Best Gallery In Alabama: Alabama Contemporary Art Center / 2024 World Art Awards

The World Art Awards has announced the 20 Best International Galleries and/or Museums for the year 2024, with Alabama Contemporary Art Center receiving the award for the Best Gallery in Alabama (one of six selected in the USA). Selections were based on years established, industry reputation, location, size, aesthetics, socially relevant exhibits, motivational and educational programs, online presence, represented artists — and references from artists, clients, and visitors.

World Art Awards: “Alabama Contemporary Art Center celebrates 25 years as the state’s premiere showcase for significant art. The non-profit 16,000 SF contemporary arts center includes galleries, a multi-purpose auditorium, classrooms, and a 180-seat, 2,300 SF terrace used for film screenings, community events, and stage performances.”

MISSION

The mission of Alabama Contemporary is to support cultural production, provide space for courageous conversations that shape identity, and seed growth in the greater creative economy. They support living artists, and through their educational, public and curatorial programs advocate for human dignity and a diversity of perspectives. They strive to be a partner, resource and light in the Deep South.

HISTORY

Founded in 1999, Alabama Contemporary Art Center is a non-profit contemporary arts center on the outer edge of the deep Deep South, in the port city of Mobile, Alabama. They serve the community by originating ten to twelve exhibitions a year, adhering the W.A.G.E. certification standards in all of their work, offering public programming, adult and children’s education, and outreach programming. Through guest curatorship, artist residencies, and the commission of new work they create sustainable opportunities for curators and artists worldwide to make work, take risks, and explore divergent paths.

BUILDING

Located in the old press register building in historic downtown Mobile. The main entrance is off Cathedral Square in the heart of downtown. First floor boasts of 16 thousand square feet of exhibition space used for rotating exhibitions and site specific installations. On the third floor they have that same quantity of space for education, performances and public programs.

https://www.alabamacontemporary.org/

Address: 301 Conti St, Mobile, AL 36602

Phone: (251) 208–5671

World Art Awards: “This year we awarded art establishments with buildings hundreds of years old presenting Old Master originals, and conversely we selected new boundary-pushing art facilities. We opted for many high-rated private galleries representing important young work, from painting to digital to photography to sculpture. Most of these focus on advancing their regional artists, be they Burmese, Chilean, Colombian, Georgian, Latvian, Malaysian, Moroccan, Japanese, Portuguese, African, American, Latin American or Native-American.

“Our diversified roster this year includes a renowned three-story London showplace and a Prague institution (offering Czech legends of the 19th-20th century as well as European masters like Renoir, Chagall and Picasso). We chose an Australian gallery made of Australian materials specializing in Australian wood sculpture — and the only gallery in Taiwan that has focused on the art of photography for over 15 years. We also tributed large, modern art facilities with influential international presences in Morocco, Japan, Israel and USA.”

World Art Awards 20 Best Galleries & Museums for 2024 are:

Best in Australia: Bungendore Wood Works Gallery

Best in Chile: Isabel Aninat Gallery

Best in Columbia: Beatriz Esguerra Art

Best in Czech Republic: Knupp Gallery

Best in Georgia: UGallery

Best in Israel: Corridor Contemporary

Best in Japan: Nanzuka Underground

Best in Latvia: Galerija Romas Darzs

Best in Malaysia: Gallery des Artistes / Gallery@Tropicana

Best in Morocco: Comptoir des Mines Galerie

Best in Myanmar: New Treasure Art Gallery

Best in Portugal: Underdogs

Best in Taiwan: 1839 Contemporary Gallery

Best in United Kingdom: Miart Gallery London

Best in USA / Alabama: Alabama Contemporary Art Center

Best in USA / Arizona: Exposures International Gallery Of Fine Art

Best in USA / Iowa: Moberg Gallery

Best in USA / Nebraska: Kiechel Fine Art

Best in USA / South Dakota: South Dakota Art Museum

Best in USA / Utah: Ogden Contemporary Arts

www.WorldArtAwards.net annually awards the 20 Best International Galleries, and with their critique months later, awards 300+ living contemporary artists (painters, photographers, sculptors and digital artists).