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Spend Your Last Week of Summer Freedom with Art!

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Check our list of links at the bottom of this page for art camps, summer workshops and more.

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
NOW-AUG 28 Jim Harrison III: The Berlin Wall Series"Natural Wonders" Wellness Walls for Art exhibition, University Medical Center
NOW-AUG 28 Cover to Cover: Authors from the College of Arts and Sciences, UA Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
NOW-AUG 31 Patrick O’Brien, Altar of the Flesh, paintings at the Gallery at Canterbury Chapel
SEP 4 Reception Polk Photographs from The Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, PRJ Gallery, 5:30-7:30 pm (First Friday)
SEP 4 Reception,Tom Wegrzynowski: Joyce J. Scott, “Ancestry Doll: 1,” 2011
NOW-SEP 13 Karen Graffeo, Let Us Now Praise Famous Roma, Odessa Woolfolk Gallery, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (UA art alumna)
AUG 24-SEP 17 Instructor Showcase, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA (reception Sep. 3)
SEP 4-25, Tom Wegrzynowski: Apocrypha, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
AUG 26 – 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
OCT 2 Painting by Patrick O'Brien for Canterbury exhibition 2015
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
SEP 28-OCT 23 Mark Mitchell & Derek Larsen, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA (reception OCT 1)
OCT 1-30 Every Night: An Exhibition of Paintings by Roger Jones, Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa
NOV 2-20 Entrelazado: An Exhibition of Cuban Printmaking, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA (reception date TBA)
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 Roger Jones, "Not Down In It," oil on canvas, 10"x 0'', 2014

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/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/361599977234696/  (Alabama Art Post)
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://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/
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://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
http://www.waqg.com/  (West Alabama Quilters Guild meets 2nd Saturdays)
http://weldbham.com/blog/category/art-culture/

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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!