By Sarah Kuper For more than three decades, the Mountain Brook Art Association has had its spring art show in April, but now the event has been permanently moved to the Saturday before Mother’s Day. “Because of Easter moving around, we could never have a specific weekend, and with A-day and Magic City, the weekend was always changing,” said Janet Sanders, Art in the Village … [Read more...]
Arty Holidays: MBAA Annual Holiday Art Show Dec. 1-17 At The Summit
By Emily WilliamsThis year, the Mountain Brook Art Association is moving its annual Holiday Show to a new location. The art showcase and sale will be Dec. 1-17 at The Summit in the space to the left of Bed, Bath and Beyond, formerly the location of Coconuts. The free event will feature more than 75 local artists selling hand-painted ornaments and paintings of … [Read more...]
Art Administration: MBAA President-Elect Preps for Annual Spring Show
By Emily Williams Ed Wilson of Mountain Brook said he isn’t a lifelong painter so much as an accidental one. It was Wilson’s career in pathology that brought him to Birmingham. He was a pathologist at Children’s of Alabama, and after his retirement from Cunningham Pathology in Mountain Brook, he stumbled upon painting as one way to stay active. “The joy of painting caused … [Read more...]