Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Several shows are wrapping up this week and next before the beginning of August, so catch them while you can! Events are listed in order of ending date. Thanks to Yvonne Wells for the image above. And thank you for continuing to support your local artists wherever you can. If you go out, please wear a mask to stay safe and healthy!
JULY
- NOW-JUL 22 Charlie Lucas and Yvonne Wells: What I Knew How To Do, EBSCO Fine Art Gallery, 105 West College St., Columbiana
- NOW-JUL 23 Watercolor Society of Alabama’s Annual National Exhibition, The Arts Council Gallery and The University of Alabama Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa
- JUL 30 Wade MacDonald Artist Talk, Hoover Public Library Galleries, Instagram, 11 am
- JUL 30 Artist tour, Jude Anogwih: When a Door Opens Windows Do Too. No.2, Arts Revive Create Space, Gallery 905, Selma, Ala.(JUL 22-AUG 22), 12-2 pm
- NOW-JUL 30 Mario Andres Robinson: A Brush with Time, Paul R. Jones Museum, 2308 6th St., Tuscaloosa
- JUL 31 Chilton County Arts Festival, Clanton Performing Arts Center, Jefferson State Community College, 1850 Lay Dam Road, Clanton, 9 am-3 pm
- NOW-JUL 31 Wade MacDonald: Septem Speculis, Virtual Exhibition, Hoover Public Library Galleries, Hoover
- NOW-JUL 31 Sipsey Arts Alliance July Featured Artist: Joseph (Butch) Intravartolo, online
- NOW-JUL 31 BUGS Photography Exhibit, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Jack Warner Parkway, Tuscaloosa
- NOW-AUG 1 An Examination of Memory Painting, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
- NOW-AUG 1 3rd Annual Tuscaloosa Poets and Painters Exhibition, Betak-Frangoulis Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane
- NOW-AUG 1 Akachi: Hand of God-Works by Winfred Hawkins, Carnegie Visual Arts Center, Decatur, Ala.
- NOW-AUG 2 Seascapes by Chloe York, Kentuck’s Gallery at Hotel Indigo, Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
- AUG 4 Artist reception, Melissa Mahan-McCarty: Art From Nonaville, Betak/Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa (AUG 4-SEP 30), 5-7 pm
AUGUST ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY
- AUG 5 Art Night at Kentuck, Maralyn Wilson, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
- AUG 5 Art Night Opening: Lucas McDaniel: Life Lines, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport (AUG 5-31)
- AUG 5 Opening reception, Leanna Leithauser-Lesley and Roger Stephenson: I AM MUSIC, EBSCO Fine Art Gallery, Shelby County Art Center, Columbiana (AUG 5-SEP 9), 6-8 pm
- AUG 6 Artist tour, Jude Anogwih: When a Door Opens Windows Do Too. No.2, Arts Revive Create Space, Gallery 905, Selma, Ala.(JUL 22-AUG 22), 12-2 pm
- AUG 6 First Friday Art Walk, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm
- AUG 6 First Friday, Lorrie Lane Studio, Sixth Street, Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm
- AUG 6 First Friday, Marian Baker Exhibition, Kentuck’s Gallery at Hotel Indigo, 111 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa (AUG 5-NOV 3)
- AUG 6 Exhibition opening, Constructed Complexity: Assemblage and Collage in the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, Paul R. Jones Museum, Tuscaloosa (AUG 6-SEP 24)
- AUG 6 Exhibition opening, Dangerous Landscapes: Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Progress in the Age of Climate Change, The University of Alabama Gallery, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa (AUG 6-SEP 24)
- AUG 6 First Friday Opening, Jay Waters: The Fringe Quarter and Points West, The Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa (AUG 6-SEP 24), 5-8 pm
- AUG 6 Opening reception, Transient Machinations: Sarah Marshall and John Klosterman, Gadsden Museum of Art, 515 Broad St., Gadsden, Ala., 5 pm
- AUG 6-7 Opening, Aaron Head, Ian Crawford, Doug Baulos Exhibition, Aaron Sanders Head Studio, 1310 Main Street, Greensboro
AUGUST EXHIBITIONS
- AUG 13 Artist tour, Jude Anogwih: When a Door Opens Windows Do Too. No.2, Arts Revive Create Space, Gallery 905, Selma, Ala.(JUL 22-AUG 22), 12-2 pm
- NOW-AUG 15 44th Montgomery Art Guild Museum Exhibition, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
- NOW-AUG 15 Tim Sanjer, Main Gallery, Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss. (dates are approx.)
- NOW-AUG 15 Nancy Scott and Sydney Gruber, Artist Alley, Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss. (dates are approx.)
- NOW-AUG 15 Joi West Exhibition: Southern Faces Project, Paperworkers Local, 2717 7th Ave., S., Birmingham
- AUG 20 Artist tour, Jude Anogwih: When a Door Opens Windows Do Too. No.2, Arts Revive Create Space, Gallery 905, Selma, Ala.(JUL 22-AUG 22), 12-2 pm
- NOW-AUG 22 Jude Anogwih: When a Door Opens Windows Do Too. No.2, Arts Revive Create Space, Gallery 905, Selma, Ala.
- NOW-AUG 25 BFA Alumni Summer Show, Poole Art Gallery, University of Montevallo
- JUL 23-AUG 27 Deborah Brown: Shadow Paintings, Scott Miller Projects, 2212 Morris Ave., Ste 103, Birmingham
- AUG 28-29 46th Annual Black Belt Folk Roots Festival, Old Courthouse Square, Eutaw, Ala. (Aug. 28, 11 am-6 pm; Aug. 29, 2 pm-7 pm)
- AUG 5-29 Maralyn Wilson, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
- AUG 5-31 Lucas McDaniel: Life Lines, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
- NOW-AUG 31 Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet Art Exhibit, Stephen Smith Fine Art, 5104 Gary Avenue Fairfield, Ala.
SEPTEMBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY
- SEP 2 Art Night at Kentuck, Lynthia Edwards, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
- SEP 3 First Friday Reception, Constructed Complexity: Assemblage and Collage in the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, Paul R. Jones Museum, Tuscaloosa (AUG 6-SEP 24), 5-8 pm
- SEP 3 First Friday Reception, Dangerous Landscapes: Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Progress in the Age of Climate Change, The University of Alabama Gallery, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa (AUG 6-SEP 24), 5-7 pm
SEPTEMBER & FALL EXHIBITIONS
- AUG 5-SEP 9 Leanna Leithauser-Lesley and Roger Stephenson: I AM MUSIC, EBSCO Fine Art Gallery, Shelby County Art Center, Columbiana
- AUG 6-SEP 24 Constructed Complexity: Assemblage and Collage in the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, Paul R. Jones Museum, Tuscaloosa
- AUG 6-SEP 24 Dangerous Landscapes: Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Progress in the Age of Climate Change, The University of Alabama Gallery, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
- AUG 6-SEP 24 Jay Waters: The Fringe Quarter and Points West, The Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
- AUG 4-SEP 30 Melissa Mahan-McCarty: Art From Nonaville, Betak/Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa
- AUG 15-SEP 30 Do Good Fund/MUW Photography, Main Gallery, Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss. (dates are approx.)
- AUG 15-SEP 30 Sydney Gruber, Artist Alley, Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss. (dates are approx.)
- SEP 2-OCT 2 Lynthia Edwards, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
- OCT 7 Art Night at Kentuck, Theresa Disney, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
- SEP 3-OCT 8 Cryptic Coloration: The Map is Not the Territory: Merrick Adams, Scott Miller Projects, 2212 Morris Ave., Ste 103, Birmingham
- OCT 16-17 50th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport
- OCT 30 17th Annual Art in the Park, Gamble Park, Jasper, Ala., 9 am – 3 pm
- OCT 1-31 Miriam Omura and Tracie Noles-Ross, Main Gallery, Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss. (dates are approx.)
OCT 1-31 Cammie Windley, Artist Alley, Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss. (dates are approx.) - AUG 5-NOV 1 Marian Baker Exhibition, Kentuck’s Gallery at Hotel Indigo, 111 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa
- NOV 5 First Friday, Amy McBroom Exhibition, Kentuck’s Gallery at Hotel Indigo, 111 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa (NOV 3-JAN 30, 2022)
- OCT 7-NOV 22 Theresa Disney, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
Joi West at Paperworkers Local, Birmingham - NOV 13-14 Annual Alabama Designer Craftsmen Fine Art Show, Birmingham Botanical Gardens
- DEC 3 Art Night at Kentuck, Studio Artists, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
- NOV 1-DEC 31 Bri Howard, Main Gallery, Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss. (dates are approx.)
NOV 1-DEC 31 Anstacia Doughty, Artist Alley, Columbus Arts Council, 501 Main St., Columbus, Miss. (dates are approx.) - DEC 1-JAN 27, 2022 Studio Artists, Kentuck’s Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
- NOV 3-JAN 30, 2022 Amy McBroom Exhibition, Kentuck’s Gallery at Hotel Indigo, 111 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa
AREA GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS OPEN NOW
- 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
- Carnegie Visual Arts Center, Decatur, 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
- Gallery 905, Arts Revive, 3 Church Street, Selma
- Harrison Galleries, 2315 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa
- Kentuck Art Center, 503 Main Avenue, downtown Northport, Mon-Fri: 9:30am-5:30pm; Sat-Sun: 12pm-4pm
- 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
- Scott Miller Projects, 2212 Morris Avenue, Ste. 103, Birmingham
- Moundville Archaeological Park Museum, Moundville, Ala., Seven days a week, 9:00 am- 5:00 pm
- Paul R. Jones Museum, Sixth St., Tuscaloosa, Mon.-Fri. 9 am – 5 pm and 12-8 pm First Fridays
- Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, 103 Garland Hall, UA campus
- Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Woods Hall, UA campus
- The University of Alabama Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, Mon.-Fri., 9 am-4 pm; First Fridays, noon-7pm
Ardythe Joliff at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center
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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