Dowling Museum / Ann Rudd Art Center


Dale County Council of Arts and Humanities
144 E. Broad Street / Ozark, Alabama 36360
334-445-6526


The Dale County Council of Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) was organized in the 1960's by people at the library and librarians with a few artists organizing early activities. Under Mayor Tom Goff, a house on Broad Street was acquired as the location for the arts council and extensive renovation was achieved on the Sollie house (to the east of the Chessers' house). The first Claybank antique show as held there and also several fiddlers' conventions were held on the front porch. In the late 1980's the city sold the building as the arts council couldn't afford to operate it. The arts council went into dormancy until 1999. In November of that year Jim Rudd bought the long unoccupied Dowling Building on the Courthouse Square with a donation through the Wiregrass Foundation. The building was a gift to the city to be used by the reorganized arts council as a gallery and museum. A large space on the east side of the building was named for his wife, a painter, as the Ann Rudd Arts Center. The entire project was a millennium venture. Restoration had proceeded to a functional stage by March of 2000 and the first exhibit by a wide range of artists from Dale County was organized by a social club, The Arts Guild. Since then more than 50 exhibits have been mounted. The upstairs houses a law office museum, a shoe museum, a council office room, and two artist studios.

Kevin Hargrave: April 12 - May 30
Black & White Exhibit - 2008 (2/19 - 3/28/08)
Ruthie Arad (11/3 - 1/5/08)
7th Annual Juried Art Exhibition (8/4 - 9/29/07)
Stained Glass Class (7/12 - 7/14/07)
Creativemess (5/12 - 6/30/07)
EXPRESSIONS (Ila Jean Newman, Betty Evans & Rubye Medley) (3/3 - 4/29/07)
Quilt Show (1/21 - 2/28/07)
Tails of the South - November & December 2006
6th Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition (8/19 - 9/30/06)
Art In Bloom - Helen Taylor Andrews & Judy Neher (6/17 - 7/31/06)
Decorative Artists Show (4/28 - 6/3/06)
Where ART Thou (4/22/06)
Black & White Exhibit - 2006 (2/18 - 3/31/06)
Art In Nature / Plein Air Group Exhibit (1/7 - 2/11/06)
Janet Hinton McLeod Exhibit (11/6 - 12/30/05)
5th Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition (8/20 - 9/24/05)
Robert Bruce Exhibit (6/25 - 8/6/05)
Brian Wilson & Tim Richardson Exhibit (5/7 - 6/18/05)
Troy State's Foundation Art Department Exhibit (4/8 - 4/30/05)
Black & White Exhibit - 2005 (2/11 - 4/1/05)
Paula Grissett Exhibit: "Decades of Daubing" (11/19 - 12/31/04)
4th Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition (8/14 - 9/25/04)
Helen Taylor Andrews One Woman Show (6/25 - 7/31/04)


Holiday Open House (11/4/ & 11/14/04)
Ann Rudd Appreciation (11/9/04)
Gallery Clean Up Day (1/15 - 1/22/05)
Fort Rucker Army Helps Us Scrape The Wall (8/27/05)
Claybank Jamboree (10/6/07)
Where Art Thou? SPRING FLING 5/3/08

DCCAH Meetings: 4th Tuesday of every month at the Dowling Museum at 5:30 p.m.
"PAVE THE WAY" for the Ozark Train Depot


Rental is $25.00 for 3 hours, $5.00 more for each additional hour (cleanup, setup, etc)
3 Day rental is $150.00
For large functions a $100 deposit required
The deposit will be returned if the Museum is clean and chair and tables put away
Contact Sallie Tarter, 774-3811 or Denise Reyes 773-6326
Meaghan's Shower - 6/16/06
DCCAH Members & Samples of their Art
DCCAH Board of Directors
Denise Reyes, President
Sallie Tarter, Vice President
Ann Dora Garner, Treasurer
Jean Newman, Secretary
Jeff Babine, Project Director
Helen Taylor Andrews
Elizabeth Babine
Sue Coffey
Carol Luckfield
Gaynelle Mixon
Judy Neher
Deshonna Pruitt
Tim Richardson
Ann Rudd
Albert Dean
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