October Art Night & First Friday in West Alabama

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, October 5, 2022. It’s October Art Night and First Friday, with the best weather possible! We hope you get to visit your favorite artists and make some new friends around West Alabama this week! Thanks to Lorrie Lane for the image above. And thank you for continuing to support artists wherever you can. Subscribe here and forward this list to a friend!

Bryce Speed, “Cake Walk,” 2022, acrylic on wood, 10 x 8 inches. Image courtesy of the artist.

OCTOBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY

NOW-NOV 19 Artist Registration is Open for Eight X Eight (8 X 8) Holiday Art Show, Historic Drish House (DEC 9-10)
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 Opening, Abi Brewer Paintings (Kentuck Festival Preview), U-Perk, 405 20th Avenue, Tuscaloosa
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, Lorrie Lane Studio, 2420 Sixth St., Tuscaloosa, 5-8 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 11 Applications being accepted for Druid City Arts Festival (DCAF) through FEB 23, 2023. Festival is MAR 31-APR 1.
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
OCT 13 Fall Salon Show, Paperworkers Local, 2717 Seventh Avenue South · Birmingham (OCT 13-DEC 17), 6-8 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 14 Exhibition opens, Art Expressions: Shoals Artists Guild Member Exhibition, Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts, 217 E. Tuscaloosa St., Florence, Alabama (OCT 14-NOV 14)
OCT 15-16 51st Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport
OCT 16 Reception, Art Expressions: Shoals Artists Guild Member Exhibition, Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts, (OCT 14-NOV 14) 2-4 pm
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)
OCT 20 Opening reception, Black Belt Pantheon: Paintings by Ian Crawford, 912 Selma Avenue, Selma (OCT 20-NOV 21)
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
OCT 29 Exhibition opening, Kinfolk: Black Belt Art Collective Exhibition, Altman Riddick Gallery, Coleman Center for the Arts, 630 Avenue A, York, Alabama (OCT 29-JAN 17, 2023)
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
NOW-OCT 31 Columbus City Schools and Ian Turner, Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss.

NOVEMBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY

NOV 3 Art Night, Kentuck Art Center, downtown Northport
NOV 3 Art Night, Food-themed Art Show, Teer Gallery, Clarke Building, Kentuck, Northport (NOV 3-DEC 31)
NOV 4 First Friday Art Walk, downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm
Rebecca Rutstein at the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art
NOV 4 First Friday Artists’ Reception, Clay+/Invitational, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, 103 Garland Hall, UA (OCT 27-DEC 21), 5-7 pm
NOV 4 First Friday reception, Karen Brummund, Allison Grant, Holland Hopson, The Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa (NOV 4-17), 5-7 pm
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
NOW-NOV 4 Jason Tanner Young, Johnson Center for the Arts, 300 East Walnut Street, Troy, Alabama
NOW-NOV 4 Troy Bank & Trust Student Art, Johnson Center for the Arts, 300 East Walnut Street, Troy, Alabama

NOVEMBER EXHIBITIONS

NOV 5 52nd Fayette Arts Festival, Fayette Civic Center Art Museum, 530 Temple Ave. N., Fayette, 9am-3 pm
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
Kinfolk – Black Belt Art Collective at Coleman Center, York
NOV 12 Reception and artist talk, Kinfolk: Black Belt Art Collective Exhibition, Altman Riddick Gallery, Coleman Center for the Arts, 630 Avenue A, York, 6 pm (OCT 29-JAN 17, 2023)
OCT 14-NOV 14 Art Expressions: Shoals Artists Guild Member Exhibition, Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts, 217 E. Tuscaloosa St., Florence, Alabama
NOV 4-17 Karen Brummund, Allison Grant, Holland Hopson, The Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa
NOW-NOV 19 Artist Registration is Open for Eight X Eight (8 X 8) Holiday Art Show (DEC 9-10)
OCT 20-NOV 21 Black Belt Pantheon: Paintings by Ian Crawford, 912 Selma Avenue, Selma, hours by appointment
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.
OCT 20-DEC 1 Melissa Yes’s “Speciation,” Poole Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, University of Montevallo

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 1-4 Winter Market, Pop Start Community Space, 211B Broad St., York, 10 am-7 pm
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
DEC 2 Opening reception, Annual West Alabama Juried Art Show, The Arts Council Gallery at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 5-7 pm
NOW-DEC 2 I, Too, am Thornton Dial, Samford University Art Gallery, 800 Lakeshore Dr., Birmingham

DECEMBER EXHIBITIONS

DEC 1-4 Winter Market, Pop Start Community Space, 211B Broad St., York, 10 am-7 pm
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 9-10 Eight X Eight (8 X 8) Holiday Art Show, Historic Drish House, Greensboro Ave., 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, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa (JAN 6-20)
OCT 13-DEC 17 Fall Salon Show, Paperworkers Local, 2717 Seventh Avenue South, Birmingham, Saturdays, 12-4 pm
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 29-JAN 17, 2023 Kinfolk: Black Belt Art Collective Exhibition, Altman Riddick Gallery, Coleman Center for the Arts, 630 Avenue A, York, Alabama
Patty B. Driscoll at The UA Gallery, DWCAC
JAN 6-20 Annual West Alabama Juried Art Show, The Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
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
NOW-FEB 23 Applications being accepted for Druid City Arts Festival (DCAF). Festival is MAR 31-APR 1.
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
MAR 31-APR 1 Druid City Arts Festival (DCAF), Government Plaza, 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

Daniel White at Harrison Galleries in October

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

Steve Davis at SunHeart Metalworks, Northport

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.
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