Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, May 19, 2021. Check out bug photography, face jugs and 19th-century clothing, along with all the usual galleries to visit around West Alabama in May! You’ll find the schedule of art exhibitions and events around West Alabama in the Roundup online. Events are listed in order of ending date. Thanks to Lorrie Lane for the image above. And thank you for continuing to support your local artists wherever you can. If you go out, please wear a mask to stay safe and healthy!

MAY
- NOW-MAY 28 Tim Whitten, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
- NOW-MAY 28 Group Exhibition: “Flower-themed Art,” curated by Neel Alexander, Clarke Building, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
- NOW-MAY 31 Amelia Gayle Gorgas: An 1850s Bustle Dress Recreation, Gorgas House Museum, UA campus, reservations are required
JUNE
- NOW-JUN 1 Applications for 50th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport, Ala.
- JUN 3 Art Night at Kentuck, An Examination of Memory Painting, Kentuck Art Center, downtown Northport, 5-8 pm (JUN 2-AUG 1)
- JUN 4 First Friday Art Walk, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm
- JUN 4 First Friday, Lorrie Lane Studio, Sixth Street, Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm
- JUN 4 First Friday event, Mario Andres Robinson: A Brush with Time, Paul R. Jones Museum, Tuscaloosa (NOW-JUL 30)
- JUN 4 First Friday opening, Watercolor Society of Alabama’s Annual National Exhibition, The Arts Council Gallery and The University of Alabama Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa (JUN 4-JUL 23), 5-8 pm
- JUN 4 Opening reception, Emergence Juried Exhibition, Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, 511 North Water Street, Tuscumbia, Ala., 7 pm
- JUN 5 Artist demonstration, Stan Miller, awards judge for Watercolor Society of Alabama’s Annual National Exhibition; demo in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, 7 pm
Mario Andres Robinson at the Paul R. Jones Museum for June First Friday. - JUN 6 Awards reception, Watercolor Society of Alabama’s Annual National Exhibition, The Arts Council Gallery and The University of Alabama Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, 1:30-3:30 pm
- NOW-JUN 12 DaNeal Eberly: Figuratively Speaking, Carnegie Visual Arts Center, Decatur, Ala.
JUNE INTO JULY & LATER IN THE YEAR
- JUN 1-JUL 2 Emergence Juried Exhibition, Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, 511 North Water Street, Tuscumbia, Ala.
- JUL 7 Opening reception, Annual Tuscaloosa Poets and Painters Exhibition, Betak-Frangoulis Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane, 5-7 pm (JUL 7-mid AUG)
- JUN 4-JUL 23 Watercolor Society of Alabama’s Annual National Exhibition, The Arts Council Gallery and The University of Alabama Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa
- NOW-JUL 30 Mario Andres Robinson: A Brush with Time, Paul R. Jones Museum, 2308 6th St., Tuscaloosa
- NOW-JUL 31 BUGS Photography Exhibit, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Jack Warner Parkway, Tuscaloosa
- JUN 2-AUG 1 An Examination of Memory Painting, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
- NOW-AUG 2 Seascapes by Chloe York, Kentuck’s Gallery at Hotel Indigo, Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
- AUG 5 Art Night at Kentuck, Maralyn Wilson, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
- JUL 7-mid AUG 3rd Annual Tuscaloosa Poets and Painters Exhibition, Betak-Frangoulis Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane
- AUG 5-29 Maralyn Wilson, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
- SEP-OCT TBA Matters of Representation, curated by Kat Bornhoft, Warner Transportation Museum, Tuscaloosa
- SEP 2 Art Night at Kentuck, Lynthia Edwards, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
- SEP 2-OCT 2 Lynthia Edwards, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
- OCT 7 Art Night at Kentuck, Theresa Disney, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
- OCT 16-17 50th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport
- OCT 30 17th Annual Art in the Park, Gamble Park, Jasper, Ala., 9 am – 3 pm
- OCT 7-NOV 22 Theresa Disney, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
- NOV 13-14 Annual Alabama Designer Craftsmen Fine Art Show, Birmingham Botanical Gardens
- DEC 3 Art Night at Kentuck, Studio Artists, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
- DEC 1-JAN 27 Studio Artists, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
Arlaine Morrison at The Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center for June First Friday.
AREA GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS OPEN NOW
- Aaron Sanders Head Studio, 1310 Main Street, Greensboro, Ala., events announced on Facebook
- The Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, Mon.-Fri., 1-3 pm
- Carnegie Visual Arts Center, Decatur, Ala.
- Fayette Art Museum, 530 Temple Avenue, North, Fayette, Mon.-Fri., 9 am-12 pm and 1 pm-4 pm
- Kentuck Art Center, 503 Main Avenue, downtown Northport, Mon-Fri: 9:30am-5:30pm; Sat-Sun: 12pm-4pm
- Lorrie Lane Studio, 2420 Sixth St., Tuscaloosa, Mon-Fri, 12 noon-6 pm
- Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, 1901 Jack Warner Parkway, Tues.-Sat., 10 am-4:30 pm
- Moundville Archaeological Park Museum, Moundville, Ala., Seven days a week, 9:00 am- 5:00 pm
- Paul R. Jones Museum, Sixth St., Tuscaloosa, Mon.-Fri. 9 am – 5 pm (closed temporarily)
- Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, 103 Garland Hall, UA campus, Mon.-Fri., 9 am-12 noon and 1-4:30 pm during UA’s fall and spring semesters
- Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Woods Hall, UA campus, Mon.-Thurs. 9 am – 5:00 pm and Fri. 10:00 am – 3:30 m during UA’s fall and spring semesters
- The University of Alabama Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, M-W-F, 9 am-4 pm; T-Th, 9 am-3 pm; First Fridays, noon-8pm
ART ANYTIME – Online Exhibitions Around West Alabama
- Kentuck Art Center’s Online Artist Exhibitions
- An online tour of the Monster Takeover and other public sculptures in downtown Tuscaloosa and Northport.
- Stroll through UA’s Woods Quad Sculpture Garden, the Alabama Biennial and public sculpture throughout UA campus.
- Browse over 250 more Online Exhibitions of UA Art & Art History Exhibitions and Events
- For more art links, visit our Visual Arts Calendars, Venues & Websites page.
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Look for the Art Roundup e-list almost every week, a service of the UA Department of Art & Art History. We hope to provide a more or less comprehensive list of free 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.
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