CURRENT EXHIBITS: MAY - JUNE 2025
Art Center galleries are currently open to the public Tuesday-Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday 10am-6pm. If you are interested in purchasing a piece from our galleries, please contact Marketing Director, Adrienne Clow at info@esartcenter.org.
“Pottery on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay: History, Traditions, & Techniques”
Curated by Zach Sierke
June 6-28, 2025
Pottery from local artists to historical pieces representing our rich clay history. Artists featured include Zach Sierke, Maria Spies, Edith Harwell and more.
Exhibit and programming provided by our Rural Outreach Initiative in partnership with:
Baldwin EMC Charitable Foundation
Community Foundation of South Alabama
Gallery Talk slated for June 28 at 4-5pm. More details coming soon!
“Roots Run Deep”
Photography by Leigh Ann Edmonds
May 2 – June 14, 2025
This documentary series focuses on the people and places of the American South with an emphasis on what it means to belong to community. Do these communities shape, guide and ultimately connect us to who we are and what we become throughout our life? Are we the thoughts of our own self or are our thoughts a reflection of others within our own environment?
Roots Run Deep is about the places we love, the beliefs we carry and the people we ultimately become when we belong and connect to a place of origin.
This black and white documentary is about human connection and traditions of the American South, as photographer, Leigh Ann Edmonds, focuses on everyday life. Leigh Ann’s classic use of black and white 35mm film helps create nostalgic and enduring story-telling images of the people and places she is connected to.
Leigh Ann Edmonds is a freelance photographer living in North Jefferson County, Alabama. Her work has been featured in Black and White Magazine, Street Photography Magazine, Fotonostrum, Dodho Magazine, Birmingham Lifestyle Magazine, CLICK and others.
She has a BA in Studio Art from the University of Alabama; Tuscaloosa and considers her work as a journal of her life experiences that she is fortunate enough to share with others.
“Painting Pilgrimage”
Paintings by Jane Newman
May 2 – June 14, 2025
“Painting is not merely an act—it’s a profound spiritual odyssey.
It embodies reverence and renewal,
offering a sanctuary for the mind and a restoration of the soul.
Each brushstroke is a moment of meditation,
a sabbatical that breathes life into the artist’s spirit.”
Newman’s paintings feature bold impasto hues united with movements of value creating egresses between realism and abstraction. The spaces between the strokes are the portamento in the compositions connecting all the intervening tones.
Jane has a BFA degree from Memphis State University. She was an ADDY Award winning art director and graphic designer for Sossaman Bateman McCuddy Advertising in Memphis, TN in the early 1990’s. She has since focused her creativity on freelance design and the fine art of painting. Her work has been represented by Reflections Gallery, In Town Gallery, Shop on Main, Blluum, and Haley Reynolds Home, all in Chattanooga, TN. Her piece titled , Gatto, won Best in Show at the 2025 Members Juried Show at the Eastern Shore Art Center in Fairhope Alabama. Her work has also been accepted to locally juried exhibitions with Arts @ Erlanger in Chattanooga, TN, as well as regionally in the McGee Tyson Airport, Arts in the Airport in Knoxville, TN. She was accepted as a featured artist for May-June Exhibitions at ESAC in Fairhope Alabama, and the June 2022 exhibitions at the Emporium in Knoxville, TN, and her work was selected for the 2021, 2022, & 2024 National Juried Exhibitions through the Knoxville Arts & Culture Alliance. Ms. Newman teaches art lessons in after-school programs for at-risk children, and painting classes for adults and children. Jane was born, raised and resides in Tennessee along with her husband, and daughter/son-in-law and has a son/daughter-in-law/grandchildren in Huntsville, AL.