The Emerald Coast's premiere venue for live theater and concerts, the Mattie Kelly Fine & Performing Arts Center is located at 100 College Boulevard on the Niceville on the campus of NWFSC. Accessible from U.S. Hwy 285, U.S. Hwy 85, the Mid-Bay Bridge from Destin and I-10. The Mattie Kelly Arts Center is a $25 million-dollar performing arts and educational complex that hosts Broadway shows, visiting artists, dance and opera companies. The complex encompasses a 1,650 seat Mainstage theater which accommodates touring Broadway shows, the 195-seat, flexible Sprint Theater, an art wing with two galleries, a music wing, a visual arts building and the beautiful NWF State College amphitheater.

Mattie Kelly Arts Center

Galleries The art galleries at the Mattie Kelly Arts Center announce their 2009-2010 season of exhibitions. All exhibitions are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Mo.-Th., 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday., 1 p.m.- 4 pm and 90 minutes prior to most performances in the main stage theater.

Dylan Collins: Diagrammatic Disarray and Wendy Wischer: In Search of Magic

Nov. 1 - Dec. 6, 2009

These solo exhibitions will run concurrently in the McIlroy and Holzhauer Galleries. Collins addresses how humans preserve history and the relationships between beauty and the science with the messiness of everyday life in his colorful sculptures and hybrid forms. Wischer creates mixed-media sculptures covered in thousands of tiny mirrored tiles onto which light is strategically directed to create reflections on walls, floor and ceiling. She explores the boundaries between nature, technology, science, mythology and personal identity.