 21st, 2007 • Category: Calendar, Exhibitions

[ September 21, 2007 to October 27, 2007. ] Brian Evans, Tuscaloosa artist and musicologist, creates abstract art through digital reproduction of sound waves. The artist states, “In “time slice” a temporal expression (an abstract animation) is sliced in time. Thus we see, in a static image, the score of a visual nusic (an exquisite esquisse?)…We hear the colors. We listen with our eyes. […]

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2007 Annual Sidewalk Sale

By Admin • Aug 25th, 2007 • Category: Current Event, Events

Local artists display and sell their work, also featuring an On-Site Iron Pour by Alabama Art Casting, sponsored by Nucor of Alabama.
8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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What I Did During Summer Vacation: Works by Young Artists

By Admin • Aug 10th, 2007 • Category: Calendar, Exhibitions

[ August 10, 2007 to August 25, 2007. ] Local art studios and Camp Carnegie collections of local talented young artists

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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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