Graduate teaching assistant Heather Whidden presented her paper, “Interpreting the Stitch,” at the eighth annual ACS Gender Studies Conference, titled “Gender Across…,” at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, in February. Whidden said that the
Wayne Sides: Collecting Four Decades of Photos – Part Two
Wayne Sides, 1975 New College alumnus in visual and performing arts, is in the process of scanning his entire photographic oeuvre of more than four decades. As part of this
UA Art Students Awarded Scholarships During Honors Day 2016
Interim department chair Tom Wolfe presided over our Honors Day award ceremony in the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art on April 8, 2016. Because of our generous benefactors, the Department of Art
Senior Photography Major to Attend International Feminist Art Conference
Tanesha Childs, a senior studio art major with a minor in art history, was accepted to a 10-day residency at the Feminist Art Conference in Toronto, Ontario, in May. The conference invited
UA Alumna to Exhibit at International Surrealist Museum
UA art alumna and surrealist artist Janice Hathaway (BFA 1973, MFA 1975) has been invited to exhibit her collages at The Eugenio Granell Fundación in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, May
Students Tour West Alabama Architecture
Students in Dr. Rachel Stephens‘ ARH 477 (Topics in American Art) traveled through several west Alabama towns on a rainy autumn day to study antebellum planter elite architecture firsthand. Their tour
Cassandra Speaks to the University
Bill Dooley, associate professor of art and director of the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art and Emily Bibb, collections manager for The Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art at
Groundbreaking Photography Professor Retires
GAY BURKE, the first female full professor in the Department of Art and Art History, retired this summer after forty-two years of service to The University of Alabama. In 1973,
Wayne Sides: Collecting Four Decades of Photos – Part One
More and more artists are undertaking projects to record, display, catalog and/or store their artwork, both digital-born and material. In this semi-regular series, we are featuring some of our UA