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Autumnal Art Night and First Friday Welcome You!

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, September 30, 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!Installation view of work by Derek G. Larson for [monitor]

ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY

OCT 1 Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center 10th Anniversary Celebration, Camden, 5 pm
OCT 1
Art Night at Riverport Studio & Gallery, Northport, 6:30-9 pm
OCT 1 Art Night at Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm

OCT 2
First Friday, Keena Nichelle Graham, Grace Aberdean Habitat Alchemy, 9th St., Tuscaloosa, 6-9 pm
OCT 2 First Friday Reception, Marc Mitchell & Derek Larson, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA, 5-8 pm
OCT 2 First Friday Reception, Every Night: An Exhibition of Paintings by Roger Jones, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa, 5:30-7:30 pm (OCT 1-30)
OCT 2 First Friday Reception and Artist’s Talk, Rachel Dobson, "Come on, be with us!," 3 of 5 pieces, 2015

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

LAST DAY SEP 30 Aquatic Gardens: Travels through the Imagination, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Jack Warner Pkwy, Tuscaloosa
LAST DAY SEP 30 Rachel Cano and Ian Bittner present The Duente: A Treatise on Defecting, Canterbury Chapel Art Gallery (music event: SEP 23 6-8 pm)
OCT 4 Reception, Brandon Baggett’s Druid City Art Show!, Druid City Brewing Company, Tuscaloosa, 3-6 pm
OCT 6 Black Belt Treasures, Camden, Alabama
NOW-OCT 6 Natural Wonders, Wellness Walls for Art, University Medical Center, 850 5th Ave., East, Tuscaloosa
OCT 7-11 Moundville Native American Festival, Moundville
NOW-OCT 10 Hither and Yon, The Fuel & Lumber Company, Birmingham
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 Joyce J. Scott: Truths and Visions, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
OCT 17-18 Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport
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
OCT 1-30 Every Night: An Exhibition of Paintings by Roger Jones, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa (reception OCT 2)
OCT 2-30 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 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)
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"Wish You Were Here" community postcard show at the Kentuck T.E.M.P. gallery.
NOW-NOV 13 Aquatic Dreams, Daniel Day Gallery, 3025 6th Ave., S., B’ham
OCT 5-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 DEADLINEDouble Exposure Photography Exhibition, Arts Council of Tuscaloosa
NOV 5-30 Miz Thang, T.E.M.P. Gallery, Kentuck Art Center

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
https://www.facebook.com/ttownwawa/  (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!