Arts Huntsville Announces Expansion of Popular City Hall Public Art Tours

HUNTSVILLE – Due to popular demand, Arts Huntsville is excited to announce the expansion of its City Hall Public Art Tours. Beginning in February 2025, the program will shift to “First Fridays,” offering tours on the first Friday of each month (excluding July 4th) at 4:30 pm.

These free, docent-led tours will explore the “Our Civic Canvas” collection, a special exhibition within the City of Huntsville’s “Amazing Spaces” public art collection. “Our Civic Canvas” features a diverse range of artwork specifically chosen to enhance the City Hall environment. This first-of-its-kind collection for any Alabama municipality celebrates Huntsville’s culture, history, and its natural and built environment.

The new City Hall opened in May of 2024 as a 100-year building that will accommodate a growing city. Designed by architect Mark Coyle, the building had public art planned from the onset and includes the work of national artists Shuli Sadé and Cliff Garten, regional artists Cal Breed and Ben Butler, and local artists Guadalupe Lanning Robinson, Cynthia Wagner, Jahni Moore, Yuri Ozaki, Ann Moeller, and David Nuttall.

“The tremendous response to our City Hall Public Art Tours last summer exceeded our expectations,” said Allison Dillon-Jauken, Executive Director of Arts Huntsville. “We are thrilled by the public’s enthusiasm in exploring the public art within City Hall and throughout the community, and are grateful to the City of Huntsville for the opportunity to expand these tours to ‘First Fridays’ in 2025.”

Reservations are required and can be made online at the Arts Huntsville website. Tours for February, March, April, May, and June are currently available. For more information, visit www.artshuntsville.org or follow Arts Huntsville on social media (@ArtsHuntsville).

Arts Huntsville is a non-profit organization founded in 1962 to stimulate and support community creativity and engagement by advancing the arts, entertainment and culture to enrich quality of life, education, and economic development in the greater Huntsville metropolitan region. As the largest arts advocacy, arts engagement and arts service organization in North Alabama, Arts Huntsville serves Huntsville’s arts and cultural organizations, individual artists and arts-related businesses through four core program areas: Arts Promotion & Support, Arts Education, Public Art, and Community Events.