The Rudd Art Center is currently accepting submissions for its 12th Annual Regional Juried Art Show.  The deadline for entries is August 4th.

The show will run from August 18 through September 28th.  Artists must be age 18 or older to enter.

For more information, click here.

Source:  Dale County Council of Arts and Humanities

The Wiregrass Museum of Art hosting a folk pottery exhibition.

This exhibit showcases 30 examples of stoneware, face jugs and a variety of vases and runs through October 27th.

To learn more about this or other exhibits at the Wiregrass Museum of Art, visit their website or all them at 334-794-3871.

Red Mountain Theatre Company (Birmingham, AL) and its Executive Director Keith Cromwell, in collaboration with Lee Sentell (Alabama Tourism Director) and Dr. Lawrence J. Pijeaux (President and CEO of Birmingham Civil Rights Institute) are hosting a national search for a one-act written piece to be produced in honor of the 50th Anniversary commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”

The one-act theatrical presentation (play, musical or spoken word) will become the second act of a fully-realized theatrical event that features a first-act dramatic reading of the “Letter to Martin Luther King” by a group of clergymen and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” written during his incarceration in 1963. 

Submissions are due no later than September 1, 2012, and the winner will be announced on October 15, 2012.