From the Dixie Art Colony

The City of Prattville recently hosted the spouses of Officers from the AIR UNIVERSITY: INTERNATIONAL OFFICER SCHOOL at Maxwell Air Force Base. Representatives from the following 19 countries attended: Argentina, Columbia, Hungary, Thailand, Turkey, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Spain, India, Japan, Bulgaria, Brazill, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Germany, Pakistan, Peru, and the United States.

The events focused on Prattville’s Cultural Arts and included a visit with Prattville Mayor Bill Gillespie. Mayor Gillespie shared insights about Prattville’s fascinating history, the revitalization of the historic downtown district, and the city’s growth and bright future.

The group also visited Prattville’s WAY OFF BROADWAY THEATRE to celebrate “World Theatre Day.” Internationally, this celebration was initiated in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute.

Also on the agenda was the Prattville Creative Arts Center to view the current PRATTAUGA ART GUILD exhibition and the DAC FOUNDATION exhibition “LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS: From the DAC Foundation Collection.” While at the center, guests also attended a presentation about the Dixie Art Colony and the U.S. Department of State’s “ART IN EMBASSIES” program.

With a mission of cross-cultural exchange and diplomacy, Art in Embassies’ exhibition curators work with ambassadors to create temporary exhibitions for the representational spaces of U.S. embassy residences. Art in Embassies encompasses over 200 venues in 189 countries. Professional curators create and ship about 60 exhibitions annually. Also, more than 70 permanent art collections have been installed in the U.S. State Department’s diplomatic facilities worldwide. Exhibitions coincide with an ambassadors’ term and, as with AIE collections.

The 2011 Art in Embassies exhibition in Bucharest, Romania, was curated with the assistance of Ambassador Mark Gitenstein and his wife, Mrs. Libby Gitenstein of Florala, Alabama. Five paintings in the DAC Foundation Collection were featured in the AIE exhibition and catalog. DAC artist Carlos Alpha “Shiney” Moon’s painting titled “Shell Road Post Office” was shown on the cover.

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