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Who Be A Witness, 2023 50×60

Use_Disassociation_48x36_Acrylic Mixed Media on Wood_2023

Left: “Who Be A Witness” (Detail)

Erin LeAnn Mitchell, 2024

Fabric and Ink

50” x 60”

Right: “Disassociation”

E L Chisolm, 2023

Acrylic mixed media on wood

48″ x 36″

My Yoke is Easy and My Burden is Light

How much will she be asked to carry? Always more.

Opening Reception April 11, 2024

5:30 – 8:00 pm

Anne Arrasmith Gallery
2407 2nd Avenue North
Downtown Birmingham

Free and open to the public

Exhibition on display April 12 through May 24, 2024. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Buoyed by our predecessors’ paths to joy and liberation, we transmute pain into progress and become a beacon. Illumination is our charge and our destiny. 

The dual exhibition, My Yoke is Easy and My Burden is Light, features the works of Erin LeAnn Mitchell and E L Chisolm who delve into the fortitude and genius of Black womanhood. 

In the face of systemic injustice, we resist with skill and style. These new artworks call viewers to act. 

In conjunction with the exhibition, attendees will be encouraged to reflect on the narrative and then respond to a text prompt: “How do you turn pain into progress?” In addition, a gallery walkthrough will be hosted by the artists to discuss the intricacies of their work. The date for the walkthrough is to be announced.

Erin LeAnn Mitchell is a textile artist from Birmingham, Alabama who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Master of Arts in Art Education from Columbia College Chicago. Her work is an expansion of the southern quilting tradition, using a mixture of textiles and collage gathered in textile markets and fabric stores. These multidimensional assemblages render the realities of southern Blackness into radical new imaginings.

E.L. Chisolm (b. 1993) is an interdisciplinary artist, muralist, art activist, and creative placemaking consultant living and working between Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta, Georgia. Her work across mediums has activated public spaces in underserved communities to help decrease blight and increase walkability and wellness using tactical urbanism projects and public art. Guided by the belief that all people are equally as deserving of vibrant and healthy communities, the artist explores the strength and honesty that come from the natural world and seeks to illuminate the distinctive facial attributes of Black people, emphasizing texture and feature diversity in her mixed media paintings and murals alike.


PAST EXHIBITION ARCHIVE

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ART EDUCATION

Space One Eleven provides quality art education classes taught by professional artists. We serve a diverse range of learners from rising 2nd graders to adult studio classes.

Studio class fees for young artists are based on a sliding scale. Through the generosity of foundations and private contributors, families may qualify for free or reduced tuition.

CURRENT/UPCOMING CLASSES

Young Artist working on a landscape painting

City Center Art 1 (Grades 2-5)

January – May

Grades 2 – 3, Tuesdays

Grades 4 – 5, Mondays

4 PM – 6 PM

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City Center Art 2 (Grades 6-8)

January – May

Wednesdays

4 PM – 6 PM

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Young Artist working on a charcoal drawing from a still life

City Center Art 3 (Grades 9-12)

January – May

Saturdays

10 AM – 1 PM

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ARTfix!

Space One Eleven’s ARTfix! classes allow adults a creative space to explore their artistic interests. Artists of all skills levels will participate in classes or workshops with one of our professional Teaching Artists.

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