Mobile Bay Magazine

Jane Cassidy creates site-specific audio-visual installations. By manipulating various technologies such as speakers and projectors, Cassidy fuses light and sound to form meditative environments filled with visual music. At the Mobile Museum of Art, she will exhibit a contemplative installation melding sound and illumination, a fully immersive environment of projected light and music that resonates in the body and mind of the viewer.

An Irish artist currently living and working in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Cassidy trained in music composition and animation. She earned a Masters in Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College Dublin in 2008 and a Masters of Fine Arts in Digital Art from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana in 2014. Since that time, national and international film festivals, galleries, and museums have featured her work.

Organized by the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama

Throughout her career as an artist, Mobile, AL, native Monica Beasley has explored concepts of feminism, femininity, home, marriage, family, race, and Southern culture.

Monica attributes much of her influence to her strong and loving mother and her many cherished aunts—three of the works in this exhibition are titled and dedicated to three of these aunts. She is also influenced by the nkisi of Central Africa, the Hopi Native American tribe, and Haitian spiritual art. Teacher, friend, and well known painter Ed Paschke, as well as artists Ellen Gallagher and Kerry James Marshall have also had tremendous influence on her life and work. In speaking about Paschke’s impact in particular, Monica notes, “He opened my eyes to everything already in the universe. You just have to go look for it, to rethink it, repurpose it, and let it shine in a different way.”

Organized by the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama

This February, the Mobile Arts Council will showcase works from the Visual Arts Achievement Program (VAAP) throughout our galleries. VAAP provides local and state recognition for student achievement in the visual arts. As an arts in education program of the Alabama State Council on the Arts, it awards students in grades 6 through 12 that are participating in arts programs within their academic institutions throughout Mobile and Baldwin County, as well as other District 1 eligible schools.

In addition to VAAP, we will also host Young At Art, which is a showcase of elementary artwork from District 1 schools.

MAC’s exhibitions will hang from February 5th – 22nd, with a special reception from 6 – 9 p.m. on LoDa ArtWalk night, February 8th. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. on weekdays.

Historic replicas of Columbus’ ships, the Nina and the Pinta, will arrive at The Wharf on February 15th and remain in port until February 24th. These ships were fully built by hand, without the use of power tools. Come enjoy this educational opportunity to explore exquisite craftsmanship and learn about the Portuguese caravel that many former explorers traveled upon in centuries ago.

The general public is welcome to walk aboard for a self-guided tour of these vessels while docked at the Wharf Marina.

Teachers or organizations wishing to schedule a 30 minute guided tour with a crew member should call 1-787-672-2152 or email ninapintatour@gmail.com.

For all information please visit www.ninapinta.org.

What: Pinta and Nina dockage at The Wharf
Where: The Wharf; Wharf Marina
When: February 15 – 24, 2019; Open every day from 9am-5pm
Cost: Admission charges are $8.50 for adults, $7.50 for seniors, and $6.50 for students ages 5-16. Children 4 and under are FREE. No reservations necessary.