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Visit our FAQ Page to find answers to all of your attendance questions, including how to catch the NEW Festival Shuttle Service connecting the East x West ends of Sloss Furnaces.

2023 Dates & Hours

MAGIC CITY ART CONNECTION

40th year celebration!
Friday, April 28 (12pm – 6pm)
Saturday, April 29 (10am-6pm)
Sunday, April 30 (10am-5pm)

CORKS & CHEFS

Saturday, April 29 (12-3pm)
Sunday, April 30 (12-3pm)
One session each day

Festival Location + VENUE MAP

Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark | 20 32nd Street North, Birmingham, Alabama, 35222

Print a PDF of the Venue Map. Click here.

CLICK to BUY TICKETS to MCAC

ADVANCE ADMISSION:

Festival Ticket / $11
(includes admission all 3 days)

GATE ADMISSION:

Festival Ticket / $15
(includes admission all 3 days)
Kids 16 & under free

Click to BUY TICKETS to C&C

Advance ADMISSION:

1 Day Ticket / $50
2 Day Ticket / $85

Gate ADMISSION:

1 Day Ticket @ $65
2 Day Ticket @ $95

C&C TICKET INCLUDES: A 26th annual commemorative glass (15 oz stemless wine glass), One (1) Plate @ each Culinary Tasting Table, Unlimited Wine & Beer Sampling, Cocktail tastes from Participating Bars, access to Tasting Seminars (limited seating), plus 3-day Admission to Magic City Art Connection.

About MCAC’s FAB 40th year

In 2023, the spring art festival will be returning to Birmingham’s Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark as we celebrate MCAC’s FAB 40th anniversary. Take in the Festival’s sights, sounds, tastes, and aromas at this storied, rustic, industrial backdrop central to our city’s skyline. We look forward with much anticipation to fusing the show’s vibrant contemporary arts with this former master of industry.

The 40th year will spotlight 175 juried, fine artists from the state, region, and around the country alongside Corks & Chefs: A Taste of Birmingham (26th year!), Imagination Festival art workshops for kids, Collectors Classroom adult art classes, live music and dance performances, special exhibitions and art installations, cultural partners, a café with food trucks and other favorites, plus other yum moments to happen upon as you tour the show or lounge in the open air at Sloss.

Find art with us the last full weekend in April at this annual spring arts tradition in Birmingham.

Create. Inspire. Educate. Collect.

about CORKS & CHEFS 26th year

Taste. Sip. Repeat. This spring, Corks & Chefs: A Taste of Birmingham is toasting its 26th year. Join us April 29 & 30, 2023 under the main Casting Shed at Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark for this highly anticipated tasting experience held in conjunction with the FAB 40th Magic City Art Connection. C&C looks forward to spotlighting talented local chefs and tastemakers as it presents culinary dishes for patrons to pair with select wines, craft beer, cocktails, seated tasting seminars, and a beloved contemporary art festival.

photo gallery

Take a look back with us at Magic City Art Connection’s 39th year, plus Corks & Chefs: A Taste of Birmingham’s 25th anniversary milestone in 2022. Photos by Andi Rice Mediaworks.