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Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History for Wednesday, January 24, 2024. From selfies to finding selves to maps and mapping, West Alabama has an incredible variety of visual creativity. Thanks to Central High School’s art students and the Paul R. Jones Museum for the image above, and thanks to everyone for continuing to support artists. Events below are listed in order of ending date (scroll down for the bold “NOW“s). Subscribe here and forward this list to a friend!

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• NOW-JAN 25 Women and Gender Resource Center calls for submissions from Black artists for an Intercultural Diversity Center exhibition February 1 – 29, 2024
• NOW-JAN 31 Call for entries for The Feminine I, Alabama Women’s Caucus for Art (membership required)
• NOW-FEB 16 Call for artist entries for B24: Wiregrass Biennial at Wiregrass Museum of Art. Deadline to submit is Friday, February 16, 2024.
• NOW Group Art Exhibition Open Call to Exhibit in March and July 2024, Coleman Center for the Arts, York, Ala.
• MAR 1-JUN 1 Call for Artist Applications, 53rd Kentuck Festival (OCT 19-20, Location TBD)

JANUARY 2024 EXHIBITIONS

• JAN 25-30 Pop-Up Painting Exhibition, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Woods Hall, UA
• JAN 25 Opening reception, Deeply Placed: Karen Brummund, Jessica Henderson and Elisabeth Pellathy, Samford Art Gallery, 800 Lakeshore Dr., B’ham (JAN 25-FEB 29), 4:30-6 pm
• JAN 28 Art Panel: Sara Garden Armstrong and Amy Jenkins, Alabama Women’s Caucus for Art Gathering, North Huntsville Public Library, 3011 Sparkman Drive, H’ville, 2-4 pm
• NOW-JAN 28 Scott McQueen, Kentuck’s Gallery at Hotel Indigo, Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
• NOW-JAN 28 Kentuck’s Studio Artists, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
• NOW-JAN 30 The Northern Edge of the Gulf of Mexico: Visual Representations of Alabama during the Age of European Exploration and Settlement, c. 1592 – 1819, Gorgas Library 2nd floor, Pearce Foyer
• NOW-JAN 30 Robert Evans: Vertical Horizons: Inharmonic Shifts of Light, Color and Texture, Homer Castell Art Gallery, Meridian Community College, Meridian, Miss.
• JAN 30 Closing reception, Robert Evans: Vertical Horizons: Inharmonic Shifts of Light, Color and Texture, Homer Castell Art Gallery, Meridian Community College, (NOV 28-JAN 30, 2024), 4-5:30 pm
• NOW-JAN 31 Exhibitions: Sean Stewart and Sarah Barnes, Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, Miss
• NOW-JAN 31 Pat Snow: Selected Words & Images, Birmingham Public Library First Floor Gallery, 2100 Park Place, B’ham
• NOW-JAN 31 Kalmia: Jamey Grimes, Walnut Gallery, 806 Walnut St., Gadsden

  

FEBRUARY ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY

• FEB 1 Art Night: Jasmine Nicole Williams, Museum Gallery; Loretta Lynn, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
• FEB 1 Exhibition opens, Women and Gender Resource Center Black Creators Exhibition, Intercultural Diversity Center, UA Student Center (FEB 1-29)
• FEB 1 Opening reception, Similar but Different: William Dooley, Michael Ottersen, Renee Hanan Plata, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham (FEB 1-29), 5-6:30 pm
• FEB 2 First Friday Art Walk, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm
• FEB 2 First Friday closing reception and awards presentation, 2024 West Alabama Juried Show, The Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC (JAN 10-FEB 2), 5-7 pm, awards at 6:15 pm
• FEB 2 First Friday reception, Garden Ethics: Stephen W. Evans, The University of Alabama Gallery, Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa (JAN 19-MAR 29), 5-7 pm
• FEB 2  First Friday reception, WITHIN: Portrait Responses to the Paul R. Jones Collection, Paul R. Jones Museum, 6th St., Tuscaloosa (JAN 17-FEB 16), 5-8 pm
• FEB 2 First Friday event, Lorrie Lane Studio, 2420 Gary Fitts Street (6th St.), Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm
• NOW-FEB 2 Interconnections, curated by Madison L’Hoste, The Gallery at Bloch Hall, University of Montevallo
• FEB 2 Opening reception, Ali Hval: Golden Girls, Bells Gallery, Dothan, Ala. (FEB 2-24), 5-8 pm
• FEB 3 First Saturday in the Garden!! Join Steve Davis in the sculpture garden at Sunheart Metalworks, 802 Nick’s Kids (28th) Ave., Northport, 8 am-noon
• FEB 3 Closing reception, Big Heads, Small Faces: Steve Davis and Lorrie Lane, North Floor Gallery, Lowe Mill Arts, Huntsville (NOV 24-FEB 3), 5-7 pm

  

FEBRUARY EXHIBITIONS

• FEB 5 Reception, Women and Gender Resource Center Black Creators Exhibition, Intercultural Diversity Center, UA Student Center (FEB 1-29)
• FEB 8, Opening reception, Annual Juried Foundation Exhibition, The Gallery at Bloch Hall, University of Montevallo (FEB 8-MAR 7), 4-6 pm
• FEB 8 Artist Talk by Ali Hval, Bells Gallery, Dothan, Ala. (FEB 2-24), 6 pm
• NOW-FEB 10 Quilt Show, Old Courthouse Museum, Monroeville, Ala.
• NOW-FEB 12 2024 UA Department of Art and Art History Faculty Biennial Exhibition, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Garland Hall, UA
• FEB 13 Opening reception, Gail Morton: Coming into Focus, Homer Castell Art Gallery, Meridian (MS) Community College (FEB 13-MAR 19, 2024), 4-5:30 pm
• NOW-FEB 16 WITHIN: Portrait Responses to the Paul R. Jones Collection, Paul R. Jones Museum, 6th St., Tuscaloosa
• FEB 17 Kentuck’s Saturday Art Market, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 9:30 am-2 pm
• NOW-FEB 17 Stay Awhile: Kat Murray, Paperworkers Local, Birmingham
• FEB 2-24 Ali Hval: Golden Girls, Bells Gallery, Dothan, Ala.
• NOW-FEB 28 The Architecture of Don Buel Schuyler, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Jack Warner Pkwy, Tuscaloosa (call for hours)
• NOW-FEB 28 Mapping Tuscaloosa’s Queer Communities, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Jack Warner Pkwy, Tuscaloosa (call for hours)
• JAN 25-FEB 29 Deeply Placed: Karen Brummund, Jessica Henderson and Elisabeth Pellathy, Samford Art Gallery, 800 Lakeshore Dr., B’ham
• FEB 1-29 Women and Gender Resource Center Black Creators Exhibition, Intercultural Diversity Center, UA Student Center
• FEB 1-29 Jasmine Nicole Williams, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
• FEB 1-29 Loretta Lynn: Finding My Religion, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
• FEB 1-29 Similar but Different: William Dooley, Michael Ottersen, Renee Hanan Plata, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham

  

MARCH EXHIBITIONS & MORE

• MAR 1 First Friday Art Walk, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm
• MAR 1 First Friday event, Lorrie Lane Studio, 2420 Gary Fitts Street (6th St.), Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm
• MAR 1 Opening reception, Every Fiber, Bells Gallery, Dothan, Ala. (MAR 1-APR 13), 5-8 pm
• NOW-MAR 1 Angelo Granata, Maus Contemporary, Birmingham
• MAR 7 Art Night, Repurposed: Penny Dobson, Elayne Goodman, Kerry Leasure, Debra Mager, Diana Vest, Laura Walker, and Betsy Youngquist, Museum & Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
• FEB 8-MAR 7 Annual Juried Foundation Exhibition, The Gallery at Bloch Hall, University of Montevallo
• MAR 16 Kentuck’s Saturday Art Market, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 9:30 am-2 pm
• FEB 13-MAR 19 Gail Morton: Coming into Focus, Homer Castell Art Gallery, Meridian Community College, Meridian, Miss.
• NOW-MAR 29 Five Seasoned Artists plus one: Ann Betak, Sue Blackshear, Deborah Hughes, Janet Mego, Chris Metzger, Ainsley Greer, University Medical Center, 850 Peter Bryce Blvd., Tuscaloosa
• NOW-MAR 29 Garden Ethics: Stephen W. Evans, The University of Alabama Gallery, Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
• APR 4 Art Night, Repurposed: Penny Dobson, Elayne Goodman, Kerry Leasure, Debra Mager, Diana Vest, Laura Walker, and Betsy Youngquist), Museum & Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
• APR 5 First Friday Art Walk, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm
• APR 5 First Friday event, Lorrie Lane Studio, 2420 Gary Fitts Street (6th St.), Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm
• MAR 8-APR 12 The Feminine I, Alabama Women’s Caucus for Art, Alabama A&M, Morrison Fine Arts Building, Huntsville
• APR 13 Rooster Day, 211 N Walnut Ave, Demopolis, Ala.
• MAR 1-APR 13 Every Fiber, Bells Gallery, Dothan, Ala.
• APR 16 Opening reception, Annual Exhibition and Competition: MCC Fine Arts and Graphics Students, Homer Castell Art Gallery, Meridian (MS) Community College (APR 16-MAY 7), 4-5:30 pm
• APR 20 Kentuck’s Saturday Art Market, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 9:30 am-2 pm
• NOW-APR 30 SGA Student Artwork Exhibition: Abi Brewer, Emily Rabbideau, Cecily Downey, Aisley Walaitis, Gorgas Library 6th Floor, UA
• MAR 1-APR 30 Repurposed: Penny Dobson, Elayne Goodman, Kerry Leasure, Debra Mager, Diana Vest, Laura Walker, and Betsy Youngquist), Museum & Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
• MAY 2 Art Night with Ardith Goodwin, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
• MAY 2 Art Night with Rachel Wakefield, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
• MAY 3 First Friday Art Walk, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm
• MAY 3 First Friday event, Lorrie Lane Studio, 2420 Gary Fitts Street (6th St.), Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm
• APR 16-MAY 7 Annual Exhibition and Competition: MCC Fine Arts and Graphics Students, Homer Castell Art Gallery, Meridian Community College, Meridian, Miss.

  

• MAY 18 Kentuck’s Saturday Art Market, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 9:30 am-2 pm
• MAY 2-30 Ardith Goodwin, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
• MAY 2-30 Rachel Wakefield, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
• FEB 1-MAY 30 Selections from Kentuck’s Permanent Collection, SoNo Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport

AREA GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS

• Aaron Sanders Head Studio, 1310 Main Street, Greensboro, Ala., events announced on Facebook
• Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA), 1221 10th Ave S. (UAB), Birmingham
• The Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, Mon.-Fri., 1-3 pm, First Fridays 1-7 pm
• Bells Gallery, 1861 Main St., Ste. #1, Dothan, Hours: Thurs.-Fri., 11 am-6 pm, Sat. 10 am-2 pm
• Carnegie Visual Arts Center, Decatur, Ala.
• Casteel Gallery (formerly Miller Art Gallery), Ivy-Scaggs Hall, Meridian (Mississippi) Community College, Mon.-Thurs., 10 am-4 pm
• Coleman Center for the Arts, Altman Riddick Museum & Gallery, 630 Avenue A, York, Ala., Mon.-Thurs., 10 am-2 pm, and by appointment (Enter through the Hightower Memorial Library)
• Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss.
• Durbin Gallery, Birmingham-Southern College, Arkadelphia Road, Birmingham
• Fayette Art Museum, 530 Temple Avenue, North, Fayette, Mon.-Fri., 9 am-12 pm and 1 pm-4 pm
• Elaine Bailey Augustine Art Gallery, 615 N. Pine St., Florence (UNA campus)
• Fire Horse Pottery (Kerry Kennedy)
• Gadsden Museum of Art, 515 Broad St, Gadsden
• Gallery at 126, 126 West Tombigbee Street, Florence, Ala.
• 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, First Friday receptions, 6-9 pm, and by appointment.
• Heritage Hall Museum and Art Center, 200 South Street East, Talladega, Ala., Tues-Fri, 10 am-4 pm
• Hoover Public Library Galleries, 200 Municipal Drive, Hoover, Ala. (check the website for locations and hours)
• Intercultural Diversity Center exhibition space, 2nd floor, Student Center, UA campus
• 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 Gary Fitts Street (6th St.), Tuscaloosa, Mon-Fri, 10 am-6 pm
• Meridian Museum of Art, 628 25th Ave., Meridian, Mississippi, Tues.-Sat., 11 am-4 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, 2308 Gary Fitts Street (6th St.), Tusca., 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
• Samford Art Gallery, 153 Swearingen Hall, Samford University, 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, 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 the website, 109 Woods Hall, UA campus
• Sunheart Metalworks Studio & Sculpture Garden, 802 Nick’s Kids (28th) Ave., Northport, First Sat. 8 am- 12 noon and other times by chance or appointment
• Stephen Smith Fine Art, ​5104 Gary Ave., Fairfield
• Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia
• The Gallery at 103 Broad St., Camden (Wilcox Artworks)
• 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 Exhibitions: Wellness Walls for Art, 850 Peter Bryce Blvd, Tuscaloosa, M-F, 8 am-5 pm
• 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
• Walnut Gallery, 806 Walnut St, Gadsden
• Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, Alabama, W-F 10 am-5 pm, Sat. 10 am- 3 pm, +check website

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. 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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