Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, September 27, 2017. It’s still hot as Hades but it’s not too early to get ready for Monster Makeover! Check out the Arts Council’s new First Friday Tuscaloosa website. And, please send us your visual arts events — we want to know what you are up to! This list is updated throughout the week here. 
HAPPENING NOW OR ENDING SOON
NOW-SEP 28 The Family You Choose – Documenting 30 Years of LGBTQ Student Life at the Capstone, A. S. Williams Americana Collection, 301 Gorgas Library, UA
SEP 28-OCT 31 Opening reception, Museum Preservation Society Band exhibition, Miller Art Gallery, Meridian Community College, MS
SEP 29 Exhibit opening, Photos by Betsy Rand: The Stillness of Time, Manna Grocery, 2300 Meadowbrook Plaza, Tuscaloosa (SEP 29-OCT 31)
NOW-SEP 29 William C. Gorgas and the Great War, Gorgas House Museum, UA
NOW-SEP 29 We are Selma: The Selma Portrait Project by Kathryn Mayo, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
NOW-SEP 29 Portraits of Service Project and Tom Rosenstiel Dual Exhibit, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
NOW-SEP 30 New Works by Daniel Livingston, Harrison Galleries, Tuscaloosa
NOW-OCT 2 Cover to Cover: Authors from the College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Alabama Gallery, DWCAC
OCT 2 Small Grants Program Application DEADLINE, The Arts and Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa County
NOW-OCT 3 Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Exhibition, Ferguson Center Art Gallery, UA
OCT 3 Reception, Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Exhibition, Ferguson Center Art Gallery, UA (NOW-OCT 3)
OCT 4 5th Annual Fall Salon, Paperworkers Local, 2717 7th Avenue South, Suite 203, B’ham, 5:30-8:00 pm
OCTOBER FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)
OCT 5 Tuscaloosa Painters Alliance Still Life Paint Out, Unitarian Universalist Cong., 6400 New Watermelon Rd., 9-12 noon
OCT 5 No Art Night at Kentuck Art Center, Northport
OCT 6 Meet the Artist and Lecture by Nall, 311 Carmichael Hall, UA, 2:30 pm
OCT 6 First Friday Reception, Paintings by Barry Graham, Betak-Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane, 5-7 pm (NOW-OCT 30)
OCT 6 First Friday Reception, Threes: Brenda Miller Photography Exhibit, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC (OCT 6-27), 5-8 pm
OCT 6 First Friday Reception, Lucid Dreaming, Paul R. Jones Gallery, Sixth Street, 5-8 pm
OCT 6 First Friday Opening, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa, 5:30-8:30 pm
OCT 6 Grace Aberdean Habitat Alchemy, 9th St., Tuscaloosa, 6-9 pm
OCT 6 First Friday Opening, Monster Makeover 2017 Exhibit Preview, Harrison Galleries, 2315 Univ. Blvd., Tuscaloosa, 6-9 pm
ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)
OCT 4-7 Moundville Native American Festival, Moundville
NOW-OCT 7 44th Annual Bi-State Art Juried Competition Exhibit, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, Miss.
OCT 7 Artists’ reception with awards announcement, 44th Annual Bi-State Art Juried Competition Exhibit, Meridian 
Museum of Art, 2-4 pm
NOW-OCT 10 Open Studio After School Art Class, Coleman Center for the Arts, York, every Tuesday 3:30 pm-5:30 pm
NOW-OCT 12 Graduate Student Show, Sella-Granata Art Gallery (Reception SEP 14, 4-6 pm)
OCT 5-12 Cattywampus: Neel Alexander, Kentuck’s Clarke Gallery, 1922 5th Street, Northport
OCT 12 Opening reception, Contemporary Consolidated: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA (OCT 12-NOV 22)
OCT 12 Opening, Contemporary Consolidated: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The University Art Gallery, DWCAC (OCT 12-NOV 22)
OCT 3-12 Cattywampus: Neel Alexander, Kentuck’s Clarke Gallery, 1922 5th Street, Northport
OCT 13-31 Monsters Everywhere Art Show, Black Warrior Brewing, 2216 Univ. Blvd., 6-11 pm
NOW-OCT 15 Paintings by Sydney Gruber, Tuscaloosa County Juvenile Court Lobby, 6001 12th Ave., East
OCT 19 Monster Makeover VIII Art Auction and Festival, The Historic Drish House, Tuscaloosa, 5-7:30 pm
NOW-OCT 20 Sipsey Arts Alliance Exhibition: Four Southern Women – Cece Hale, Carmalinda Johnson Farley, Jo Frances Abbott White, Phyllis Williams, Fayette Art Museum, Fayette
NOW-OCT 20 7 Deadly Sins: Quilts by Yvonne Wells, Kentuck Main Gallery, Northport
OCT 21-22 46th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport
NOW-OCT 27 Lucid Dreaming: Surrealism and Fantasy in the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, Paul R Jones 
Gallery, Tuscaloosa
OCT 6-27 Threes: Brenda Miller Photography Exhibit, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
NOW-OCT 30 Paintings by Barry Graham, Betak-Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane
NOW-OCT 31 Museum Preservation Society Band exhibition, Miller Art Gallery, Meridian Community College, MS
SEP 29-OCT 31 Photos by Betsy Rand: The Stillness of Time, Manna Grocery, 2300 Meadowbrook Plaza, Tuscaloosa
NOVEMBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)
NOV 2 Art Night, Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (NOV 2-30), 5-8 pm
NOV 3 First Friday Reception, Contemporary Consolidated: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The University Art Gallery, DWCAC (OCT 12-NOV 22)
NOV 3 First Friday Opening, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa, 5:30-8:30 pm
NOV 3 First Friday Reception, Works by Charlotte Wegrzynowski, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC (NOV 3-27), 5-8 pm
NOV 7-8 5th Annual Chilton County Arts Festival, Clanton Performing Arts Center, AL, 9 am-3 pm
OCT 12-NOV 22 Contemporary Consolidated: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art AND The University Art Gallery, DWCAC
NOV 3-27 Works by Charlotte Wegrzynowski, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
NOV 2-30 Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
NOW-NOV 30 Sumter County Drawing Experiment, Coleman Center for the Arts, York
OCT 2-NOV 30 Christopher Jordan, Friends Gallery, then Plaza Gallery, Hoover Public Library, Hoover, Ala.
DEC 3 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm
NOW-DEC 8 For Home and Country: Americas Entry into the War to End All Wars, Pearce Foyer 2nd flr, Gorgas Library, UA
NOW-DEC 21 Extended! 
Museum, Tuscaloosa
DEC 1-JAN 5 Clay Co-op Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
DEC 7-JAN 12, 2018 Kentuck Studio Artists, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
DEC 7-JAN 26, 2018 Department of Art and Art History Studio Faculty Research Biennial, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
NOW-JAN 31 Hallie O’Kelley Quilts, Tuscaloosa County Juvenile Court Lobby, 6001 12th Ave., East
MAR 4, 2018 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm
MAR 22, 2018 Reception, Out of Order: Tobias Layman’s MFA Thesis Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm (MAR 12-30)
MAR 12 – 30, 2018 Out of Order: Tobias Layman’s MFA Thesis Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
JUN 3, 2018 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 4150-5th St., Northport, 10 am-4 pm
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://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/
https://www.facebook.com/HookedOnArtsFestival (Wilcox County)
http://tuscarts.org/gallery-juniorleague.php (Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre)
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/the-gallery/
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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