Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, August 23, 2017. The sun has come back out after the eclipse and the Art Roundup is proud to be a part of the Arts Council’s new First Friday Tuscaloosa website! 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
NOW-AUG 23 Bury the Hatchet: Paintings by Bryce Speed, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, Ala.
AUG 23 First Friday Tuscaloosa website launch! (click here!)
AUG 24 Exhibition opening, We are Selma: The Selma Portrait Project by Kathryn Mayo, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA (AUG 24-SEP 29)
NOW-AUG 25 Dancing ‘Round the Rabbit Hole: Paintings by Janet Mego, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
NOW-AUG 25 Collected Memory, Paul R. Jones Gallery, 6th Street, Tuscaloosa
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)
NOW-AUG 31 Nothing Adventured, Nothing Learned – Photography by Lindsay Madison, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa
NOW-AUG 31 Alvin Sella, Hoover Public Library Plaza Gallery, Hoover, Ala.
AUG 31 DEADLINE Artist Applications for 48th Annual Fayette Arts Festival, Guthrie Smith Park, Fayette (SEP 9)
SEPTEMBER FIRST FRIDAY (
SEP 1 First Friday Reception, Portraits of Service Project and Tom Rosenstiel Dual Exhibit, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC (SEP 1-29), 5-8 pm
SEP 1 First Friday opening, The Faces And Places Of Rabbit Holes: Janet Mego, Canterbury Episcopal Chapel, Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa
SEP 1 First Friday Opening, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa (resuming after summer break), 5:30-8:30 pm
SEP 1 First Friday Reception, Cory Patton and Vinyl Artworks, Grace Aberdean Habitat Alchemy, 9th St., Tuscaloosa, 6-9 pm
SEP 1 First Friday Reception, New Works by Daniel Livingston, Harrison Galleries, Tuscaloosa
NOW-SEP 1 Small Curious Wonders, University Medical Center, Tuscaloosa
SEP 1-8 Submissions accepted, 33rd Annual West Alabama Juried Show, SEP 1, midnight on.
ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)
SEP 6 Public artist lecture by Kathryn Mayo (We are Selma exhibition), 205 Gorgas Library, UA, 7 pm
SEPTEMBER ART NIGHT (gallery guide)
SEP 7 Art Night Reception We are Selma: The Selma Portrait Project by Kathryn Mayo, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA, 5-7 pm
SEP 7 Art Night, Yvonne Wells, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL, (SEP 7-OCT 20), 5-8 pm
SEP 9 
SEP 10 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm
NOW-SEP 15 ArtWorks 2017: Tennessee Valley Art Association artist members, Tenn. Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia
AUG 25-SEP 16 Ink Only Printmaking Juried Exhibition, UAB Art and Art History’s Project Space, 900 13th Street South, Birmingham
SEP 21 Art with Friends (3rd Thursday), Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, 5:30-7:30 pm
SEP 23, Museum Day Live with free admission, Gorgas House Museum, Tuscaloosa, 11 am – 2 pm
NOW-SEP 24 Red Dog Potters exhibition, Tuscaloosa Museum of Art
NOW-SEP 29 William C. Gorgas and the Great War, Gorgas House Museum, UA
AUG 24-SEP 29 We are Selma: The Selma Portrait Project by Kathryn Mayo, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
SEP 1-29 Portraits of Service Project and Tom Rosenstiel Dual Exhibit, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
NOW-SEP 30 New Works by Daniel Livingston, Harrison Galleries, Tuscaloosa
OCTOBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)
OCT 5 Art Night, Kentuck Art Center, downtown Northport
OCT 6 First Friday Reception, Brenda Miller Photography Exhibit, Arts 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, Miss.
OCT 12 Opening, Contemporary Consolidated: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA (OCT 12-NOV 22)
NOW-OCT 15 Paintings by Sydney Gruber, Tuscaloosa County Juvenile Court Lobby, 6001 12th Ave., East
OCT 19 Monster Makeover VIII Art Auction and Festival, The Historic Drish House, Tuscaloosa, 5-7:30 pm
NOW-OCT 20 Sipsey Arts Alliance Exhibition: Four Southern Women – Cece Hale, Carmalinda Johnson Farley, Jo Frances Abbott White, Phyllis Williams, Fayette Art Museum, Fayette
SEP 7-OCT 20 Yvonne Wells, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
OCT 21-22 46th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport
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
OCT 2-NOV 5 33rd Annual West Alabama Juried Show, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa
NOV 5 Closing reception, 33rd Annual West Alabama Juried Show, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, 2-3 pm
NOV 7-8 5th Annual Chilton County Arts Festival, Clanton Performing Arts Center, AL, 9 am-3 pm
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
OCT 2-NOV 30 Christopher Jordan, Friends Gallery, then Plaza Gallery, Hoover Public Library, Hoover, Ala.
DEC 3 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm
DECEMBER FIRST FRIDAY & ART NIGHT (switched!) (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)
NOW-DEC 21 Extended! “Lafayette, We Are Here!” America Enters The First World War, Westervelt Transportation Museum, Tuscaloosa
DEC 1-JAN 5 Clay Co-op Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
DEC 7-JAN 12, 2018 Kentuck Studio Artists, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
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
MAR 22, 2018 Reception, Out of Order: Tobias Layman’s MFA Thesis Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm (MAR 12-30)
MAR 12 – 30, 2018 Out of Order: Tobias Layman’s MFA Thesis Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
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://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/
https://www.facebook.com/HookedOnArtsFestival (Wilcox County)
http://tuscarts.org/gallery-juniorleague.php (Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre)
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/the-gallery/
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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