Alabama Contemporary Art Center: Temper and Conduct Exhibition

In this two-person exhibition, Temper & Conduct, Katie Hargrave and Melissa Vandenberg examine the history and lore of the snake as a notorious American symbol, the fear serpents evoke, and the ways these shifting symbols are employed today in mythology as local as that of Mobile, or as broad as the countless uses of Gadsden’s “Don’t Tread On Me” flag.

Temper and Conduct is part of the I