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Past and Present Inspire Local Artists in West Alabama

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, April 26, 2017. Local artists are inspired by our community – and our community is inspired by local art! 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 Lorrie Lane "Northport at Dusk," 2017

APR 26 Last day: Charlie Lucas, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
NOW-APR 27 Out of Eden, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA
APR 27 Screening on the Green digital media videos, Woods Quad, 8-10 pm
APR 27 Opens, Lorrie Lane, Kentuck Gallery at Hotel Indigo, 111 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa (APR 27-JUL 7)
NOW-APR 28 Freedom? Selections from the Paul R. Jones Collection, Paul R. Jones Gallery, 6th Street, Tuscaloosa
APR 28-29 SAA Spring Art Market, Sipsey Arts Alliance, Fayette, AL
APR 30 Art History Tour, Lyon Hall, Demopolis, 2-5 pm
NOW-APR 30 2017 BFA Juried ExhibitionHarrison Galleries, Tuscaloosa
NOW-MAY 2 Spring 2017 Student Art Exhibition, Martin Campus Cadence Bank Art Gallery, Shelton State Community College
NOW-MAY 4 Kelly Shannon: celle, Clarke Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport

MAY ART NIGHT AND FIRST FRIDAY (SAA art market flyer april 2017

MAY 4 Art Night, Chris “Chub” Hubbard, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (MAY 4-27), 5-8 pm
MAY 4 Open Studios for Art Night, Lorrie Lane, Terrell Taylor, Sydney Gruber, Robbie Roberts, Steve Davis, Jessica Tuggle , Andrea Moen, Daniel Livingston, Kerry Kennedy, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
MAY 5 First Friday Opening, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa 5:30-8:30 pm
MAY 5 First Friday Reception,  Collaborate, Kentuck Artists at UA Gallery, DWCAC (APR 21-MAY 25), 5:30-7:30 pm
MAY 5 First Friday Reception, Tuscaloosa County School System Art Exhibit, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC (NOW-MAY 12), 5-8 pm
MAY 5 First Friday Reception, Perspectives: Individual Explorations of Identity through Image, Paul R. Jones Gallery, Tuscaloosa, 5:30-7:30 pm
MAY 5 First Friday Reception, Jack R. Leigh, Now & Then: A Retrospective, Harrison Galleries, Tuscaloosa, 6-9 pm

ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date) 

MAY 6 Hog Wild for Art FestivalBlack Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center, Camden, 10 am-3 pm
MAY 7 5th Street Vintage Market, 4150 5th St., Northport, 11 am-4 pm
MAY 10 Reception, Specimens and Speculations – Sabrina Pearson-Adams and Jamie Adams, Betak/Frangoulis Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, 5-7 pm (MAY 10-31)
NOW-MAY 12 Tuscaloosa County School System Art Exhibit, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
MAY 1-16 Westwood Elementary Art Month at the Bama, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa
MAY 19 Reception, Celestia Morgan, Red Line, SMGA
MAY 21 DEADLINE to apply History As Art Juried Show – Shelby County Arts Council
NOW-MAY 25 Collaborate, Kentuck Artists at UA Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
NOW-MAY 26 MFA Thesis Exhibitions: Kelsey Windham and Celestia MorganSarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
MAY 4-27 Chris “Chub” Hubbard, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
MAY 10-31 Specimens and Speculations – Sabrina Pearson-Adams and Jamie Adams, Betak/Frangoulis Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Tuscaloosa
NOW-MAY 31 For Home and Country:  America’s Entry into the Great War, Pearce Lobby, Gorgas Library 2nd floor

JUN 1 Art Night, “Willie Willie” Lamendola, Bernard Wilson, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
JUN 2 First Friday Reception, Bethany and Frank Engle Exhibit, Arts Council and UA Gallery, DWCAC (JUN 2-30), 5-8 pm
JUN 2 First Friday Opening, Kelsey Windham, “Repose” (detail)
JUN 2-30 Bethany and Frank Engle ExhibitArts Council and UA Gallery, DWCAC
JUN 1-30 “Willie Willie” Lamendola, Bernard Wilson, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
NOW-JUL 4 Side by Side: Paintings of Henry and Ann Betak, Wellness Walls for Art, University Medical Center, Tuscaloosa

JUL 6 Art Night, Myrna Gates, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (JUL 6-AUG 22), 5-8 pm
JUL 7 First Friday Opening, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa 5:30-8:30 pm
NOW-JUL 7 Lorrie Lane, Kentuck Gallery at Hotel Indigo, 111 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa
MAY 17-JUL 22 People’s Choice Art Competition Exhibit, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
JUL 6-AUG 22 Myrna Gates, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL

AUG 3 Art Night, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
AUG 4 First Friday, downtown Tuscaloosa galleries

SEP 7 Art Night, Yvonne Wells, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (SEP 7-OCT 20), 5-8 pm
NOW-SEP 29 William C. Gorgas and the Great War, Gorgas House Museum, UA
NOW-SEP 29? Jack R. Leigh at Harrison Galleries in May.
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 Art Night, Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (NOV 2-30), 5-8 pm
NOV 7-8 5th Annual Chilton County Arts Festival, Clanton Performing Arts Center, AL, 9 am-3 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, work by Henry Betak

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
46th Kentuck Festival quilt design by Hallie O'Kelley!
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”