Schedule of events

Show Day Details

Shoppers check out Candy Mayer’s booth of Helena, Alabama at the 2024 Bluff Park Art Show

Sponsors

The 62nd Annual Bluff Park Art Show is brought to you by the following sponsors: More sponsors coming soon.

2025 Show Info

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2025
9:00 AM TO 5:00 PM
HOOVER, ALABAMA

Parking & Transportation Details

BUSES
Hoover Board of Education school buses on a continuous loop from/to Shades Mountain Plaza, Bluff Park United Methodist Church & Shades Mountain Community Church. ADA compliant

SHUTTLES
City of Hoover shuttles on a continuous loop from/to Shades Crest Baptist Church.
ADA compliant

DOGS ARE WELCOME

PARKING LOTS
Show signs posted at each lot!

Shades Mountain Plaza
2400 Mountain Dr, Hoover, AL 35226
Show buses pick up & drop off at the far end of the lot.

Bluff Park United Methodist Church
733 Valley Street, Hoover, AL 35226
Show buses pick up & drop off in the lower lot on Valley St. closest to Tyler Road.

Shades Crest Baptist Church
452 Park Avenue, Hoover, AL 35226
Show shuttles pick up & drop off in the front lot off Park Ave.

Shades Mountain Community Church
2281 Old Tyler Road, Hoover, AL 35226
Show buses pick up & drop off in the front lot furthest from the church.

Food Truck Alley

On Savoy:
G.R.'s Smokehouse
Sweet Claire's Caboose
Gumbo to Geaux
Kona Ice
Travelin' Tom's Coffee
In the park:
Alabama Peanut
Cookie Fix

Music & Entertainment

Morning Musician : James Quakenbush

Afternoon Musician : Alice Bargeron

Scholarship

Each year, the Bluff Park Art Association presents a $2,500 scholarship to a graduating Spain Park or Hoover high school student who intends to pursue a career in the visual arts. Applicants compete through portfolio presentations.

In addition to the scholarship, BPAA awards the recipient’s teacher $250 for classroom supplies. Learn more about 2025’s recipient.

Show Judge

We are excited to announce that serving as show judge this year is Todd A. Herman, Chief Executive Officer and President of The Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. Todd Herman joined The Mint Museum in August 2018 as its President and CEO after serving as the Executive Director at the Arkansas Arts Center (AAC) for seven years.

Todd received his undergraduate degrees in art history and microbiology from James Madison University, an MA degree in art history from the University of South Carolina, and his PhD in art history from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland with a focus on Italian Renaissance painting. He has worked in the curatorial departments of the Columbia Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art and taught art history at USC, Cleveland State, and for the University of Georgia in Cortona, Italy. He has written extensively on the art of Venice and for exhibitions and catalogs on Italian Renaissance Art, and organized the nationally traveling exhibition “Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940-1950”.

Read more about the Mint Museum at mintmuseum.org

Artist in Residence

The Bluff Park Art Association is honored to have renowned sculptor Craigger Browne, Artist in Residence, Sylacauga Marble, as our guest working artist during this year's show. Browne, a native of Vestavia Hills, has trained and worked in France and Italy, home to some of the world’s oldest marble quarries. He now works exclusively with Alabama marble.

Craigger will be sculpting throughout the day and will talk with patrons and answer questions as he shares his beautiful work on Saturday, October 4, at the Bluff Park Art Show.