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Jump On In – The Art is Fine In West Alabama!

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Splash around to see some wonderful art going on in West Alabama this week! 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 SOONMildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum logo

NOW-JUN 24 Requiem for Steam: The Railroad Photographs of David Plowden, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Tuscaloosa

JULY ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)
JUL 6 Art Night, Myrna Gates, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (JUL 6-AUG 22), 5-8 pm
JUL 7 First Friday Reception, Dark Patriot: Work by Matt DaughertyArts Council Gallery, DWCAC (JUL 7-28), 5-8 pm
JUL 7 First Friday, downtown Tuscaloosa galleries (check your favorite galleries for details)
NOW-JUL 7 Lorrie Lane, 2016 Kentuck Courtyard

ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)

JUL 9 NEW DEADLINE to submit: Ink Only Juried Competition for Printmaking, Paperworkers Local, Birmingham
NOW-JUL 22 People’s Choice Art Competition Exhibit, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
JUL 7-28 Dark Patriot: Work by Matt DaughertyArts Council Gallery, DWCAC
NOW- JUL 30 Canterbury Chapel’s Art Class Exhibit, Betak-Frangoulis Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, 812 5th Ave., Tuscaloosa

AUGUST ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)
AUG 3 Art Night, Myrna Gates, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
AUG 4 First Friday Reception, Paintings by Janet Mego, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC (AUG 4-25), 5-8 pm
AUG 4 First Friday, downtown Tuscaloosa galleries (check your favorite galleries for details)Lorrie Lane, Gold Leaf, 2017

JUL 6-AUG 22 Myrna Gates, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
AUG 24 Exhibition opening, We are Selma: The Selma Portrait Project by Kathryn Mayo, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA (AUG 24-SEP 29)
AUG 4-25 Paintings by Janet Mego, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC 
AUG 25 Opening Reception and Awards, Ink Only Printmaking Juried Exhibition, UAB Art and Art History’s Project Space, 900 13th Street South, Birmingham (AUG 25-SEP 16)
NOW-AUG 31 Nothing Adventured, Nothing Learned – Photography by Lindsay Madison, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa

SEPTEMBER FIRST FRIDAY & ART NIGHT (oops!) (gallery guide)
SEP 1 First Friday Reception, Tom Rosenstiel Group Exhibit, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC (SEP 1-29), 5-8 pm
SEP 1 First Friday Opening, Janet Mego (UA BFA alumna) painting 4 in “VALLEYS PEAK, FACES REACH” AT THE JUNIOR LEAGUE GALLERY
SEP 7 Art Night, Yvonne Wells, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL, (SEP 7-OCT 20), 5-8 pm

SEP 10 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm
AUG 25-SEP 16 Ink Only Printmaking Juried Exhibition, UAB Art and Art History’s Project Space, 900 13th Street South, Birmingham
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 24-SEP 29 We are Selma: The Selma Portrait Project by Kathryn Mayo, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
SEP 1-29 Tom Rosenstiel Group Exhibit, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC

OCTOBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)
OCT 5 Art Night, Kentuck Art Center, downtown Northport
OCT 6 First Friday Reception, Brenda Miller Photography ExhibitArts Council Gallery, DWCAC  (OCT 6-27), 5-8 pm
OCT 6 First Friday Opening, 5th Street Vintage Market in March 2015 features local artists and craftspeople.

AUG 23-OCT 7 43rd Annual Bi-State Art Juried Competition Exhibit, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
OCT 12 Opening, Contemporary Consolidated: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA (OCT 12-NOV 22)
SEP 7-OCT 20 Yvonne Wells, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
OCT 21-22 46th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport, AL
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

NOV 7-8 5th Annual Chilton County Arts Festival, Clanton Performing Arts Center, AL, 9 am-3 pm
OCT 12-NOV 22 We Are Selma: The Selma Portrait Project.
NOV 3-27 Works by Charlotte Wegrzynowski, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
NOV 2-30 Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
DEC 3 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm

DECEMBER FIRST FRIDAY & ART NIGHT (oops!) (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)

DEC 1-JAN 5 Clay Co-op Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
DEC 7-JAN 12, 2018 Kentuck Studio Artists, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
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, Tobias Layman MFA Thesis Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm (MAR 12-30)
MAR 12 – 30, 2018 Tobias Layman MFA Thesis Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, TuscaloosaO'Connor Studios on First Fridays
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/
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”