JOIN FORSTALL ART IN CELEBRATING 25 YEARS IN BIRMINGHAM!

Forstall Art Center is celebrating 25 years of serving Birmingham’s art community, and we’ve loved every minute of it! In recognition of our 25th anniversary we are co-hosting two events with UAB’s Department of Art and Art History at the beautiful Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts. 

In collaboration with the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Art and Art History, Forstall Art Center presents the Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Lecture Series featuring Art Graham of M. Graham Artist Colors and Mark Golden of Golden Artist Colors at the AEIVA Hess Family Lecture Hall.

ONE ARTIST AT A TIME

Mark Golden, CEO and Co-founder of Golden Artist Colors, began his company in 1980 inside a cow barn at his parents’ retirement home in rural Columbus, New York. Originally making and delivering custom products for artists in Manhattan, Golden Artist Colors continues to craft custom paints with a team of more than 200 employee owners in a 100,000-square-foot facility and sells its products worldwide.  

Golden Artist Colors’ legacy began with Mark’s great uncle, Leonard Bocour, and his father, Sam Golden, in their lower Manhattan shop in 1936. They created a business that was more than just making paint for artists; they were making paint with artists. Many of their creations contributed to artists’ efforts to explore new ways of using paint, a theme that has been sustained with even greater resources by Golden Artist Colors. By simply saying “yes” to the requests of artists, Mark Golden and Golden Artist Colors has had the opportunity to work with some of the most notable artists from the last half of the 20th century and today’s contemporary masters.

Thursday, October 8, 6-8pm, AEIVA Hess Family Lecture Hall, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1221 10th Ave. S.