Our Mission
The Verdant Fund supports public-facing projects that complicate and expand narratives of creative practice born of and within Alabama. With an emphasis on artists that have been underrepresented and underfinanced within the state, we bolster risk-taking within the field and divergent paths within contemporary practice.
TYRESE BESS
Program Manager |Opps&Admin
tyrese@verdantfund.org
251.208.5665
ALABAMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
Mobile, AL.
Founded in 1999, Alabama Contemporary Art Center is a non-profit contemporary arts center located in the heart of the port city of Mobile, on the southern coast of Alabama. We are a non-collecting organization that is committed to the work of living artists. We serve our community by originating ten to twelve exhibitions a year, offering public programming, adult and children’s education, and outreach programming. Through guest curatorship, artist residencies, and our Independent Projects program, we create sustainable opportunities for curators and artists worldwide to make work, take risks, and explore divergent paths.
Coleman center for the arts
York, AL.
The Coleman Center was founded in 1985 through the grassroots efforts of local citizens, and programs have evolved to answer the needs of the community. Its work is done through five main programmatic arms: arts education for area youth and adults; a community-based artists’ residency that produces socially engaged public art projects and events; exhibitions that feature the work of regional artists; a free, public community garden that promotes small-scale food production; and Pop Start, a storefront space for artists-community experimentation.
SPaCE ONE ELeVEN
Birmingham, AL.
A nonprofit visual arts center founded in 1986, Space One Eleven showcases contemporary exhibitions and promotes social justice through the visual arts, where artists innovate, explore, and take risks while creating provocative new work. Space One Eleven presents artist’s talks, public forums, professional development workshops for artists, and offers free arts education for children and youth from overlooked families through its City Center Art afterschool program and summer art camps. It is our belief that cross-cultural, community-based arts programs knit together the fabric of a community by elevating public discourse.