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Celebrate November Art Night and First Friday!

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, November 1, 2017. Art Night and First Friday are coming right up, so check out the galleries you want to see with the Roundup and Charlotte Wegrzynowski, "Feathers Man," 2017.

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 Reception, Invoke: Works by Charlotte WegrzynowskiArts Council Gallery, DWCAC  (NOV 3-27), 5-8 pm
NOV 3 First Friday Reception, An Evening of Original Art: Jane Evers, Sally Hines, Claire Nichols, Sandra Ray and Leska Taylor, Grand Hall, DWCAC, 5-8 pm
NOV 3 First Friday Reception, Contemporary Consolidated: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The University of Alabama Gallery, DWCAC (OCT 12-NOV 22), 5:30-7:30 pm
NOV 3 First Friday Reception, Eclectic Way, Paul R. Jones Gallery of Art, Sixth Street, Tuscaloosa, 5:30-7:30 pm
NOV 3 First Friday Reception, Remembering Artist Linda Bell (Elles Beles), O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa, 5:30-8:30 pm
NOV 3 First Friday Reception, Anthony Tavis, Kentuck Gallery at Hotel Indigo, Tuscaloosa, 6-8 pm (NOW-JAN 22)
NOV 3 First Friday Reception, Grace Aberdean Habitat Alchemy, 2124 Ninth Street, 6-9 pm
NOV 3 First Friday Reception, Art work by Anthony Tavis

HAPPENING NOW OR ENDING SOON

NOV 7 Gallery Walkthrough with William Hall, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA, 10:00 am.
NOV 7-8 5th Annual Chilton County Arts Festival, Clanton Performing Arts Center, AL, 9 am-3 pm
NOV 8 Reception, Works by Emily Mitchell, Betak-Frangoulis Art GalleryCanterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, 5-7 pm

ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)

NOV 9 Visiting Artist Ridley Howard Lecture, 205 Gorgas Library, UA, 7 pm
NOV 16 Opening reception, The Westervelt Collection: In Jack’s Words, Tuscaloosa Museum of Art: Home of the Westervelt Collection, 1400 Jack Warner Pkwy NE (NOV 16-DEC 31)
NOV 18-19 Sipsey Arts Alliance 2017 Annual Christmas Market, Fayette (Ala.) Civic Center. Sat.: 10 am-4 pm; Sun.: 1-5 pmBill Hall in a gallery talk at the Cultural Arts Center's UA Gallery. hoto courtesy UA College of Arts and Sciences.
NOW-NOV 22 Contemporary Consolidated: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art AND The University Art Gallery, DWCAC
NOV 3-27 Invoke: Works by Charlotte WegrzynowskiArts Council Gallery, DWCAC
NOV 29 Exhibition opening, Multifarious: Eclectic Selections from the Blount Collection of Art, UA Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa (NOV 29-JAN 26)
NOV 2-30 Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
NOW-NOV 30 Sumter County Drawing Experiment, Coleman Center for the Arts, York
NOW-NOV 30 Christopher Jordan, Friends Gallery, then Plaza Gallery, Hoover Public Library, Hoover, Ala.

DECEMBER FIRST FRIDAY & ART NIGHT (gallery guide

DEC 1 First Friday Reception, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, 5:30-7:30 pm
DEC 1 First Friday Reception, Multifarious: Eclectic Selections from the Blount Collection of Art, The University of Alabama Gallery, DWCAC, 5:30-7:30 pm
DEC 1 First Friday Reception, Paul R. Jones Gallery of Art, Sixth Street, Tuscaloosa, 5:30-7:30 pm
DEC 1 First Friday Reception, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa, 5:30-8:30 pmSipsey Arts Alliance Christmas Market
DEC 1 First Friday Reception, Grace Aberdean Habitat Alchemy, 2124 Ninth Street, 6-9 pm
DEC 1 First Friday Reception,Harrison Galleries, 2315 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, 6-9 pm

NOW-DEC 2 Extended! Photos by Elizabeth Rand: The Stillness of Time, Manna Grocery, 2300 Meadowbrook Plaza, Tuscaloosa
DEC 3 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm

DECEMBER ART NIGHT

DEC 7 Art Night, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL, 5-8 pm

DEC 7 Cahaba River ArtWalk: 2717 7th Ave S., Birmingham, 5-8 pm
NOW-DEC 8 For Home and Country: Americas Entry into the War to End All Wars, Pearce Foyer 2nd flr., Gorgas Library, UA
DEC 10-17 Deadlines for Adult and Junior Divisions, 15th Annual Double Exposure Juried Photography Competition
NOW-DEC 21 “Lafayette, We Are Here!” America Enters The First World War, Westervelt Transportation Museum, Tuscaloosa
NOV 16-DEC 31 The Westervelt Collection: In Jack’s Words, Tuscaloosa Museum of Art: Home of the Westervelt Collection, 1400 Jack Warner Pkwy NE

2018

JANUARY ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)
JAN 4 Art Night, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
JAN 5 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)

DEC 1-JAN 5 Clay Co-op Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
NOW-JAN 9 Salmagundi: Sue Pieri, Karen Jacobs, Chris Metzger, Janet Mego and Deborah Hughes, University Medical Center, 850 5th Avenue East, Tuscaloosa
DEC 7-JAN 12 Kentuck Studio ArtistsKentuck Art Center, Northport
NOW-JAN 22 Anthony Tavis, Kentuck Gallery at Hotel Indigo, 111 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
DEC 7-JAN 26 Department of Art and Art History Studio Faculty Research Biennial, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
NOW-JAN 31 Hallie O’Kelley Quilts, Tuscaloosa County Juvenile Court Lobby, 6001 12th Ave., EastSalmagundi at Wellness Wall for Art, University Medical Center

FEBRUARY ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)
FEB 1 Art Night, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
FEB 2 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
FEB 2 Community Arts Conversations, Dinah Washington Cultural Art Center, Tuscaloosa, 5:30-7:30 pm

JAN 22-FEB 11 15th Annual Double Exposure Juried Photography Exhibit (Jr. Div.), Bama Theatre’s Junior League Gallery, 6th Street, Tuscaloosa
FEB 2-23 15th Annual Double Exposure Juried Photography Exhibit (Adult Div.), Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Greensboro Ave.
MAR 4 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm
MAR 22 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 Out of Order: Tobias Layman’s MFA Thesis Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
MAY Creative Campus Arts Research Projects Exhibition, Dinah Washington Cultural Art Center, Tuscaloosa (More TBA!)
JUN 3 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm

ANYTIME: Stroll between galleries through our Desktop News photo: aerial view of Woods Quad

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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