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Wish You Were Here For Art Night & First Friday — Oh, You Are!!

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, September 2, 2015.Amy Pirkle, "A Real Fighting Man," Instructors & 2-Year Grad Students Showcase, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Aug 24 - Sept. 17, 2015
Welcome to our weekly list of visual arts events and exhibitions around West Alabama and stretching a bit beyond, especially if you are a UA art alumnus/a. Please send us your visual art event if you are in the West Alabama area – we want to know!

ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY

SEP 3 Reception, Instructors & 2-Year Grad Students Showcase, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA
SEP 3 Art Night open house, Riverport Studio & Gallery, Northport
SEP 3 Reception, Wish You Were Here community postcard art exhibition, T.E.M.P. Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport

SEP 4 Reception,Tom Wegrzynowski: Apocrypha, Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm
SEP 4 Reception, Polk Photographs from The Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, PRJ Gallery, 5:30-7:30 pm
SEP 4 Paintings by Matt Daugherty, Painting by Lorrie Lane, Riverport Studio & Gallery

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

SEP 11 Reception, Hither and Yon, The Fuel & Lumber Company, Birmingham, 6-9 pm
SEP 12 Artist Panel (B’ham), Hither and Yon, The Fuel & Lumber Company,Birmingham, 4 pm
NOW-SEP 13 Karen Graffeo, Let Us Now Praise Famous Roma, Odessa Woolfolk Gallery, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
NOW-SEP 17 Instructors & 2-Year Grad Students Showcase, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA
SEP 4-25, Tom Wegrzynowski: Apocrypha, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
NOW-SEP 25 Joyce J. Scott, “Ancestry Doll: 1,” 2011
NOW-SEP 30 Interchanges at the Edge of Chaos, PaperWorkers Local, Birmingham
NOW-SEP 30 Aquatic Gardens: Travels through the Imagination, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Jack Warner Pkwy, Tuscaloosa
SEP 3-OCT 31 Wish You Were Here community postcard art exhibition, T.E.M.P. Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
OCT 2 Reception, Every Night: An Exhibition of Paintings by Roger Jones, Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa (OCT 1-30)
NOW-OCT 6 Natural Wonders, Wellness Walls for Art, University Medical Center, 850 5th Ave. E,  Tuscaloosa
SEP 11-OCT 10 Hither and Yon, The Fuel & Lumber Company, Birmingham
NOW-OCT 16 Art by Linda Bell (UA ARH alumna) in "Aquatic Gardens" at the Warner Transportation Museum September, 2015
OCT 17-18 Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport
OCT 1-30 Every Night: An Exhibition of Paintings by Roger Jones, Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa
NOV 5 Reception, Entrelazado: An Exhibition of Cuban Printmaking, Sella-Granata Art Gallery (NOV 2-20)
NOW-NOV 13 Aquatic Dreams, Daniel Day Gallery, 3025 6th Ave., S., B’ham
NOV 2-20 Entrelazado: An Exhibition of Cuban Printmaking, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA (reception NOV 5)
NOV 5-30 Miz Thang, T.E.M.P. Gallery, Kentuck Art Center

ANYTIME: Stroll between galleries through our Tom Wegrzynowski, "The Scientist," 2014, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches

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://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://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!