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Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, February 1, 2017. We’re extending a special invitation to everyone to visit the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center in Tuscaloosa on Friday evening, 5-8 pm, for Community Arts Conversations (see below). And as always, 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 SOON 

NOW-FEB 2 Etruscan Dreams – Works by Terrell Taylor, Miller Art Gallery, Meridian Community College, MS
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FEBRUARY ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY 

FEB 2 Art Night Reception, Francesca Baldarelli and Tobias Layman MA Exhibitions, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA (FEB 2-16), 4-6 pm
FEB 2 Art Night Reception, Everything But the Kitchen Sink: Sloane Bibb, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL, 5-8 pm (FEB 2-25)
FEB 2 Grand Opening: artists’ studios in the Red Dog building, Kentuck: Jessica Tuggle and Andrea Moen (Weaving Alabama) and Daniel Livingston (5-8 pm)
FEB 2 Reception honoring Ann M. Betak, Clarke Building, Kentuck, 5-8 pm
FEB 2 Monthly Gallery Opening and Reception, Columbus (MS) Arts Council, 5:30-7 pm

FEB 3 First Friday Event: Community Arts Conversations, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, 5-7:30 pm
FEB 3 First Friday, Burning Love – Anthony Tavis, Grace Aberdean Habitat Alchemy, 2124-9th St., Tuscaloosa, 6 pm
FEB 3 Reception,
FEB 3 Awards, Double Exposure Photography Competition (Adult Division), DWCAC, 6:30 pm
FEB 3 First Friday Open House, O’Connor Art Studios, downtown Tuscaloosa
FEB 3 First Friday Reception, Freedom? Selections from the Paul R. Jones Collection, Paul R. Jones Gallery, 6th Street, Tuscaloosa (NOW-APR 28), 5-8 pm
FEB 3 First Friday Opening Reception, QUICKTURNAROUND: UA Sculpture Students Exhibition, UA Gallery, DWCAC, 5-8 pm (FEB 1-28)
FEB 3 Sweet Metal and the Road – Anne Herbert and Wade MacDonald, Harrison Galleries, 6-9 pm (FEB 3-28)

ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)

FEB 9 Public lecture: Wassan al-Khudhairi, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art,“Curating Contemporary Art,” Birmingham Room, Bryant Conference Center, 6-7 pm
FEB 10 Opening reception,
FEB 10 Public lecture: Wassan al-Khudhairi, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, BMA, “Exploring The Ecology of the Art World,” Garland Hall 203, UA, 1:30 pm
FEB 11 Reception and Gallery Talks, Dale and Mamie Joe Rayburn Exhibition, Meridian Museum of Art, 6-8 p.m.
FEB 2-16 Francesca Baldarelli and Tobias Layman MA Exhibitions, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA
NOW-FEB 17 Echoes along the Syrian Border: Family Archeology and the Sound of Distant Gunfire: Works by James Emmette Neel, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
NOW-FEB 20 Extended! Made in Alabama: Kathleen Fetters Photography, Kentuck’s Gallery at Hotel Indigo, Tuscaloosa
FEB 22 Deborah Luster – Artist Lecture: “Archive of Lamentations,” Birmingham Room, Bryant Conference Center, UA, 6:30 pm
FEB 3-24 
FEB 2- 25 Sloane Bibb, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
NOW-FEB 25 The Modernization of Tuscaloosa’s Built Environment: the Architecture of Don Buel Schuyler, 1937 – 1964, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Tuscaloosa
NOW-FEB 27 Basil Ede Exhibition, Tuscaloosa Museum of Art: Home of the Westervelt Collection
NOW-FEB 28 Amy Keen art exhibition, DCH Medical Center lobby, Fayette
FEB 1-28 Susan Nabors art exhibition, Sipsey Arts Alliance, Missy’s Taste of Home, Fayette
FEB 1-28  QUICKTURNAROUND: UA Sculpture Students Exhibition, UA Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
FEB 3-28 Sweet Metal and the Road – Anne Herbert and Wade MacDonald, Harrison Galleries, Tuscaloosa
FEB 10-28 
MAR 2 Art Night, Charlie Lucas, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (MAR 2 – APR 26), 5-8 pm
MAR 3 First Friday Reception, Liam Ward MFA Exhibition, Harrison Galleries, Tuscaloosa, 6-9 pm
MAR 4-5 15th Annual Jerry Brown Arts Festival, Hamilton, Ala.
NOW-MAR 10 Herb Rieth Solo Exhibition, Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia
MAR 15 DEADLINE: 2017 Statewide Student Juried Art Exhibition (Alabama high school students)
MAR 23 Reception, Joani Inglett MFA Exhibition, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, 4-6 pm
FEB 8-MAR 25 Dale and Mamie Joe Rayburn Exhibition, Meridian Museum of Art
MAR 20-30 Joani Inglett MFA Exhibition, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA
NOW-MAR 31 Judson College Students Exhibition, Tuscaloosa County Juvenile Court Lobby, 6001 12th Ave E, Tuscaloosa
NOW-MAR 31
APR 7 First Friday reception, Publicly Identified Exhibition, UA Gallery and Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC (MAR 3- APR 14)
APR 8 8th Annual Druid City Arts Festival, Government Plaza, Tuscaloosa, 10 am – 5 pm
MAR 2-APR 12 Mel Kendrick: In and Out of Paper, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
MAR 3- APR 14 First Friday reception, Publicly Identified Exhibition, UA Gallery and Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
APR 6-20 EXIT 2017 BA Group Exhibition, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA
APR 21 Reception, 2017 BFA Juried Exhibition, Harrison Galleries, 6-9 pm (APR 17-30)
MAR 2-APR 26 Charlie Lucas, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
NOW-APR 28 Freedom? Selections from the Paul R. Jones Collection, Paul R. Jones Gallery, 6th Street, Tuscaloosa
APR 17-30 2017 BFA Juried Exhibition, Harrison Galleries, Tuscaloosa
MAY 4 Art Night, Chris “Chub” Hubbard, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (MAY 4-27), 5-8 pm
APR 21-MAY 26 MFA Thesis Exhibitions: Kelsey Windham and Celestia Morgan, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
MAY 4-27 Chris “Chub” Hubbard, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
JUN 1 Art Night, William “Willie Willie” Lamendola, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (JUN 1-28), 5-8 pm
JUN 1-28 William “Willie Willie” Lamendola, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
JUL 6 Art Night, Myrna Gates, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (JUL 6-AUG 22), 5-8 pm
MAY 3-JUL 22
JUL 6-AUG 22 Myrna Gates, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
SEP 7 Art Night, Yvonne Wells, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (SEP 7-OCT 20), 5-8 pm
AUG 23-OCT 7 43rd Annual Bi-State Art Juried Competition Exhibit, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
SEP 7-OCT 20 Yvonne Wells, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
OCT 21-22 46th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport, AL
NOV 2 Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (NOV 2-30), 5-8 pm
NOV 2-30 Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
DEC 5 Art Night, Kentuck Studio Artists, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (DEC 5-JAN 12, 2018), 5-8 pm
DEC 5-JAN 12, 2018 Kentuck Studio Artists, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL