
Seven New Sculpture Designs Revealed For 5th Underwater Museum of Art Installation
Seven brand new artworks will be unveiled in 2023! Take a li’l peek inside!
Seven brand new artworks will be unveiled in 2023! Take a li’l peek inside!
CAA And SWARA collaborate to expand the Underwater Museum of Art with 4th deployment.
The Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) and South Walton Artificial Reef Association (SWARA) are proud to reveal the ten sculpture designs, including two international selections, chosen by the jury for permanent exhibition in the fourth installation of the Underwater Museum of Art (UMA). The 2022 installation will include the following
Eight million tons of plastic end up in our oceans each year. Artist George Sabra took this problem as inspiration to create El Plastico, a sculpture of a plastic bottle for the Under Museum of Art 2019 installation. El Plastico replicates a 2-liter cola bottle and is constructed of environmentally
The Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) and South Walton Artificial Reef Association (SWARA) recently revealed the sculpture designs selected by jury for permanent exhibition in the third installation of the Underwater Museum of Art (UMA). Named in 2018 by TIME Magazine as one of 100 “World’s Greatest Places,” the
The Emerald Coast is best known for its sugar white sand, enchanting sunsets, and sparkling tranquility as far as the sunglasses can see. But you’ll have to ditch the sunglasses and look deeper to get a truly local experience for our most charming locals reside just beneath the waves. With
Unlike his fellow contributing artists to the Underwater Museum of Art (UMA) project, Marek Anthony never spent summers or vacation time in South Walton and does not reside here. His roots stretch internationally across the pond. An anything-but-happenstance conversation among colleagues led him to investigate the Cultural Arts Alliance’s call for
By: Mitch Jaugstetter The South Walton Artificial Reef Association (SWARA) will deploy a total of 15 new reef sites this summer. Ships in the Gulf of Mexico are already deploying new reefs between three-quarters of a mile and eight miles from the shore: SWARA will sink nine near-shore reefs for
Underwater Museum of Art (UMA) contributor Evelyn Tickle is here to show us that “the world is your oyster” is a fine sentiment but that the oyster is actually “an engineer and an architect.” When Evelyn Tickle’s former professor from Auburn University’s College of Architecture, Design and Construction contacted her
The Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) is a Local Arts Agency that supports the arts through leadership, advocacy, funding, programs and education. The very first “Grayton Beach Fine Arts Festival” was held in 1989, and because of the event’s ever-increasing popularity, the Cultural Arts Alliance (CAA) was founded
Artists are invited to submit proposals for the second art installation of the Underwater Museum of Art (UMA). The second installation will be deployed Summer 2019. Deadline for submission is January 31, 2019. Recently named by TIME Magazine as one of 100 “World’s Greatest Places,” the UMA is the first and only permanent
South Walton will soon be home to North America’s first underwater museum of art. The Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) has partnered with South Walton Artificial Reef Association (SWARA) to bring together art and nature in an extraordinary and permanent historic exhibit, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. “Our