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WHO? - Arts Alive is a project of the Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts Volunteers, and was started in 1986.

Arts Alive attracts hundreds of art and craft lovers from a three-state region and beyond. Wilson Park in downtown Florence is packed with people for two days as they stroll, meet the artists, and purchase. Arts Alive is a family event, and families flock to the Park to participate!

Arts Alive, a juried show, is open to artists and craftspeople. Exhibitors in the past have been varied and have included painters, sculptors, furniture and jewelry craftspeople, stained glass artists, textile and fabric artists and much, much more!

WHAT? - Arts Alive is a juried gallery exhibition at the Kennedy- Douglass Center for the Arts in Florence, Alabama, and includes artist booths in adjoining Wilson Park. Artists from around the country come to sell their wares.

Arts Alive Gala will be held Saturday, May 19 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. A ticket to the reception will be sent to you if you state on the entry form that you will attend. Selected patrons of the arts are also invited to meet the artists.

WHEN?

Saturday & Sunday,
May 19 & 20, 2012
9 AM until 5 PM - Saturday
9 AM until 5 PM - Sunday

WHERE? - The Kennedy Douglass Center for the Arts and Wilson Park, downtown Florence, Alabama

HOW? - To download an application to exhibit or to participate in the juried show, click HERE

JUDGES

Paul W. Richelson
PAUL W. RICHELSON, Chief Curator, has been on the staff of the Mobile Museum of Art for 20 years. Formerly he was Chief Curator at the Grand Rapids Art Museum and Assistant Director and Curator at the Trisolini Gallery at Ohio University. (PhD and MFA-Art History, Princeton University; BA-History, Yale University)

Michael W. Panhorst, Ph.D.
Michael W. Panhorst, Ph.D., is Curator of Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. Throughout his career as museum director, curator, author, editor, and teacher, he has focused on American art and architecture, especially monumental public sculpture. In recent years he has juried the National Sculpture Society Annual Exhibition (NYC), the International Birds in Art Exhibition (Wausau, WI), and arts festivals in Fayette and Auburn. He was on the ArtsAlive jury in 2007.