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Find Your Creative Space This Summer in West Alabama

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Thursday, May 25, 2017. School’s out and art is IN! Find your places to see and cultivate your creative self in West Alabama. Please send us your visual arts events — we want to know what you are up to! This list is updated throughout the week.

HAPPENING NOW OR ENDING SOON Kentuck artists in Collaborate

ENDING TODAY Collaborate, Kentuck Artists at UA Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
NOW-MAY 26 MFA Thesis Exhibitions: Kelsey Windham and Celestia MorganSarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
NOW-MAY 27 Chris “Chub” Hubbard, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
MAY 17-30 Requiem for Steam: The Railroad Photographs of David Plowden, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum
NOW-MAY 31 Specimens and Speculations – Sabrina Pearson-Adams and Jamie Adams, Betak/Frangoulis Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Tuscaloosa
NOW-MAY 31 For Home and Country:  America’s Entry into the Great War, Pearce Lobby, Gorgas Library 2nd floor

JUNE ART NIGHT AND FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)

JUN 1 Art Night: “Willie Willie” Lamendola, Bernard Wilson, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
JUN 1 Deadline to apply to 46th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Northport
JUN 2 First Friday Reception, Retrospective: Bethany and Frank Engle Exhibit, Arts Council and UA Gallery, DWCAC (JUN 2-30), 5-8 pm
JUN 2 First Friday Opening, Sabrina and Jamie Adams at Canterbury

ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date) 

JUN 15 DEADLINE to Submit: Ink Only Juried Competition for Printmaking, Paperworkers Local, Birmingham
JUN 15 Art with Friends: Mimosas at the Beach, Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, 5:30-7:30 pm
NOW-JUN 24 Requiem for Steam: The Railroad Photographs of David Plowden, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Tuscaloosa
JUN 25 Reception, Nothing Adventured, Nothing Learned – Photography by Lindsay Madison, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa, 2-4 pm (JUN 16-AUG 31)
NOW-JUN 25 Sewn & Thrown: Traditional Quilts and Folk Pottery from Alabama (many West Alabama artists), Birmingham Public Library (downtown branch)
NOW-JUN 30 Perspectives: Individual Explorations of Identity through Image, Paul R. Jones Gallery, Tuscaloosa
JUN 1-30 “Willie Willie” Lamendola, Bernard Wilson, Collaborate: Kentuck Artists at UA Gallery, 2017
JUN 2-30 Retrospective: Bethany and Frank Engle ExhibitArts Council and UA Gallery, DWCAC
NOW-JUL 4 Side by Side: Paintings of Henry and Ann Betak, Wellness Walls for Art, University Medical Center, Tuscaloosa

JUL 6 Art Night, Myrna Gates, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (JUL 6-AUG 22), 5-8 pm
JUL 7 First Friday Opening, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa 5:30-8:30 pm
NOW-JUL 7 Lorrie Lane, Kentuck Gallery at Hotel Indigo, 111 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa
NOW-JUL 22 People’s Choice Art Competition Exhibit, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS

AUG 3 Art Night, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
AUG 4 First Friday, downtown Tuscaloosa galleries

JUL 6-AUG 22 Myrna Gates, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
AUG 25 Opening Reception and Awards,
JUN 16-AUG 31 Nothing Adventured, Nothing Learned – Photography by Lindsay Madison, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa

SEP 7 Art Night, Yvonne Wells, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (SEP 7-OCT 20), 5-8 pm
AUG 25-SEP 16 Ink Only Printmaking Juried Exhibition, UAB Art and Art History’s Project Space, 900 13th Street South, Birmingham
NOW-SEP 29 William C. Gorgas and the Great War, Gorgas House Museum, UA
NOW-SEP 29? “Lafayette, We Are Here!” America Enters The First World War, Hauser Hall, UA
AUG 23-OCT 7 43rd Annual Bi-State Art Juried Competition Exhibit, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
SEP 7-OCT 20 Yvonne Wells, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
OCT 21-22 46th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport, AL

NOV 2 Art Night, Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (NOV 2-30), 5-8 pm
NOV 7-8 5th Annual Chilton County Arts Festival, Clanton Performing Arts Center, AL, 9 am-3 pm
NOV 2-30 Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL

DEC 5 Art Night, Kentuck Studio Artists, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (DEC 5-JAN 12, 2018), 5-8 pm
DEC 5-JAN 12, 2018 Kentuck Studio Artists, The University of Alabama Gallery at the DWCAC

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/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/
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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Look for this e-list each week, a service of 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 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.

Thank you for supporting ALL of the arts all over West Alabama!
“Gathering West Alabama’s Visual Arts Events since September 2013”