The MAC Ice House Galleries are open Friday 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.
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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.
Encore!
April 3 – May 24, 2026
Curator: MAC Gallery Committee
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.
April 3 – May 24, 2026
Nessa Goodnight – “Ebb & Flow: An Interpretation Of Life”. This display will offer a rather eclectic collection of pieces that delve deeply into both the highs and lows of life. Through the use of symbolism and thought-provoking titles, Goodnight aims to provide work that allows viewers of all backgrounds to reflect on some of their more vulnerable chapters within the human experience. Goodnight invites all who attend to thoroughly consider how the topics represented may apply not only to themselves but also to the viewers around them. To remember that all of our chapters combined make one beautiful story worth preserving. We are all human, and though we may look different, sound different, and believe different things…we all feel the same emotions.
Rachel Bivans – “Wells, Wells, Wells.” During the pandemic, Bivan’s family had just relocated and were attempting to acclimate to their new home and community. Bivans had not established a ceramics studio or even resourced supplies. As an Educator, she continued teaching, but the nature of her classroom had changed drastically. Due to quarantine, she found herself adrift with more time. As a means to process the flood of current events, creating art became as necessary as water. Bivans drew from her multi-disciplinary background and her Appalachian roots to create what she was able, with what she had available to me. Bivan’s goal was to include as many media as possible, including two-dimensional artwork.
May 29 – July 26, 2026
Christopher Schultz
Sisc Stella Johnson
Kate Fitzpatrick
September 17 – November 1, 2026
Rebekah Anderson
Christian Casas
Payton Brown
November 17 – January 3, 2027
Caitlynn Buckler
Ava Hull
Jelise Ballon
UPCOMING MAC GALLERY EXHIBITS
Prose in Sculpture
May 29 – July 26, 2026
Curator: Luc Fiedler
Artists in the Exhibit: Lynda Andrews-Barry, Sally Canzoneri, Steven Dobbin, Mary Early, Luc Fiedler, Margery Goldberg, Leslie King, David Moreland, Jim Roberts, Richard Schellenberg, Pat Scull, David Shombert, Lynda Smith-Bugge, Thomas Sterner, and Christine Stovall.
Opening Reception: May 30th @ 6:30 PM
It’s a Celebration! Annual Quilt Show & Sale
July 30 – September 6, 2026
Curator: Carmen Winiarski
Opening Reception: August 1st @ 3 PM
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
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