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Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Several exhibitions ending this week and next, so take your chance to see these now! Please send us your visual arts events — we want to know what you are up to! This list is updated throughout the week.

HAPPENING NOW OR ENDING SOON Jack R. Leigh at Harrison Galleries in May.

MAY 17 Opens today: People’s Choice Art Competition Exhibit, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS (NOW-JUL 22)
NOW-MAY 19 Jack R. Leigh, Now & Then: A Retrospective, Harrison Galleries, Tuscaloosa
MAY 19 Reception, Annual Flora and Fauna Exhibition, Daniel Day Gallery, Birmingham, 6-9 pm
MAY 21 DEADLINE to apply History As Art Juried Show – Shelby County Arts Council 

ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date) 

NOW-MAY 25 Collaborate, Kentuck Artists at UA Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
NOW-MAY 26 Kelsey Windham, painting, 2016 MA exhibition
NOW-MAY 27 Chris “Chub” Hubbard, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
NOW-MAY 31 Specimens and Speculations – Sabrina Pearson-Adams and Jamie Adams, Betak/Frangoulis Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Tuscaloosa
NOW-MAY 31 For Home and Country:  America’s Entry into the Great War, Pearce Lobby, Gorgas Library 2nd floor

JUNE ART NIGHT AND FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)

JUN 1 Art Night: “Willie Willie” Lamendola, Bernard Wilson, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
JUN 2 First Friday Reception, Retrospective: Bethany and Frank Engle Exhibit, Arts Council and UA Gallery, DWCAC (JUN 2-30), 5-8 pm
JUN 2 First Friday Opening, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa 5:30-8:30 pm
JUN 1 Deadline to apply to 46th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Northport

NOW-JUN 24 Requiem for Steam: The Railroad Photographs of David Plowden, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Tuscaloosa
NOW-JUN 25 Sewn & Thrown: Traditional Quilts and Folk Pottery from Alabama (many West Alabama artists), Birmingham Public Library (downtown branch)
NOW-JUN 30 Celestia Morgan, Red Line, SMGA
JUN 1-30 “Willie Willie” Lamendola, Bernard Wilson, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
JUN 2-30 Retrospective: Bethany and Frank Engle ExhibitArts Council and UA Gallery, DWCAC
NOW-JUL 4 Side by Side: Paintings of Henry and Ann Betak, Wellness Walls for Art, University Medical Center, Tuscaloosa

JUL 6 Art Night, Myrna Gates, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (JUL 6-AUG 22), 5-8 pm
JUL 7 First Friday Opening, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa 5:30-8:30 pm
NOW-JUL 7 Lorrie Lane, Kentuck Gallery at Hotel Indigo, 111 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa
NOW-JUL 22 People’s Choice Art Competition Exhibit, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
JUL 6-AUG 22 Myrna Gates, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL

AUG 3 Art Night, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
AUG 4 First Friday, downtown Tuscaloosa galleries

SEP 7 Art Night, Yvonne Wells, Daniel Livingston's raku pottery at Kentuck.
NOW-SEP 29 William C. Gorgas and the Great War, Gorgas House Museum, UA
NOW-SEP 29? “Lafayette, We Are Here!” America Enters The First World War, Hauser Hall, UA
AUG 23-OCT 7 43rd Annual Bi-State Art Juried Competition Exhibit, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
SEP 7-OCT 20 Yvonne Wells, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
OCT 21-22 46th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport, AL

NOV 2 Art Night, Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (NOV 2-30), 5-8 pm
NOV 7-8 5th Annual Chilton County Arts Festival, Clanton Performing Arts Center, AL, 9 am-3 pm
NOV 2-30 Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL

DEC 5 Art Night, Kentuck Studio Artists, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (DEC 5-JAN 12, 2018), 5-8 pm
DEC 5-JAN 12, 2018 Kentuck Studio Artists, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL

ANYTIME: Stroll between galleries through our Woods Quad Sculpture Garden with five outdoor sculptures, plus other sculptures in adjoining campus lawns.

CALENDARS, EVENT LISTS & VISUAL ARTS SITES

https://art.ua.edu/category/roundup/ Always the latest Roundup!
https://art.ua.edu/about/calendar/
Sabrina and Jamie Adams at Canterbury
https://art.ua.edu/gallery/sgg/
https://art.ua.edu/gallery/prj/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/361599977234696/ (Alabama Art Post)
http://www.alabamacenterforthearts.org/
http://alwca.weebly.com/ (Alabama Women’s Caucus for Art)
http://alabama.travel/upcoming-events/search?q=Tuscaloosa
http://arts.alabama.gov/gallery.aspx
http://www.artsbham.com/visual-arts/
http://www.artsnautism.org/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/artnighttuscaloosanorthport/
http://canterburychapel.dioala.org/Ministries/art-at-canterbury.html (Betak Frangoulis Gallery)
http://www.bethanywindhamengle.com/
http://www.blackbelttreasures.com/ (Camden, Wilcox County)
http://bryantmuseum.com/
http://www.artsbma.org/exhibitions/current/
http://cac.tuscarts.org/cacgallery.php (Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC)
http://tuscarts.org/gallery-juniorleague.php (Bama Theatre galleries)
http://cac.tuscarts.org/uagallery.php (University of Alabama Gallery, DWCAC)
http://www.chiltoncountyartscouncil.com/ (Chilton County Arts Council)
http://colemanarts.org/ (Sumter County)
http://creativecampus.ua.edu/
http://www.druidcityartsfestival.com/
https://www.ua.edu/events/category/8/ (arts events at UA)
http://events.publicbroadcasting.net/wual/events.eventsmain
http://fayetteal.org/sipsey-arts-alliance/ (Fayette County)
http://fayetteal.org/residents/art-museum/ (Fayette County)
http://gorgashouse.ua.edu/
http://graceaberdean.com/
https://www.facebook.com/HookedOnArtsFestival (Wilcox County)
http://www.kentuck.org/
https://www.facebook.com/Lorrie-Lane-Studio-322780188223/
http://www.warnertransportationmuseum.com/ (Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum)
http://www.montevallo.edu/fine-arts/college-of-fine-arts/departments/department-of-art/
http://www.oconnorartstudios.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Renaissance-Gallery-Inc-129254000418041/
https://www.facebook.com/riverportgallerynorthport
http://www.chiltoncountyartscouncil.com/rose-gallery.html (Rose Gallery, Clanton)
http://scfac.uwa.edu/default.htm (Sumter County Fine Arts Council)
http://www.themakersmarketalabama.com/
http://tuscaloosamoa.org/calendar-2/
http://www.tuscarts.org/calendarofevents.php
http://www.tuscarts.org/artnight.php
https://www.facebook.com/ttownwawa/ (Woodworkers Association of West Alabama)
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/entertainment (no visual arts)
http://www.tvaa.net/ (Tennessee Valley Art Association)
http://visittuscaloosa.com/events/
http://www.waqg.com/ (West Alabama Quilters Guild)
http://weldbham.com/blog/category/art-culture/
http://wilcoxcountyartscouncil.org/

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Look for this e-list each week, a service of the UA Department of Art and Art History. We hope to provide a more or less comprehensive list of exhibits and visual arts events in West Alabama (and sometimes a wider net, esp. if West Alabama folks are showing), with hyperlinks. Follow the links to get more information. To send your exhibition info, unsubscribe to this email, or to change or add an email address, please email: rachel.dobson@ua.edu. Your comments and suggestions are welcome.

Thank you for supporting ALL of the arts all over West Alabama!
“Gathering West Alabama’s Visual Arts Events since September 2013”