The MAC Ice House Galleries are open Thursday to Sunday, 11am – 5pm
The Visual Arts became a central focus of the Morgan Arts Council once MAC acquired the Ice House in 1996. After a year-long visual arts festival in 1997, developing gallery space in the building became a top priority. Today, the Ice House is home to several gallery spaces. Arts education classes in the visual arts occur throughout the year, with programming available for all ages.
A Call to Hallway Artists
The Morgan Arts Council invites artists to submit their work for an exciting opportunity to exhibit in the Ice House Carr-Kelly and Hall of Dreams Gallery spaces on the first and second floors of the Ice House. This is your chance to reach a diverse audience and join our vibrant arts community. We seek innovative, inspiring, original artwork to captivate visitors as they explore our historic venue. No walk-ins will be considered. Please note that submitting this form does not automatically make you eligible to showcase your work at the Ice House. The artwork uploaded into these forms is juried through a committee.
Please fill out this form for consideration.
A Call to Curators
The Morgan Arts Council invites individuals to apply to be curators for the MAC gallery space in the Ice House. This is your chance to reach a diverse audience and join our vibrant arts community. We seek someone who can bring a theme to life by combining innovative, inspiring, original artwork to captivate visitors as they explore our historic venue. Please note that submitting this form does not automatically make you a curator at the Ice House. The forms are juried through a committee.
Please fill out this form for consideration.
Current MAC Special Exhibit Gallery
The Morgan Arts Council produces an annual series of specially themed art exhibits featuring guest curators. These exhibits feature local, regional, and national artists in various media.
It’s a Celebration! Annual Quilt Show & Sale
July 30 – September 6, 2026
Curator: Carmen Winiarski
Opening Reception: August 1st @ 3 PM
Hall of Dreams Gallery
This special exhibit space debuted after the 2013 building renovation. The rotating exhibit in the first-floor lobby highlights local art in an accessible, central location.
Carr-Kelly Gallery
A special exhibit space opened on the second floor of the West Wing in 2014, featuring rotating exhibits of individual artists and groups.
September 10 – November 1, 2026
Rebekah Anderson – If These Trees Could Talk – This work explores the age and heart of Appalachia. Emerge into the dark forests through stories of hardship and emotion with old spirits of these ancient hills.
Christian Casas
Payton Brown – Unlimited – Art is never just one thing – and neither are we. Unlimited brings together a collection of works by Payton Brown that span mediums, subjects, and themes, revealing a beautiful complexity of creative thought. From oil paintings to colored pencil drawings to collage, from architecture to food to concerts, this solo exhibition captures the full spectrum of what it means to make and to see. Together, these pieces remind us that art, like life, thrives in its variety.
November 17 – January 3, 2027
Caitlynn Buckler
Ava Hull
Jelise Ballon
UPCOMING MAC GALLERY EXHIBITS
From Soup to Nuts: A Diversity of Ceramic Forms & Methods
September 10 – November 1, 2026
Curator: Crawford Horne
Opening Reception: September 12 @ 6:30 PM
Annual Holiday Show
November 5 – January 3, 2027
Curator: Jan Knight
Opening Reception: November 21 @ 6:30 PM
Ice House Artist’s Co-Op Gallery
The Ice House Artist’s Co-Op is a tenant of the Morgan Arts Council, operated by local artists who rent out gallery space in the MAC Ice House Gallery. The Co-Op features over 30 local and regional juried artists who showcase and sell their work in varied media.
304-867-3073 • www.icehousecoop.com
You must be logged in to post a comment.