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Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, September 9, 2015.
Welcome to our weekly list of visual arts events and exhibitions around West Alabama and stretching a bit beyond, especially if you are a UA art alumnus/a. Please send us your visual art event if you are in the West Alabama area – we want to know!

ONGOING AND UPCOMING (in order of ending date unless one day event)Tom Wegrzynowski, "The Scientist," 2014, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches

NOW-SEP 18 & SEP 21-25 Artists in Residence at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center: Lorrie Lane and David Betak, 10 am-4 pm
SEP 11 Reception, Hither and Yon, The Fuel & Lumber Company, Birmingham (SEP 11- OCT 10), 6-9 pm
SEP 12 Artist Panel, Hither and Yon, The Fuel & Lumber Company, Birmingham, 4 pm
SEP 11-12 Art Walk 2015, downtown Birmingham
SEP 13 Astri Snodgrass, "sliver," 2015
SEP 15 Art Talk by Tom Wegrzynowski, at the Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Bring lunch and a friend!
NOW-SEP 17 Instructors & 2-Year Grad Students Showcase, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA
SEP 23 Event, Rachel Cano and Ian Bittner, The Duente: A Treatise on Defecting, Canterbury Chapel Art Gallery, 6-8 pm
NOW-SEP 25 Tom Wegrzynowski: Apocrypha, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
NOW-SEP 25 Donna Meester’s The Life of a Costume: From Page to Stage, UA Gallery, DWCAC
NOW-SEP 25 Polk Photographs from The Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, PRJ Gallery
NOW-SEP 27 Karen Graffeo, Joyce J. Scott, “Prayers,” 2012, SMGA.
NOW-SEP 30 Interchanges at the Edge of Chaos, PaperWorkers Local, Birmingham
NOW-SEP 30 Aquatic Gardens: Travels through the Imagination, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Jack Warner Pkwy, Tuscaloosa
NOW-SEP 30 Rachel Cano and Ian Bittner present The Duente: A Treatise on Defecting, Canterbury Chapel Art Gallery (event: SEP 23 6-8 pm)
OCT 2 Reception, Marc Mitchell & Derek Larson, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA (SEP 23-OCT 23)
OCT 2 Reception, Every Night: An Exhibition of Paintings by Roger Jones, Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa (OCT 1-30)
OCT 6 LECTURE with Patterson Sims, curator of Joyce J. Scott: Truths and Visions, 5:30 pm, Lloyd Hall 132
NOW-OCT 6 Natural Wonders, Wellness Walls for Art, University Medical Center, 850 5th Ave., East,  Tuscaloosa
SEP 11-OCT 10 Hither and Yon, The Fuel & Lumber Company, Birmingham (SEP 11, 12)
OCT 16 DEADLINE: 31st Annual West Alabama Juried Show, Arts Council of Tuscaloosa
NOW-OCT 16 Art by Linda Bell (UA ARH alumna) in "Aquatic Gardens" at the Warner Transportation Museum September, 2015
OCT 17-18 Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport
SEP 23-OCT 23 Marc Mitchell & Derek Larson, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA (reception OCT 2)
OCT 27 Reception and auction, Monster Makeover VI, Tuscaloosa Transportation Museum, 5-8 pm
OCT 1-30 Every Night: An Exhibition of Paintings by Roger Jones, Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa
NOW-OCT 31 Wish You Were Here community postcard art exhibition, T.E.M.P. Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
NOV 5 Reception, Entrelazado: An Exhibition of Cuban Printmaking, Sella-Granata Art Gallery (NOV 2-20)
SEP 24-NOV 8 Mosaiques sur Toile – Mosaics on Canvas: A Retrospective of Works from the Life of Ernest Vial, 1937-1999, Tuscaloosa Museum of Art
NOW-NOV 13 Aquatic Dreams, Daniel Day Gallery, 3025 6th Ave., S., B’ham
NOV 2-20 Entrelazado: An Exhibition of Cuban Printmaking, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA (reception NOV 5)
NOV 20 DEADLINEDouble Exposure Photography Exhibition, Arts Council of Tuscaloosa
NOV 5-30 Miz Thang, T.E.M.P. Gallery, Kentuck Art Center

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/about/calendar/
https://art.ua.edu/gallery/smga/
https://art.ua.edu/gallery/sgg/
https://art.ua.edu/gallery/prj/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/361599977234696/  (Alabama Art Post)
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://www.blackbelttreasures.com/
http://www.bethanywindhamengle.com/ (Gazette Gallery, Northport)
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://colemanarts.org/
http://creativecampus.ua.edu/
http://dcaf.ua.edu/
http://events.ua.edu/category/8/  (Arts events at UA)
http://events.publicbroadcasting.net/wual/events.eventsmain
http://fayetteal.org/sipsey-arts-alliance/
http://fayetteartmuseum.vpweb.com/
http://galleryontheboulevard.com/Home.html
http://gorgashouse.ua.edu/
http://graceaberdean.com/
https://www.facebook.com/HookedOnArtsFestival  (Wilcox County Arts Council)
http://kentuck.org/artnight.html
http://www.kentuck.org/claycoop.html
https://www.facebook.com/MontevalloArtDepartment
http://www.oconnorartstudios.com/
http://www.renaissanceartgallery.com
https://www.facebook.com/riverportgallerynorthport 
https://www.facebook.com/selmaart.guild 
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
http://www.tuscwawa.com/  (West Alabama Woodworking Assn.)
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/section/ent
http://www.tvaa.net/exhibitions/view-current-exhibit.html
http://www.waqg.com/  (West Alabama Quilters Guild meets 2nd Saturdays)
http://weldbham.com/blog/category/art-culture/

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Look for this e-list each week from 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 our students/alumni 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!