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Celebrate the Working Artists of West Alabama This First Friday!

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Thursday, August 31, 2017. First Friday is First this week; Art Night next week will get its own Roundup! Check out the Mario Petrirena, “Untitled,” 1997, ceramic and concrete.

HAPPENING NOW OR ENDING SOON

AUG 31 Opening Reception, Cover to Cover: Authors from the College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Alabama Gallery, DWCAC (SEP 1-OCT 2) 5-7 pm
NOW-AUG 31 Nothing Adventured, Nothing Learned – Photography by Lindsay Madison, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa
NOW-AUG 31 Alvin Sella, Hoover Public Library Plaza Gallery, Hoover, Ala.
AUG 31 DEADLINE Artist Applications for 48th Annual Fayette Arts Festival, Guthrie Smith Park, Fayette (SEP 9)

SEPTEMBER FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide
SEP 1 First Friday opening, The Faces And Places Of Rabbit Holes: Janet Mego, Canterbury Episcopal Chapel, Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, 5-7 pm
SEP 1 First Friday Reception, Portraits of Service Project and Tom Rosenstiel Dual Exhibit, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC  (SEP 1-29), 5-8 pm
SEP 1 First Friday Reception, Lucid Dreaming: Surrealism and Fantasy in the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, Paul R Jones Gallery, Tuscaloosa (SEP 1-OCT 27), 5:30-7:30 pm
SEP 1 First Friday Event: Brianna Tippetts exhibit and demo, O'Connor Studios on First Fridays
SEP 1 First Friday Reception, Cory Patton and Vinyl Artworks, Grace Aberdean Habitat Alchemy, 9th St., Tuscaloosa, 6-9 pm
SEP 1 First Friday Event, New Works by Daniel Livingston (ongoing), Harrison Galleries, Tuscaloosa, 6-9 pm
SEP 1 First Friday Event, Cover to Cover: Authors from the College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Alabama Gallery, DWCAC (SEP 1-OCT 2)
SEP 1 Exhibition opens: Art by Neel Alexander, Druid City Brewing Company, Tuscaloosa (SEP 1-30)
NOW-SEP 1 Small Curious Wonders, University Medical Center, Tuscaloosa

SEP 1-8 Submissions accepted, 33rd Annual West Alabama Juried Show, SEP 1, midnight on.

ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)

SEP 6 Public artist lecture by Kathryn Mayo (We are Selma exhibition), 205 Gorgas Library, UA, 7 pm

SEPTEMBER ART NIGHT (gallery guide)
SEP 7 Art Night Reception We are Selma: The Selma Portrait Project by Kathryn Mayo, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA, 5-7 pm
SEP 7 Art Night Reception, The 7 Deadly Sins: Yvonne WellsKentuck Art Center, Northport, AL, (SEP 7-OCT 20), 5-8 pm
SEP 7 Art Night Reception, Cattywampus: Art by Neel Alexander, Clarke Building, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm

SEP 9 Ron Morris Raku 2017
SEP 10 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm
SEP 13 Exhibition opening, Patrick O’brien, Black Warrior Brewing Company, Tuscaloosa
NOW-SEP 15 ArtWorks 2017: Tennessee Valley Art Association artist members, Tenn. Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia
NOW-SEP 16 Ink Only Printmaking Juried Exhibition, UAB Art and Art History’s Project Space, 900 13th Street South, Birmingham
SEP 18 Opening, National Hispanic Heritage Month Exhibition, Ferguson Art Gallery, Ferguson Student Center, UA (SEP 18-OCT 3)
SEP 21 Art with Friends (3rd Thursday), Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, 5:30-7:30 pm
SEP 23, Museum Day Live with free admission, Gorgas House Museum, Tuscaloosa, 11 am – 2 pm
NOW-SEP 24 Red Dog Potters exhibition, Tuscaloosa Museum of Art
NOW-SEP 28 The Family You Choose – Documenting 30 Years of LGBTQ Student Life at the Capstone, A. S. Williams Americana Collection, 301 Gorgas Library, UA
NOW-SEP 29 William C. Gorgas and the Great War, Gorgas House Museum, UA
NOW-SEP 29 We are Selma: The Selma Portrait Project by Kathryn Mayo, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
SEP 1-29 Portraits of Service Project and Tom Rosenstiel Dual Exhibit, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
NOW-SEP 30 New Works by Daniel Livingston, Harrison Galleries, Tuscaloosa
SEP 1-OCT 2 Cover to Cover: Authors from the College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Alabama Gallery, DWCAC
OCT 2 Small Grants Program Application DEADLINE, The Arts and Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa County
SEP 18-OCT 3 National Hispanic Heritage Month Exhibition, Ferguson Art Gallery, Ferguson Student Center, UA

OCTOBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)
OCT 5 Art Night, Kentuck Art Center, downtown Northport
OCT 6 First Friday Reception, Brenda Miller Photography ExhibitArt by Janet Mego at Canterbury Chapel in September
OCT 6 First Friday Opening, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa, 5:30-8:30 pm

NOW-OCT 7 43rd Annual Bi-State Art Juried Competition Exhibit, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, Miss.
OCT 12 Opening, Contemporary Consolidated: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA (OCT 12-NOV 22)
NOW-OCT 15 Paintings by Sydney Gruber, Tuscaloosa County Juvenile Court Lobby, 6001 12th Ave., East
OCT 19 Monster Makeover VIII Art Auction and Festival, The Historic Drish House, Tuscaloosa, 5-7:30 pm
NOW-OCT 20  Sipsey Arts Alliance Exhibition: Four Southern Women – Cece Hale, Carmalinda Johnson Farley, Jo Frances Abbott White, Phyllis Williams, Fayette Art Museum, Fayette
SEP 7-OCT 20 Yvonne Wells, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
OCT 21-22 46th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport
NOW-OCT 27 Lucid Dreaming: Surrealism and Fantasy in the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, Paul R Jones Gallery, Tuscaloosa
OCT 6-27 Brenda Miller Photography Exhibit, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC

NOVEMBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)
NOV 2 Art Night, Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (NOV 2-30), 5-8 pm
NOV 3 First Friday Opening, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa, 5:30-8:30 pm
NOV 3 First Friday Reception, Works by Charlotte Wegrzynowski, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC  (NOV 3-27), 5-8 pm

OCT 2-NOV 5 33rd Annual West Alabama Juried ShowJunior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa
NOV 5 Closing reception, 33rd Annual West Alabama Juried ShowJunior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, 2-3 pm
NOV 7-8 5th Annual Chilton County Arts Festival, Clanton Performing Arts Center, AL, 9 am-3 pm
OCT 12-NOV 22 New Works by Daniel Livingston
NOV 3-27 Works by Charlotte Wegrzynowski, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
NOV 2-30 Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
OCT 2-NOV 30 Christopher Jordan, Friends Gallery, then Plaza Gallery, Hoover Public Library, Hoover, Ala.
DEC 3 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm

DECEMBER FIRST FRIDAY & ART NIGHT (switched!) (gallery guide)
DEC 1 First Friday Reception, Clay Co-op Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, 5-8 pm (DEC 1-JAN 5, 2018)
DEC 1 First Friday Opening, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa, 5:30-8:30 pm
DEC 7 Art Night, Kentuck Studio Artists, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (DEC 7-JAN 12, 2018), 5-8 pm
DEC 7 Opening, Department of Art and Art History Studio Faculty Research Biennial, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA (DEC 7-JAN 26, 2018)

NOW-DEC 8 For Home and Country: Americas Entry into the War to End All Wars, Pearce Foyer 2nd flr, Gorgas Library, UA
NOW-DEC 21 Extended! “Lafayette, We Are Here!” America Enters The First World War, Westervelt Transportation Museum, Tuscaloosa
DEC 1-JAN 5 Clay Co-op Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
DEC 7-JAN 12, 2018 Kentuck Studio Artists, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
DEC 7-JAN 26, 2018 Department of Art and Art History Studio Faculty Research Biennial, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
MAR 4, 2018 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm
MAR 22, 2018 Reception, World War I Posters for Transportation Museum exhibit
MAR 12 – 30, 2018 Out of Order: Tobias Layman’s MFA Thesis Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
JUN 3, 2018 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm

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/
https://art.ua.edu/gallery/smga/
https://art.ua.edu/gallery/sgg/
https://art.ua.edu/gallery/prj/
First Friday Tuscaloosa Splash page
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://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://firstfridaytuscaloosa.com/
http://gorgashouse.ua.edu/
http://graceaberdean.com/
https://www.facebook.com/HookedOnArtsFestival (Wilcox County)
http://tuscarts.org/gallery-juniorleague.php (Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre)
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/the-gallery/
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”