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Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, November 13, 2019. Gifts from local artists’ markets and galleries are a sure-fire way to warm the hearts of your family and friends this holiday season – and there are plenty around West Alabama! 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

• TODAY – NOV 13 Reception, Graduating Senior Exhibition, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Woods Hall, UA campus (NOV 11-28), 4-6 pm
• NOV 16 Holiday Market, Grace Presbyterian Church, 113 Hargrove Road, Tuscaloosa, 9 am-2 pm
• NOV 17 Reception, Courage is Creativity: Bryant HS and Tuscaloosa Academy student show, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, 600 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa (NOV 14-DEC 10), 2-3:30 pm
• NOV 19 Free Community Indigo and Shibori Workshop, The Stable, 1120 Main St., Greensboro, 3-7 pm
• NOV 21 Wilcox Artworks Holiday Exhibit, The Gallery, 103 Broad Street, Camden, 5:30-7:30 pm
• NOV 21 Opening reception, sprue, sprout, re-route, daisie hoitsma + jason tanner young, Ebsco Gallery, Shelby County Art Center, Columbiana (NOV 21-DEC 31), 6-8 pm
• NOW-NOV 22 Art Students of Stillman College, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
  NOV 23 Montevallo Artstalk Do-Over! 2019 Main Street, Montevallo, Ala., 12 noon-5pm
• NOW-NOV 27 Gee’s Bend Quilters and Their Journey to Artistic Freedom, Museum Gallery, Kentuck, Northport
• NOW-NOV 28 Graduating Senior Exhibition, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Woods Hall, UA campus
• NOW-NOV 29 Ted Metz: Tools of the Trades Sculpture Exhibition, The Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, Greensboro Avenue, Tuscaloosa
• NOW-NOV 30 Exhibit: Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate, Capstone Drive entrance, Gorgas Library, UA

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, Stomping Ground: Photographs by Jerry Siegel, The University of Alabama Gallery, DWCAC, Greensboro Ave. (NOW-JAN 17, 2020), 5:30-7:30 pm
• DEC 6 First Friday Reception, Lorrie Lane Studio, 2420 6th Street, Tuscaloosa, 5-8 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 14-DEC 10 Courage is Creativity: Bryant HS and Tuscaloosa Academy student show, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, 600 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa
• NOW-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
• NOW-DEC 12 Making Alabama. A Bicentennial Traveling Exhibit, Tuscaloosa Public Library, 1801 Jack Warner Parkway, Tuscaloosa
• NOW-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, UA campus
• NOV 21-DEC 31 sprue, sprout, re-route, daisie hoitsma + jason tanner young, Ebsco Gallery, Shelby County Art Center, Columbiana, Ala.

  

2020

• 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
• NOW-JAN 17, 2020 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-JAN 31 Tuscaloosa Photography Club Fall 2019 Exhibit, West Ala. Easter Seals, 1400 East James I Harrison Jr Pkwy, Tuscaloosa
• 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.

Thank you for supporting ALL of the arts all over West Alabama!

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