Space One Eleven
WRITTEN BY Bek Mitchell-Kidd
Space One Eleven( SOE), a visual arts organization located in Birmingham, has been changing lives for almost three decades. Their mission is to provide professional opportunities for artists, create a forum for public understanding of contemporary art, and offer arts education to area youth and adults.
SOE believes that artists knit together the fabric of a community by elevating public discourse. Through strong cross-cultural, community-based arts programs, a forum for exchange is developed between artists and the public.
In the late 1980s the organization moved to the north side of Birmingham, neighboring with some of the poorest zip codes in the U. S.“ So many artists and arts organizations have moved into‘ less desirable’ neighborhoods. Just like New York’ s SoHo, there were many attempts here in Birmingham in the mid-1980s and early 1990s to create artist’ s lofts, but they were overbuilt and many artists couldn’ t afford them,”
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