Education is fundamental to the mission of the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA). We seek to provide quality art learning opportunities throughout the greater Birmingham area, improving the cultural and social wellbeing of our community. The BMA is excited to bring back our enriching summer art camp series this year to continue to nurture the youth in our area and encourage creativity, exploration, innovation, and imagination. For more information about Summer Camp visit artsbma.org

Education is fundamental to the mission of the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA). We seek to provide quality art learning opportunities throughout the greater Birmingham area, improving the cultural and social wellbeing of our community. The BMA is excited to bring back our enriching summer art camp series this year to continue to nurture the youth in our area and encourage creativity, exploration, innovation, and imagination. For more information about Summer Camp visit artsbma.org

Using techniques such as collage, embroidery, and image transfer, artist Miriam Calleja works with acrylic paint, ink, watercolor, pencil, and found materials to incorporate her original verse into handmade books, assemblages, and mixed-media pieces. Each of Calleja’s pieces contains a line or an entire poem from her repertoire, including some new unpublished work. The exhibition name is inspired by her poem “A choreography of almost." Poems featured in stuck; lingering are on display alongside Calleja’s artwork so that viewers can explore the correspondence between it and her poetry.

Calleja is an internationally published poet, artist, translator, and writer. A native of Malta, she has lived in Birmingham for the past three years. Her poetry collections include Pomegranate Heart (EDE Books, 2015) and Inside (EDE Books, 2016). Among her poetry chapbooks are Remember (Stamparija Reljic, 2020), Stranger Intimacy (Stamparija Reljic, 2020), and Come Closer, I Don’t Mind the Silence (BottleCap Press, 2023). Calleja’s upcoming book Variations on Silence (PoetryWala, 2025) is translated from Maltese. Learn more about Calleja at miriamcalleja.com.

This exhibition is made possible by a grant awarded to the Friends Foundation of BPL by the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Neighborhood French bistro and wine bar La Fête will be hosting their first Bastille Day ‘Fête’ on Monday, July 14 from 5-8 p.m., complete with a curated Bastille Day menu, free bubbles, kombucha from Booch Buddies, and bouquet making from Dimples flower truck. Limited reservations are available for inside dining room seats via Resy, with the bar, patio and sidewalk seats for walk-ins.

Join the Sidewalk Film Festival programmers for an exclusive Sneak Peek of what's coming up for the SHOUT LGBTQ+ line-up at the 27th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival presented by Regions Bank! Get early access to discover festival news and SHOUT programming, and view trailers for the films we have in store for you before they're announced to the general public on July 16th.

Join us in the lobby for Happy Hour at bar and concessions starting at 5:00pm, followed by the Sneak Peek at 7:00pm!

*This is a free event. Reservations are strongly recommended but not required. SEATING IS FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED SERVED.*

These camps give young artists ample time to dive into their projects, make friends, and create finished pieces of work for the end-of-summer student and teaching artist exhibition. All camps are taught by practicing artists in Space One Eleven’s professional art studios.

Let’s discover the designer in you! Sew Cool Fashion Camp is the coolest way to spend hot summer days! During this 2-week camp students will learn: intro to sewing, safety practices, sewing machine basics, how to read a basic pattern and construction of a wearable project. Using our new skills, we will transition to fashion design. During fashion week we will learn basic principles of fashion illustration, vocabulary, proportion, clothing, coloring, and more fun stuff that real designers do! The campers will create their own clothing line and create one complete look from their sketches. Project Runway with an SOE twist!

This camp is taught by local designer Kenya Buchanan. Kenya B. is a graduate of the University of Alabama where she received a BS in Apparel Design. Further, she has shown during NY fashion week and has gained local recognition, winning several awards for her luxury gowns and ready-to-wear.

In this camp, young artists will create sculptures using everyday objects, experimenting with techniques such as cutting, assembling, casting, and modifying found objects into dynamic works of art.

This camp is taught by Lauren Frances Evans. Evans is Associate Professor of Art at Samford University where she leads the sculpture concentration and is Gallery Director. She earned her MFA from the University of Maryland.