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Let Art Breeze Through Like An Early Spring in West Alabama!

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, February 21, 2018. Celebrate our spring preview by popping into a few galleries 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 on this page.

HAPPENING NOW OR ENDING SOONWillie Mae Brown, Paul R. Jones lecture series, Feb. 28

NOW-FEB 22  John Klosterman and Amy Smoot Master of Arts exhibitionsSella-Granata Art Gallery, UA
NOW-FEB 23 All that Art, All that JazzPaul R. Jones Museum, Sixth Street, Tuscaloosa
NOW-FEB 23 Beth ConklinKentuck Art Center, Northport
NOW-FEB 23 15th Annual Double Exposure Juried Photography Exhibit (Adult Div.), Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Greensboro Ave.
NOW-FEB 26 Kevin Cole: Blanket Series: Beyond the Surface, UA GalleryDinah Washington Cultural Art Center
FEB 27 Open Studio After School Art Class, Coleman Center for the Arts, York, 3:30-5:30 pm
NOW-FEB 28 Canterbury’s Response and Action During the Civil Rights Movement: a visual exhibit, Betak/Frangoulis Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane
FEB 27 Wendy White Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, Gallalee Hall Room 227, UA, 6:30 pm
FEB 28 Paul R. Jones Lecture Series: Willie Mae Brown: “‘I Am Glad I said YES!  Thank you Mr. Jones’: Reflections on a friendship between an artist and a collector,” Gorgas Library 205

MARCH ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide

MAR 1 DEADLINE for Applications: Yvonne Wells at Kentuck
MAR 1 Art Night: Pat, Suzanne, Angèlique & Andrè JuneauKentuck Art Center, Northport (FEB 27-APR 24), 5-8 pm
FEB 26-MAR 2 Tuscaloosa Can! Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Paul R. Jones Museum, Harrison Galleries and UPerk, Tuscaloosa
MAR 2 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
MAR 2 First Friday Reception, “A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw,” Artworks from the Doug McCraw Collection, UA Gallery, DWCAC (MAR 2-APR 30) 5:00-7:30
MAR 2 First Friday Reception, Mecca: Atlanta, Harlem, Miami, and Beyond – Selections from the Collection, Paul R. Jones Museum, 6th Street (MAR 2-APR 27), 5:30-7:30
MAR 2 Tuscaloosa Can! Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Paul R. Jones Museum, Harrison Galleries and UPerk, 5:45 pm
MAR 2 First Friday Event, Art by Jayne Morgan, Grace Aberdean Habitat Alchemy, 2124 9th St., Tuscaloosa, 6-9 pm
MAR 2 First Friday Reception, Wendy White, "Janet Guthrie," 2017, acrylic and inkjet on three canvases, Dibond, 72 1/4 x 60 1/4 inches. Image courtesy of the artist.

ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)

NOW-MAR 3 Paper/Work: Works on/of Paper, Salmon Library Gallery, UAH, 301 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville
MAR 2-3 West Alabama Quilters’ Guild 2018 Quilt Show, Taylorville United Methodist Church, 640 Bear Creek Rd., Tuscaloosa (9-5, 9-4)
MAR 4 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm
NOW-MAR 4 Alabama Fishes by Joseph TomelleriTuscaloosa Museum of Art: Home of the Westervelt Collection, 1400 Jack Warner Pkwy NE
NOW-MAR 9 Veiled: A Space Between, Aaron Tennessee Benson, Tennessee Valley Art Association, Tuscumbia
MAR 13-16 ARTIST ENTRY DATES Annual Juried Art ShowColeman Center for the Arts and Sumter County Fine Arts Council, Altman Riddick Gallery, York (see times at the link)
MAR 12-16 UA closed for Spring Break
NOW-MAR 15 William McGavin, Teer Gallery, Kentuck, Northport
MAR 2-16 Taking a Second Look: Following the Path of William Christenberry & Beyond, Greensboro Opera House, Greensboro
MAR 19 Deadline, Call for Submissions, Members Only Exhibit, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
MAR 21 Dr. Rebecca Zorach, “The Time is Now! ​The Black Arts Movement in Chicago, circa 1968,” Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, 205 Gorgas Library, UA, 6:30 pm
MAR 22 Reception, Out of Order: Tobias Layman’s MFA Thesis Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm (MAR 12-30)
MAR 22 Opening Reception, Annual Juried Art Show, Coleman Center for the Arts and Sumter County Fine Arts Council, Altman Riddick Gallery, York (MAR 22-MAY 11), 6-8 pm
MAR 23 March Gourd Madness, Clanton Performing Arts Center, Clanton
NOW-MAR 23 Paintings by Robert Kushner, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
MAR 23 Reception, UA Book Arts Exhibition, West Ala. Quilter's Guild 2018 Quilt Show, Mar 2-3, 2018.
MAR 12-30 Out of Order: Tobias Layman’s MFA Thesis Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
MAR 19-30 Francesca Baldarelli Master of Fine Arts exhibition, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA
NOW-APR 3 Nature’s Bounty Distilled – Paintings and Images by Bethany Windham Engle, University Medical Center, 850 5th Ave., East, Tuscaloosa

APRIL ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide

APR 5 Art Night: Pat, Suzanne, Angèlique & Andrè JuneauKentuck Art Center, Northport (FEB 27-APR 24), 5-8 pm
APR 5 Art Night, Kentuck Members Show, Teer Gallery, Kentuck (APR 5-JUN 7), 5-8 pm
APR 5 Art Night reception, Dual Current: Inseparable Elements in Painting and Architecture, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA (APR 5-MAY 18)
APR 6 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
APR 6 First Friday, Historic Drish House, Tuscaloosa
APR 6 First Friday Reception, Oliver Reed, Harrison Galleries, 2315 Univ. Blvd., 6-9 pm

APR 7 Druid City Arts Festival, Government Plaza, Tuscaloosa, 10 am-5 pm
APR 12 Karl Haendel, Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, 205 Smith Hall, UA, 6:30 pm
APR 13 Empty Bowls, Grace Presbyterian, Hargrove Road, Tuscaloosa
APR 16-20 Patrick Hoban MA Exhibition, Arts Construction Building, 16th St., Tuscaloosa
APR 16-20 UA Art BFA Juried ExhibitionHarrison Galleries, 2315 Univ. Blvd.
APR 20 Reception, UA Art BFA Juried Exhibition, Harrison Galleries, 2315 Univ. Blvd., 6-9 pm
FEB 27-APR 24 Pat, Suzanne, Angèlique & Andrè JuneauKentuck Art Center, Northport
MAR 2-APR 27 Mecca: Atlanta, Harlem, Miami, and Beyond – Selections from the Collection, Paul R. Jones Museum, 6th Street, Tuscaloosa
NOW-APR 28 William Gorgas and the Great WarMildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Tuscaloosa
MAR 2-APR 30 “A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw,” Artworks from the Doug McCraw Collection, Cover of "Fishes of Alabama," Herbert T. Boschung Jr., and Richard L. Mayden, and Joseph Tomelleri. Smithsonian Books (July 8, 2004).
MAR 25-MAY 3 Works by Harold Lovell, Tennessee Valley Art Association, Tuscumbia

MAY ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide

MAY 3 Art Night, Melanie ColvinKentuck Art Center, Northport (APR 27-JUN 2), 5-8 pm
MAY 3 Art Night, Members Only Exhibition, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
MAY 4 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
MAY 4 First Friday Reception, Creative Campus Arts Research Projects Exhibition, Dinah Washington Cultural Art Center, 5:30-8:00 pm
MAY 4 First Friday Reception, Craig Wedderspoon Sculpture Students, Harrison Galleries, 2315 Univ. Blvd., 6-9 pm

MAY 1-31 Another Man’s Treasure Exhibition, CCAC/Rose Gallery, Clanton
MAR 22-MAY 11 Annual Juried Art Show, Coleman Center for the Arts and Sumter County Fine Arts Council, Altman Riddick Gallery, York
APR 5-MAY 18 Dual Current: Inseparable Elements in Painting and Architecture, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
JUN 3 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm
NOW-JUN 4 Scott McQueen, Kentuck Gallery at Hotel Indigo, Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa

JUNE FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide

JUN 1 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
JUN 1 First Friday Reception, New Paintings by Sharon Long, Betak/Frangoulis Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane (JUN 1-JUL 31)

APR 27-JUN 2 Melanie ColvinKentuck Art Center, Northport
APR 5-JUN 7 Kentuck Members Show, Teer Gallery, Black Belt Treasures, Camden, Alabama

JUNE ART NIGHT 

JUN 7 Art Night, Missionary Mary ProctorKentuck Art Center, Northport, (JUN 5-JUL 24) 5-8 pm

JUN 1-JUL 31 New Paintings by Sharon Long, Betak/Frangoulis Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane

JULY ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide

JUL 5 Art Night, Missionary Mary ProctorKentuck Art Center, Northport (JUN 5-JUL 24), 5-8 pm
JUL 5 Art Night, Lee Busby, Teer Gallery, Kentuck, Northport (JUL 5-AUG 15), 5-8 pm
JUL 6 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)

MAY 20-JUN 28 Gulf Coast Contemporary: Artists in Lower Alabama, Tennessee Valley Art Association, Tuscumbia
JUN 1-JUN 30 Helen Keller Art Show of Alabama, Tennessee Valley Art Association, Tuscumbia
JUN 5-JUL 24 Missionary Mary ProctorKentuck Art Center, Northport
JUL 28 CCAC Arts Festival, Clanton Performing Arts Center, Clanton

AUGUST ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide

AUG 2 Art Night, Leanna Leithauser-LesleyKentuck Art Center, Northport (JUL 27-AUG 29), 5-8 pm
AUG 3 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)

JUL 5-AUG 15 Lee Busby, Teer Gallery, Kentuck, Northport
JUL 27-AUG 29 Leanna Leithauser-LesleyKentuck Art Center, Northport
JUL 22-AUG 31 ArtWorks 2018: TVAA Member Art Show, Ellington," by Leanna Leithauser-Lesley, at Canterbury Gallery in October 2016

SEPTEMBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide

SEP 6 Art Night, Dennis Thompson, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, (SEP 1- OCT 19) 5-8 pm
SEP 6 Art Night, Kids of Kentuck, Teer Gallery, Kentuck, Northport (SEP 6-20), 5-8 pm
SEP 7 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)

SEP 11 Dr. Richard K. Emmerson, “Apocalypse Illuminated,” Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, Gorgas Library 205, UA, 6:30 pm
SEP 6-20 Kids of Kentuck, Teer Gallery, Kentuck, Northport

OCTOBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide

OCT 4 Art Night, Dennis ThompsonKentuck Art Center, Northport (SEP 1- OCT 19), 5-8 pm
OCT 4 Art Night, Kentuck’s Permanent Collection, Teer Gallery, Kentuck, Northport (OCT 4-NOV 24), 5-8 pm
OCT 5 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
OCT 5 First Friday Reception, The Mother of Alabama Fine Art Photography: Gay Burke, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC (OCT 5-31), 5:30-7:30 pm
OCT 5 First Friday Reception, Students of Gay Burke Photography Exhibition, UA Gallery, DWCAC (OCT 5-31), 5:30-7:30 pm

Photo by Rachel DobsonSEP 1- OCT 19 Dennis ThompsonKentuck Art Center, Northport
SEP 30-OCT 31 Making Alabama (Traveling Bicentennial Exhibit), Tennessee Valley Art Association, Tuscumbia
OCT 5-31 The Mother of Alabama Fine Art Photography: Gay Burke, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
OCT 5-31 Students of Gay Burke Photography Exhibition, UA Gallery, DWCAC

NOVEMBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide

NOV 1 Art Night, Crossroads Arts AllianceKentuck Art Center, Northport (OCT 30-NOV 27), 5-8 pm
NOV 2 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)

NOV (dates TBA) Chilton County Arts Council Fine Arts Show, CCAC/Rose Gallery, Clanton
SEP 16-NOV 2 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Tennessee Valley Art Association, Tuscumbia
OCT 4-NOV 24 Kids of Kentuck, Teer Gallery, Kentuck, Northport
OCT 30-NOV 27 Crossroads Arts AllianceKentuck Art Center, Northport

DECEMBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide

DEC 6 Art Night, Kentuck’s Studio ArtistsKentuck Art Center, Northport, (DEC 4-JAN 19) 5-8 pm
DEC 7 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)

DEC 4-JAN 19, 2019 Kentuck’s Studio Artists, Museum and Teer Gallery, 46th Kentuck Festival quilt design by Hallie O'Kelley!

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://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://www.hooverlibrary.org/galleries
http://tuscarts.org/gallery-juniorleague.php (Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre)
http://www.kentuck.org/
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://tuscaloosamoa.org/calendar-2/
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)
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.

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“Gathering West Alabama’s Visual Arts Events since September 2013”