Agnes (gallery)
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Agnes was a Birmingham, Alabama photography gallery from 1992 to 2000. Jon Coffelt, Shawn Boley and Jan Hughes opened the gallery with the mission of attempting to raise awareness of social issues — such as cancer, AIDS, death and dying, the environment, homelessness, ethics, racism, classism, imprisonment — through photojournalism, film, video, poetry, and book arts. Controversial, Agnes was picketed on several occasions, one of which resulted in a USA Today article on December 5, 1994.
Melissa Springer's Julia Tutwiler Prison Series was Agnes' first exhibit. After eight years and 77 exhibitions the gallery closed in 2000. Alexandre Glyadelov's[1] Homeless in Bosnia with Médecins sans Frontières was the gallery's last exhibit.
Agnes worked with Visual AIDS[2] and "The Electric Blanket"[3] and hosted its first "World's AIDS Day" in 1992 with "A Day without Art".[4]
UPsouth traveled to several venues across Birmingham, including Space One Eleven, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Visual Arts Gallery, and Agnes itself.[5] It showed the work of artists Emma Amos and Willie Birch and writer Bell Hooks, as well as Ann Benton, Priscilla Hancock Cooper, Karen Graffeo, Lee Isaacs, Mary Ann Sampson, Jess Marie Walker and Marie Weaver.[6].
Agnes artists list included: Sara Garden Armstrong, Pinky Bass, Sadie Benning, Ruth Bernhard, Mare Blocker, Cal Breed, Elisa Bryan, Kevin Bubriski, Dan Budnik, Denise Carbone, Jim Cohen, Liesa Cole, Clayton Colvin, Paul Caponigro, Danah Coester, Randal Crow, Craig Cutler, Craig Daniels, Mark Dauber, Al Edwards, Roberta Eichenberg, Paulo Ferrario, Mitchell Gaudet, Nina Glaser, Alexandre Glyadelov, Alice Goodwin, William K. Greiner, Kelly Grider, Robert John Guttke, J. D. Hayward, Susan Hensel, James Herbert, Jenny Holzer, Davi Det Hompson, Christina Hope, Shig Ikeda, Sally Johnson, Adrian Jones, Steven Katzman, Susan E. King, Janice Kluge, Jim Koss, Cam Langley, Ruth Laxson, O. Winston Link, Miranda Maher, Patrick Martin, Spider Martin, Matuschka, Ian McFarland, Bart Michiels, Dana Moore, Julie Moos, R. J. Muna, Ray Lewis Payne, Liz Phelps, Jim Pitts, Vicki Ragan, Patricia Richardson, Tut Altman Riddick, Stewart Riddle, Iris Rinke-Hammer, Anita Ronderos, Jessica Rosner, Ed Ruscha, Lori Salcedo, David Sandlin, Elise Mitchell Sanford, Claire Jeanine Satin, Stephen Savage, Virginia Scruggs, Joel Seah, Volker Seding, Vincent Serbin, Robert A. Shaefer jr., Susan Share, Carolyn Sherer, Jack Spencer, Maggie Taylor, Jason Thrasher, Thomas Tulis, Jerry Uelsmann, James Vella, Joe Veras, Adriene Veninger, John Wawrzonek, Nancy Webber, Randy West, and Timothy Wolcott.
