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Origins: Graduate Students Featured in New SGAG Exchange Show

The Sella-Granata Art Gallery’s 2026 exhibition season opens October 1 with Origins, a graduate student exchange show. Work by MFA students from LSU New Orleans will be on view in the gallery through October 23. The department welcomes the public to the gallery for an opening reception on Thursday, October 1, from 4-6 p.m. Organized by Associate Professors Bryce Speed (UA) and Tony Campbell (LSU New Orleans), Origins features sculpture, painting, photography, and interdisciplinary work by the following MFA students: […]

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2025-26 Year in Review

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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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 […]

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BFA Studio Art Seniors Offer Thesis Shows in SGAG

The 2026 BFA Studio Art Thesis Exhibition opens April 28 in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery. A reception for the 12 students in the exhibition will be held Thursday, April 30, from 4-6 p.m. The following students have projects on display: The Sella-Granata Art Gallery, located in 109 Woods Hall on UA’s campus in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, regularly features student exhibitions as well as visiting artists. The SGAG serves as an essential part of the education and development of UA students and our community. Please visit the […]

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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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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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Art Roundup: April 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. Art History Visiting Scholar Lecture: Dr. Kyunghee Pyun WHERE: Gorgas Library WHEN: April 2, 4:30 […]

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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 […]

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Art Roundup: March 2026

The UA Department of Art & Art History is pleased to share a variety of exhibition openings 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. Tuft Luck WHERE: Sella-Granata Art Gallery WHEN: February 27 – March 6 The Sella-Granata Art Gallery is pleased […]

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