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Printmaking, Folk Art, Photography & Sculpture This Week in West Alabama

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, June 14, 2017. From marble sculpture to “steam” photography to husband/wife retrospectives, you’ll find what interests you in West Alabama! 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 John Hancock by Paul Manship at the Tuscaloosa Museum of Art.

JUN 15 DEADLINE EXTENDED to July 9:
Ink Only Juried Competition for Printmaking, Paperworkers Local, Birmingham
JUN 15 Art with Friends: Mimosas at the Beach, Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, 5:30-7:30 pm
JUN 16 Reception, Canterbury Chapel’s Art Class ExhibitBetak-Frangoulis Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, 812 5th Ave., Tuscaloosa, 5-7 pm (JUN 16- JUL 30)
NOW-JUN 24 Requiem for Steam: The Railroad Photographs of David Plowden, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Tuscaloosa

ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)

JUN 25 Reception, Nothing Adventured, Nothing Learned – Photography by Lindsay Madison, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa, 2-4 pm (JUN 16-AUG 31)
NOW-JUN 25 Betak Art Class June exhibition at Canterbury Chapel
NOW-JUN 30 Perspectives: Individual Explorations of Identity through Image, Paul R. Jones Gallery, Tuscaloosa
NOW-JUN 30 Bernard Wilson, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
NOW-JUN 30 Retrospective: Bethany and Frank Engle ExhibitArts Council and UA Gallery, DWCAC
NOW-JUL 4 Side by Side: Paintings of Henry and Ann Betak, Wellness Walls for Art, University Medical Center, 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)work by Henry Betak
NOW-JUL 7 Lorrie Lane, Kentuck Gallery at Hotel Indigo, 111 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa

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
JUN 16- 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)

JUL 6-AUG 22 Myrna Gates, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
AUG 24 Exhibition opening, painting by Bethany Engle
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)
JUN 16-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, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa (resuming after summer break), 5:30-8:30 pm
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? We Are Selma: The Selma Portrait Project.
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, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa, 5:30-8:30 pm

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 Charlotte Wegrzynowski, "Emergent" charcoal.
OCT 12-NOV 22 Contemporary Consolidated: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
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, Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center
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
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.

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