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Elements of Clay, Water, Light Enhance Art in West Alabama

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, August 16, 2017. Pottery, watercolors and photography are just a few of the elements enhancing (not “eclipsing”) art this week. Please send us your visual arts events — we want to know what you are up to! This list is updated throughout the week.ceramics by Kerry Tyson Kennedy

ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)

AUG 17 Art with Friends (3rd Thursday), Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, 5:30-7:30 pm
NOW- AUG 18 “It’s Never Too Late to Start” – Art from Osher Lifelong Learning Institute students, UA Gallery, DWCAC
AUG 18 Opening Reception, Aquatic Dreams Exhibition, Daniel Day Gallery, B’ham, 6-9 pm
NOW-AUG 23 Bury the Hatchet: Paintings by Bryce Speed, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
AUG 23 (Watch This Space!!)
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 MegoArts Council Gallery, DWCAC 
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 Photo by Kathryn Mayo titled, “Afriye Wekandodis, 61”
AUG 31 Artist Applications for 48th Annual Fayette Arts Festival, Guthrie Smith Park, Fayette (SEP 9)

SEPTEMBER FIRST FRIDAY & ART NIGHT (switched!) (gallery guide)
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, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa (resuming after summer break), 5:30-8:30 pm
NOW-SEP 1 Small Curious Wonders, University Medical Center, Tuscaloosa
SEP 6 Public artist lecture by Kathryn Mayo (We are Selma exhibition), 205 Gorgas Library, UA, 7 pm
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 48th Annual Fayette Arts Festival, Guthrie Smith Park, Hwy 43 North, Fayette, 9 am-3 pm
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 Bryce Speed at Kentuck, 2017
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 ExhibitArts 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, MS
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, Poster for Small Curious Wonders exhibition
NOW-OCT 21 “Lafayette, We Are Here!” America Enters The First World War, Westervelt Transportation Museum, Tuscaloosa
OCT 21-22 46th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport, AL
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

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
DEC 3 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm

DECEMBER FIRST FRIDAY & ART NIGHT (switched!) (World War I Posters for Transportation Museum exhibit
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)

DEC 1-JAN 5 Clay Co-op Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
DEC 7-JAN 12, 2018 Kentuck Studio Artists, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
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 New Works by Daniel Livingston

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://tuscarts.org/gallery-juniorleague.php (Bama Theatre galleries)
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://gorgashouse.ua.edu/
http://graceaberdean.com/
https://www.facebook.com/HookedOnArtsFestival (Wilcox County)
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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