Munroe Family Community Gallery

The Munroe Family Community Gallery is an exhibition space on the Gadsden Arts Center & Museum's 2nd floor dedicated to exhibiting art by local artists in all media and levels. Artists and artist groups can sign up for 3 month exhibition slots. The space is designed to be a learning opportunity for artists, with the opportunity to work directly with Gadsden Arts staff to learn about preparing artwork for exhibition, installing, lighting, and labeling.

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Current Exhibition

Russ Traver:
The Path Through the Garden of the Moon

June 5 – August 28, 2021
Russ Traver’s vibrant acrylic paintings portray dreamlike landscapes, often featuring quirky and fantastical creatures. This collection is part of Traver’s Garden of the Moon series: images featuring recognizable settings that include surprising characters. Through it, Traver hopes to “take viewers to a wondrous land of pure beauty where there is no beginning or end.” A self-proclaimed surreal-fauvist artist, Russ Traver strives to combine the dreamlike quality and distorted reality of Surrealism, with positive expression achieved through the strong color of Fauvism. The artist believes, “it is the regression of the mind into the past by which we discover images of the future.”

Upcoming Exhibitions

Dawn McMillan: Captured Moments

September 11 - December 11, 2021

Dawn McMillan moves away from past figurative and narrative paintings and drawings to explore in this new work landscapes centered on fleeting moments of light and circumstance. Whether it’s the sunset after a storm that bathes everything in a golden glow, or the stillness of deep, dark reflections on a pond at twilight, all scenes are meant to evoke a feeling of peace, serenity and awe. This series of paintings and drawings began at the start of the pandemic and continued throughout a year of isolation and a time of focus on nature and the briefness of a perfectly lit scene. Shadows cast on a clapboard house; bare tree silhouettes against a pale, pastel winter sky; brilliant reds and oranges of a crisp autumn day; the light at the end of a rhododendron tunnel; all are translations of exploration of nature by the artist and meant to be evocative, timeless and everlasting. Image: Dawn McMillan, Relic, pastel, 12 x 9 inches.

Art Talk Live! with Dawn McMillan

Thursday September 16, 1:00pm on Zoom
Join Gadsden Arts Staff and Dawn McMillan for a virtual Art Talk Live to discuss the exhibition Captured Moments, and McMillan's decades long artistic career. Zoom link coming soon!

In Real Time

January 14 – March 5, 2022

In today’s fast-moving world, In Real Time invites viewers to pause to appreciate the practice of drawing a human figure from life. In Real Time is an exhibition of art works produced by the Beverly Hills Figure Group of Tallahassee, a group of local artists who meet regularly at the studio on the hills of Beverly Court to practice their craft and share their life drawing skills. The artists included in the exhibition are Natalia Andreeva, Lorraine Clark, Jennifer Clinard, Suzanne Doddridge, Barbara Harrison, Nancy Holland, Gwen Mottice, Barbara Psimas, Jonette Sawyer, Beverly Sipos, Mary O. Smith, and Sherry Whitney. Image: Sherry Whitney, In the Garden, oil, 16 x 12 inches.