Arts Revive

Friday and Saturday, 12:00 – 5:00 pm Sunday, 1:00 – 5:00 pm Water Avenue The century-old Harmony Club building downtown will once again host the ArtsRevive Juried Art Show. The eighth annual exhibition features works by Alabama artists and begins March 12 and 13 and opens again for Pilgrimage Weekend March 19, 20 and 21. Over the past seven years, this show has grown in size and popularity and become well known for its selection of unique, diverse, quality art. Patrons look forward to the wide selection of art available for viewing and/or purchase. Categories include oil/acrylic, 3-D, watercolor, drawing/pastel, mixed media and photography. Many artists have gained recognition and established a following through their participation. Awards will be presented at the exhibit’s closing on March 21 at 3 p.m. Juror will be Jere Hardy Allen, a Selma native who moved to Mississippi 37 years ago to become the painting professor at the University of Mississippi. The last nine years have been spent in his studio in Oxford. Allen graduated from Ringling School of Art and the University of Tennessee where he received his BFA and MFA degrees. In 1993, he received the visual Art Award of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission. His painting was included in Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century, which traveled to China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore. He has also had solo exhibitions in Germany and Washington D.C. Pilgrimage visitors will also enjoy the show’s location.  The Harmony Club on Water Avenue (across the street from The Selma Times-Journal newspaper) was built in 1909 as a Jewish social club. The first floor was used for retail businesses; the second had a restaurant and men’s lounge, and the third floor was a ballroom where many dances and parties were held. The art show will be held in one of the first-floor rooms.