Bailey Contemporary Arts — Attraction in Pompano Beach

What a cool place and I never knew it was here. I had stopped in to the new Pompano Cultural Center to have a look around and the cultural director Pamela told me about this place across the street. Since my daughter is an artist I was intrigued and we headed over to check it out.

BaCA as this place is also known has a first floor gallery and on the second floor there are different rooms that the artists rent as studio space and you can go and watch them work. No one was in in residence on our visit but my daughter loved seeing their spaces and the works in progress. Although her work is more digital than fine arts at present I know she would love to have her own space in this beautiful building. There is even a cute coffee house located next door.

On the first of every month they hold Old Town Untapped from 6-9. It's a craft brew and arts festival. Outside of BaCA they have craft brew samples from Odd Breed Ales located across the street, art, and food trucks. Other events that are scheduled can be found listed in a pamphlet that you can get from the Cultural Arts Center across the street. I love that Pompano is moving in the direction of having more arts. The director of arts told me that there are actually four venues for the arts in Pompano now as well as a newly created cultural arts council. I look forward to seeing what they present and attending great art events in Pompano...

Being a local resident I am so excited to see the redevelopment going on in Pompano Beach. Having been to a BYOB painting class before I was so happy to see that the BACA center was going to be hosting the same classes, basically in our backyard! If you are persistent and push through the disorganization of trying to make reservations or just use the online option to register, you will truly have a GREAT time. Grace, our painting instructor was personable, professional, patient, encouraging and very talented. We had a party of ten, we fit in comfortably with our wine, cheese & snacks. They have a great facility for a fun friday night with friends and family! Go reserve your seat and allow Grace to turn you in to the artist you never thought you were but always...

This nice little art gallery is located in old Pompano Beach. Todd was very friendly and helpful showing us around and is a wealth of information. The gallery changes it's exhibits every 60 days so you can visit multiple times a year and always see something different. They offer classes and sponsor many other art related events, which the young lady who works there, whose name I can't recall, was happy to inform us about. They also have many artist-in-residence; we were there in the middle of a week and none of the artists were there but he said on The Weeknd the place is really hopping, and the artists are more than happy to talk to you and tell you about their work. If you're visiting the area, or live in the area I highly recommend you check out...