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Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, November 28, 2018. Lots of exhibitions ending this week…and new ones beginning! Send us your visual arts events — we want to know what you’re up to. This list is updated throughout the week on this page.

HAPPENING NOW OR ENDING SOON UA Book Arts holiday exhibition and market

NOV 28 Artist Lecture by Alice Hohenberg Federico, Gorgas 205, 6 pm
NOW-NOV 29 BFA Exhibition: Caroline Japal and Candace Von HoffmanSella-Granata Art Gallery
NOV 29 Reception, Fall 2018 Shelton State Community College Student Art ExhibitionMartin Campus Cadence Bank Art Gallery, 9500 Old Greensboro Rd., Tuscaloosa (NOV 19-DEC 7), 4-5 pm
NOV 29 Opening reception, Alice Hohenberg Federico: The Liberation of Clay, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art (NOV 29-JAN 11, 2019), 5-7 pm
NOV 29 After Slavery: A Pop Up Museum, 205 Gorgas Library, UA, 5:30-7 pm
NOW-NOV 30 New Landscapes by Sharon Long, Manna Grocery, McFarland Blvd., Tuscaloosa
NOW-NOV 30 Jayne Morgan Exhibit, Kentuck’s Hotel Indigo Gallery, Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
NOW-NOV 30 Small Craft Advisory Press: A Decade of Collaboration, Fifth Floor Gallery, Gorgas Library, UA
NOW-NOV 30 Chilton County Arts Council Fine Arts Show, CCAC/Rose Gallery, Clanton
NOW-NOV 30 Visual Surprises: Hiding in Plain Sight, The Arts Council Gallery at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center
DEC 2 Aaron Sanders at Grace Aberdean Habitat Alchemy Dec. 2018
DEC 3 Entries Accepted for 2019 Double Exposure – Junior Division Competition (DEC 3-10)
NOW-DEC 5 BFA Senior Art Exhibition: Briana Parker, Marina Rios, The Gallery at Bloch Hall, University of Montevallo

DECEMBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide

DEC 6 Art Night, Kentuck’s Studio ArtistsKentuck Art Center and Teer Gallery, Northport, (DEC 4-FEB 7) 5-8 pm
NEW! DEC 7 Kafka Downtown, Lorrie Lane Studio, 908 31st Ave. (off Stillman Blvd), Tusca., 5-8pm
DEC 7 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
DEC 7 Opening reception, Annual West Alabama Juried Show, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa (DEC 7-21), 5-8 pm
DEC 7 Closing First Friday event, Alabama Types: Typewriter Collection of Steve Soboroff, UA Gallery, DWCAC (NOW-DEC 7), 5-8 pm
DEC 7 First Friday Aaron Head, Grace Aberdean Habitat Alchemy, 2124 9th St., Tusca., 6-9 pm

ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)

NOW-DEC 7 Painting by alumnus Sharon Long, Martin Campus Cadence Bank Art Gallery, 9500 Old Greensboro Rd., Tuscaloosa

MUSEUM HOPPING

DEC 9 UA Museums Holiday Open House, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, 1901 Jack Warner Pkwy, 2-4 pm
DEC 9 UA Museums Holiday Open HouseGorgas House Museum 810 Capstone Drive, UA, 3-5 pm
DEC 9 UA Museums Holiday Open HouseAlabama Museum of Natural History 6th Ave, UA, 4-5:30 pm

DEC 9 Santa’s Swizzle Drink-Shop-Be Merry, Green Bar, 2209 4th St., Tuscaloosa, 1-5 pm
DEC 11 MFA Book Arts Holiday Exhibition and Market, Gorgas Library first floor, UA campus, 10 am-4 pm
NOW-DEC 14 Black Belt Alabama, 2nd Floor Lobby and Reading Room, W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, UA
DEC 15 8 x 8 Annual Art Show by O’Connor Art Studios, Historic Drish House, 2300 17th St., Tusca., 5-7 pm
NOW-DEC 19 The Shadows, Paul R. Jones Museum, 6th Street, Tuscaloosa
DEC 7-21 Annual West Alabama Juried Show, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
DEC 17 Entries Accepted for 2019 Double Exposure – Junior Division Competition (DEC 17-21)
NOW-DEC 30 Alice Hohenberg Federico, "Water from the Desert Well, 1320," white stoneware clay, 14 inches high.

JANUARY 2019

NOW-JAN 2 From One Earth: Cotton and Clay: Guadalupe Lanning Robinson, Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts, Florence
JAN-FEB Artworks by Holt High School Students, Betak Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Tuscaloosa
NOW-JAN 11 2019 Works by Alice Hohenberg Federico, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
JAN 18 Exhibition opens, 2019 Double Exposure – Junior Division Exhibition, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa (JAN 18-FEB 10)
JAN 24 Artist Lecture: Michi Meko, Gorgas Library 205, 7 pm
NOW-JAN 31 LaShonda Scott Robinson,  Tuscaloosa County Juvenile Court Lobby, 6001 12th Ave., East

FEBRUARY FIRST FRIDAY & ART NIGHT (gallery guide

FEB 1 Awards Presentation and Opening Reception, 2019 Double Exposure – Adult Division Exhibition, The Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa (FEB 1-22), 5-8 pm

FEB 7 Art Night at Kentuck Art Center, Northport
DEC 4-FEB 7, 2019 Kentuck’s Studio ArtistsKentuck Art Center and Teer Gallery, Northport
JAN 18-FEB 10 2019 Double Exposure – Junior Division Exhibition, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa
FEB 10 2019 Awards Presentation and Closing Reception, 2019 Double Exposure – Junior Division Exhibition, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa (JAN 18-FEB 10), 2-3 pm
NOW-FEB 15 Lorrie Lane
FEB 20 Artist Lecture: Ben Vida, Gorgas Library 205, 7 pm
FEB 1-22 2019 Double Exposure – Adult Division Exhibition, The Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa

MAR 5 Artist Lecture: Iva Gueorguieva, Gorgas Library 205, 7 pm
JAN 24-MAR 8, 2019 Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu , Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
MAR 21-28 Master of Arts Thesis Exhibition (TBA), Sella-Granata Art Gallery

APR TBA, 2019 Hog Wild for Art Festival, Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center, Camden
APR 8-11 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition (TBA), Sella-Granata Art Gallery
APR 13, 2019 Rooster Day, Marengo County Historical Society, Demopolis

MAR 21-MAY 3, 2019 Confluence by Jerry Uelsmann, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art
NOW-MAY 18 Tuscaloosa and the Capital Period, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, 1901 Jack Warner Pkwy, Tuscaloosa

NOW-DEC 31, 2019 ‘Of This Goodly Land:’ Celebrating Alabama’s Bicentennial, 1819-2019, Gorgas Library: Pearce Lobby, Williams Collection; M.H. Bryant Hall: Hoole Special Collections

ANYTIME: Experience the Monsters that Tookover Tuscaloosa or stroll through UA’s Woods Quad Sculpture Garden with six outdoor sculptures, plus other sculptures in adjoining campus lawns and four galleries/museums in the heart of campus.

CALENDARS, EVENT LISTS & VISUAL ARTS SITESJosh Dugat, Monster Takeover 2018, at Babes Donuts

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://artsrevive.com/ (Selma)
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)
https://usdac.us/tuscaloosa (Black Warrior Outpost of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture)
http://bryantmuseum.com/
http://www.artsbma.org/exhibitions/current/
http://cac.tuscarts.org/cacgallery.php (Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC)
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://firstfridaytuscaloosa.com/
http://gorgashouse.ua.edu/
http://graceaberdean.com/
http://www.firstfridaytuscaloosa.com/art-galleries/harrison-galleries-llc
https://www.facebook.com/HookedOnArtsFestival (Wilcox County)
http://www.hooverlibrary.org/galleries
http://tuscarts.org/gallery-juniorleague.php (Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre)
http://www.kentuck.org/
http://stephensmith.gallery/exhibitions.html
http://www.warnertransportationmuseum.com/
https://www.montevallo.edu/academics/colleges/college-of-fine-arts/departments/department-of-art/the-gallery/
http://www.oconnorartstudios.com/
https://www.facebook.com/riverportgallerynorthport
http://scfac.uwa.edu/default.htm (Sumter County Fine Arts Council)
http://www.themakersmarketalabama.com/
http://www.tuscarts.org/calendarofevents.php
http://www.tuscarts.org/artnight.php
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://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”