Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, September 28, 2016. At least seven exhibitions are closing this week, so don’t miss your favorites! Everybody, please send us your West Alabama visual arts events — we want to know what you are up to! This list is updated throughout the week.
HAPPENING NOW OR ENDING SOON!
NOW-SEP 29 Dennis Ritter | Eleanor Aldrich, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA
SEP 30 Opening 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 
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, Manna Grocery & Deli, Tuscaloosa
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
NOW-OCT 2 Excised – works by Nicholas Tisdale, Marian Acree Tucker Gallery, Judson College, Marion, AL
ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)
OCT 2 
OCT 3 Opening: West Alabama Juried Show, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa (OCT 3-NOV 15, reception Nov. 15)
OCT 3 Opening: Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art’s K-12 Fellowship Program Exhibit, PJR Gallery, Tuscaloosa (OCT 3-NOV 11)
OCT 5 Artist Lecture: Pinkney Herbert, 205 Gorgas Library, 7:00 pm
ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY – OCTOBER 6 & 7
OCT 6 Art Night at Kentuck: Charles Smith’s pottery and Marysia Galbraith’s ceramics, Northport, 5:30-8:30 pm
OCT 6 Art Night reception, Matt Ziemke | Melissa Stern, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, 4-6 pm (Art Night)
OCT 6 Art Night Reception, Pinkney Herbert: Distilled – The Narrative Transformed, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, 5-7 pm (SEP 29-NOV 4)
OCT 7 First Friday reception, 
pm
OCT 7 First Friday reception, Art and Ecology: Artist Books in Context – Christopher Davenport, Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC, 5-8 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 7 First Friday reception, Leanna Leithauser-Lesley: Needlepoint Jazz, Betak/Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, 5-7 pm
KENTUCK WEEKEND in WEST ALABAMA!
OCT 15-16 45th Annual Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport, 9 am – 5 pm
OCT 15-16 Fall Open House, local and regional artists, This Ol’ Thing Vintage, 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 
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 7-28 Art and Ecology: Artist Books in Context – Christopher Davenport, Arts Council 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 7-30 Leanna Leithauser-Lesley: Needlepoint Jazz, Betak/Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Tuscaloosa
ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY – NOVEMBER 3 & 4
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
NOW-NOV 4 Pinkney Herbert: Distilled – The Narrative Transformed, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA
NOV 5-6 
NOV 6 5th Street Vintage Market, Northport Farmers Market, 11am – 4 pm
NOV 8 Opening: The Modernization of Tuscaloosa’s Built Environment: the Architecture of Don Buel Schuyler, 1937 – 1964, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Tuscaloosa (NOV 8-FEB 25)
NOV 10 Ceramics Workshops (2) by Visiting Artist Christopher Staley, Bureau of Mines #5, UA, 9:30-11:30 am and 3:45 – 5:15 pm
NOV 10 Visiting Artist Lecture by Christopher Staley, “Why Art Matters: A Potters Search for Meaning,” Bryant Conference Center, Rast Room A, 7 pm
NOW-NOV 10 Vicki Lowe Retrospective, Hardin Cultural Arts Center, Gadsden
OCT 3-NOV 11 Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art’s K-12 Fellowship Program Exhibit, PJR Gallery, Tuscaloosa
NOW-NOV 14 This is Tuscaloosa: Hallie O’Kelley and Jim Harrison III, Hotel Indigo, Tuscaloosa
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, Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa
NOV 18 Open Studio (1st & 3rd Fridays), Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center, Camden, 9 am-12 noon
NOV 3-22 Ashlynn Pope, 
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
NOV 8-FEB 25 The Modernization of Tuscaloosa’s Built Environment: the Architecture of Don Buel Schuyler, 1937 – 1964, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Tuscaloosa
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/
http://www.warnertransportationmuseum.com/ (Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum)
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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“Gathering West Alabama’s Visual Arts Events since September 2013”