I Create Birmingham: Kristen Farmer Hall
“Birmingham is a city that honors and embraces creativity, and I believe that this passion has helped spark the renaissance we are experiencing now.”
I Create Birmingham: Sharrif Simmons
“I’d like to see the World’s eye turn its attention to the Magic City. There’s so much to discover here.”
I Create Birmingham: Clayton Colvin
“When I read a book, I forget everything else in a sense. I get wrapped up in the language and structure. I love reading because it makes me think about new things, a different way, at a different cadence. Painting feels the same way.”
I Create Birmingham: Maacah Davis
“It’s important for me to collaborate with young people because we are (quite literally) the faces of the next generation of fashion and art…”
I Create Birmingham: Marian Cooper Cairns
“I wish we had affordable rentable kitchen space. I often work from home on recipe development or cookbook shoots and need access for more space, storage, and equipment from time to time.”
I Create Birmingham: Kelli Caulfield
“Think about all of the small business we have here – homegrown chefs helping some of the top restaurants in the country that are sitting right here in this great city; and awesome entrepreneurs from the tech community, to the legal community, to the creative/arts community, to the fashion community. In many ways, I think people forget that Birmingham was essentially built on the backs of entrepreneurs – think AG Gaston.”
I Create Birmingham: Carrie Rollwagen
“Creativity is often about connection and collaboration, and in my experience Birmingham is such a fantastic city for that — I personally really enjoy solitude, but I know my work is better when I connect with other people and ask for their ideas and expertise.”
I Create Birmingham: Amy Pleasant
“I have a lot of faith in what a creative community can do to shape a city and shape its perception.”
I Create Birmingham: Burgin Matthews
“I’m really excited by the idea of whatever Birmingham will be in five years, period.”
I Create Birmingham: Brian C. Moon
“The experience of touring with a rock band, dragging my equipment onto the stage of a bar, and playing to a crowd of strangers and/or friends is a very different experience than solitarily working on a composition, attending rehearsals with the musicians, and attending a concert of string quartets to hear the performance.”
We Create Birmingham: Aaliyah Taylor and Gelenda Norman
We Create Birmingham: Jordan Higgins and Jacob Patrick of Electra Film Lab
We Create Birmingham: Cameron Sankey
We Create Birmingham: Dr. Leah Tucker
We Create Birmingham: Tyler Jones
We Create Birmingham: Edina Shrestha
We Create Birmingham: Cristal Laraé Brister
We Create Birmingham: Jessica Moody
We Create Birmingham: Ursula Smith
We Create Birmingham: Anthony Waller
We Create Birmingham: Viola Ratcliffe
We Create Birmingham: Jorge Castro
We Create Birmingham: Anna Foshee
We Create Birmingham: William J. Rushton
We Create Birmingham: Meghann Bridgeman
We Create Birmingham: Keith Cromwell
We Create Birmingham: Kiwi Lanier
We Create Birmingham: Buddy Palmer
I Create Birmingham: Jenny Fine
“As the Birmingham creative scene continues to grow, I’d love to see local interest/support continue to grow so artists in Birmingham and surrounding communities can
I Create Birmingham: Heather Spencer Holmes
“In my opinion, that’s what public art should be about. It should be something that a community can participate in, have ownership of and be
I Create Birmingham: Meghan McCollum
“Someday, we want kids that have grown up in schools with underfunded arts programs (or having been told to muffle their creative aspirations) to be
Chasing Trane Special Screening
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary to have its Alabama Premiere Birmingham, AL – The City of Birmingham will be the site of an
I Create Birmingham: Brent Kendrick
“When you are engaged with a group of people who are all trying to move an idea forward, it’s great to feed off each other.
I Create Birmingham: Delaine Derry Green
“I believe I get artists thinking outside their usual box…. It’s exciting to see what people have to share and how they convey their stories
We Create Birmingham: Aaliyah Taylor and Gelenda Norman
We Create Birmingham: Jordan Higgins and Jacob Patrick of Electra Film Lab
We Create Birmingham: Cameron Sankey
We Create Birmingham: Dr. Leah Tucker
We Create Birmingham: Tyler Jones
We Create Birmingham: Edina Shrestha
We Create Birmingham: Cristal Laraé Brister
We Create Birmingham: Jessica Moody
We Create Birmingham: Ursula Smith
We Create Birmingham: Anthony Waller
We Create Birmingham: Viola Ratcliffe
We Create Birmingham: Jorge Castro
We Create Birmingham: Anna Foshee
We Create Birmingham: William J. Rushton
We Create Birmingham: Meghann Bridgeman
We Create Birmingham: Keith Cromwell
We Create Birmingham: Kiwi Lanier