Last Week to View the Women’s Art Collective Exhibition
at the Eastern Shore Art Center
June 23, 2024 – Let’s Go! Fairhope
Saturday, June 29 will be the last day to view a series of works comprising the 15-women show “Women’s Art Collective” exhibition, on display at the Eastern Shore Art Center (EASC). Let’s Go! According to Charles Siebert, EASC’s Customer Service Representative, “The show opened on May 3 with a well-attended First Friday reception with local community members welcoming many of the exhibiting artists who traveled from Hattiesburg, Mississippi for the event.”
Siebert said the EASC is also conducting Art Bash summer camp for youth. While the kids are able to enjoy the galleries during scheduled times, Siebert explained the art center still offers a reflective, zen-like space for visitors who would like to quietly take in the works on display. According to Siebert, gallery-goers can even purchase a work of art from the show to add to their personal collection.
Siebert told Let’s Go! Fairhope the next exhibition at the ESAC will be a display of quilts.
In an interview with Kim Whitt, Director of the Mississippi Art Colony, one of the 15-artists who have come together to be known as the Women’s Art Collective, Let’s Go! Fairhope learned the group “typically shows around Mississippi including Vicksburg, Jackson, Meridian and Hattiesburg.” “A lot of us have individual representation in other galleries,” Whitt said.
Kim also explained the Collective exhibits 3-4 times a years and comprises practicing professional artists who meet monthly to provide “critique opportunities, support one another and promote the group.” “We’ve even shown as far north as Oxford, so we travel a bit. Out of that show, some members now have regular representation there, so that’s one of the advantages of the group working together,” said Whitt.
The group of friends “grew from meetings at Betty Press’ house,” said Whitt. Elaborating on the benefits of strength in numbers, she added: “Any creative group, like-minded community that gets together to support one another, that’s the beautiful thing.” Ms. Whitt talked about the history of coalitions of visual artists in Mississippi for 75 years and added that Alabama has been doing this for likely even longer.
Regarding the Eastern Shore Art Center exhibition, Kim said “We have shown there before and were well-received.” When making their schedule for the year, the Women’s Art Collective reached out to the EASC through Adrienne Clow, Marketing Director, “to see if there might be an opening. We were delighted and jumped at the chance.”
To learn more about the Women’s Art Collective, Ms. Whitt recommends checking out the group’s website or connecting via Facebook. Running concurrently, and closing together with the Women’s Art Collective, is a show of works of Alabama’s Watercolor and Graphic Arts Society of Mobile, founded in 1948.
Check out the two exiting exhibitions through June 29 at the Eastern Shore Art Center, located at 401 Oak Street Fairhope AL 36532 Hours: Tues-Fri 10am-4pm / Sat 10am-6pm.
