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Summer Art Begins Now in West Alabama!

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, June 1, 2016. A great June line-up for Art Night/First Friday and all month long! Everybody, please send us your West Alabama visual arts events — we want to know what you are up to!

ENDING SOON!

JUN 1 DEADLINE TODAYReception for the BFA Juried Exhibition at the Harrison Galleries, 2011

ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY!

JUN 2 Art Night at KentuckCollins Folk Art Collection, Kentuck Gallery; Scott McQueen, Clarke Gallery, Northport, 5-8 pm
JUN 2 Reception, Jackie Williams Paintings, Missy’s Taste of Home, Fayette (Sipsey Arts Alliance), 4-6 pm
JUN 3 First Friday Reception, Paintings by David Gosselin, UA Gallery and Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa, 5-8 pm
JUN 3 First Friday Reception, Photographs by Jim Morris, Harrison Galleries, 2312 Univ. Blvd., Tuscaloosa, 6-9 pm
JUN 3 First Friday: Paintings by David Gosselin at the DWCAC, June 3-July 29, 2016
JUN 3-30 Opens: Mermaids, Monsters & Miscellaneous: New Paintings & More by Rachel DobsonManna Grocery, Tuscaloosa, 9am-7pm

ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)

JUN 5 5th Street Vintage Market, 4150 5th Street, Northport, 11 am-4 pm
JUN 20 DEADLINE: Community Postcard Show Entry Deadline, Kentuck, Northport (JUL 7-30)
NOW-JUN 25 Made in Alabama, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan
NOW-JUN 30 Rachel Dobson, "Large Disheveled Gojira," 2016, gouache, water-soluble colored pencil
NOW-JUN 30 Collins Folk Art Collection, Kentuck Gallery; Scott McQueen: Clarke Gallery, Northport
JUN 3-30 Mermaids, Monsters & Miscellaneous: New Paintings & More by Rachel DobsonManna Grocery, 2300 McFarland Blvd., E., Tuscaloosa
NOW-JUL 2 Intimate Spaces Juried Exhibition, Union Grove Gallery, UAH, Huntsville
JUL 7 Art Night at Kentuck: Community Postcard Show, Kentuck Gallery, David Betak, Clarke Gallery, Northport
NOW-JUL 8 Troika: Cuba Soul Deep: Karen Graffeo, Chip Cooper and Julio Angel Larramendi, Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia
JUN 3-JUL 29 Illustration from Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris
NOW-JUL 29 Breaking out of the Briar Patch: Joel Chandler Harris in Perspective2nd Floor, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, Tuscaloosa
JUL 7-30 Community Postcard Show, Kentuck Gallery; David Betak, Clarke Gallery, Northport
AUG 4 Art Night at Kentuck: Laquita Thomson, Kentuck Gallery; Anne Stickney, Clarke Gallery, Northport (through Aug 31)
NOW-AUG 14 Annual Flora & Fauna Exhibition, Daniel Day Gallery, 3025 6th Ave., S., Birmingham
AUG 15-SEP 1 Alabama National Exhibition, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA
SEP 2 First Friday Reception, UAB/UA Faculty Exhibition, DWCAC, 5-8 pm
AUG 5-SEP 30 UAB/UA Faculty Exhibition, David Betak, artist in residence at the DWCAC
SEP 14-OCT 31 Smithsonian exhibit: Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America, Black Belt Museum, sponsored by University of West Alabama
NOV 1-25 Kate Rothra Fleming: Glass Jewelry, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
NOV 4-DEC 5 Eric Nubbe Exhibit – Sculpture, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
NOV 28-DEC 30 Studio Artists Exhibition: Ann Betak, Steve Davis, Kerry Kennedy and Daniel Livingston, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
DEC 2-JAN 6, 2017 Kelly Shannon – Paintings, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa

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://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://www.blackbelttreasures.com/
http://www.bethanywindhamengle.com/
http://bryantmuseum.com/
http://www.artsbma.org/exhibitions/current/
http://cac.tuscarts.org/cacgallery.php (Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC)
http://tuscarts.org/gallery-juniorleague.php (Bama Theatre galleries)
http://cac.tuscarts.org/uagallery.php (University of Alabama Gallery, DWCAC)
http://www.chiltoncountyartscouncil.com/ (Chilton County Arts Council)
http://colemanarts.org/
http://creativecampus.ua.edu/
http://dcaf.ua.edu/
http://events.ua.edu/category/8/ (Arts events at UA)
http://events.publicbroadcasting.net/wual/events.eventsmain
http://fayetteal.org/sipsey-arts-alliance/
http://fayetteartmuseum.vpweb.com/
http://galleryontheboulevard.com/Home.html
http://gorgashouse.ua.edu/
http://graceaberdean.com/
https://www.facebook.com/HookedOnArtsFestival (Wilcox County Arts Council)
http://www.kentuck.org/
https://www.facebook.com/MontevalloArtDepartment
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
http://www.tuscwawa.com/ (West Alabama Woodworking Assn.)
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/section/ent
http://www.tvaa.net/exhibitions/view-current-exhibit.html
http://www.waqg.com/ (West Alabama Quilters Guild meets 2nd Saturdays)
http://weldbham.com/blog/category/art-culture/

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Look for this e-list each week from the UA Department of Art and Art History. We hope to provide a more or less comprehensive list of exhibits and visual arts events in West Alabama (and sometimes a wider net, esp. if West Alabama folks are showing), with hyperlinks. 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.

Thank you for supporting ALL of the arts all over west Alabama!
“Gathering West Alabama’s Visual Arts Events since September 2013”