070220 Tuesday Prayer Breakfast with Artist Bob Adams

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This is a first of Dexter's series of great artists of Montgomery Alabama. Bob Adams is the most accomplished of our artists. He has a distinct calling to present his art as a very real and vivid witness of his spiritual testimony in Jesus Christ as the living Messiah of God to whom all may receive everlasting life.

Introducing Bob Adams

Bob Adams has been a familiar sight on the streets of downtown Montgomery since 1982. He can be found on a streetcorner with his easel (or just a huge sheet of masonite) creating a vivid visual interpretation of an Old or New Testament Bible passage on almost any sunny day. Many of his inspiring images are now on exhibit on the lower floor of Dexter Avenue United Methodist Church, at the corner of Dexter Avenue and McDonough Street. Some of the paintings now on exhibit at the church have been seen previously in store windows downtown where they have now been replaced by newer paintings.

Bob graduated in 1978 from Pratt Institute, a famous school of art located in Brooklyn, New York.
He says that a question often arose in art class, “when we graduate, how do we become painters?”
The advice he chose to take was this:”Just go somewhere, anywhere, settle down and start painting pictures of the people, places and things that you see”. His first “somewhere” was Reno, Nevada.

There he quickly discovered that just because he was painting did not mean people were going to run to his studio to see what he was painting. The only way to guarantee someone would see his work would be to start painting outdoors on busy street corners. He first began painting cityscapes and genre (scenes of ordinary life) paintings. Every day, a few people would stop to talk, but his life and his career didn’t seem to be going anywhere.

In 1982, Bob accepted Jesus as his God and Savior. Soon after that the thought came to him that if he began painting Bible stories instead of cityscapes, when someone asked what he was doing, he could quite naturally relate the truth that Jesus loves us, He died on the cross for our sins, He rose from the dead and anyone who believes in Him will have eternal life.
In addition to the large (from four to eight feet high) Bible scenes displayed in the ground floor corridor at the old Dexter Avenue church, there are two other paintings by Bob Adams on display at the church. One is a beautiful rendering of the church as it appeared during the construction of the Judicial Building across Dexter Avenue. The other is a presentation of the Church’s “301 Club”, painted for the River Region Sketchbook in 2004.

The public is invited to a special showing of the paintings on Sunday, March 18th from 3:00 ‘til 5:00 PM.
The artist will be present to explain the paintings; visitors are invited to bring a Bible with them to use as a reference to each painting. Admission is free, but contributions will be accepted.