Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, September 5, 2018. If you’ve never participated in Art Night and First Friday, do yourself a favor and do some gallery hopping this week! Also, September marks the Art Roundup’s 5th anniversary – five years of helping get the word out about art in West Alabama! Please keep sending us your visual arts events — we want to know what you are up to. This list is updated throughout the week on this page.
HAPPENING NOW OR ENDING SOON
SEP 5 Artist Sheila Pree Bright: A Community Conversation, Warner Presentation Rm, Wynn Fine Arts Ctr, Stillman College, 6-7:30 pm
SEPTEMBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)
SEP 6 In Search of the Truth, Coleman Center for the Arts, York, 11 am-4 pm
SEP 6 Art Night, Dennis Thompson, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, (SEP 1- OCT 26) 5-8 pm
SEP 6 Art Night, Kids of Kentuck, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport (SEP 6-20), 5-8 pm
SEP 6 Gallery talks and reception, Graduate Student Exhibition, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, 109 Woods Hall, UA (SEP 4-27), 4-6 pm
SEP 6 
SEP 6 Reception, Unnatural Response: Contemporary Art by Claire Lewis Evans, Anne Herbert, Kelly Parvin, and Kelly Shannon, Mississippi University for Women, Columbus (AUG 16-SEP 18), 5:30-7 pm
SEP 7 In Search of the Truth, Uniontown Public Library, Uniontown, 9 am-2 pm
SEP 7 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
SEP 7 Poets and Painters Show, Betak-Frangoulis Gallery, Canterbury Chapel
SEP 7 Artist Reception, First Friday, University of Alabama Graduate Alumni Exhibition, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center (both galleries), Tuscaloosa (AUG 3-SEP 28), 5-8 pm
SEP 7 First Friday event, O’Connor Studios, Tuscaloosa, 5:30-8:30 pm
SEP 7 Photographs by Elmore DeMott, Wood Sculpture by Emil Milan, Harrison Galleries, 2315 Univ. Blvd., Tuscaloosa (SEP 7-24, special event SEP 14), 6-9 pm
ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)
SEP 8 In Search of the Truth, Arts Revive, Selma, 10 am-4 pm
SEP 8 Tinglewood Festival, Orr Park, Montevallo, 10 am-10 pm
SEP 9 5th Street Vintage Market, 4150 Fifth Street, Northport, 10 am-4 pm
SEP 11 Dr. Richard K. Emmerson, art history lecture: “Apocalypse Illuminated,” Smith Hall 205, UA, 6:30 pm
SEP 14 Black Warrior Riverkeeper Special Event, Celebrating Nature through Art – Photographs by Elmore DeMott, Harrison Galleries (SEP 7-24), 5:30-7 pm
NOW-SEP 16 Jane Cassidy: Undersea Well, solo exhibition, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
NOW-SEP 18 Unnatural Response: Contemporary Art by Claire Lewis Evans, Anne Herbert, Kelly Parvin, and Kelly Shannon, Mississippi University for Women, Columbus
SEP 6-20 Kids of Kentuck, Teer Gallery, Kentuck, Northport
SEP 7-24 Photographs by Elmore DeMott, Wood Sculpture by Emil Milan, Harrison Galleries (special event SEP 14)
NOW-SEP 27 Graduate Student Exhibition, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Woods Hall, UA
NOW-SEP 28 University of Alabama Graduate Alumni Exhibition, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center (both galleries), Tuscaloosa
NOW-SEP 28 Com-bine – Selections from the Permanent Collection, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
NOW-SEP 28 Women of the Tide: 125 Years of Women at The University of Alabama, Gorgas House Museum, UA
NOW-SEP 29 
OCTOBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)
OCT 4 Art Night, Dennis Thompson, Kentuck Art Center, Northport (SEP 1- OCT 19), 5-8 pm
OCT 4 Art Night, Kentuck’s Permanent Collection, Teer Gallery, Kentuck, Northport (OCT 4-NOV 24), 5-8 pm
OCT 4 Exhibition opening, Spirit Citizen – An International Dialogue with Artist Edgar Heap of Birds, Exhibition and events, Sella-Granata Art Gallery (OCT 4-24)
OCT 5 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
OCT 5 First Friday Reception and Reunion, The Mother of Alabama Art Photography: Gay Burke, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC (OCT 5-26), 5:30-7:30 pm
OCT 5 First Friday Reception and Reunion, Students of Gay Burke Photography Exhibition, UA Gallery, DWCAC (OCT 5-26), 5:30-7:30 pm
OCT 5 West Alabama Woodworkers Association Annual Show, Harrison Galleries, 6-9 pm
NOW-OCT 11 Water of Alabama Juried Exhibition, Paperworkers Local, 2717 7th Ave. S., Birmingham
OCT 10 Art Lecture: Anne Keener, Curator of 
OCT 11 Exhibition opening, Pattern Thinking: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Tom and Cynthia Schneider, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA (OCT 11-NOV 16)
OCT 11 Reception, Pattern Thinking: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Tom and Cynthia Schneider, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, 5-7 pm
OCT 20-21 47th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Northport
OCT 22 Artist lecture by Edgar Heap of Birds, Gorgas Library 205, 6:00 p.m.
OCT 23 
NOW-OCT 24 Jim Morris Photographs, Kentuck’s Gallery at Hotel Indigo, Tuscaloosa
OCT 4-24 Spirit Citizen – An International Dialogue with Artist Edgar Heap of Birds, Exhibition and events, Sella-Granata Art Gallery
OCT 25 Monster Makeover IX Art Auction and Festival, Historic Drish House, 2300 17th St., Tuscaloosa
NOW-OCT 26 Dennis Thompson, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
OCT 5-26 The Mother of Alabama Art Photography: Gay Burke, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
OCT 5-26 Students of Gay Burke Photography Exhibition, UA Gallery, DWCAC
OCT 27 ART STALK: Montevallo Artwalk, Main Street, Montevallo, 1-6 pm
SEP 30-OCT 31 Making Alabama (Traveling Bicentennial Exhibit), Tennessee Valley Art Association, Tuscumbia
NOVEMBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)
NOV 1 Art Night, Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport (OCT 30-NOV 24), 5-8 pm
NOV 2 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
NOV 2 Jayne Morgan Exhibit Opening, Hotel Indigo Tuscaloosa
NOV 1 Exhibition opens, Chilton County Arts Council Fine Arts Show, CCAC/Rose Gallery, Clanton (NOV 1-30)
SEP 16-NOV 2 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Tennessee Valley Art Association, Tuscumbia
OCT 11-NOV 16 Pattern Thinking: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Tom and Cynthia Schneider, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
NOV 17-18 Sipsey Arts Alliance Christmas Art Market, Fayette Civic Center, Fayette, 10 am-4 pm (17th), 1-5 pm (18th)
OCT 4-NOV 24 Kids of Kentuck, Teer Gallery, Kentuck, Northport
OCT 30-NOV 24 Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
NOV 27 Lecture: Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South, Gorgas Library 205, UA, 6-8 pm
NOV 28 Artist Lecture by Alice Hohenberg Federico, Gorgas 205, 6 pm
NOV 29 Exhibition opening, Works by Alice Hohenberg Federico, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art (NOV 29-JAN 11 2019)
NOV 1-30 Chilton County Arts Council Fine Arts Show, CCAC/Rose Gallery, Clanton
DEC 2 5th Street Vintage Market, 4150 Fifth Street, Northport, 10 am-4 pm
DECEMBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)
DEC 6 Art Night, Kentuck’s Studio Artists, Kentuck Art Center and Teer Gallery, Northport, (DEC 4-FEB 7) 5-8 pm
DEC 7 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
DEC 4-FEB 7, 2019 Kentuck’s Studio Artists, 
JANUARY 2019
NOV 29-JAN 11 2019 Works by Alice Hohenberg Federico, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
JAN 24 Artist Lecture: Michi Meko, Gorgas Library 205, 7 pm
NOW-FEB 15 Exhibit: Black Belt Alabama, 2nd Floor Lobby & Reading Room, W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, Mary Harmon Bryant Hall, UA
FEB 20 Artist Lecture: Ben Vida, Gorgas Library 205, 7 pm
MAR 5 Artist Lecture: Iva Gueorguieva, Gorgas Library 205, 7 pm
JAN 24-MAR 8, 2019 Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu , Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
MAR 21-MAY 3, 2019 Confluence by Jerry Uelsmann, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art
APR TBA, 2019 Hog Wild for Art Festival, Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center, Camden
APR 13, 2019 Rooster Day, Marengo County Historical Society, Demopolis
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/
http://www.alabamacenterforthearts.org/
http://alwca.weebly.com/ (Alabama Women’s Caucus for Art)
http://alabama.travel/upcoming-events/search?q=Tuscaloosa
http://artsrevive.com/ (Selma)
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://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://firstfridaytuscaloosa.com/
http://gorgashouse.ua.edu/
http://graceaberdean.com/
http://www.firstfridaytuscaloosa.com/art-galleries/harrison-galleries-llc
https://www.facebook.com/HookedOnArtsFestival (Wilcox County)
http://www.hooverlibrary.org/galleries
http://tuscarts.org/gallery-juniorleague.php (Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre)
http://www.kentuck.org/
http://stephensmith.gallery/exhibitions.html
http://www.warnertransportationmuseum.com/
https://www.montevallo.edu/academics/colleges/college-of-fine-arts/departments/department-of-art/the-gallery/
http://www.oconnorartstudios.com/
https://www.facebook.com/riverportgallerynorthport
http://scfac.uwa.edu/default.htm (Sumter County Fine Arts Council)
http://www.themakersmarketalabama.com/
http://www.tuscarts.org/calendarofevents.php
http://www.tuscarts.org/artnight.php
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://wilcoxcountyartscouncil.org/
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