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Sunshine and Art are in Full View This Week in West Alabama

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, May 10, 2017. NOW’s the perfect time to visit your local art gallery and soak in some creativity! Please send us your visual arts events — we want to know what you are up to! This list is updated throughout the week.

HAPPENING NOW OR ENDING SOON Sabrina and Jamie Adams at Canterbury

MAY 10 Reception, Specimens and Speculations – Sabrina Pearson-Adams and Jamie Adams, Betak/Frangoulis Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, 5-7 pm (MAY 10-31)
NOW-MAY 12 Tuscaloosa County School System Art Exhibit, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC
May 13 Art in the Park, Gamble Park, Jasper, Alabama
MAY 15 Deadline to apply to 46th Kentuck Festival with special discount (regular deadline JUN 1)
NOW-MAY 16 Westwood Elementary Art Month at the Bama, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa

ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date) 

MAY 19 Reception, Annual Flora and Fauna Exhibition, Daniel Day Gallery, Birmingham, 6-9 pm
MAY 21 DEADLINE to apply History As Art Juried Show – Shelby County Arts Council 
NOW-MAY 21 Jack R. Leigh, Now & Then: A Retrospective, 46th Kentuck Festival quilt design by Hallie O'Kelley!
NOW-MAY 25 Collaborate, Kentuck Artists at UA Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
NOW-MAY 26 MFA Thesis Exhibitions: Kelsey Windham and Celestia MorganSarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
NOW-MAY 27 Chris “Chub” Hubbard, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
NOW-MAY 31 Specimens and Speculations – Sabrina Pearson-Adams and Jamie Adams, Betak/Frangoulis Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Tuscaloosa
NOW-MAY 31 For Home and Country:  America’s Entry into the Great War, Pearce Lobby, Gorgas Library 2nd floor

JUNE ART NIGHT AND FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)

JUN 1 Art Night, “Willie Willie” Lamendola, Bernard Wilson, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
JUN 2 First Friday Reception, Retrospective: Bethany and Frank Engle Exhibit, Arts Council and UA Gallery, DWCAC (JUN 2-30), 5-8 pm
JUN 2 First Friday Opening, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa 5:30-8:30 pm
JUN 1 Deadline to apply to 46th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Northport
JUN 2-30 Jack R. Leigh at Harrison Galleries in May.
JUN 1-30 “Willie Willie” Lamendola, Bernard Wilson, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
NOW-JUL 4 Side by Side: Paintings of Henry and Ann Betak, Wellness Walls for Art, University Medical Center, Tuscaloosa

JUL 6 Art Night, Myrna Gates, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (JUL 6-AUG 22), 5-8 pm
JUL 7 First Friday Opening, O’Connor Art Studios, Tuscaloosa 5:30-8:30 pm
NOW-JUL 7 Lorrie Lane, Kentuck Gallery at Hotel Indigo, 111 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa
MAY 17-JUL 22 People’s Choice Art Competition Exhibit, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
JUL 6-AUG 22 Myrna Gates, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL

AUG 3 Art Night, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
AUG 4 First Friday, downtown Tuscaloosa galleries

SEP 7 Art Night, Yvonne Wells, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (SEP 7-OCT 20), 5-8 pm
NOW-SEP 29 William C. Gorgas and the Great War, Gorgas House Museum, UA
NOW-SEP 29? Kentuck artists in Collaborate
AUG 23-OCT 7 43rd Annual Bi-State Art Juried Competition Exhibit, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
SEP 7-OCT 20 Yvonne Wells, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL
OCT 21-22 46th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport, AL

NOV 2 Art Night, Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (NOV 2-30), 5-8 pm
NOV 7-8 5th Annual Chilton County Arts Festival, Clanton Performing Arts Center, AL, 9 am-3 pm
NOV 2-30 Crossroads Arts Alliance, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL

DEC 5 Art Night, Kentuck Studio Artists, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL (DEC 5-JAN 12, 2018), 5-8 pm
DEC 5-JAN 12, 2018 Kentuck Studio Artists, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, AL

ANYTIME: Stroll between galleries through our Lorrie Lane "Northport at Dusk," 2017

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://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/ (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://gorgashouse.ua.edu/
http://graceaberdean.com/
https://www.facebook.com/HookedOnArtsFestival (Wilcox County)
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/
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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Look for this e-list each week, a service of 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”