The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) is a multidisciplinary arts center that is dedicated to the presentation, production, and promotion of the art of our time. it organizes, presents, and tours curated exhibitions, performances and programs by local, regional, national, and international artists. It demonstrates proactive local and regional leadership by educating children and adults, cultivating and growing audiences, and initiating and encouraging collaboration among diverse artists, institutions, communities, and supporters.
Contemporary Arts Center
Behind Every Beautiful Thing: Encountering Bodies, Wrestling the Human Condition (Installation view), 2021. Photo by Ryan Hodgson Rigsbee.
Behind Every Beautiful Thing: Encountering Bodies, Wrestling the Human Condition (Installation view), 2021. Photo by Ryan Hodgson Rigsbee.
"Make America What America Must Become," An Exhibition of Gulf South Artists (installation view), 2020 – 2021. Photo By Ryan Hodgson Rigsbee.
Lionel Milton/ELLEONE, Social Distance Social Justice (installation view),2020. Photo by Ryan Hodgson Rigsbee.
Rosalie Smith, My Mother’s Last Garden (installation view), 2019. Photo by Ryan Hodgson Rigsbee.
Sarah Hill, To The Farmhouse, 2021. Photo by Ryan Hodgson Rigsbee.
Shana M. Griffin, DISPLACING Blackness: Cartographies of Violence, Extraction, and Disposability (installation view), 2021. Photo by Ryan Hodgson Rigsbee.
Ana Hernandez, MATTER out of time (installation view), 2021. Photo by Ryan Hodgson Rigsbee.
“I love uniforms! Because if there’s nothing there, clothes are certainly not going to make the man. It’s better to always wear the same thing and know that people are liking you for the real you and not the you your clothes make.”
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)