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Art in the Park, on the Mound and all around West Alabama!

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, October 7, 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!

FIFTH ST Vintage Market, Northport, 2015ONGOING AND UPCOMING (in order of ending date unless one day event)

NOW-OCT 11 Moundville Native American Festival, Moundville
NOW-OCT 10 Hither and Yon, The Fuel & Lumber Company, Birmingham
OCT 10 Closing Event, Hither and Yon, The Fuel & Lumber Company, Bham
OCT 11 5th Street Vintage Market, 4150 5th St, Northport, 11 am-4 pm
OCT 11 Art in the Park, Creative Campus, Snow Hinton Park, Tuscaloosa, 2-5 pm
OCT 16 Fall Salon, PaperWorkers Local, Birmingham, 5:30-8 pm (Joi West, Roger Jones, Michael Merry)
OCT 16 DEADLINE: 31st Annual West Alabama Juried Show, Arts Council of Tuscaloosa
NOW-OCT 16 ART IN THE PARK 2015
OCT 17-18 Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, 9 am – 5 pm, Northport
OCT 19 Tuscaloosa Southern Exposure Screening, Ferguson Theater, UA, 6:30 pm
OCT 19-NOV 15 Family Matters: LGBTQ Youth Perspectives, Ferguson Center Art Gallery, UA
OCT 20 Reception, Family Matters: LGBTQ Youth Perspectives, Ferguson Center Art Gallery
NOW-OCT 23 Marc Mitchell & Derek Larson, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA (reception OCT 2)
OCT 27 Reception and auction, Monster Makeover VI, Tuscaloosa Transportation Museum, 5-8 pm
NOW-OCT 30 Every Night: An Exhibition of Paintings by Roger Jones, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa (reception OCT 2)
NOW-OCT 30 Fertile Ground: The Civil Rights Legacy in the Mississippi Delta – Photographs by Doris Derby, UA Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa (reception OCT 2)
NOW-OCT 31 Wish You Were Here community postcard art exhibition, T.E.M.P. Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
NOV 2 Dr. Lucy Curzon talks with K-12 students from Tuscaloosa City Schools visiting the Paul R. Jones Gallery of Art.
NOV 2 Reception for Russ Warren, SMGA, 103 Garland Hall, 6-8 pm
NOV 2 Artwork Pickup date, Wish You Were Here exhibition, T.E.M.P. Gallery, Kentuck
NOV 5 Reception, Entrelazado: An Exhibition of Cuban Printmaking, Sella-Granata Art Gallery (NOV 2-20)
NOV 6 Reception, WINGS – Insects and Other Life Forms by Kevin Ledgewood, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC (NOV 6-27), 5-8 pm
NOW-NOV 8 Mosaiques sur Toile – Mosaics on Canvas: A Retrospective of Works from the Life of Ernest Vial, 1937-1999, Tuscaloosa Museum of Art
NOW-NOV 15 Aquatic Dreams, Daniel Day Gallery, 3025 6th Ave., S., B’ham
NOW-NOV 20 K-12 Fellowship Exhibition: University Place Elementary and Bryant High, Paul R. Jones Gallery, Tuscaloosa
NOV 2-20 Entrelazado: An Exhibition of Cuban Printmaking, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA (reception NOV 5)
NOV 20 DEADLINEWings, art exhibition by Kevin Ledgewood at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center
NOV 5-30 Miz Thang, T.E.M.P. Gallery, Kentuck Art Center
NOV 6-27 WINGS – Insects and Other Life Forms by Kevin Ledgewood, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC

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/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 
https://www.facebook.com/selmaart.guild 
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!