The Loupe is the newsletter of the Department of Art and Art History. It keeps you informed on our department events, collections, exhibitions, on the activities of our faculty, students, updates on our alumni, and more. Please send your information for The Loupe to the editor.
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Spring 2013: The Alumni Issue. Student Spotlights; Faculty-Staff News; Forty Years of Proofsheets – Former Students Thank Gay Burke; Gay Burke in Context by Wayne Sides; Exhibition Calendar; Women’s Work at Woods Hall: Art Photography; Alumni News; In Memoriam: Maria Zavala Sella. Link to PDF.
Fall 2012 PDF – The Art History Issue! Largest Class of Art History Graduate Students in 25 Years; Students Travel the World to Research; Feminist Art Scholar to Keynote Symposium; Virginia Rembert Liles: Trailblazer for Women Leads UA Art into the Future; Faculty-Staff News; Student Spotlights; UA Students & the Community; Alumni News; In Memoriam; Exhibition Calendar. Link to PDF.
Spring/Summer 2012 PDF - Alumni Issue: Student Spotlights; Robert Mellown Retires After a Career “Off the Beaten Path;” Current Exhibition Brings Back Alumni Memories of the Civil Rights Era; The Tuscaloosa Community; Exhibition Calendar; Special Focus: Art & Alumni; “I Was Having Far Too Good a Time to Remember Any of It;” Senior Exhibitions in 2011 & 2012; Students Curate Digital Photo Show; Faculty-Staff News; Scholarship Awardees 2012-2013.
Fall 2011 PDF - Welcome to the New Arrivals; New Jones Gallery Opens; Student Exhibitions, Events, Websites; Welcome New Grad Students; More Student Spotlights; Faculty-Staff News; UA Art Contributes to Kentuck Coloring Book; Calendar 2011-2012; Alumni News; Are You in This 1976 Photo? Photo Gallery.
Summer 2011 PDF - Looking at Outside Art Everyday; Outside Art for Tornado Relief; Jeremy and the Coach: Outside Art at the Stadium; Honors Day Awards Art Students for the Coming Year; Woods Quad Sculpture Garden Takes Shape; In Memoriam – Morgan Sigler; Exhibit is ‘Rite of Passage’ for Bob Jones High School; Plus Exhibitions Schedules for the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, the Sella-Granata Art Gallery, and the new Paul R. Jones Gallery in downtown Tuscaloosa; Faculty-Staff News; Student News; Alumni News.
Spring 2011 – Special Alumni Issue
We’ve Got an App for That; New Digital Lab is Open; Windgate Fellowships Award Student Work; Arty Party Spotlights Art and Art History Students; More Student Spotlights; Angelo Granata – A Career Retrospective; Alumni News; Spring Calendar; Recent Acquisitions – An Alumnus Gives Back; Encyclopedia of Alabama; “What did you do?” “Everything!”; Faculty-Staff News.
Fall 2010
McNair Scholar Visualizes our Insides; Graduate Student Notes; Undergraduate Focus: Study in Bronze and Steel; Faculty-Staff News; McKinley Award winner Mark Stevenson; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art; Sella-Granata Art Gallery; Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art; Alumni News; In Memoriam – Roxie Worthy, BFA 1973.
Art Students Honored for Excellence; Paul R. Jones Collection News; Garland Hall in 1945: “Temporary Headquarters for the Enlarged Department;” Highlights from Our Exhibition Season (photos); Eyeing Howard Goodson; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art; Frank Fleming, Storyteller; Alumni Notes; Faculty News; Student News; Our New Webpages.
Spring 2010
Guardian of the Realm – the new collections manager for the Paul R. Jones Collection; Art Students Revive 70s Tradition; Graduate Thesis Exhibition Schedule; Sarah Moody Gallery Spring Exhibitions; Student News; Alumni News; Faculty News; Calendar of Events.
Fall 2009
Al Sella reaps his rewards; Welcome back everybody;
Drawing on the Inside-An interview with Jamey Grimes; ARTstor now at UA; Alumni Notes; Timeline of the Department; Look Homeward, Mr. Christenberry-Alumnus William Christenberry celebrates his 50th anniversary at the UA; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art Fall Schedule; Calendar of Events.
Summer 2009
Craig Wedderspoon wins A&S teaching award; In Memoriam; Faculty News & Notes; Honors Day; BFA Exhibition; Alumni Notes; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art.
Spring 2009
The Paul R. Jones Collection; Faculty News & Notes; Moody Exhibition Schedule Spring 2009; Alumni News & Websites; Obituaries; Coming this semester.
Fall 2008
New Faculty, Staff, & Students; Faculty News & Notes; Alumni Notes; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art; New 16th Street Sculpture Facilities; Image Resource Center Projects & Resources.
Spring 2008
Cathy Pagani Named Chair; Public Art Past & Future; 
Campus Sculptures; Faculty News & Notes; Alumni Notes; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art; Community Connections; Visiting Artists; Image Resource Center Projects; Obituaries; The Rise and Fall of Public Art.
Fall 2007
Welcome to New Faculty; Image Resource Center Collections; Faculty News & Notes; Workers Memorial Sculpture; Alumni News; Reminiscing with Al Sella.
Spring 2007
Accessing Digital Image Collection; Digital Classrooms at UA; Faculty News & Notes; Art History in Italy; Alabama-Cuba Initiative for Art.
Fall 2006
New Image Resource Center; IRC Collections; 
Digital Classrooms; Welcome New Staff; Art History Grad Students; Faculty Travels & News; A Short History of the Slide Room.
Fall 2005 Former Whitney Director Tom Armstrong; Studio Grad Students’ websites; Art History Grad Students & alums present papers; Faculty News & Notes.
Spring 2005
Brave New Pixelated World; Art History Grad Students; Faculty Travels & News; Ferguson Gallery Spring Schedule; About Google.
