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2007 Camp Carnegie a huge success!
Jul 18th, 2007This 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 […]
More »Carnegie Kicks Off Community Service Project: Luv Luggage
Jul 18th, 2007The 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 […]
More »Sentell Donation of Folk Art to Start Carnegie Permanent Collection
Jul 18th, 2007The 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 […]
More »Boeing Presents Funding for Doors at the Carnegie
Jan 15th, 2003By Ken Retherford DAILY Weekend Editor
The metal-frame doors on Decatur’s historic Carnegie building look more like the entrance to a convenience store than a blossoming arts museum. But that will change after the Boeing Co. presented the Decatur Arts Council today with $20,000 […]
New Fundraising Campaign Under Way for Carnegie Visual Arts Center
Jan 15th, 2003By Patrice Stewart DAILY Staff Writer
Turning the former Carnegie Library into a visual arts center is getting closer to reality, with restoration expected to start in a few weeks.
A new drive to attract individual donors with art event invitations has just begun, while […]
Art Center’s Renovation is in Sight
Jan 15th, 2003By Scott Parrott DAILY Staff Writer
The Decatur Arts Council plans to select a firm soon to renovate the Carnegie Visual Arts Center in hopes of opening it by spring 2002. Birmingham architecture firm Sherlock, Smith and Adams will choose from prospective renovators Oct. […]
Art Museum to be Underway Soon
Jan 15th, 2003By Jean Hindman DAILY Staff Writer
Artists, photographers, sculptors and potters of the Tennessee Valley — work is about to begin on the Carnegie Visual Arts Center in Decatur.
City Council members voted 5-0 Monday to accept a $683,330 bid from Baggette Construction […]
