The Hilltop Howlers are so excited to bring to you The Hilltop Art Festival! We hope to grow this in the coming years to one of the premier festivals in the city, and help shine a spotlight on the Hilltop area that we love so much! Featuring food, music, scores of artists, vendors, non-profits, and so, so much more we look forward to welcoming you to the Hilltop! This is a family friendly event with a little something for everyone, so come on out and make a day of it!
2024 Date TBA
Our first annual Hilltop Art Festival was a huge success! Over a thousand folks came out to shop from over 60 Alabama based artists and bakers. There were two food trucks, lots of live music, and reptile education! We also had dancers, buskers, and plant based placemaking! It was such a fantastic day, and we can't wait to do it again!
What some folks are saying:
"It was amazing! Thank you so much for organizing this event so that handmade artisans could showcase and sell their work. We sincerely appreciate you."
" Y’all this was so good!! I can’t wait to see how it grows next year!!
"Today was wonderful! Montgomery definitely showed up. This was an amazing event! Thank you for putting it together!"
Ann Goldthwaite is the inspiration for this art festival, our patron spirit as it were, so we thought we would take a moment to educate about her.
Anne Goldthwaite (June 28, 1869 – January 29, 1944) was an American painter and printmaker and an advocate of women's rights and equal rights. Goldthwaite was born in Montgomery and studied art in New York City. She was a member of a group of artists that called themselves Académie Moderne and held annual exhibitions.
She exhibited, along with other artists such as Van Gogh, Degas, and Monet. She set up residence in New York City and spent the summers with family in Montgomery. She taught at the Art Students League of New York for 23 years and during the summers, she was an instructor at the Dixie Art Colony.
She was an advocate of equal rights and women's rights. She was actively involved in woman's groups, and fought for equality in the South for ethnic minorities. Her work as an activist and artist intersected on several occasions, including the 1915 Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Women Artists for the Benefit of the Woman Suffrage Campaign, which she co-organized, and the unfurling of a suffrage banner of her own design at a 1916 New York Giants baseball game.
No one is quite sure which member of the Goldthwaite family that Goldthwaite street is named for (at least not at the Department of Archives), but we choose to think it was named for Anne. She encompasses the traits the Howlers hold most dear: a love of the arts, and the fight for having everyone being treated equally, no matter their gender, race, or orientation. So it's in her honor that we have decided to host this annual event.
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