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Twist and Shout! First Friday This Week, Art Night Next Week in West Alabama

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, February 27, 2019. We have another First Friday (Mar. 1) and Art Night (Mar. 7) in reverse! March 1 is the fundraiser Empty Bowls, a wonderful melding of giving and art. Note several deadlines approaching for artist applications and proposals. Please 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  Mary Meares

NOW-FEB 28 Night and Light: Photography by Mary MearesBetak Frangoulis Art GalleryCanterbury Chapel, Tuscaloosa
NOW-FEB 28 Celebrating the Life of Frankie Taylor Thomas – UA’s First African-American Faculty Member, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library 1st Floor Lobby, UA
NOW-FEB 28 Celebrating Black Artists from Alabama, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library 1st Floor Lobby, UA

ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)

*NOW-MAR 1 Call for Proposals: Public Art Project at Egan’s Bar, The Arts Council, Tuscaloosa
*NOW-MAR 1 DEADLINE for applications for Gay Burke Memorial Fellowship in Photographic Arts Flier FY2020
*MAR 1 Applications open for 48th Kentuck Festival of the Arts (Oct 12-13)
NOW-MAR 1 Tuscaloosa Can! sculptures on display, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center
MAR 1 24th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Art History with keynote speaker Dr. Catherine Zuromskis
MAR 1 Opening of the Sipsey Arts Alliance Artists’ Collective, 117 Columbus St. East, Fayette

MARCH FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide

MAR 1 11th Annual Empty Bowls, Grace Presbyterian Church, 11 am-2 pm
MAR 1 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
MAR 1 2019 Tuscaloosa Can! Awards, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 5:45 pm (Donations here)
MAR 1 First Friday opening, Estuary: Paintings by Rachel Ann Wakefield, Kentuck’s Hotel Indigo, Tuscaloosa 6-8 pm
MAR 1 First Friday, Francesca Baldarelli, Grace Aberdean Habitat Alchemy, 2124 9th St, Tuscaloosa, 6-9 pm
MAR 1 First Friday reception, Paintings by Paul Looney, Harrison Galleries, 2312 Univ. Blvd., Tuscaloosa

MAR 2-3 Rachel Ann Wakefield, "See," 36x36 inches, oil on canvas, 2017, selected for the B18 Wiregrass Biennial.
MAR 3 5th Street Vintage Market, Farmer’s Market Pavilion, 4150 5th Street, Northport, 10 am-4 pm
MAR 5 Artist Lecture: Iva Gueorguieva, Gorgas Library 205, 7 pm

NOW-MAR 5 Forty Oils by Cooper FrenchUA Medical Center, 850 Peter Bryce Drive, Tuscaloosa
NOW-MAR 6 – Advanced Scholarship ExhibitionSella-Granata Art Gallery
NOW-MAR 7 Median: Michael Lorsung, Bloch Hall, University of Montevallo

MARCH ART NIGHT (gallery guide

MAR 7 Art Night opening, George Jones Jr., and Kentuck studio artists, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
MAR 7 Awards ceremony and reception:  2019 Visual Art Achievement Awards Exhibit, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, 6th Street, Tusca., 5:30-6:30 pm
MAR 7 Art Night Reception,Alabama, Then and Now, Alabama Plein Air Artists traveling exhibition (Bicentennial event), Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, 5-8 pm

NOW-MAR 8 Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu , Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
MAR 14 Ribbon cutting for the Sipsey Arts Alliance Artists’ Collective, 117 Columbus St. East, Fayette, Time TBA
NOW-MAR 27 Illegal Substitution: Paintings by Lorrie Lane, Betak-Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, TuscaloosaFrancesca Baldarelli 2019 First Friday at Grace Aberdean
MAR 21-28 John KlostermanAmy Smoot MFA Thesis ExhibitionSella-Granata Art Gallery
MAR 21 Opening reception, Confluence by Jerry Uelsmann, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art (MAR 21 – MAY 3), 5-7 pm
MAR 28 Closing reception, John KlostermanAmy Smoot MFA Thesis ExhibitionSella-Granata Art Gallery (MAR 21-28), 5-8 pm
MAR 28 23rd Druid Arts Awards, The Arts Council, Bama Theatre, 7 pm ($$)
MAR 7-28 Alabama, Then and Now, Alabama Plein Air Artists traveling exhibition (Bicentennial event), Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
NOW-APR 2 Flora & Java: Yazmyn Rozier, Martin Campus Cadence Bank Art Gallery, Shelton State Community College, Tuscaloosa

APRIL FIRST FRIDAY & ART NIGHT (gallery guide

APR 4 Art Night reception, George Jones, Jr., Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport (APR 6-19), 5-8 pm
APR 4 Art Night reception, Missy Miles, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport (APR 3-27), 5-8 pm
APR 5 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
APR 5 First Friday Reception Master of Arts Thesis Exhibition: Nasrin Iravani, UA Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa (APR 3-30)
APR 5 Druid City Arts Festival (DCAF), Government Plaza, Tuscaloosa, 5-10 pm
APR 5 2019 Spring Arts & Crafts Show, 140 Cane Creek Rd., Warrior, 10 am-5 pm

APR 6 Druid City Arts Festival (DCAF), Government Plaza, Tuscaloosa, 10 am-5 pm
APR 6 Ceramics students and faculty at UA have contributed handmade bowls to the Empty Bowls food pantry fundraiser again this year.
APR 8-11 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition (TBA), Sella-Granata Art Gallery
APR 13 Rooster Day, Marengo County Historical Society, Demopolis
*APR 19 DEADLINE: Harpo Foundation Grants for Visual Artists applications (FEB 25-APR 19)
APR 5-26 Madelyn Bonnett Photography Exhibit, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
APR 27 Hog Wild for Art Festival, Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center, Camden, 10 am-3 pm
APR 3-30 Master of Arts Thesis Exhibition: Nasrin Iravani, UA Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
*MAY 1 Deadline extended! Call for Proposals: Public Art Project at Hudson Poole Fine JewelersThe Arts Council, Tuscaloosa

MAY FIRST FRIDAY & ART NIGHT (gallery guide

MAY 2 Art Night Kentuck Art Center, 5-8 pm
MAY 3 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)

MAY 5 5th Street Vintage Market, Farmer’s Market Pavilion, 4150 5th Street, Northport, 10 am-4 pm
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

JUN 2 5th Street Vintage Market, Farmer’s Market Pavilion, 4150 5th Street, Northport, 10 am-4 pm
NOW-JUN 15 Fe(male), Kress on Dexter, 39 Dexter Ave., Montgomery

OCT 6 5th Street Vintage Market, Farmer’s Market Pavilion, 4150 5th Street, Northport, 10 am-4 pmLorrie Lane Studio flower painting
OCT 12-13 48th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Northport

NOV 3 5th Street Vintage Market, Farmer’s Market Pavilion, 4150 5th Street, Northport, 10 am-4 pm
DEC 1 5th Street Vintage Market, Farmer’s Market Pavilion, 4150 5th Street, Northport, 10 am-4 pm
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/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/361599977234696/ (Alabama Art Post)
http://www.alabamacenterforthearts.org/
http://alwca.weebly.com/ (Alabama Women’s Caucus for Art)Iva Gueorguieva poster
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/
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)Lorrie Lane Studio and Gallery: Liz Bryan, Steve Davis, Marysia Galbraith and Lorrie Lane
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/
https://www.facebook.com/lorrieslane/
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://www.waqg.com/ (West Alabama Quilters Guild)Matt Mitros and members of Crimson Clay, 2018
http://wilcoxcountyartscouncil.org/

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