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Public Art: Protest + Justice

Detail: Sunny Paulk, Selma to Montgomery March, 2015, mural Overview Please join us in exploring art related to protest and racial justice located downtown and in West Montgomery. This post features works grounded in key historical moments—such as the one we are living in—including public art and works on display in partner organizations.  Lynching […]

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MMFA Responds

Dear Museum + Montgomery Community In mid-March, we reached out with our concerns for the community’s wellbeing as the public health crisis began to emerge. Today, we reach out again with concern for the community—this time in the wake of the demonstrations in our nation, state, and city protesting the senseless death of George Floyd and

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Animal Crossing at the MMFA

Overview The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts’s collection has been on view in its galleries and on its website. Now, some of our works can be in a gallery of your very own if you have a Nintendo Switch and the video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Curate Your Own Digital Exhibition From left to

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Regarding COVID-19

Update | October 15, 2020 After a seven-month closure, we are thrilled to welcome visitors back into our changing exhibition and permanent collection galleries beginning this Thursday, October 15. We are equally excited to welcome visitors to take part in our first in-person programming outside in the Caddell Sculpture Garden. Explore Upcoming Programs See What’s

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A Fresh Look at our Studio Glass Collection

Harvey K. Littleton (American, 1922–2013), Orange Triple Movement, 1983, from the series Topological Geometry, free-blown glass, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association Purchase, Decorative Arts Fund, 2014.2.2 Overview In March of 1962, a seismic shift occurred in the creation of art glass with a workshop led by American glass artists Harvey Littleton (1922–2013) and Dominick

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Yvonne Wells – 2019 Governor’s Arts Award Recipient

Yvonne Wells (American, born 1939), Yesterday: Civil Rights in the South III, 1989, Cotton, cotton/polyester blend, wool, polyester, and plastic buttons, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Kempf Hogan, 2004.20.8 Congratulations! The Museum wishes to celebrate artist Yvonne Wells (American, born 1939), a recipient of the 2019 Governor’s Arts Award from the Alabama State

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