The February 2026 issue of Graphic Design USA included two UA BFA Graphic Design majors in its “Students to Watch” feature: Senior Natalie Adams earned previous recognition from GDUSA in the organization’s 62nd Annual Awards Showcase. She also earned a silver designation in the 2026 Graphis New Talent Awards. Adams, who has illustrated and designed for clients around UA and Tuscaloosa, told GDUSA that her vibrant work is rooted in pop culture. Drawing on comic artist Gabriel Picolo, director Guillermo Del Toro, […]
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Art Roundup: May 2026
The UA Department of Art & Art History is pleased to share a variety of events and exhibitions around West Alabama. This month, the work of UA students, alums, and other talented artists will be on display in on- and off-campus spaces. We hope to see you out on the town! Have an event you’d like to share? Email Communications Specialist Ben Reynolds at bjreynolds3@ua.edu. Cotton, Cloth, and Community: Alabama Quilting Traditions WHERE: Moore-Wilson Gallery WHEN: Through May 30, 2026 […]
Student-led PRJM Show Tackles “Moments of Liminality”
Note: This press release was contributed by ARH 580 student Tiffany Hawkins. The Paul R. Jones Museum of American Art is pleased to present The Domestic Liminal from May 1 to August 21, 2026. The public is invited to a reception on Friday, May 1, from 5-8 p.m. during the First Friday Art Walk. The Domestic Liminal is a curatorial project led by Dr. Lucy Curzon’s course, Art History 580: Twentieth Century seminar, which has selected pieces from the Paul […]
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Eternal: Joshua Miller’s MFA Film Lands Downtown Premiere, SGAG Screening
The Historic Bama Theatre presents the premiere of Eternal, an MFA thesis film by University of Alabama graduate student Joshua Miller, on April 17 at 7 p.m. A Q&A with the cast and crew will follow the screening. Admission is free with a suggested $3 donation at the door. The film, which Miller wrote, directed, and produced, will also run from April 20-22 in UA’s Sella-Granata Art Gallery. According to the film’s IMDB page, Eternal is an “allegorical story about a young man who, in […]
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UA Photography Professor Allison Grant Receives 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship
Associate Professor Allison Grant has been awarded a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced Tuesday. Grant was the sole UA faculty member named to the 101st class of Fellows, which includes 223 scholars and artists from 55 disciplines. Grant, one of 19 photographers in this year’s cohort, will use her fellowship to pursue a photography project titled “Holding Together.” A response to the “grim reality” of the post-Roe era, “Holding Together” is a photography series that features “women and individuals with […]
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New in the UAG: Maziyar Derakhshani’s Photography MFA Show
No Title, the MFA thesis exhibition of Maziyar Derakhshani, is on display at The University of Alabama Gallery. from April 10 – May 1, 2026. The show’s opening on April 10 coincided with Tuscaloosa’s Druid City Arts Festival. Derakhshani calls the show an “ongoing project… centered on portraits in a Tuscaloosa dive bar.” See pictures from the opening on Flickr. MFA candidate and photographer Maziyar Derakhshani is a graduate teaching assistant, a two-time Levitetz Seed Grant recipient, and a CARI Graduate […]
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Ceramist Gabrielle Grabowski Presents MFA Thesis Show in SGAG
She is What you Made Her, the MFA thesis exhibition of Gabrielle Grabowski, opens April 3 in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery. A reception will be held Thursday, April 9, from 4-6 p.m. Gabrielle Grabowski is a third-year ceramics student and GTA in UA’s Department of Art & Art History. Her recent work has appeared in shows in Chicago Heights, IL, Ocala, FL, and Tuscaloosa, AL. In 2025, Grabowski completed artist residencies at both the Peters Valley School of Craft (Sandyston, NJ) and Kinhouse […]
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Black Belt Biennale: New Downtown Show Features 24 UA Art Students
The UA Department of Art & Art History is excited to promote Black Belt Biennale, a group exhibition of UA student art at Harrison Galleries. The gallery will host an opening reception on First Friday, April 3, from 6 – 9 p.m. Cade Hopkins, a senior studio art major and the show’s organizer, invited all UA students to submit to the show. The exhibition was juried by a panel of alumni from UA’s Department of Art & Art History. Black Belt Biennale is Hopkins’ follow-up to Black […]
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Three New MA Shows Open in SGAG
The Sella-Granata Art Gallery is pleased to host Eternal Dance, Uprooted, and Anthropocene, the MA Thesis Exhibition of Behrokh Vatani, Hamidreza Noroozi, and Peninah Feldman. The exhibitions will run from March 23-27, 2026, in the SGAG with a reception on Thursday, March 26, from 4-6 p.m. Hamidreza Noroozi, a second-year graduate student in painting, also juried work into the Susan Nomberg McCollough Fine Arts Initiative 2025. A freelance storyboard artist, Noroozi was recently part of the animation team for a short film […]