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 tenants 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
Is Central for You?
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 Space
$80/Month
We want you to join us at Central Midtown, an inclusive group of over 30 creatives and nonprofits who regularly collaborate. Hurry, only 10 available slots to have access to hot-desks on the 1st and 3rd Floor.
Spotlight
June Reddix-Stennis
From an early age, June Redix-Stennis has been passionate about two things: Art and Social Justice. As an adult, she merges the two through her Afrofuturism artwork, graphic design, and poetry. Her work has been featured all across the country.
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.
Formed in 2017 out of a desire to see creative professionals thrive in the Mobile, Alabama area. Located within the walls of Central Presbyterian Church, CAC is a working studio home to visual & performing artists who strive to craft community
Central ArtSanctuary is an exhibit and performance space in midtown Mobile.
Central Darkroom is a public photographic community center, with a commitment to traditional film photographing techniques
Offers full-access memberships to a dream pottery studio with all the equipment needed, including up to twelve pottery wheels, a slab roller, extruder, kilns, and everything else a budding potter needs to flourish!
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.
At no cost, Safe2BU links clients, who have suffered or are suffering from trauma, with mental health and wellness management services, where all staff are trauma/injustice informed and trained in LGBTQ+ sensitivity.
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 .
Mobile Orchid Society
An affiliate of American Orchid Society, meets monthly at Central Midtown to provide orchid education in the community.
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
Provides life’s basic needs and resources to those who have been affected and help veterans overcome the obstacles that prevent them from integrating into our communities successfully
Easterseals SCSEP
Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) helping low-income, unemployed individuals aged 55+ find work.
Counseling
Tarah Keech
Learn coaching skills and get coached so you can thrive, lead, and deliver.
G. Cantu
Gerardo Cantu is a licensed master social worker and counselor generally specializing in anxiety and depression
Flourish Psychotherapy Services
Mary Smith, MSW, LICSW-PIP offers services to individuals struggling with anxiety and OCD through talk and exposure-based therapy
Artists
Amy Bolt
Painting landscapes, flowers, water life, still life, wildlife and abstracts; potter; and photographer
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.
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
Joanne Brandt
Independent Fine Art and Plein Air Painting
John Halliday
Watercolor painting on paper and canvas. He’s worn many hats in his work career, including being a nurse, designer, teacher
Kathleen Kirk Stoves
Working artist specializing in murals, printmaking, pyrography, drawing leading art classes and private lessons
Maggie Boraz
Teaching sketching, drawing, and painting
Marty Allen
Graphic design, UI/UX, photography
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.
Off the Rock Podcast
John Rocker is the host of this NSpireU Podcast which includes interviews of local artists and business owners about the latest music, sports, and culture events.
Rachel Warner
freelance art director and designer utilizing her background in and knowledge of traditional forms of art and finding inspiration in unexpected places.
Renee Wallace & Janie Brown
Friends that art together and specialize in paintings, wood crafts and textiles. Commissions and art parties
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.
Southern Raven Design
Alicia Cupp is a polymer clay artist. She mostly makes earrings but I also barrettes, bookmarks and trinket trays
Nadine Andrews
Event decor for courageous couples, nerds, and pirates hosting parties, weddings, and other momentous occasions
Susan Downing-White
A “southern woman who happened to be born in Chicago,” Susan lives and works on Dog River, which flows into Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
Tamara Lindsey
Professional artist specializing in oil painting specializing in both brush and palette knife. Inspired by the beauty of nature, especially the play of light and shadow on landscapes
Terry Lepre
Acrylic paint pouring and oil
Virginia Sprinkle
Painting stories inspired by the simple things that make life beautiful.
Yancey Leeth
Yancey Leeth’s work straddles the fence between graphic design and photography.
Andre Jones
Songwriting, podcasts, audio, and video production services in the gulf coast area spearheaded by Andre Jones
