Alumna Alayna N. Pernell (BA 2019) has an exhibition opening in the Griffin Museum of Photography’s Virtual Gallery. Our Mothers’ Gardens, an online exhibit in which Pernell re-imagines photographs of Black women, opens February 15 and will run through April 18. Pernell writes, “My practice is currently revolving around two questions. What can visual art
A Conversation with Alumna Artist Sam Joslin
This article is part of our Alumni Spotlight Series, which focuses on UA art alumni who are in the midst of an art career now, whether they are continuing with schooling or have taken their art skills out into the work world. At a glance, a group photo of Sam Joslin’s current ceramic sculptures resembles
Alumnus Darius Hill to Exhibit at Kentuck Art Center
MFA alumnus Darius Hill has artwork in Good Trouble: Civil Rights Past and Present, a new exhibition at the Kentuck Art Center in Northport, Alabama, in February and March. He recently presented an artist talk at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in which he gives a tour of his studio and talks about his
UA Instructor’s Prints Selected for Nontraditional, International Shows
Prints by John Klosterman won recent recognition in two international juried exhibitions: one that showcases nontraditional printmaking processes. and one that is a feature of an international printmaking festival. UPDATE: As part of being selected for PrintAustin’s The Contemporary Print: 5×5 juried exhibition, Klosterman was featured on Studio Noize Podcast with host and fellow printmaker
UA Artists and Historians Commune for Online Arts Conference
The University of Alabama department of art and art history was well-represented at this year’s SECAC, held online because of COVID-19 and hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts. SECAC (the Southeastern College Art Conference) is the annual meeting of one of the largest academic art organizations in the country. Research papers by
In New Surrealist Exhibit, Alumna’s Art Hangs with Picasso, Dali, Miro
It might seem surreal to have your artwork in the company of works by Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali, but UA art alumna Janice Hathaway has created surrealist art since she lived in Tuscaloosa in the mid-1970s, so the dreamlike and bizarre are part of her everyday life. The exhibition, Janice Hathaway Surrealist Works, is
BFA Alumni in Ceramics Accepted to Master’s Programs
The department of art and art history recently got news of four recent BFA alumni in ceramics who are currently completing upper-level programs around the United States.
UA Alumna Collaborates On Chicago’s Navy Pier Re-Design
Our Alumni Spotlight Series focuses on UA art alumni who are in the midst of an art career now, whether they are continuing with schooling or have taken their art skills out into the work world. Chicago’s Navy Pier, one of the top tourist destinations in the Midwest, took on a newly energized look this
UA Forges Sculptures, Raises Funds for Children’s of Alabama
University of Alabama alumni Jonathan Lanier and Ringo Lisko are the latest UA sculptors to forge creations for Nucor Steel’s annual Children’s Charity Classic, a fundraiser for Children’s of Alabama hospital. For this year’s auction, they both depicted whimsical scenes from nature that belie the solid, impenetrable medium: a giant, crawling caterpillar and children in