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Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, September 28, 2022. We hope you can catch some of the exhibitions before they close this week, in this cool, clear gallery-hopping weather! Thanks to Pat Snow for the image above. And thank you for continuing to support artists wherever you can. Subscribe here and forward this list to a friend!

SEPTEMBER EXHIBITIONS

• NOW-SEP 28 Pat Snow: You Will Never Read My Poetry, The University of Alabama Gallery, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
• JUST OPENED, NOW-DEC 31 Threaded Through History: A historic fictional narrative of Tuscaloosa in 1905, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, 1901 Jack Warner Pkwy, Tuscaloosa
• NOW-SEP 29 Lindanne Phillips solo exhibition, Walker County Arts Alliance, 1411 Indiana Ave., Jasper
• NOW-SEP 30 Cotton Rose Quilters Showcase, Johnson Center for the Arts, 300 East Walnut Street, Troy, Alabama
• NOW-SEP 30 Welcoming the Approach, printmaking exhibition, Capstone Village, 601 Peter Bryce Blvd., Tuscaloosa
• NOW-SEP 30 Seasons of Peace – Paintings by Kate Gurganus, University Medical Center, 850 Peter Bryce Blvd, Tuscaloosa
• NOW-SEP 30 Not So Much a Whisper: Sarah Cusimano Miles, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden
• NOW-SEP 30 Carson Grubaugh: Present, The Arts Council Gallery at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
• NOW-END of SEP First Twenty Years: Photography of Jeff Robinson, Harrison Galleries, 2315 Univ. Blvd., Tuscaloosa
• NOW-END of SEP Jay Cheathum and Evonte Shepherd, Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss.

OCTOBER EXHIBITIONS

• NOW-OCT 1 Stephanie Smith: Catch & Release, Paperworkers Local, 2717 7th Ave S #203, Birmingham
• OCT 2 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market 4150 5th St., 10am-3pm
• NOW-OCT 3 Charlie Frye, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport

OCTOBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY

• OCT 6 Art Night at Kentuck Art Center, downtown Northport
• OCT 7 First Friday Art Walk, downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm
• OCT 7 First Friday event, Lorrie Lane Studio, 2420 Sixth St., Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm
• OCT 7 First Friday reception, Think It and Breath It: Bryce Speed, The Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa (OCT 7-27), 5-7 pm
• OCT 7 First Friday event, The Magpie in the Mirror: Patty B. Driscoll, The University of Alabama Gallery, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa (OCT 7-DEC 2), 5-7 pm
• OCT 7 First Friday event, Horsepower: Cedric Smith, Paul R. Jones Museum, 6th Street, Tuscaloosa (OCT 7-DEC 9), 5-8 pm
• OCT 7 First Friday reception, Daniel White – Figurative Paintings, Harrison Galleries, 2315 Univ. Blvd., Tuscaloosa, 6-9 pm

OCTOBER EXHIBITIONS

• OCT 10 Exhibition opens, Formations – UA Studio Graduate Student Show, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Woods Hall, UA (OCT 10-25)
• OCT 12 Curator Talk: Patricia Watts, Garland Hall 203, UA campus, 5:30 p.m.
• OCT 13 Artists’ reception, Formations – UA Studio Graduate Student Show, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Woods Hall, UA (OCT 10-25), 5-7 pm
• NOW-OCT 13 Adrian Rhodes’s “Never Mind All That,” Poole Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, University of Montevallo
• NOW-OCT 14 Rebecca Rutstein: Out of Thin Air: Microscopic Journeys Through Cosmic Landscapes, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, 103 Garland Hall, UA
• OCT 15-16 51st Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport
• NOW-OCT 17, Charlie Frye, Kentuck’s Gallery at Hotel Indigo, Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
• OCT 18 Exhibition opening, Tim Spanjer, Kentuck’s Gallery at Hotel Indigo, Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa (OCT 18-JAN 23, 2023)

  

• NOW-OCT 20 The John and Pat Show, Gallery VOX, 1623 Pinson St., Tarrant City, Alabama
• OCT 20 Opening reception, Melissa Yes’s “Speciation,” Poole Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, University of Montevallo (OCT 20-DEC 1), 4-6 pm
• NOW-OCT 22 Watercolor Society of Alabama Member Showcase, Vestavia Hills Civic Center
• OCT 10-25 Formations: UA Studio Graduate Student Show, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Woods Hall, UA
• OCT 27 Exhibition opens, Clay+/Invitational, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, 103 Garland Hall, UA (OCT 27-DEC 21)
• OCT 27 Deadline for submissions, Annual West Alabama Juried Art Show
• OCT 7-27 Think It and Breath It: Bryce Speed, The Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
• NOW-OCT 31 Crowded Air: Sarah Marshall, Friends Gallery, Hoover Public Library
• OCT 7-31 Daniel White – Figurative Paintings, Harrison Galleries, 2315 Univ. Blvd., Tuscaloosa
• OCT 1-31 Columbus City Schools and Ian Turner, Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss.

NOVEMBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY

• NOV 3 NOV 3-DEC 31 Food-themed Art Show, Teer Gallery, Clarke Building, Kentuck, Northport
• NOV 4 First Friday Art Walk, downtown Tuscaloosa
• NOV 4 First Friday Artists’ Reception, Clay+/Invitational, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, 103 Garland Hall, UA (OCT 27-DEC 21)
• NOV 4 First Friday reception, Karen Brummund, Allison Grant, Holland Hopson, The Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa (NOV 4-17)
• NOV 4 First Friday artist’s reception, The Magpie in the Mirror: Patty B. Driscoll, The University of Alabama Gallery, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa (OCT 7-DEC 2), 5-7 pm
• NOV 4 First Friday artist’s reception, Horsepower: Cedric Smith, Paul R. Jones Museum, 6th Street, Tuscaloosa (OCT 7-DEC 9), 5-8 pm

NOVEMBER EXHIBITIONS

• NOV 5 52nd Fayette Arts Festival, Fayette Civic Center Art Museum, 530 Temple Ave. N., Fayette, 9am-3 pm
• OCT 5-NOV 4 Jason Tanner Young, Johnson Center for the Arts, 300 East Walnut Street, Troy, Alabama
• OCT 5-NOV 4 Troy Bank & Trust Student Art, Johnson Center for the Arts, 300 East Walnut Street, Troy, Alabama
• NOV 5 Saturday Art Market and Christmas Open House, Kentuck Art Center, 503 Main Avenue Northport, 9:30 am-2:00 pm
• NOW-NOV 5 Daisie Hoitsma and Jason Tanner Young: reach, Carnegie Visual Arts Center, 207 Church Street, NE, Decatur, Alabama
• NOV 6 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market 4150 5th St., 10am-3pm
• NOV 4-17 Karen Brummund, Allison Grant, Holland Hopson, The Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa

  

• OCT 6-NOV 24  Jeanie Holland and TR Reed, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
• OCT-NOV Zdenko Krtic, Friends and Plaza Galleries, Hoover Public Library
• NOV 1-30 Elayne Goodman, Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss.

DECEMBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY

• DEC 1 Art Night opening, Kentuck Studio Artists, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, 503 Main Avenue, Northport (DEC 1-JAN 27), 5:30-8:00 pm
• DEC 2 First Friday Art Walk, downtown Tuscaloosa
• DEC 2 Opening reception, Annual West Alabama Juried Art Show, The Arts Council Gallery at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 5-7 pm

DECEMBER EXHIBITIONS

• OCT 20-DEC 1 Melissa Yes’s “Speciation,” Poole Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, University of Montevallo
• DEC 2 First Friday Art Walk, downtown Tuscaloosa
• DEC 2 First Friday event, Horsepower: Cedric Smith, Paul R. Jones Museum, 6th Street, Tuscaloosa (OCT 7-DEC 9), 5-8 pm
• NOW-DEC 2 I, Too, am Thornton Dial, Samford University Art Gallery, 800 Lakeshore Dr., Birmingham
• OCT 7-DEC 2 Cedric Smith, Paul R. Jones Museum, 6th St., Tuscaloosa
• DEC 4 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market 4150 5th St., 10am-3pm
• OCT 7-DEC 9 Horsepower: Cedric Smith, Paul R. Jones Museum, 6th Street, Tuscaloosa
• DEC 9 Closing reception, Thornton Dial Retrospective: I, Too, Am Alabama, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA), UAB (SEP 9-DEC 10), time TBA
• NOW-DEC 10 Thornton Dial Retrospective: I, Too, Am Alabama, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA), UAB, Birmingham

  

• DEC 2-16 Annual West Alabama Juried Art Show, The Arts Council Gallery at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center
• OCT 27-DEC 21 Clay+ Invitational, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, 103 Garland Hall, UA
• NOV 9-DEC 30 Mike Benton, Johnson Center for the Arts, 300 East Walnut Street, Troy, Alabama
• NOV 9-DEC 30 Enid Probst and Donna Pickens, Johnson Center for the Arts, 300 East Walnut Street, Troy, Alabama
• NOW-DEC 31 Threaded Through History: A historic fictional narrative of Tuscaloosa in 1905, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, 1901 Jack Warner Pkwy, Tuscaloosa
• NOW-DEC 31 In and Outside the Book: Puppets and Poetry, works by Mary Ann Sampson, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan
• DEC 1-31 Cedar Hill Animal Sanctuary, Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss.

2023 ART EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

• JAN 12, 2023 Opening reception, Mother Nature, Mother Nurture, Samford University Art Gallery, 800 Lakeshore Dr., Birmingham (JAN 12-FEB 23), 4:30-7 pm
• JAN 12, 2023 Opening reception, Mary Virginia Pettway and Melissa Vandenberg, Wilcox ArtWorks, The Gallery, 103 Broad, Camden (JAN 12-FEB 25, ’23), 5:30-7:30 pm
• OCT 18-JAN 23 Tim Spanjer, Kentuck’s Gallery at Hotel Indigo, Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
• DEC 1-JAN 27, 2023 Kentuck Studio Artists, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, 503 Main Avenue, Northport
• DEC 2022-JAN 2023 William Dooley, Friends and Plaza Galleries, Hoover Public Library
• JAN-FEB 2023 Tony Bingham, Friends and Plaza Galleries, Hoover Public Library
• FEB-MAR 2023 Sara Garden Armstrong, Friends and Plaza Galleries, Hoover Public Library
• JAN 12-FEB 23 Mother Nature, Mother Nurture, Samford University Art Gallery, 800 Lakeshore Dr., Birmingham
• JAN 11-FEB 24 PRJCAA K-12 Exhibition, Paul R. Jones Museum, 6th St., Tuscaloosa
• JAN 12-FEB 25 Alabama Fiber Art Conference, Camden, Ala.
• JAN 12-FEB 25 Mary Virginia Pettway and Melissa Vandenberg, Wilcox ArtWorks, The Gallery, 103 Broad, Camden, Ala.
• FEB 1-28 Miriam Omura, Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss.
• MAR 1-31 Church Goin’ Mule Folk Art, Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss.
• MAR 3-APR 28 Michael C. Thorpe, Paul R. Jones Museum, 6th St., Tuscaloosa
• APR 1-30 Southern Fiber Artists, Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss.
• JUN 1-30 Joseph MacGown Painting and Pottery, 501 Main St., Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, Miss.
• JUL 1-31 Lorrie Lane and Andre Ray, 501 Main St., Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, Miss.

AREA GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS

• 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, First Fridays 1-7 pm
• Bells Gallery, 1861 Main Street, Suite #1, Dothan, opening September 1, Hours: Thurs.-Fri., 11 am-6 pm, Sat. 10 am-2 pm
• Carnegie Visual Arts Center, Decatur, Ala.
• Coleman Center for the Arts, 630 Avenue A, York, Ala.

  

• Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss.
• Fayette Art Museum, 530 Temple Avenue, North, Fayette, Mon.-Fri., 9 am-12 pm and 1 pm-4 pm
• Fool’s Gold Gallery, 2424 6th Street, Tuscaloosa, Tues.-Sat., 12 noon – 8 pm (check the link)
• Gallery 905, Arts Revive, 3 Church Street, Selma
• Gallery VOX, 1623 Pinson Street, Tarrant City, Ala.
• Ground Floor Contemporary, 111 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd. S., Birmingham, Sat. 1-4 pm, and First Thursdays, 5-7 pm
• Harrison Galleries, 2315 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa
• Hoover Public Library Galleries, 200 Municipal Drive, Hoover, Ala. (check the website for locations and hours)
• Johnson Center for the Arts, 300 East Walnut, Troy, Ala., Mon-Fri: 10 am – 5 pm
• Kentuck Art Center, 503 Main Avenue, downtown Northport, Mon-Fri: 9:30 am-5:30 pm; Sat-Sun: 12 pm-4 pm (Museum Gallery, Teer Gallery, Kentuck at Indigo, Art Night)
• 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
• Paperworkers Local printmaking coop and gallery, 2717 7th Ave., S., Suite 203, B’ham, Sat. 11 am-4 pm
• Paul R. Jones Museum, Sixth St., Tuscaloosa, Mon.-Fri. 9 am-5 pm and 12-8 pm First Fridays
• Paul W. Bryant Museum, 300 Bryant Drive, Tuscaloosa, Tues.-Sun., 9 am-4 pm
• Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, 103 Garland Hall, UA campus, Mon.-Fri. 9 am-4:30 pm
• Scott Miller Projects, 2212 Morris Avenue, Ste. 103, Birmingham
• Sella-Granata Art Gallery, check hours on our website, Woods Hall, UA campus
• SunHeart Metalworks Studio & Sculpture Garden, 802 Nick’s Kids Ave., Northport, First Sat. 9 am- 1 pm and other times by chance or appointment
• Stephen Smith Fine Art, ​5104 Gary Ave., Fairfield, Alabama
• Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia
• The University of Alabama Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, Mon.-Fri., 9 am-4 pm; First Fridays, noon-7 pm
• University Medical Center (Wellness Walls for Art), 850 Peter Bryce Blvd, Tuscaloosa
• Vinegar, 701 37th Street, South, Birmingham: 10 am–2 pm on Saturdays, and by appointment
• Walker County Arts Alliance, 1411 Indiana Ave., Jasper: Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri., 10 am-3 pm
• Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, Alabama

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.

ABOUT THIS CALENDAR

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. Very occasionally, non-profit events asking for a nominal entry fee or donation will be included. 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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