the girls guide to Design Month

Alabama's film industry is growing, and we're bringing together voices from across the creative ecosystem: commercial and broadcast production, grassroots filmmaker development, and documentary storytelling. The conversation covers talent pipelines, the tech reshaping how films get made, and what it takes to keep the momentum going.

Moderated by Sidewalk's Jessica Chriesman.

This event is free for all and goes fast — grab your seat today.

How AI is affecting Architecture, Engineering, and Construction. Learn about AI use cases and tools for your AEC team. Lunch included.

Agenda: Welcome and Networking · Lunch · Speaker Talk / Demo. Seats are limited, so reserve your spot today and be part of Birmingham's thriving AI community.

Grab a day pass for Sidewalk Film Festival and catch several woman-made films.

Start the day with A Woman's Work, a stirring portrayal of a female coal miner working to support her sisters while dreaming of a life with her secret girlfriend.

Then check out PUNKIE, a behind the scenes portrait of a stand up comedian and Saturday Night Live star as she deals with life, touring on the road, trying to protect her artistic voice, and true self.

Don't miss Show Me the Line; when an Alabama court jeopardizes access to IVF and her own embryos, artist Abbey Crain refuses to surrender her creative power. In this triumphant tour de force, Crain and a group of fertility patients reckon with the threats to their family future, unearthing hope from an unsettled legal landscape.

To celebrate our opening cut, we invite you for a festive year along our sawdust trail to “Camp Sawyer,” our 14-day gallery exhibition capped off by gatherings and events with friends, family, and fellow advocates of the urban timber movement. Throughout this year of celebration, we reflect on our ten years and dream together about the next ten and twenty at Alabama Sawyer.

Check out Alabama Sawyer in Style Blueprint.

Roll Call: Two Hundred Years of Black American Art opens with a conversation featuring Richard Dial, Roscoe Hall, and Celestia Morgan—three Birmingham-area artists featured in the exhibition—moderated by Jade Powers, Hugh Kaul Curator of Contemporary Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art. Through photography, painting, and sculpture, the panel will explore how personal narrative, cultural memory, and lived experience shape each artist's practice while reflecting broader histories tied to race, place, labor, family, and systemic inequity in the American South.

Celestia Morgan is a Birmingham-based artist whose photography and sculptural practice explores the lasting impact of redlining, displacement, and systemic inequality within Alabama communities. Her work is held in the permanent collections of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Birmingham Museum of Art.

Roscoe Hall is a Birmingham-based painter and multidisciplinary artist whose work examines histories of race, identity, mortality, and social injustice through layered and emotionally resonant imagery. His work has been exhibited nationally at institutions including the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts and the Dallas Art Fair.

Richard Dial is a Bessemer-based self-taught artist whose sculptural works reflect a lifetime shaped by labor, family, craftsmanship, and creative perseverance. The son of acclaimed artist Thornton Dial, Richard developed a distinct visual language through figurative chairs and sculptural assemblages. In 2025, his work was the subject of a solo exhibition at MARCH Gallery in New York City.

Schedule: 5:00 PM Reception · 6:00–7:15 PM Panel · 5:00–9:00 PM Gallery access. Tickets are limited; registration is required for members and non-members.