Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, December 5, 2018. New galleries, new exhibits are popping up around West Alabama! Send us your visual arts events — we want to know what you’re up to. This list is updated throughout the week on this page.
HAPPENING NOW OR ENDING SOON 
NOW-DEC 5 BFA Senior Art Exhibition: Briana Parker, Marina Rios, The Gallery at Bloch Hall, University of Montevallo
DECEMBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)
DEC 6 Art Night, Kentuck’s Studio Artists, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, (DEC 4-FEB 7) 5-8 pm
DEC 6 Opening reception, Come What May: Sydney Gruber, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
NEW! DEC 7 Kafka Downtown, Lorrie Lane Studio, 908-910 31st Ave. (off Stillman Blvd across from Russell S. Lee flooring), Tusca., 5-8pm
DEC 7 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
DEC 7 First Friday event, The Shadows, Paul R. Jones Museum, 2308 6th St., Tuscaloosa (NOW-DEC 19), 5-8 pm
DEC 7 Opening reception, 33rd Annual West Alabama Juried Show, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa (DEC 7-21), 5-8 pm
DEC 7 Closing First Friday event, Alabama Types: Typewriter Collection of Steve Soboroff, UA Gallery, DWCAC (NOW-DEC 7), 5-8 pm
DEC 7 First Friday Aaron Head, Grace Aberdean Habitat Alchemy, 2124 9th St., Tusca., 6-9 pm
DEC 7 First Friday event, Harrison Galleries, 2315 Univ. Blvd., Tuscaloosa, 6-9 pm
ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)
NOW-DEC 7 
MUSEUM HOPPING
DEC 9 UA Museums Holiday Open House, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, 1901 Jack Warner Pkwy, 2-4 pm
DEC 9 UA Museums Holiday Open House, Gorgas House Museum 810 Capstone Drive, UA, 3-5 pm
DEC 9 UA Museums Holiday Open House, Alabama Museum of Natural History 6th Ave, UA, 4-5:30 pm
DEC 9 Santa’s Swizzle Drink-Shop-Be Merry, Green Bar, 2209 4th St., Tuscaloosa, 1-5 pm
DEC 11 MFA Book Arts Holiday Exhibition and Market, Gorgas Library first floor, UA campus, 10 am-4 pm
NOW-DEC 14 Black Belt Alabama, 2nd Floor Lobby and Reading Room, W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, UA
DEC 15 8 x 8 Annual Art Show by O’Connor Art Studios, Historic Drish House, 2300 17th St., Tusca., 5-7 pm
NOW-DEC 19 The Shadows, Paul R. Jones Museum, 2308 6th Street, Tuscaloosa
DEC 7-21 Annual West Alabama Juried Show, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
DEC 17 Entries Accepted for 2019 Double Exposure – Junior Division Competition (DEC 17-21)
NOW-DEC 30 Photography by Katherine Klose, Betak Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa
JANUARY 2019
NOW-JAN 2 From One Earth: Cotton and Clay: Guadalupe Lanning Robinson, Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts, Florence
JAN-FEB Artworks by Holt High School Students, Betak Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Tuscaloosa
NOW-JAN 11 2019 Works by Alice Hohenberg Federico, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
JAN 18 Exhibition opens, 2019 Double Exposure – Junior Division Exhibition, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa (JAN 18-FEB 10)
JAN 24 Artist Lecture: Michi Meko, Gorgas Library 205, 7 pm
NOW-JAN 31 LaShonda Scott Robinson, Tuscaloosa County Juvenile Court Lobby, 6001 12th Ave., East
FEBRUARY FIRST FRIDAY & ART NIGHT (gallery guide)
FEB 1 Awards Presentation and Opening Reception, 2019 Double Exposure – Adult Division Exhibition, The Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa (FEB 1-22), 5-8 pm
FEB 7 Art Night at Kentuck Art Center, Northport
DEC 4-FEB 7, 2019 Kentuck’s Studio Artists, Kentuck Art Center and Teer Gallery, Northport
JAN 18-FEB 10 2019 Double Exposure – Junior Division Exhibition, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa
FEB 10 2019 Awards Presentation and Closing Reception, 2019 Double Exposure – Junior Division Exhibition, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa (JAN 18-FEB 10), 2-3 pm
NOW-FEB 15 Exhibit: Black Belt Alabama, 2nd Floor Lobby & Reading Room, W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, Mary Harmon Bryant Hall, UA
FEB 20 Artist Lecture: Ben Vida, Gorgas Library 205, 7 pm
FEB 1-22 2019 Double Exposure – Adult Division Exhibition, The Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa
MAR 5 Artist Lecture: Iva Gueorguieva, Gorgas Library 205, 7 pm
JAN 24-MAR 8, 2019 Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu , Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
MAR 21-28 Master of Arts Thesis Exhibition (TBA), Sella-Granata Art Gallery
APR TBA, 2019 Hog Wild for Art Festival, 
APR 8-11 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition (TBA), Sella-Granata Art Gallery
APR 13, 2019 Rooster Day, Marengo County Historical Society, Demopolis
MAR 21-MAY 3, 2019 Confluence by Jerry Uelsmann, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art
NOW-MAY 18 Tuscaloosa and the Capital Period, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, 1901 Jack Warner Pkwy, Tuscaloosa
NOW-DEC 31, 2019 ‘Of This Goodly Land:’ Celebrating Alabama’s Bicentennial, 1819-2019, Gorgas Library: Pearce Lobby, Williams Collection; M.H. Bryant Hall: Hoole Special Collections
ANYTIME: Experience the Monsters that Tookover Tuscaloosa or stroll through UA’s Woods Quad Sculpture Garden with six outdoor sculptures, plus other sculptures in adjoining campus lawns and four galleries/museums in the heart of campus.
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/
http://www.alabamacenterforthearts.org/
http://alwca.weebly.com/ (Alabama Women’s Caucus for Art)
http://alabama.travel/upcoming-events/search?q=Tuscaloosa
http://artsrevive.com/ (Selma)
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)
https://usdac.us/tuscaloosa (Black Warrior Outpost of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture)
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/
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/
http://www.firstfridaytuscaloosa.com/art-galleries/harrison-galleries-llc
https://www.facebook.com/HookedOnArtsFestival (Wilcox County)
http://www.hooverlibrary.org/galleries
http://tuscarts.org/gallery-juniorleague.php (Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre)
http://www.kentuck.org/
http://stephensmith.gallery/exhibitions.html
http://www.warnertransportationmuseum.com/
https://www.montevallo.edu/academics/colleges/college-of-fine-arts/departments/department-of-art/the-gallery/
http://www.oconnorartstudios.com/
https://www.facebook.com/riverportgallerynorthport
http://scfac.uwa.edu/default.htm (Sumter County Fine Arts Council)
http://www.themakersmarketalabama.com/
http://www.tuscarts.org/calendarofevents.php
http://www.tuscarts.org/artnight.php
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/entertainment (no visual arts)
http://www.tvaa.net/ (Tennessee Valley Art Association)
http://visittuscaloosa.com/events/
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”