The UA Department of Art & Art History celebrated awards, collaborations, and community in 2025-2026. Here are the highlights from a busy year! Study Abroad The Department of Art & Art History just celebrated the largest study abroad program in department history! In May, 28 students and three faculty members embarked on a two-week journey through Italy. During stops in Rome, Siena, Florence, and Venice, students toured sites like San Luigi dei Francesi (pictured), the Colosseum, and Piazza del Campo, and San […]
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Sella-Granata Art Gallery Hosts 2025 Study Abroad Exhibition
The UA Department of Art & Art History’s new study abroad exhibition runs from September 18 – October 10, 2025 in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery. The public is invited to an opening reception on Thursday, September 25, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. This May, Professor Jason Guynes and Dr. Tanja Jones led more than 20 students on a tour through Toledo, Madrid, Córdoba, Granada, and Barcelona! Students who traveled with the department will exhibit work inspired by the program. Information about the […]
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In Memoriam: Thornton Willis
Grad Student Represents UA at Regional Art Festival
Shakiba Ebrahimpour, a third-semester graduate student in painting, was selected to participate in the 2025 Loop Music and Art Festival in Dothan, Alabama. Her booth will be on display during the festival on April 11 and 12. Loop Fest is an annual two-day outdoor fine art and music festival in Downtown Dothan. Organized by non-profit Art In Public Places, the festival invites artists and musicians from across the Southeast to perform, demonstrate, and share their work. “I’m excited for the opportunity,” Ebrahimpour said regarding […]
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New SMGA Exhibition Centers On New York Women Abstract Artists
The Sarah Moody Gallery of Art presents New York Women Abstract Artists, a new show made possible by the Farley Moody Galbraith Exhibition Endowment. The exhibition will run from February 6 – March 21, 2025. A six-artist panel discussion moderated by Dr. Doris Sung is scheduled for Thursday, February 6, at 3:30 p.m. in Garland Hall 103. Full bios of all featured artists may be found on the event page. In a statement about the exhibit, SMGA Director Bill Dooley […]
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UA Art & Art History Celebrates 2024 Outstanding Students
The UA Department of Art and Art History is proud to announce the six recipients of our Outstanding Student Awards for academic year 2023-2024, awarded in recognition of their exemplary dedication and commitment to academic or artistic achievement, during Honors Day ceremonies on April 5, 2024. These awards are the department’s most prestigious of the year, given only to a single graduate and undergraduate student in our degree programs in art history (BA, MA), graphic design (BFA), and studio art […]
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Ten BFA Studio Art Majors Exhibit Thesis Work in the SGAG
The UA Department of Art and Art History presents the Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art degree group exhibition, April 30-May 4, 2024, in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Woods Hall. A reception for the artists will be on Thursday, May 2, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. This exhibition showcases work by ten senior BFA degree candidates, demonstrating their broad mastery of learning in their primary and secondary concentrations as well as other media. Check out photos from the exhibition […]
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Nathan Childers to Present MFA Exhibition at UA Gallery
The UA Department of Art and Art History presents the Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition of Nathan Childers, titled Still Lives, from April 5 through May 3, 2024, in The University of Alabama Gallery in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center in Tuscaloosa. A reception for the artist will be held Friday, April 5, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. during downtown Tuscaloosa’s First Friday Art Walk. Childers writes that his exhibition Still Lives is “an invitation into the home […]
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UA Art Faculty Accolades – December 2023
Megan Moore, part-time instructor online, was invited to show her work in the exhibition, “First Person: Explorations in Printmaking,” in the Mendocino (California) College Gallery, going on now through February 5, 2024. Moore, who has taught Intro to the Visual Arts online at UA since 2017, has had solo exhibitions at the Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University and the Rodning Gallery of Art, University of South Alabama. Most recently her work was included in Global Matrix IV, Purdue University, Indiana, […]