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Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, October 30, 2019. Monsters we can handle, but — ARTISTS!?!  Your best defense is an excellent costume! Several exhibitions are ending soon that you don’t want to miss. Thanks to Harrison Galleries for the image. Send us your visual arts events — we want to know what you’re up to. This list is updated throughout the week on this page.

Happening Now or Ending Soon

• TONIGHT: OCT 30 Monster Makeover Festival and Auction, Harrison Galleries, 2315 Univ. Blvd., Tuscaloosa, 5:30-7:30 p.m
• NOW-OCT 30 Poets and Painters 2,  Betak-Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa
• NOW-OCT 31 Faculty Book Show, The University of Alabama Gallery, DWCAC
• NOW-OCT 31 Paintings by Faulcon Fitts and Billy Luu, Lobby Gallery for Tuscaloosa Juvenile Court, 6001 12th Ave., East, Tuscaloosa
• NOW-OCT 31 Paintings by Rachel Wakefield, Manna Grocery, 2300 Meadowbrook Shopping Ctr., Tuscaloosa
• NOW-OCT 31 Snapshots, Stitches & Selma Blues: needlepoint artist Leanna Leithauser-Lesley and Roger Stephenson Photography exhibition, Arts Revive Carneal Building, 3 Church St, Selma, Ala.

November (First Friday & Art Night)

• NOV 1 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
• NOV 1 First Friday Event: Stop by and view the River City Mural, Temerson Square, corner of 4th St. and 23rd Ave. (OCT. and NOV.)
• NOV 1 First Friday Reception, Women of the Bible: Lashonda Robinson,  Betak-Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa (NOV 1-DEC 30), 5-7 pm
• NOV 1 First Friday Reception, Ted Metz: Tools of the Trades Sculpture Exhibition, The Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, 5-8 pm
• NOV 1 First Friday Reception, Stomping Ground: Photographs by Jerry Siegel, The University of Alabama Gallery, DWCAC, Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa (NOV 1-JAN 17), 5:30-7:30 pm
• NOV 1 First Friday Grand Opening, Lorrie Lane Studio, 2420 6th Street, Tuscaloosa

  

• NOV 2 Sipsey Arts Alliance Annual Christmas Art Market, Fayette Civic Center, Fayette, Ala. 10 am-4 pm
• NOV 2 Meridian Art Walk, Union Station, 1901 Front St, Meridian, Miss., 8 am-1 pm
• NOV 3 5th Street Vintage Market, Farmer’s Market Pavilion, 4150 5th Street, Northport, 10 am-4 pm
• NOV 3 Exhibition opening: Making Alabama. A Bicentennial Traveling Exhibit, Tuscaloosa Public Library, Jack Warner Parkway (NOV 3-DEC 12)
• NOV 7 Art Night reception, Gee’s Bend Quilters and Their Journey to Artistic Freedom, Kentuck Art Center, Northport (OCT 29-NOV 27), 5-8 pm
• NOV 7 Art Night reception, Art Students of Stillman College, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport (OCT 29-NOV 22), 5-8 pm
• NOV 8 Opening reception, Tuscaloosa Photography Club Fall 2019 Exhibit, West Ala. Easter Seals, 1400 East James I Harrison Jr Pkwy, Tuscaloosa (NOV 8-JAN, 2020), 5:30 – 7:30 pm
• NOV 16 Holiday Market, Grace Presbyterian Church, 113 Hargrove Road, Tuscaloosa, 9 am-2 pm
• NOW-NOV 22 Art Students of Stillman College, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
• NOW-NOV 27 Gee’s Bend Quilters and Their Journey to Artistic Freedom, Museum Gallery, Kentuck, Northport
• NOV 11-28 Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Woods Hall, UA campus
• NOV 1-29 Ted Metz: Tools of the Trades Sculpture Exhibition, The Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Greensboro Avenue, Tuscaloosa
• NOV 3-DEC 12 Making Alabama. A Bicentennial Traveling Exhibit, Tuscaloosa Public Library, 1801 Jack Warner Parkway

December

• DEC 1 5th Street Vintage Market, Farmer’s Market Pavilion, 4150 5th Street, Northport, 10 am-4 pm
• DEC 3 Dickens Downtown, historic downtown Northport, 5-8 pm
• DEC 5 Art Night reception, Kentuck Studio Artists Exhibition, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport (DEC 3-JAN 17), 5-8 pm
• NOW-DEC 6 Mabbline Nichols: Digital Art, Fayette Civic Center Garden Room, Sipsey Arts Alliance, Fayette, M-F 9 am-4 pm
• DEC 6 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
• DEC 6 First Friday Reception, Public Charge: Diasporic Immigrant Artists, Paul R. Jones Museum, 2308 6th St., Tuscaloosa (NOV 4-DEC 12), 5:30-7:30 pm
• DEC 6 First Friday Reception, West Alabama Juried Show, Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro Avenue (DEC 6-20, 2019, JAN 2-10, 2020), 5-8 pm
• NOV 4-DEC 12 Public Charge: Diasporic Immigrant Artists, Paul R. Jones Museum, 2308 6th St., Tuscaloosa
• NOW-DEC 12 William Paul Thomas: Breathin’ Different, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art
• NOV 1-DEC 30 Women of the Bible: Lashonda Robinson,  Betak-Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa
• NOW-DEC 31 ‘Of This Goodly Land:’ Celebrating Alabama’s Bicentennial, 1819-2019, Gorgas Library: Pearce Lobby, Williams Collection; M.H. Bryant Hall: Hoole Special Collections

2020

• NOV 8-JAN Tuscaloosa Photography Club Fall 2019 Exhibit, West Ala. Easter Seals, 1400 East James I Harrison Jr Pkwy, Tuscaloosa
• JAN 9 Opening reception, Cultural Collateral: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art (JAN 9-FEB 14), 5-7 pm
• DEC 6-20, 2019, JAN 2-10, 2020 West Alabama Juried Show, Arts Council Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro Avenue
• NOV 1-JAN 17 Stomping Ground: Photographs by Jerry Siegel, The University of Alabama Gallery, DWCAC, Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
• DEC 3, 2019-JAN 17, 2020 Kentuck Studio Artists Exhibition, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
• NOW-FEB 1, 2020 Tuscaloosa Bicentennial Exhibit: Bank of the State, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Tuscaloosa
• FEB 7 K12 First Friday Reception, Outreach Art Exhibition, Paul R. Jones Museum, 6th St., Tuscaloosa (JAN 10-FEB 28), 5:30-7:30 pm
• JAN 21-FEB 9 Annual Junior Double Exposure Juried Photography Exhibit, Bama Theatre’s Junior League Gallery, 600 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
• FEB 9 Awards Presentation, Annual Junior Double Exposure Juried Photography Exhibit, Bama Theatre’s Junior League Gallery, 600 Greensboro Ave.,  2-3 pm
• FEB 27 Opening reception, Renée Stout: In the Parallel Universe, Part 3, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art (FEB 27-APR 10), 5-7 pm
• JAN 10-FEB 28  K-12 Outreach Art Exhibition, Paul R. Jones Museum, 2308 6th St., Tuscaloosa
• MAR 6-7, 2020 West Alabama Quilters Guild Annual Quilt Show, Taylorville UMC, 640 Bear Creek Rd., Tuscaloosa (MAR 6, 9-5; MAR 7, 9-4)
• FEB 27-APR 10, 2020 Renée Stout: In the Parallel Universe, Part 3, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art
• APR 16 Opening reception, Nasrin Iravani: Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, (APR 16-MAY 14), 5-7 pm
• MAR 6-APR 20, 2020 Selections from the Rebecca and Jack Drake Collection, Paul R. Jones Museum, 2308 6th St., Tuscaloosa
• APR 16-MAY 14, 2020 Nasrin Iravani: Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art
• OCT 2-DEC 11, 2020 Charlie Lucas Exhibition, Paul R. Jones Museum, 2308 6th St., Tuscaloosa

ANYTIME

• Experience the Monster Takeover and other public sculptures in downtown Tuscaloosa and Northport.
• Stroll through UA’s Woods Quad Sculpture Garden with six outdoor sculptures, plus other sculptures in adjoining campus lawns and four galleries/museums in the heart of campus.
• Here’s the First Friday Gallery Guide: http://www.tuscarts.org/firstfriday_artnight.php

LINKS

Visit our Visual Arts Calendars, Venues & Websites page.

ABOUT THIS CALENDAR

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.

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