Space to Thrive & Create
Where Can Creatives Be Creative?
Many nonprofits, counselors, and creatives yearn for a safe and energy-filled space to work. For over a decade, Central Midtown has been building community by mobilizing creativity and providing space for people like you to create, meet, host, and grow.
Space for Studio, Work, or Events
The Members of Central Midtown believe:
- We are better and stronger when we’re part of a supportive community
- Beautiful things bloom when we surround ourselves with what we value most
- Helping others reach their creative potential nurtures our own making and growing
Central Midtown is here to help bring your creative dream to reality.
Striving for Inclusivity
Central Midtown is home to dozens of artist studios, the Love All Food Pantry, Safe2BU LGBTQ+ Counseling Center and a host of events including vegan dinners, drag shows, and church services.
Affordable Natural Light Spaces
We have a range of high-quality dedicated studios, hot-desks, and event spaces with the common goal of creating communities that work toward a better collective whole. Available now: hot desks as well as event and workshop space.
Creative Synergy
The creative potential is unlimited when you have artists, creatives, and non-profits learning from each other, helping each other, and growing together.
3 Easy Steps
Schedule a Tour
Commit to a Spirit of Collaboration
Begin Your New Chapter
What is Central Midtown?
Central Midtown is passionate about providing space where creativity, community action, and healing flourish in an environment of collaboration. What does this mean?
Recently, Small Craft Studio owner and Central Midtown tenant Deirdre Sanders heard that Family Promise (a nonprofit in the building) had gained new staff, and offered to host a team retreat for the staff of caseworkers. Deirdre led a workshop on Gelli Prints for the staff, who had a great time and were able to bond together without talking about work or clients.
When LeaAyn Shurley, tenant and owner of Moonstruck Pottery, heard about Art Soup Mobile, a benefit for Love All Pantry another nonprofit at Central, she offered to make bowls for the fundraiser. In 2022, she made 250 bowls and hosted painting parties where people from the community and community groups came to paint the bowls that were then fired and included in the price of admission for Art Soup raising thousands of dollars for the Pantry.
Co-Working Spaces
We want you to join us at Central Midtown, an inclusive group of over 40 creatives and nonprofits who regularly collaborate.
$80/month
Spotlight
Soynika Edwards-Bush
Soynika Edwards-Bush, a self-taught artist hailing from Prichard, Alabama, is a passionate advocate for Black representation in the world of art and beyond. Her artistic journey, beginning in the heart of her community, has grown into a powerful force for change. Through her evocative portraiture, often inspired by found photographs, she sheds light on the profound beauty and resilience of Black individuals. But her activism extends beyond the canvas. Soynika is deeply engaged in community outreach, collaborating with organizations like Legacy 166 and the Boys and Girls Club to bring the transformative power of art into the lives of children. She’s a recipient of the Visual Artist of the Year Award and has participated in prestigious exhibitions such as “Mama these look like lost Souls” and “Justice not Favor, Women’s Suffrage Exhibition.” Soynika is not just an artist but a catalyst for change, shaping narratives and fostering hope through her unwavering commitment to art and activism.
Communities
Love all is what we believe at Central. We are so much more than a church; we’re a place to lift up those in need – no matter their needs, without judgement, prejudice, assumptions, or ultimatums.
Central ArtSanctuary is an exhibit and performance space in midtown Mobile.
Moon Struck Makers Space
Offers full-access membership to a dream pottery studio with all the equipment needed including twelve pottery wheels, a slab roller, extruder, kilns, and everything else a budding potter needs to flourish
The Black Ink Coalition
Independent publishing service that works to help authors self-publish and promote ndependent publishing service that works to help authors self-publish and promote their works in a stress-free, personal and creative
Non-Profits
Approximately 600 individuals are homeless every night in Mobile County. Family Promise partners with congregations and civic groups to offer children and their families a safe place to sleep and hope.
An inclusive community of volunteers and donors providing nutritious groceries to more than 1000 food insecure families a month. For only $10, the pantry provides food for 10 meals for a family of four (nearly 100 lbs).
A network of community gardeners and urban farmers committed to growing and maintaining gardens in and around Mobile, Alabama and to increasing access to fresh produce for everyone, pooling resources, knowledge, and labor .
Awakening Respect and Compassion for all Sentient Beings is a non-profit, non-partisan organization with a mission to raise awareness and inspire compassion for all sentient beings.
An inclusive arts education program for adults of all abilities to express their creativity and develop their skills in a variety of art media including acrylics, graphics, watercolors, and more.
The Veteran’s Closet
Nonprofit outreach organization impacting the lives of Veterans and their families
Stand Up Mobile
Committed to bringing the power of the Black vote to elections at all levels.
Savage Daughters
Cultivating a world where all of our daughters have the freedom to make their own informed wellness choices.
Artists
Adobe House Media Production
Professional photography and video services formally known as Lew Thomas Photography
All This Entertainment
Creatives interrupting the status quo of entertainment and commerce through live video, music, and sound.
Amy Bolt
Painting landscapes, flowers, water life, still life, wildlife and abstracts; potter; and photographer
Andree Photo
Commercial, branding and lifestyle photographer. Corporate event photographer. Photography educator and mentor. Current President of GCPPA – Gulf Coast Professional Photographers Association
Blu Impressions Graphics & Design
Lena Payton Webb is a graphic artist of 30+ years with a passion for creating digital art and functional items that celebrates, empowers, and inspires others.
Coastal Makers Art Studio
Teaching painting, multimedia, journaling and other art forms to kids and adults
Ben Brenner
Documentary Filmmaking, Videography, Photography (portrait, underwater), Web, Data Science
Harlan T Schwall Paint and Clay
Visceral and emotional pottery and large oil/watercolor paintings
Humble Hope Candle Co.
Making 100% artisanal soy candles (phthalate & lead/zinc free) is my connection to community and the fuel to finance my growing humanitarian efforts.
Joanne Brandt
Independent Fine Art and Plein Air Painting
KH Studios
Delivering a mix of documentary and posed style portrait, maternity, couples, family photography
Love & Adventure Studios
Celebrating gulf coast artists on the second Saturday of each month in Downtown Mobile, Alabama
Maggie Boraz
Teaching sketching, drawing, and painting
Mary Elizabeth Kimbrough
Painter and mixed media artist, retired ceramicist, a teacher, a student, a blogger
LeaAyn Shurley
Professional potter for over 20 years. Offers unique pottery, classes, and parties.
Nancy Goodman
Improvisational quilts that are redolent of color, pattern and texture constructed without patterns or templates.
Rachel Warner
freelance art director and designer utilizing her background in and knowledge of traditional forms of art and finding inspiration in unexpected places.
Deirdre Sanders
Small Craft Studio is a unique art studio and crafting space offering classes and parties focussed on contemporary and classic sewing and craft projects.
Soynika Edwards-Bush
Activist and self-taught painter with works centering around Black representation through portraiture based from found photographs.
Nadine Andrews
Event decor for courageous couples, nerds, and pirates hosting parties, weddings, and other momentous occasions
Terry Lepre
Acrylic paint pouring and oil
Andre Jones
Songwriting, podcasts, audio, and video production services in the gulf coast area spearheaded by Andre Jones
