WILLIAM HALL, BFA 1973, continues to build his legacy of “making art available to Alabama students and citizens,” according to William T. Dooley, director of the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, through donations to the gallery’s Permanent Collection. Dooley described the print by Jim Dine given by Hall enthusiastically: “Its rich surfaces and the content
Jeremy and the Coach: Outside Art at the Stadium
Just a week and a half before a more seriously game-changing event in Tuscaloosa this spring, UA Athletics unveiled the long-awaited bronze statue of Crimson Tide Football head coach Nick Saban on “A-Day,” April 16. The figure, caught in a typical “Saban-stance,” joins his four sculptured colleagues beside the Walk of Champions outside the north
Art History Major Lives Her Dream Now
When a couple of Crimson White editors heard about Professor Westmoreland (PA) Art Nationals Juried Exhibition, it made sense to assign CW Lifestyles Editor Stephanie Brumfield to the story. Brumfield had taken Shineman’s ART 316 painting course, so she felt pretty comfortable asking questions of her former teacher. In fact, Brumfield is getting to be
Alumni News – Spring 2011 – The Loupe
JUDY HAND, BFA 1973 (Painting), now Program & Marketing Manager in Professional Development in UA’s College of Continuing Studies, writes, “My current title reflects the diversity of my work: I’m an artist doing the work of a manager. Half of my job is creative marketing and the other half is managing people and events.” After
Art Professors Awarded National Science Foundation Grant for Emergent Learning
Brian Evans, Lucy Curzon and Sarah Marshall have secured a $350,000 National Science Foundation grant to find new ways to create a “system” that will foster creativity among a large group of students participating in an online class. The idea of the project, titled “Autonomous Cohorts and Emergent Learning,” said Evans, “is to use a
Angelo Granata – A Career Retrospective
William T. Dooley, Associate Professor of Art, succeeded Angelo Granata as director of the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art after Granata retired. Dooley wrote this description of the retrospective exhibition of Granata’s work put on in 2011 as well as a remembrance of Professor Granata and his legacy for the spring 2011 issue of The
Art Alumni Remember Professor Jack Granata
“What did you do?” “Everything!” As a teacher and mentor, Jack Granata changed the lives of many undergraduate and graduate students in art. He left a lifelong impression on four gallery assistants who worked for him during their school years at UA. We contacted alumni Rita DeWitt, Melody Machen, Kat Mitchell O’Brien and Michael Panhorst
Drawing on the Inside: An interview with Jamey Grimes
Jamey Grimes couldn’t stop to talk the other day because he had to get to prison. I laughed, but when we did sit down to talk, it became clear that he is very serious about teaching art at William E. Donaldson Maximum Security Prison in Bessemer and at Brent Correctional Facility. And he is discovering