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Zen, Alabama History, Wood and Fire – Art in West Alabama!

Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, May 15, 2019. Such a variety of art around West Alabama; there’s something for everyone. Please 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 SOONRachel Cano, Heart, 2019

NOW-MAY 16 Reflecting on Alabama – 200 Years – Juried Art Show, Wilcox Artworks, Camden
NOW-MAY 17 Understanding Hozho, Zen, and Traditional Chinese Medicine though Art – Work by Rachel Cano, Lloyd Hall 216, UA
NOW-MAY 18 Tuscaloosa and the Capital Period, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, 1901 Jack Warner Pkwy, Tuscaloosa
NOW-MAY 19 Rachel WakefieldKentuck’s Hotel Indigo Gallery, Tuscaloosa
MAY 21 Artist vendors, Farmers’ Market, Tuscaloosa River Market, 3-6 pm

ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)

MAY 28 Artist vendors, Farmers’ Market, Tuscaloosa River Market, 3-6 pm
NOW-MAY 30 Woodworkers of West Alabama Exhibition, Kentuck’s Museum and Teer Galleries, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
NOW-MAY 31 Daniel Livingston – Playing with Fire, The University of Alabama Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center
NOW-MAY 31 Alabama Artists: Roots and Wings, Arts Revive Cultural Arts Center, Selma
NOW-MAY 31 Frances Osborn Robb: Shot in Alabama – A History of Photography, Miss Emily's Tomato Farm, a painting by Bethany Engle

JUN 2 5th Street Vintage Market, Farmer’s Market Pavilion, 4150 5th Street, Northport, 10 am-4 pm
JUN 4 Artist vendors, Farmers’ Market, Tuscaloosa River Market, 3-6 pm
NOW-JUN 5 Space Matters – an Animated Digital Installation, Gorgas House Museum, UA

JUNE ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)

JUN 6 Art Night reception, Mojo Weaver & John Kelley, Gallery at Hotel Indigo and Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center (JUN 6-JUL 25), Northport, 5-8 pm
JUN 6 Art Night reception, Kevin Irwin Exhibition, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
JUN 7 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)Whitfield Lovell, "2 8 M," 2008, conte crayon on wood, radio 27 x 18 1/2 x 8 inches
JUN 7 First Friday Event, Sartre Night (Dress as Your Favorite French Existentialist contest), Lorrie Lane Studio, 910 31st Ave., Tuscaloosa, 5-7 pm
JUN 11 Artist vendors, Farmers’ Market, Tuscaloosa River Market, 3-6 pm
JUN 14 Reception, Scott McQueen: Sacred Folk, Betak-Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, 5-7 pm, artist talk and book signing 6:30 pm
NOW-JUN 15  Upward Rhythm: Roger Jones Painting Exhibition, Paperworkers Local, 2717 Seventh Ave., South, Birmingham
NOW-JUN 15 Fe(male), Kress on Dexter, 39 Dexter Ave., Montgomery
JUN 18 Artist vendors, Farmers’ Market, Tuscaloosa River Market, 3-6 pm
JUN 25 Artist vendors, Farmers’ Market, Tuscaloosa River Market, 3-6 pm
NOW-JUN 28 Exposé- Black Women Through Time, Paul R. Jones Museum, 2308 6th St., Tuscaloosa
NOW-JUN 30 Call for entries, INK ONLY II: A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, Paperworkers Local, Birmingham
NOW-JUN 30 First Annual T-Town Photo Club Exhibit, Lobby Gallery for Tuscaloosa Juvenile Court, 6001 12th Ave., East, Tuscaloosa
JUN 1-30 Frances Osborn Robb: Shot in Alabama – A History of Photography, Plaza Gallery, Hoover Public Library

JUN 6-JUL 24 Mojo Weaver & John Kelley, Gallery at Hotel Indigo, Tusca., and Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
JUN 6-JUL 25 Kevin Irwin Exhibition, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
NOW-JUL 31 The Butterfly Effect – Honoring the Legacy of Gay Burke, Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery,  Alabama State Council on the Arts, Montgomery

AUGUST ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (Rachel Ann Wakefield, "Let Go," 24x48 inches, oil on canvas, 2017

AUG 1 Art Night Reception, Andrew & Etta McCall Exhibition, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport (JUL 30-OCT 11), 5-8 pm
AUG 1 Art Night Reception, Crossroads Arts Alliance, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport (JUL 31-AUG 29), 5-8 pm
AUG 2 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
AUG 2 First Friday Event, SM ART Night (art quizzes plus), Lorrie Lane Studio, 910 31st Ave., Tuscaloosa, 5-7 pm
AUG 2 First Friday Reception, Rik Long Exhibition, Kentuck’s Hotel Indigo Gallery, downtown Tuscaloosa (JUL 17-SEP 24), 5-8 pm
JUL 31-AUG 29 Crossroads Arts Alliance, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport

SEPTEMBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)

SEP 5 Art Night Reception, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
SEP 5 Art Night Reception, Miller Pottery Exhibition, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
SEP 6 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
SEP 6 First Friday Event, Pop T ART Night (Andy Warhol coloring contest & more), Lorrie Lane Studio

SEP 7 Opening reception and award presentation, INK ONLY II: A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, Paperworkers Local, UAB’s Project Space, 900 13th Street South (SEP 7-OCT 5), 5-7 pm
SEP 13 Reception, Poets and Painters 2Betak-Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, 5-7 pm
JUL 17-SEP 24 Rik Long Exhibition, Kentuck’s Hotel Indigo Gallery, downtown Tuscaloosa

OCTOBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)

OCT 3 Art Night Reception, Andrew & Etta McCall Exhibition, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
OCT 3 Art Night Reception, Miller Pottery Exhibition, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
OCT 4 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
OCT 4 First Friday Event, Disturbers of the Piece Awards Night, Lorrie Lane Studio, 910 31st Ave., Tuscaloosa, 5-7 pm

SEP 7-OCT 5 INK ONLY II: A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, Paperworkers Local, UAB’s Project Space, 900 13th Street South, Birmingham
OCT 6 5th Street Vintage Market, Farmer’s Market Pavilion, 4150 5th Street, Northport, 10 am-4 pm
SEP 5-OCT 10 Miller Pottery Exhibition, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
JUL 30-OCT 11 Andrew & Etta McCall Exhibition, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport
OCT 12 Daniel Livingston, raku pot, 2019
OCT 13 48th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Park, Northport, 9 am-4 pm

NOVEMBER FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)

NOV 1 First Friday, Downtown Tuscaloosa, 5-9 pm (individual gallery times vary)
NOV 1 First Friday Reception, Women of the Bible: Lashonda RobinsonBetak-Frangoulis Art Gallery, Canterbury Chapel, Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa (NOV 1-30), 5-7 pm
NOV 1 Woodworkers of West Alabama Exhibition, Harrison Galleries, 3215 Univ. Blvd., Tuscaloosa, 6-9 pm

NOV 3 5th Street Vintage Market, Farmer’s Market Pavilion, 4150 5th Street, Northport, 10 am-4 pm

NOVEMBER ART NIGHT
NOV 7 Art Night reception, Art Students of Stillman College, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport (OCT 29-NOV 22), 5-8 pm
NOV 7 Art Night reception, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport, 5-8 pm
NOV 8 Art Mart Night: Holiday Open House, Lorrie Lane Studio, 910 31st Ave., Tuscaloosa, 5-7 pm
OCT 29-NOV 22 Art Students of Stillman College, Teer Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport

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

DECEMBER ART NIGHT & FIRST FRIDAY (gallery guide)

DEC 5 Art Night reception, Kentuck Studio Artists Exhibition, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport (DEC 3-JAN 17), 5-8 pm
DEC 6 Big Red Dog at Kentuck Courtyard
DEC 6 First Friday Event: 2nd Annual Kafka Downtown, Lorrie Lane Studio, 910 31st Ave., Tuscaloosa, 5-7 pm
DEC 17 Exhibition opening, Wade Hall Postcards Traveling Exhibit: Main Streets, UA (location TBA), (DEC 17-JAN 3)
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

DEC 17, 2019-JAN 3, 2020 Wade Hall Postcards Traveling Exhibit: Main Streets, UA (location TBA)
DEC 3, 2019-JAN 17, 2020 Kentuck Studio Artists Exhibition, Museum Gallery, Kentuck Art Center, Northport

ANYTIME: Experience the Monsters that Tookover Tuscaloosa downtown, or 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.

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://artsrevive.com/ (Selma)
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)
https://usdac.us/tuscaloosa (Black Warrior Outpost of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture)
http://bryantmuseum.com/
http://www.artsbma.org/exhibitions/current/
http://cac.tuscarts.org/cacgallery.php (Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC)
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)
https://www.apr.org/community-calendar
http://fayetteal.org/sipsey-arts-alliance/ (City of Fayette page)
http://fayetteal.org/residents/art-museum/ (City of Fayette Art Museum and Arts Council page)
http://firstfridaytuscaloosa.com/
http://gorgashouse.ua.edu/
http://graceaberdean.com/
http://www.firstfridaytuscaloosa.com/art-galleries/harrison-galleries-llc
http://www.hooverlibrary.org/galleries
http://tuscarts.org/gallery-juniorleague.php (Junior League Gallery, Bama Theatre)
http://www.kentuck.org/
https://www.facebook.com/lorrieslane/
http://stephensmith.gallery/exhibitions.html
http://www.warnertransportationmuseum.com/
https://www.montevallo.edu/academics/colleges/college-of-fine-arts/departments/department-of-art/the-gallery/
http://www.oconnorartstudios.com/
https://www.facebook.com/riverportgallerynorthport
http://sipseyartsalliance.com/
http://scfac.uwa.edu/default.htm (Sumter County Fine Arts Council)
http://www.themakersmarketalabama.com/
http://www.tuscarts.org/calendarofevents.php
http://www.tuscarts.org/artnight.php
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)

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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”