Tuscaloosa – In conjunction with the Sarah Moody Gallery of Arts’ current exhibition, Highpoint Center for Printmaking’s artistic director and master printer, Cole Rogers, will give a gallery talk on the prints of Julie Mehretu, Wednesday, January 30, 2019, at 3:00 p.m. in 103 Garland Hall. Alabama native Cole Rogers is a co-founder of Highpoint Center for Printmaking. As the center's artistic director and master printer, he has worked with Julie Mehretu since 2004 to develop the print project that became the current exhibition. From 1995–2000 Rogers was print shop director and printmaking coordinator at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he taught, shaped curriculum and advocated for the art of printmaking. Previously he was chief printer at AKASHA in Minneapolis, Minn., and a senior printer at Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, N.M. Rogers earned his BFA in printmaking from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, his MFA in printmaking from The Ohio State University and a master printer certificate from Tamarind Institute. Collaborative works published by Highpoint Editions under the guidance and direction of Rogers have been featured in national and international venues including the Museum of Modern Art, International Print Center (New York), the University of Peking (Beijing), Shanghai University (China), Boston University, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Walker Art Center, as well as the permanent collections of many major museums, corporations and numerous private collections around the world. The Sarah Moody Gallery’s Farley Moody Galbraith Endowed Exhibition for 2019, Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu, opens January 24 and runs through March 8, 2019. Excavations originated at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis, where Cole Rogers collaborated with Mehretu on the project. The public is invited to the opening reception for the exhibition, Thursday, Jan. 24 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in 103 Garland Hall. Image credits: Courtesy Highpoint Center for Printmaking and Julie Mehretu. The Sarah Moody Gallery of Art is supported by The University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Art and Art History. For further information, contact the gallery at 348-1891 or go to our website: https://art.ua.edu/gallery/smga/. Garland Hall is a five-minute walk from the Campus Drive Parking Deck and Bus Hub on Hackberry Lane. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/. For more information about The University of Alabama’s programs in studio art and art history, go here: https://art.ua.edu/academics/.
Artist Michi Meko To Lecture on UA Campus
Tuscaloosa – Multidisciplinary artist Michi Meko will deliver a public lecture Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 7:00 pm in Gorgas Library 205 on UA campus. Atlanta Magazine has called Meko’s work about “the contemporary experience of black life and survival.” A native of Florence, Alabama, the Atlanta-based, multidisciplinary artist draws influence from Southern culture and contemporary urban life. In a recent interview, he said, “I am interested in African Americans and ideas about buoyancy, navigation, and being resilient. This resiliency for me is heroic.” Meko’s recent solo exhibitions include It Doesn’t Prepare You for Arrival at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta; KAZUKO at the Cress Gallery, University of Chattanooga; and One Last Smile Before the Undertow at the Dodd Galleries, University of Georgia, Athens. Recent group exhibitions include This is Where You’ll Find Me at Kress on Dexter, Montgomery, Ala., and Gut Feelings, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, in Georgia. Michi Meko received a BFA in painting from the University of North Alabama. Recent grants and awards include a Joan Mitchell Award, Artadia Award, MOCA GA Fellowship, DashBoard Co-Op Residency Grant, a Flux Projects Grant, a Wonderroot CSA Grant, and a residency at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Meko is represented by Alan Avery Art Company. His website is: http://michimeko.com/. Michi Meko’s lecture is part of the Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Continuing Studies at The University of Alabama. To see our past and future visiting artists and scholars, go here: https://art.ua.edu/resources/visiting-artists/. Gorgas Library is a five-minute walk from the Campus Drive Parking Deck and Bus Hub on Hackberry Lane. (Map here: http://bit.ly/BusHub2Gorgas ) Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/. For more information about The University of Alabama’s programs in studio art and art history, go here: https://art.ua.edu/academics/.
SMGA to Exhibit Work by Ceramic Artist Alice Hohenberg Federico
The Sarah Moody Gallery of Art presents the exhibition Alice Hohenberg Federico: The Liberation of Clay November 29, 2018 – January 11, 2019. The artist will present a lecture about her work Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 6:00 p.m. in 205 Gorgas Library. The public is invited to the opening reception for the exhibition, Thursday, Nov. 29, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. New York artist and Selma, Ala., native Alice Hohenberg Federico works on the potter’s wheel to create sculptural vessels that transcend function. As she puts it, these vessels are “metaphors that are abstractly figurative.” Her work is influenced by ancient Greek pottery, as well as a fascination with Austrian-born British studio potter Lucie Rie’s work. “Pieces are pulled and twisted, wrapped – they are expressive, singular. To me, some are even imperfectly perfect,” said Federico in an interview with art historian and critic Vered Lieb. Lieb has written an essay about Federico's career and work for a catalog to accompany the exhibition. Federico is represented by George Billis Gallery, New York, N.Y. Her work has been featured and reviewed in Women with a Voice, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Sun, The New Republic and Clay Chat. She did her undergraduate work in history and received an MFA in ceramics from East Carolina State University. She returned to school later to study ceramics with renowned master potter Ken Ferguson at Kansas City Art Institute where she earned a BFA degree. In conjunction with the Federico exhibition, selections from the Permanent Collection of the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art at The University of Alabama will be on display. The Permanent Collection is dedicated to works on paper including prints and photography. Paintings, drawings and small sculpture will also be featured. Image credit: Alice Hohenberg Federico, Water from the Desert Well, 1320, white stoneware clay, 14 inches high. The Sarah Moody Gallery of Art is supported by The University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Art and Art History. For further information, contact the gallery at (205)348-1891 or go to our website: https://art.ua.edu/gallery/smga/. Garland Hall is a five-minute walk from the Campus Drive Parking Deck and Bus Hub on Hackberry Lane. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/. For more information about The University of Alabama’s programs in studio art and art history, go here: https://art.ua.edu/academics/.
Curator To Discuss Aboriginal Art Exhibition
Tuscaloosa – Contemporary Australian Aboriginal art is one of the most significant art movements of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, according to Anne Keener, curator of the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art's upcoming exhibition, Pattern Thinking: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Tom and Cynthia Schneider. Keener will speak about the exhibition and the art on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018 at 3:30 p.m., in Lloyd Hall 226. Join us for a reception after the lecture from 5-7 p.m., in Garland Hall 103. The exhibition runs Oct. 11 – Nov. 16. “The indigenous Australian paintings express stories of patterns of interrelation of the forces of all of life, laid down by creator beings,” Keener said. She will talk about the Aboriginal artists in this exhibition and the ideas behind their work. Keener, who received her MFA in painting and drawing, and her BA in comparative studies/religious studies from The Ohio State University, said that she learned the term “pattern thinking” while listening to a talk by the influential Aboriginal elder David Mowaljarlai. Pattern thinking embodies the interconnectedness of all life that the indigenous people of Australia see in the world around them. Mowaljarlai said, “Indigenous elders from all over Australia, from the top end down to the cold country, believe that culture is the lifeblood of the people – the source of inner strength in an individual.” Pattern thinking, an integral part of indigenous Australian culture, according to Mowaljarlai and other Aboriginal leaders, contributes to a balanced life and good mental health and creates and encourages cross cultural dialogue. Image credit left: Johnny Possum Tjapaltjarri, Possum Dreaming, 2005, acrylic on canvas, 24.4 x 23.6 inches. Image credit right: Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Snake and Kangaroo Dreaming, 1992, acrylic on canvas, 32 x 51.9 inches The Sarah Moody Gallery of Art is supported by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Art and Art History. For more information, contact the gallery at (205) 348-1891. Lloyd Hall is a five-minute walk from the Campus Drive Parking Deck and Bus Hub on Hackberry Lane. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/.
Sheila Pree Bright: A Community Conversation about Social Engagement through Art
Sheila Pree Bright: A Community Conversation about Social Engagement through Art Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2018 Time: 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Location: Warner Presentation Room, Wynn Fine Arts Center, Stillman College Cost: Free and open to the public Join Sheila Pree Bright in a community engagement conversation about art! The questions: Can art be a form of activism to create awareness and bring shared communities together to critically look at ongoing social and political struggles? Is it the artist’s responsibility to create social change through art? How can socially engaged art reshape the approach to under-resourced communities to help overcome barriers to participation and create equitable access? What role can young people play in furthering these conversations? Bright will share the short film Election Day: Lens Across America and examples from her recent photographic series Young Americans, 1960 Who, and #1960Now as a point of entry to this community conversation. Sheila Pree Bright's event is part of the Paul R. Jones Lecture Series, sponsored by UA College of Arts & Sciences.
Danish Architect to Speak at UA
The architecture of Denmark expresses the close connection between art and architecture in Danish culture. How does Danish (or any) architecture become art? Architect Morten Sonnenborg will give a talk on the aesthetics of Danish architecture on Tuesday, September 4 at 4:00 p.m. in Smith Hall 205 on UA campus. Sonnenborg has practiced architecture for almost two decades. He received his master of architecture (M.Arch.) from the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole) in 2000 and is the founder and owner of aNNeKS, a small architectural practice in North Sealand, on the Danish Riviera. In his firm, the architects "concentrate on the question of how people feel within the architecture." They ask the client, "Does the daylight fall into the rooms in a beautiful way? Are the rooms proportional and harmonic? Is the outside green space integrated with the interior?" Sonnenborg will give a talk on Danish architecture as art, and how architecture is practiced in Denmark. Morten Sonnenborg's visit is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Classics and the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Alabama. For more information, contact Associate Professor Douglas Lightfoot: (205) 348-5054; or Professor Jason Guynes: (205) 348-5967. Smith Hall, 427 Sixth Avenue, Tuscaloosa, is a four-minute walk from the Campus Drive Parking Deck and Bus Hub on Hackberry Lane. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/.
Spirit Citizen – An International Dialogue with Artist Edgar Heap of Birds
Tuscaloosa – Internationally known artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds headlines a series of events on UA campus October 8-24, 2018, centered around an exhibition of his work in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery. During his visit, Oct. 22-24, Heap of Birds will present an artist lecture, gallery talk, book signing and reception, as well as a roundtable discussion with students. Spirit Citizen – An International Dialogue with Artist Edgar Heap of Birds will showcase more than thirty posters from Heap of Birds’s international and national exhibitions as well as a video created by Associate Professor of Art Sky Shineman and Assistant Professor of Journalism and Creative Media Nick Corrao, October 8-24, 2018, in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery. The public is invited to participate in all these events: October 8–24 Edgar Heap of Birds Poster Exhibition Sella-Granata Art Gallery, 109 Woods Hall Monday–Thursday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. October 22 Artist lecture by Edgar Heap of Birds Gorgas Library 205 6:00 p.m. October 23 Gallery talk by Edgar Heap of Birds with reception and book signing following Sella-Granata Art Gallery, 109 Woods Hall 4:00 p.m. Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (b. 1954) is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Tribes of Oklahoma and an internationally known multi-media artist. Heap of Birds has exhibited his work in the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Canada, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, South Africa, Indonesia, and China and participated in Documenta 8, and the Venice Biennale. He has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Lila Wallace Foundation, Pew Charitable Trust and the Andy Warhol Foundation, among others. Heap of Birds is the subject of a book by art historian Bill Anthes published by Duke University Press. Edgar Heap of Birds maintains a disciplined practice in multiple genres: public art installations; abstract-landscape paintings of his ongoing Neuf series; large scale, text-based drawings; prints and multiples; works in glass; and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture. Image credits: top: Edgar Heap of Birds in his studio in Oklahoma City, 2018. Photo by Shanna Ketchum Heap of Birds. bottom: Edgar Heap of Birds, Neuf Painting for Autumn (2), 2014, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 44 inches. Edgar Heap of Birds’s visit is sponsored by the Visiting Artists and Lecturers Series of the Department of Art and Art History, the College of Arts & Sciences Diversity committee, American Studies, Race & Gender Studies and is organized by Associate Professor of Art Sky Shineman. Woods Hall is a six-minute walk from the Campus Drive Parking Deck and Bus Hub on Hackberry Lane. Gold 1, Crimson, Blue and Bronze CrimsonRide buses stop between Garland Hall and Gorgas Library. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/.
Renowned Scholar To Speak on Apocalyptic Images
Tuscaloosa. — Explore the visionary landscape of the medieval Book of Revelation with one of its eminent scholars, Dr. Richard K. Emmerson. Dr. Emmerson will deliver a public lecture, “Apocalypse Illuminated,” on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 at 6:30 pm in Smith Hall 205 on UA campus. Richard K. Emmerson is Dean Emeritus of the School of Liberal Arts at Manhattan College, former Professor and Chair of Art History at Florida State University, and currently Visiting Distinguished Professor at FSU. He has served as Deputy Director of Fellowships at the National Endowment for the Humanities and as Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America, and has edited Speculum, Studies in Iconography, and Traditio. A Fellow of the Medieval Academy, he received the Medieval Academy Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies in 2009. Dr. Emmerson’s research focuses on medieval apocalypticism and its representation in art, drama, and visionary poetry. He has published seven books, including Antichrist in the Middle Ages: A Study of Medieval Apocalypticism, Art, and Literature (1981), The Apocalyptic Imagination in Medieval Literature (1992, with Ronald B. Herzman), and The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (1993, with Bernard McGinn). His most recent book, studying the seven-hundred year history of medieval Apocalypse manuscripts, is Apocalypse Illuminated: The Visual Exegesis of Revelation in Medieval Manuscripts, published by Pennsylvania State University Press in 2018. He has authored more than fifty articles, many studying word-image relationships in medieval illustrated manuscripts. Recent essays include “On the Threshold of the Last Days: Negotiating Image and Word in the Apocalypse of Jean de Berry,” in Exploring the Threshold of Medieval Visual Culture (2012); “Visualizing the Visionary: John in his Apocalypse,” in Looking Beyond: Visions, Dreams and Insights in Medieval Art and Thought (2010); “Framing the Apocalypse: The Performance of John’s Life in the Trinity Apocalypse,” in Visualizing Medieval Performance (2008); “Visualizing the Vernacular: Middle English in Early Fourteenth-Century Bilingual and Trilingual Manuscript Illustrations,” in Studies in Manuscript Illumination: A Tribute to Lucy Freeman Sandler (2008); “A ‘Large Order of the Whole’: Intertextuality and Interpictoriality in the Hours of Isabella Stuart,” Studies in Iconography (2007); and “The Representation of Antichrist in Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias: Image, Word, Commentary, and Visionary Experience,” Gesta (2002). Image credit: Silos Apocalypse: Northern Spain, c.1100, British Library Add. MS 11695, ff.147v-148. Richard K. Emmerson's lecture is part of the Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Continuing Studies at The University of Alabama. To see our past and future visiting artists and scholars, go here: https://art.ua.edu/resources/visiting-artists/. Smith Hall, 427 Sixth Avenue, Tuscaloosa, is a four-minute walk from the Campus Drive Parking Deck and Bus Hub on Hackberry Lane. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/. For more information on this or the other speakers in our upcoming Visiting Artist and Scholar Series, contact Rachel Dobson (rachel.dobson@ua.edu) or Pete Schulte (pschulte@ua.edu).
Artist Karl Haendel to Speak at UA
Tuscaloosa. — Artist Karl Haendel will give a public lecture on Thursday, April 12, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall, on UA campus. Known for his use of appropriation and meticulous draftsmanship, Karl Haendel works in "issues of artistic and cultural heritage and power." His work has been described as "strategically [manipulating] tangled visual, material, and textual themes, often to humorous and evocative effect." Haendel makes drawings, installations, films and public projects in Los Angeles where he lives and works. He received a bachelor’s degree in art semiotics and art history from Brown University and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Haendel also studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Articles and reviews about his work have been featured in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Guardian and in magazines including The New Yorker, Artforum, Frieze, Art and America and Modern Painters. Haendel has been included in the Biennial of the Americas (2015), the Whitney Biennial (2014), Biennale de Lyon (2013), Prospect (2011), and the California Biennial (2004, 2008). His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Guggenheim Museum, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Fogg Art Museum; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo. He has been the recipient of grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and the California Community Foundation and is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NY; Wentrup, Berlin and Barbara Seiler, Zurich. Image Credit: Karl Haendel, Rodeo 9, 2017, pencil and graphite powder on paper, 103 x 77 inches. Image courtesy of the artist. Karl Haendel's lecture is part of the Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, the Visiting Artist and Scholar Committee, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Continuing Studies at The University of Alabama. To see our past and future visiting artists and scholars, click here. 205 Smith Hall, at 427 Sixth Avenue, Tuscaloosa, is a four-minute walk from the Campus Drive Parking Deck and Bus Hub on Hackberry Lane. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/. Parking is free on campus in a legal space after business hours. For more information on this or the other speakers in our upcoming Visiting Artist and Scholar Series, contact Rachel Dobson (rachel.dobson@ua.edu) or Pete Schulte (pschulte@ua.edu).