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UA Art in the Media 2012

UA Art in the News, Fall 2012 (PDF)
College of Arts and Sciences Collegian:

  • “Robert Mellown Uncovers the Story in UA’s Architectural History” by Kelli Wright (p. 7)
  • “Adam Hill Works to Preserve the Art of Craft” Adam Hill, BFA 2012, and Windgate Fellowship recipient (p. 11)

UA Art in the News, December 5, 2012
UA News: “UA Alumna Honors Art Professor with Artwork” by Kelli Wright: Professor Emeritus Alvin Sella, Susan Nomberg McCollough (BA, speech and art, 1966)

UA Art in the News, December 4, 2012
AL.com: “Frank Fleming pastels going up for sale at Artists Incorporated exhibit” Alumnus Frank Fleming, Professor Emeritus Alvin Sella

UA Art in the News, December 5, 2012
Tuscaloosa Magazine: “Kentuck clay throwing class helps release the inner artist” grad student James Davis, alumna Kerry Kennedy,

UA Art in the News, December 2, 2012
A&S Desktop News: “Art professor’s works featured in New York gallery” Pete Schulte

UA Art in the News, Fall 2012
UA Media Feature: “Find Your Passion: It’s All in the ‘UA Family’ for Gold Medalist,” Annika Zeyen, graphic design minor.

UA Art in the News, November 15, 2012
UA Research Magazine (Richard LeComte): “Layer Upon Historical Layer,” Professor Emeritus Robert O. Mellown.

UA Art in the News, November 8, 2012
Weld (Courtney Haden): “Monitoring Signs of Life – A Tuscaloosa Artist Helps Make a Place to Think It All Over,” Claire Lewis Evans.

UA Art in the News, November 7, 2012
Crimson White*: “Artist, Black Belt Bamboost to open new park,” Claire Lewis Evans.

UA Art in the Media, November 6, 2012
Crimson White*: “Bamboo Art Video,” Claire Lewis Evans.

UA Art in the Media, November 5, 2012
Crimson White Flickr photos: “Kentuck Bamboo Park,” Claire Lewis Evans.

UA Art in the News, November, 2012
Arts Council Press Release: “West Alabama Juried Show,” Tom Wegrzynowski, Amy Pirkle, Astri Snodgrass, Kelly Parvin, Aynslee Moon, Anne Herbert, Claire Lewis Evans, Charlotte Wegrzynowski, Jamey Grimes, Amy C. LeePard; and alumni Deborah Hughes, and Bethany Windham Engle.

UA Art in the Media, through October 30, 2012
Tuscaloosa News Photo Gallery: “Monster Makeover,” Jamey Grimes, Best in Show, plus a long list of UA Art participants!

UA Art in the Media, October 25, 2012
WVUA First at Four: “Bamboo Art,” Danny Salter interviews with Claire Lewis Evans.

UA Art in the News, October 19, 2012
Planet Weekly: “Signs of Life,”  Claire Lewis Evans.

UA Art in the News, October 16, 2012
Crimson White*: “Student art gets time in the spotlight,”  Andy Pruett, James Davis, Mark Barry and the studio graduate students in “You Can’t Hold Water” exhibition.

UA Art in the News, October 16, 2012
Alabama State Council on the Arts Press Release: “State Arts Council Hires Elliot Knight as Visual Arts Program Manager,” Elliot Knight, instructor in art history.

UA Art in the News, October 15, 2012
Crimson White*: “UA students lead ARTS workshops,” Meredith Randall.

UA Art in the Media, October 10, 2012
Crimson White Flickr photos: “Southern Letterpress,” Sonja Greentree Rossow, instructor in art.

UA Art in the News, October 8, 2012
Tuscaloosa Magazine (reprinted in the Tuscaloosa News) “UA’s Craig Wedderspoon has unexpected take on sculpture and life,” Craig Wedderspoon, Mario Gallardo, Bill Dooley.

UA Art in the News, September 26, 2012
Crimson White*: “Graduate art exhibit features piece inspired by music,” Micah Craft, BFA 2012.

UA Art in the News, September 4, 2012
Crimson White*: “Art student’s work inspired by movement, transforms an entire room,” Aynslee Moon’s MFA exhibition, Painted Space, in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery.

UA Art in the News, Fall 2012
UA News: “Find Your Passion: Combining Passions” Ally Mabry

UA Art in the News, June 19, 2012
Oxford American online: “The Only Stair That Doesn’t Creak: The Southern Open,” (exhibition review mentions grad student Mark Barry)
“Tuscaloosa, Alabama, artist M R Barry came up with three abstract paintings on raw canvas that also operate as post-minimalist sculpture. One of Barry’s paintings sags ever so slightly off the wall, one seems to be severed with the bottom half creating a puddle of canvas on the floor, and yet another is pinned ‘face’ to the wall with only a portion of this ‘face’ falling into view.” (dead link: http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2012/jun/19/only-stair-doesnt-creak-southern-open/)

UA Art in the News, May 22, 2012
Tuscaloosa News: “University faculty delaying retirement,” Robert Mellown.

UA Art in the News, May 1, 2012
UA News: “UA Art Student Wins Prestigious Windgate Fellowship,” Adam Hill.

UA Art in the News, April 29, 2012
Tuscaloosa News: “Longtime Alabama architecture expert is retiring after 44 years”
“The feel of [Woods Quad] is so nice. The buildings and the architecture are a link to the past, but they’re still very vibrant and still very much alive,” he said. “It has a certain intimacy to it, and that’s one thing I like about this campus in general.” –Robert O. Mellown quoted by Wayne Grayson in the Tuscaloosa News.

UA Art in the News, April 27, 2012
Mobile Press-Register via AL.com: “Meridian Museum exhibit reveals contrasting artists’ ‘elemental’ connections,” Tom Wegrzynowski,
“[Wegrzynowski’s] work is an investigation of thematic elements that are frequently used to define culture. These include religion, nationalism, science, sports and war.’Painting is an ideal expression for this as the painted image is representative of entrenched traditions,’ he says in a museum news release, ‘yet (it) retains a sense of vitality in the fluid world of contemporary art. Perhaps of greatest importance is the expectation of eventual truth inherent in the image, an expectation that remains a powerful force in the mind of the audience.'” –Thomas B. Harrison, Mobile Press-Register via AL.com.

UA Art in the News, April 27, 2012
Crimson White*: “Art department suffered human loss during storm,” Department of Art and Art History members Morgan Sigler, Craig Wedderspoon, Tom Wegrzynowski; UA SLIS Book Arts professor Steve Miller.

UA Art in the News, April 10, 2012
Crimson White*: “Art history professor to retire after 40 years at UA,” Robert Mellown.

UA Art in the News, April 9, 2012
UA News: “UA’s Moody Gallery Features Works from Permanent Collection,” Sarah Moody Gallery of Art.

UA Art in the News, April 5, 2012
Crimson White*: “Art Kitchen to Host Silent Auction,” Claire Siepser.

UA Art in the News, March 29, 2012
UA News: “Art Historian to Present Paul R. Jones Lecture, Curate Exhibit at UA”

UA Art in the News, March 26, 2012
Crimson White*: Japanese artwork on display at Ferguson Center,” Dr. Cathy Pagani.

UA Art in the News, March 9, 2012
UA News: “UA Exhibition of Japanese Woodblock Prints Explores Sumo and Samurai,” Cathy Pagani, ARH students.

UA Art in the News, March 8, 2012
Crimson White*: “Pictures show city’s history,” Amalia Amaki.
Excerpt: “While Amaki admits publishing a historical book is hard work that required more than a few all-nighters, she gleamed with excitement as she talked about the city of Tuscaloosa and her overall experience. ‘It’s just the nature of the beast,’ Amaki said. ‘But like anything else, the more familiar you become with a place, the better you understand.’”

UA Art in the News, March 5, 2012
UA News: “Selma Native’s Sculptures, Drawings on Display at UA,” Sarah Moody Gallery of Art.

UA Art in the News, February 28, 2012
Crimson White*: “Phoenix weathers time, elements,” Alabama Biennial.

UA Art in the News, February 2, 2012
SculptSite.com: “Artist: Sculpture survives April 27 tornado, gains meaning” (reprinted)
Original article, Gadsden Times, Craig Wedderspoon

UA Art in the Media, February 2, 2012
Vimeo by Bobby Welch: “Poised and Ready by Craig Wedderspoon,” at the Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsden, AL

UA Art in the News, February 2, 2012
Gadsden Times: “Art Night highlighted by Hardin Center, Walnut Gallery exhibits” Lisa Michitti (MFA 2005), Craig Wedderspoon

UA Art in the News, January 30, 2012
Crimson White*: “Bealltain arch intrigues audience through texture,” Alabama Biennial, Rachel Dobson, Robert Mellown.
Excerpt: “Alabama Biennial sculptures on campus…contrast our sensibilities, ask us to reevaluate our ideas, and challenge us to consider new concepts – processes that are fundamental to university life,” –College of Arts and Sciences Dean James Yarbrough, 1993, quoted by Jordan Cissell in the article.

UA Art in the News, January 27, 2012
Crimson White*: “Woods Quad showcases sculptors’ finest pieces” (Craig Wedderspoon, Mark Stevenson, Woods Quad Sculpture Garden, Alabama Biennial)
“There are six notable pieces [of sculpture] around Woods Quad, with each significant histories, and many others scattered around campus.”

UA Art in the News, January 26, 2012
Crimson White*: “Angel statues guard Hackberry Lane” (William Dooley, Alabama Biennial)

UA Art in the News, January 17, 2012
UA News: “UA’s Paul Jones Gallery of Art to Hold Grand Opening, Unveil Next Exhibit” (Department of Art and Art History)

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