{"id":30119,"date":"2025-01-16T02:26:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T02:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/2025-festival-of-the-cranes-exhibit-to-open-january-10-at-alabama-center-for-the-arts\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T02:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T02:26:54","slug":"2025-festival-of-the-cranes-exhibit-to-open-january-10-at-alabama-center-for-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=30119","title":{"rendered":"2025 Festival of the Cranes Exhibit to Open January 10 at Alabama Center for the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Alabama Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the opening of the annual juried Festival of the Cranes Art Exhibit in the Center\u2019s Walking Gallery on Friday, January 10, 2025. The show will be held in conjunction with the Friends of Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge Association\u2019s annual Festival of the Cranes, which will take place January 10-12 in Decatur, Alabama. The exhibit will be free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
To celebrate, the ACA will be open with special weekend hours:<\/p>\n
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Friday, January 10: 8:00 am \u2013 6:00 pm<\/li>\n
Saturday, January 11: 9:00 am \u2013 4:30 pm<\/li>\n
Sunday, January 12: 9:00 am \u2013 4:30 pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
All students, faculty, staff, adjuncts, and alumni of Athens State University, Calhoun Community College, and the Alabama Center for the Arts were eligible to enter the juried show. This year, 37 pieces of artwork by 21 artists will be featured in the show. All pieces of artwork featured in the exhibit were inspired by nature, whooping cranes, sandhill cranes, and other nature-related subjects. The exhibit will remain open until Wednesday, February 19.<\/p>\n
This year, Robert Bean served as the juror of the Festival of the Cranes show.\u00a0Bean is a part-time faculty member in Studio Art at the University of Alabama \u2013 Huntsville. He uses his art as a way to communicate with and understand the world around him. Because we all see the world through our own perceptions, he tries to create narrative paintings that incorporate personal subject matter and symbols while using more universal themes and archetypes to create a series of paintings that work as a whole. Bean earned his M.F.A. from Louisiana State University and his B.F.A. from Mississippi State University.<\/p>\n
In addition to the art exhibit, the ACA will be hosting other Festival of the Cranes activities from January 10-12. Events include:<\/p>\n
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Print Magic! <\/em>art exhibit in the Main Gallery<\/li>\n
Carol Cook Puckett\u2019s Play, \u201cThank You, Rachel\u201d<\/li>\n
International Crane Foundation VP of North American Programs<\/li>\n
Make & Take Art Activity by ACA Art Faculty \u2013 Paper Plate Birds<\/li>\n
Christopher Joe Presentation \u2013 \u201cBuilding Tourism Through Small Ecotourism Projects\u201d<\/li>\n
Robin Bailey \u2013 \u201cNestwatch, Cornell Lab of Ornithology\u201d<\/li>\n
Timothy Joe Art Demonstration<\/li>\n
Southern Exposure Films<\/li>\n
Vicky Smith (The Bat Lady)<\/li>\n
Dr. Matthew Niemiller \u2013 \u201cCave Life of WNWR\u201d<\/li>\n
Jon Armbruster \u2013 \u201cAuburn University\u2019s Dino Egg: A Short & Long Tale\u201d and \u201cFish Under Alabama\u201d<\/li>\n
Dr. James McClintock \u2013 \u201cDrug Discovery in the Antarctic Seas\u201d and \u201cDiving Under Antarctic Ice\u201d<\/li>\n
Painting Class with Tracy Roberts McCann<\/li>\n
Stephanie Schmidt, International Crane Foundation Coordinator<\/li>\n
Jimmy Stiles \u2013 \u201cReptiles\u201d<\/li>\n
Hillary Hankey \u2013 \u201cEnhancing Reintroduction Efforts in Southern Ground Hornbills Through Cross Disciplinary Knowledge\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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