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Midsummer Art Dreams Come True in West Alabama!

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, August 5, 2015Painting by Patrick O'Brien for Canterbury exhibition 2015
Check our list of links at the bottom of this page for art camps, summer workshops and more.

ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY

AUG 6 Riverport Studio & Gallery: Jean Ignatz Morris, Elaine Shields, and Lorrie Lane, 5-8 pm
AUG 6  Neal Russler, All of Them Witches, Kentuck TEMP Gallery, Northport, 5-8 pm
AUG 6 Reception, Janet Mego: Valleys Peak, Faces Reach, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa
AUG 7 Reception, Jim Harrison III: The Berlin Wall Series, Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa
AUG 7 Reception, Cover to Cover: Authors from the College of Arts and Sciences, UA Gallery, DWCAC, 5:30-7:30 pm
AUG 7 Reception, Patrick O’Brien, Altar of the Flesh, paintings at the Gallery at Canterbury Chapel, 6:00 to 8:30 pm
AUG 7 First Friday at the PRJ! Lately: Recent Acquisitions from the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, Paul R. Jones Gallery, Tuscaloosa

ENDING SOON!"Natural Wonders" Wellness Walls for Art exhibition, University Medical Center

NOW-AUG 7 Lately: Recent Acquisitions from the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, Paul R. Jones Gallery, Tuscaloosa
NOW-AUG 9 Montgomery Art Guild’s 41st Museum Exhibition, MMFA, Montgomery
NOW-AUG 9 Inherited Scars: A Meditation on the Southern Gothic, Birmingham Museum of Art (includes UA art alumnus William Christenberry)
NOW-AUG 9 Between Fantasy and Reality: Frank Fleming, Birmingham Museum of Art (UA art alumnus)

ONGOING AND UPCOMING (in order of ending date unless one day event)

Photo by Jim Harrison III of artwork and graffiti on the Berlin Wall, 2006 ("Berlin Wall Series"). AUG 25 Art Talk with Jim Harrison III, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Noon – 1 pm, Bring lunch and a friend!
AUG 26 Lecture: Joyce J. Scott on her SMGA exhibition Truths and Visions, in 205 Gorgas Library, 7 pm
AUG 27 Reception, Joyce J. Scott: Truths and Visions, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, 6-8 pm
NOW-AUG 28 Janet Mego: Valleys Peak, Faces Reach, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa (UA art alumna), reception Aug. 6
AUG 7-28 Jim Harrison III: The Berlin Wall SeriesArts Council Gallery at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa
NOW-AUG 28 Cover to Cover: Authors from the College of Arts and Sciences, UA Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa, reception Aug. 7
NOW-AUG 31 Patrick O’Brien, Altar of the Flesh, paintings at the Gallery at Canterbury Chapel
SEP 4 Reception William Dooley, "Untitled (Composition with Oxbow)," ca. 2008 Pencil, gesso, organic inks on paper
NOW-SEP 13 Karen Graffeo, Let Us Now Praise Famous Roma, Odessa Woolfolk Gallery, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (UA art alumna)
SEP 4-25, Tom Wegrzynowski: Apocrypha, Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa
AUG 17 – SEP 25 Polk Photographs from The Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, PRJ Gallery
NOW-SEP 30 Aquatic Gardens: Travels through the Imagination, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Jack Warner Pkwy, Tuscaloosa
NOW-OCT 6 Natural Wonders, Wellness Walls for Art, University Medical Center, 850 5th Ave E,  Tuscaloosa
AUG 27-OCT 16 Joyce J. Scott: Truths and Visions, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art
AUG 21-NOV 30 Aquatic Dreams, Daniel Day Gallery, 3025 6th Ave., S., B’ham (includes UA art alumna Rachel Dobson)

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/
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://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/
http://www.groceryartplace.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
http://scfac.uwa.edu/default.htm (Sumter County Fine Arts Council)
http://www.themakersmarketalabama.com/
http://www.waqg.com/  (West Alabama Quilters Guild meets 2nd Saturdays)
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
https://www.facebook.com/groups/361599977234696/  (Alabama Art Post)
http://alabama.travel/upcoming-events/search?q=Tuscaloosa

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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!