Alabama NewsCenter — Space One Eleven Arts Center celebrates 35 years in Birmingham with ‘ARTiversary’ street party

By Michael Sznajderman
Alabama NewsCenter Staff

When Peter Prinz and other Birmingham artists, back in the 1980s, decided to put on an exhibit of contemporary works in what was then a sleepy section of downtown Birmingham, they never imagined the movement that would spring from it.

“We had 500 people show up, and they’ve never left,” Prinz quipped as he and others behind Birmingham’s Space One Eleven Arts Center get ready to celebrate 35 years of providing art classes and contemporary exhibitions to the community while promoting social justice through the visual arts.

“It really was organic growth – just a bunch of artists who got together to show work, teach art,” Prinz said.

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