Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, September 14, 2016. Historic and ahistoric, urban and rural, painterly and photographic, West Alabama has so much art to choose from! Everybody, please send us your West Alabama visual arts events — we want to know what you are up to!
HAPPENING NOW OR ENDING SOON!
SEP 15 Art with Friends – opening of Working Dogs of the World, Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, 5:30 pm
SEP 15 Opening, Smithsonian Exhibit: Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America, Black Belt Museum, University of West Alabama, 6 pm
SEP 16 Open Studio (1st & 3rd Fridays), Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center, Camden, 9 am-12 noon
NOW-SEP 16 Rural Studio: Alabama Design | Build Projects, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)
SEP 20 Artist Lecture: Nicholas Tisdale, Jewett Room 213, Judson College, Marion, 10-10:30 am
NOW-SEP 24 Remembering 4 Little Girls, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Tuscaloosa
NOW-SEP 25 
NOW-SEP 29 Dennis Ritter | Eleanor Aldrich, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA
SEP 30 Opening artists’ reception, Beautiful Decay, Visions of Cuba / Hermosa Decadencia, Visiones de Cuba – Photographs by Chip Cooper, Julio Larramendi and Jim Harrison III, Harrison Galleries, 6-9 pm
SEP 30 Reception, Shelby County Arts Council’s 8th Annual Juried Art Exhibit, Shelby County Arts Council Gallery, 6-8 pm
NOW-SEP 30 Alabama Quilts, Gorgas House Museum, UA
NOW-SEP 30 UAB/UA Faculty Exhibition, UA Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
NOW-SEP 30 Travels Near and Far: Photographs by Mary Meares, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
NOW-SEP 30 #blackgirls4change: the Hobson City 9, Cultivating Community and Creating Change, Paul R. Jones Gallery, Tuscaloosa
NOW-SEP 30 Caution Wet Paint: Paintings by Liz Lane, Betak/Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Tuscaloosa
NOW-SEP 30 What Is In Bloom? Photos by Paul Stewart, 
NOW-SEP 30 Annual Aquatic Dreams Exhibition, Daniel Day Gallery, Birmingham
OCT 1 Closing Reception, 43nd Annual Bi-State Art Juried Competition Exhibit, Meridian Museum of Art, 2-4 pm
OCT 1 Alabama Art Casting Iron Pour, Tannehill State Park, McCalla
NOW-OCT 1 43nd Annual Bi-State Art Juried Competition Exhibit, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
NOW-OCT 1 3 Months of Recaptured, Rediscovered, and Reconsidered, Wellness Walls for Art, University Medical Center
OCT 2 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 11am – 4 pm
NOW-OCT 2 Excised – works by Nicholas Tisdale, Marian Acree Tucker Gallery, Judson College, Marion, AL
OCT 3 Opening: West Alabama Juried Show, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa (OCT 3-NOV 15, reception Nov. 15)
ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY – OCTOBER 6 & 7
OCT 6 Art Night reception, Matt Ziemke | Melissa Stern, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, 4-6 pm (Art Night)
OCT 7, First Friday reception, Ines Schaefer Photography, UA Gallery, DWCAC, 5:30-7:30 pm
OCT 7 Open Studio (1st & 3rd Fridays), Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center, Camden, 9 am-12 noon
OCT 7 First Friday reception, Beautiful Decay, Visions of Cuba / Hermosa Decadencia, Visiones de Cuba – Photographs by Chip Cooper, Julio Larramendi and Jim Harrison III, Harrison Galleries, 6-9 pm
OCT 15-16 45th Annual Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport
SEP 30-OCT 15 Beautiful Decay, Visions of Cuba / Hermosa Decadencia, Visiones de Cuba – Photographs by Chip Cooper, Julio Larramendi and Jim Harrison III, Harrison Galleries, Tuscaloosa
SEP 30-OCT 21 Shelby County Arts Council’s 8th Annual Juried Art Exhibit, Shelby County Arts Council Gallery, Columbiana
OCT 21 Opening reception, Cuban Printmakers Exhibition, Harrison Galleries, 6-9 pm (OCT 21-30)
OCT 21 Open Studio (1st & 3rd Fridays), Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center, Camden, 9 am-12 noon
OCT 27 Reception, Cuban Artists Exhibition, Harrison Galleries, Tuscaloosa, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
OCT 27 Monster Makeover Art Auction and Festival, Drish House, Tuscaloosa (check for updates)
OCT 6-27 Matt Ziemke | Melissa Stern, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA
OCT 7-28 Ines Schaefer Photography, UA Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
OCT 21-30 Cuban Printmakers Exhibition, 
NOW-OCT 31 Smithsonian Exhibit: Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America, Black Belt Museum, University of West Alabama
OCT 1-31 Art Leanna Leithauser-Lesley, Betak/Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Tuscaloosa (more info to come)
NOV 3 Art Night Reception, Ashlynn Pope, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, 4-6 pm
NOV 4 First Friday Reception, BFA Exhibition: Kat Bornhoft and Graham Harrison, UA Gallery, DWCAC, 5:30 to 7:30 pm (NOV 1-30)
NOV 4 First Friday Reception, Harrison Galleries, Tuscaloosa
NOV 4 Open Studio (1st & 3rd Fridays), Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center, Camden, 9 am-12 noon
SEP 29-NOV 4 Pinkney Herbert: Distilled – The Narrative Transformed, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
NOV 5-6 Chilton County Arts Festival, Clanton
NOV 6 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 11am – 4 pm
NOV 9 Ceramics Workshop by Visiting Artist Christopher Staley, Bureau of Mines #5, UA
NOV 10 Visiting Artist Lecture by Christopher Staley, Bryant Conference Center, 7 pm
NOW-NOV 10 Vicki Lowe Retrospective, Hardin Cultural Arts Center, Gadsden
NOV 15 Closing reception, West Alabama Juried Show, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre 5-6:30 pm
OCT 3-NOV 15 West Alabama Juried Show, 
NOV 18 Open Studio (1st & 3rd Fridays), Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center, Camden, 9 am-12 noon
NOV 3-22 Ashlynn Pope, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA (NOV 3)
NOV 1-25 Kate Rothra Fleming: Glass Jewelry, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
NOV 1-30 BFA Exhibition: Kat Bornhoft and Graham Harrison, UA Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa (NOV 4)
DEC 4 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 11am – 4 pm
NOV 4-DEC 5 Eric Nubbe Exhibit – Sculpture, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
NOV 17-DEC 16 Saturated: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
NOV 28-DEC 16 K-12 Fellows Exhibition, Paul R. Jones Art Gallery, 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
2017
JAN 9-26, 2017 Jim Graham and Laura Tanner | Morgan Price, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA
JAN 12 2017 Reception, Jim Graham and Laura Tanner | Morgan Price, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, 4-6 pm
JAN 12-FEB 17 Echoes along the Syrian Border: Family Archeology and the Sound of Distant Gunfire: Works by James Emmette Neel, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
MAR 23 Reception, Joani Inglett MFA Exhibition, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, 4-6 pm
MAR 20-30 Joani Inglett MFA Exhibition, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA
MAR 2 – APR 12 Mel Kendrick: In and Out of Paper, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
APR 6-20 EXIT 2017 BA Group Exhibition, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA
APR 21 – MAY 26 MFA Thesis Exhibitions: Kelsey Windham and Celestia Morgan, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
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://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://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/ (Fayette County)
http://fayetteartmuseum.vpweb.com/ (Fayette County)
http://galleryontheboulevard.com/Home.html
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/
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/ (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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