APR 7-16 First Friday reception, Moment | Momento: Jamie Reschke BFA Exhibition, Harrison Galleries, 6-9 pm Harrison Galleries will host an exhibition by University of Alabama BFA major Jamie Reschke, April 7 through April 16 in downtown Tuscaloosa. Moment | Momento opens with a reception on First Friday, April 7 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. In this exhibition, Reschke intends to capture an ephemeral moment of experience, creating a "momento," the Italian word for "moment," for the future, in her two- and three-dimensional art. "My sculptures are figurative glimpses of vulnerability cast into bronze...I use the figure to capture unseen moments I have experienced and overcome." Art-making also becomes an activity connecting her to others as she incorporates the images of people she meets in her travels into her work, in both painting and sculpture. About working on this exhibition in her last year at UA, Reschke said, "This whole process has taught me a lot about myself, my abilities and the value of the important moments we experience in our lives. Through this body of work, I hope the viewer experiences their own moment with my art." Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, Jamie Reschke transferred to The University of Alabama from Huntingdon College in the fall of 2015. She is a candidate for the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2017; her major concentration is painting and her secondary concentration is sculpture. She has participated in numerous regional art exhibitions including Annual West Alabama Juried Shows in Tuscaloosa in 2015 and 2016 and Annual BFA Juried Exhibitions at UA in 2015 and 2016. She curated the exhibition, Intimacy: Enrico Berni, at the Ganzo Cultural and Gastronomic Association at Apicius International School of Hospitality in Florence, Italy; and co-curated the UA student sculpture exhibition, QUICKTURNAROUND, at the UA Gallery in Tuscaloosa. Reschke has had internships at the Florence University of the Arts (Florence, Italy) and the Montgomery (Ala.) Museum of Fine Arts. She was awarded the Ann D. Lary Scholarship, the Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship. She received the David Larson Student Award at the 49th Annual Montgomery Art Guild Regions Bank Exhibition. After graduation, Reschke hopes to earn a master's degree in art history and continue in museum studies. Harrison Galleries is located at 2315 University Boulevard in downtown Tuscaloosa and is open Monday through Friday, 12 noon to 5:00 pm, and by appointment. Please call (205) 464-0054 to check for updates to the exhibition schedule. The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is the professional degree for the artist; it is also the foundation for the masters program in studio art at UA. For more information about the BFA degree and our other degree programs in the UA Department of Art and Art History, go to http://art.ua.edu/academics/undergraduate-programs/babfa-in-studio-art/ or contact the department at (205) 348-5967.
Dual Exhibition Reveals Transformative Nature of Art
Exhibitions: Francesca Baldarelli: 54 Phillips Way | Tobias Layman: Grinding Away Dates: February 2-16, 2017 Where: Sella-Granata Art Gallery, 109 Woods Hall, UA campus Reception: Thursday, February 2, 4-6 p.m., Sella-Granata Art Gallery The University of Alabama Department of Art and Art History is pleased to present the Master of Arts exhibitions of Francesca Baldarelli and Tobias Layman, February 2-16, 2017, in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery. Layman's exhibition, titled Grinding Away and Baldarelli's exhibition, 54 Phillips Way, will have their opening reception on Thursday, February 2 from 4 to 6 p.m. Join us then to meet these artists and experience their work first hand! In her exhibition, 54 Phillips Way, Francesca Baldarelli salvages and reuses discarded or re-gifted materials. As she describes it, she combines the objects “to create curious moments of memory,” for herself and the viewer. “As time passes,” Baldarelli explains, “they transform. A crack here, a bend there, they slowly become different.” Changed, the objects move into the future, to create an open-ended experience for the artist and viewer alike. In this exhibition, Tobias Layman creates wood and metal sculptures that celebrate motion. Shaped like gears and other moving parts, Layman presents a sensory experience to the viewer, of sound, sight, texture, as well as an experience of the art works’ imperfection. “The gears are not cast from a mold or cut with state-of-the-art technology," Layman explains, "They are created by hand. Over and over. The gears do not align perfectly and they do not spin effortlessly.” In fact, Layman says, their flaws transform them beyond the realm of machines. “The imperfections warrant a sense of mortality. Their life span is unknown, and that unpredictability helps augment them and give them life.” About the Artists Tobias Layman is a graduate student in sculpture, with an assistantship teaching Ceramics I and Drawing I. Layman received the BFA, cum laude, in ceramics, from Jacksonville State University in 2014. He has exhibited in national and regional exhibitions including 35 Live: CoCA Member’s Show, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA; DAMNED IX, Detroit, MI; A Different Vision, Plymouth, MA; The Big Dance Exhibit, a juried exhibition in Des Moines, IA; and Abstracts Art Exhibition, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery, where he received an honorable mention. Layman has been a studio assistant for the Department of Art at Jacksonville State University, an assistant instructor at John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC, and an instructor and ceramic technician at Earthworks Pottery Studio in Rome, GA. He is a recipient of the Thames Endowed Scholarship and the Joseph and Allen Sella Endowed Scholarship at UA. His art website is http://talceramics.weebly.com/. Francesca Baldarelli is a graduate student in printmaking with an assistantship. She currently teaches Introduction to Printmaking and assists in Color Theory. She has assisted in Drawing II and Intro to Printmaking. Her work combining printmaking and ceramics will be in the group exhibition, Clay Review 3 at the Abernathy Arts Center in Sandy Springs, GA, in January and February, 2017. She has exhibited her work in the Chautauqua Institution Student Exhibition at the Fowler Kellogg Gallery, Chautauqua, NY. Her Graduating BFA Show was held at the John J. McDonough Museum, Youngstown, OH and she has been included in several group exhibitions at Bliss Hall Gallery at Youngstown State University. Baldarelli received the BFA, cum laude, in painting and printmaking from Youngstown State University in 2012. She attended the Chautauqua Institution School of Art in Chautauqua, NY, in 2014 and the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice in 2010. She received a UA College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Council Fellowship in 2015, the CISA Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institute Scholarship in 2014. At YSU, Baldarelli received a four-year American Legion Auxiliary Scholarship, a Study Abroad Grant, Venice, Italy, in 2010 and the Student Art Association Painting Award in 2009. Her art website is http://fmbaldarelli9.wixsite.com/portfolio. A thesis exhibition is one of the requirements for the successful completion of the Master of Arts program in the UA Department of Art and Art History. For more information about our graduate programs, visit this page: http://art.ua.edu/academics/undergraduate-programs/. GALLERY VISITOR PARKING ON UA CAMPUS The Campus Drive Parking Deck at the corner of Hackberry Lane and Campus Drive provides visitor parking at a nominal cost, and is only a five-minute walk to Garland and Woods halls. Buses also run on varying schedules from the deck. To walk to Woods Quad from the parking deck, exit the main doors of the parking deck and cross Hackberry Lane southwest to Margaret Drive. Follow Margaret Drive to Capstone Drive, which runs between Gorgas Library and Garland Hall. Follow Capstone Drive to Garland Hall and the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, and to Woods Hall and the Sella-Granata Art Gallery. For more information on bus schedules, go to http://crimsonride.ua.edu/
UA Art Students Awarded Scholarships During Honors Day 2016
Interim department chair Tom Wolfe presided over our Honors Day award ceremony in the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art on April 8, 2016. Because of our generous benefactors, the Department of Art and Art History was able to give a total of $65,000 in scholarships for the coming year. Here are our top four scholarship recipients in descending award amount and our remaining twenty-five awardees in alphabetical order, all listed with the name of their scholarship(s). Top Four Scholarship Recipients Camille Mancuso The Julie Peake Holaday Memorial Endowed Scholarship The Vernon and Eugenia Otwell Rutledge Endowed Scholarship The Angelo Granata Endowed Scholarship Oliver Reed The Julie Peak Holaday Memorial Endowed Scholarship The Elizabeth Bashinsky Endowed Art Scholarship The Angelo Granata Endowed Scholarship Megan Fletcher The Matthews Memorial Endowed Scholarship Erika Busse The Mary M Morgan Memorial Art Scholarship Fund The Galbraith Endowed Art Scholarship Remaining Scholarship Recipients (Alphabetical) Mia Borelli The Paul R Jones Endowed Scholarship The Wingate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship Christina Burroughs The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship Jordan Clark The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship Grace Fitts The Paul R Jones Endowed Art Scholarship John Paul Foley The Galbraith Endowed Art Scholarship The Russell Jack Drake End Support Fund Alexander Green The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship Sommer Hallquist The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed studio Arts scholarship Rachel Hamner The Elizabeth Bashinsky Endowed Art Scholarship The Paul R Jones Endowed Art Scholarship The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship Bradley Hankins The Paul R Jones Endowed Scholarship Ellen Hart The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship The Rutledge Endowed Scholarship Kalypso Homan The Myra and Jim Morgan Endowed Scholarship The Carole B Merkle Endowed Scholarship Caroline Japal The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship Rachel Jones The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship The Richard Zoellner Scholarship Fund Casey Marshall The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship Anissa McGhee The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship Shane Montz The Paul R Jones Endowed Scholarship The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship Alayna Pernell The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship Rebecca Powell The Carole B Merkle Endowed Scholarship Marguerite Powers The Marilyn Williams Elmore Endowed Art Scholarship The Galbraith Endowed Art Scholarship Jamie Reschke The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship Mallorie Roberts The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship Caroline Rothschild The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship Jaclyn Schillenger The William Garnet Anderson Endowed Scholarship The Wingate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship Zoe Simpson The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship The Rutledge Endowed Scholarship Laura Wymer The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship
Loupe Spring 2015 Extra – Honors Day
Department chair Dr. Cathy Pagani presided over our Honors Day award ceremony in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery this April 3, 2015. Because of our generous benefactors, the Department of Art and Art History was able to give a total of $91,000 in scholarships for the coming year. Here are our top seven scholarship recipients in descending award amount and our remaining twenty-two awardees in alphabetical order, all listed with the name of their scholarship(s). Top Seven Scholarship Recipients Mitchell Griest: The Elizabeth B. Bashinksky Endowed Art Scholarship, The Myra and Jim Morgan Endowed Scholarship, The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship. Erin Hein: The Elizabeth B. Bashinksky Endowed Art Scholarship; The Paul R. Jones Endowed Scholarship. Jaclyn Schillinger: The Elizabeth B. Bashinksky Endowed Art Scholarship; The Myra and Jim Morgan Endowed Scholarship; The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship. Erika Busse: The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship; The Myra and Jim Morgan Endowed Scholarship. Casey Marshall: The Carolyn Haddon “Julie” Matthews Memorial Endowed Scholarship; The Bradley Endowed Scholarship. William (Shane) Montz: The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship; The Myra and Jim Morgan Endowed Scholarship. Zoe Simpson: The Carolyn Haddon “Julie” Matthews Memorial Endowed Scholarship; The Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowed Studio Arts Scholarship. Remaining Scholarship Recipients (Alphabetical) Robin Anderson: The Russell "Jack" Drake Endowed Support Fund. Kathryn Bornhoft: The Bradley Endowed Scholarship. Jenna Cape: The Marilyn Williams Elmore Endowed Art Scholarship. Tanesha Childs: The Art Students Endowed Scholarship. Jordan Clark: The Paul R. Jones Endowed Scholarship. Matthew Edgeworth: The Paul R. Jones Endowed Scholarship. Megan Fletcher: The Angelo Granata Endowed Scholarship. Megan Goldman: The Julie Peake Holaday Memorial Endowed Scholarship; The Vernon and Eugenia Otwell Rutledge Endowed Scholarship. Alex Green: The Paul R. Jones Endowed Scholarship. Rachel Hamner: The Carol B. Merkle Endowed Scholarship. Francie Hogan: The Paul R. Jones Endowed Scholarship. Nicholas Jones: The Julie Peake Holaday Memorial Endowed Scholarship. Rachel Jones: The Carolyn Haddon “Julie” Matthews Memorial Endowed Scholarship; The Richard Zoellner Scholarship. Jonathan Lanier: The Paul R. Jones Endowed Scholarship. Timothy Larsen: The Julie Peake Holaday Memorial Endowed Scholarship. Whitney Lloyd: The Julie Peake Holaday Memorial Endowed Scholarship; The Angelo Granata Endowed Scholarship. Katie Neal: The Myra and Jim Morgan Endowed Scholarship. Bridget O'Hara: The Art Students Endowed Scholarship. Tanika Powers: The Carol B. Merkle Endowed Scholarship. Seth Saunders: The Farley Moody Galbraith Scholarship. Samantha Soliz: The Carol B. Merkle Endowed Scholarship. Xinyao Zhang: The William Garnet Anderson Endowed Scholarship.
Farley Moody Galbraith
In January of 2013, Farley Moody Galbraith, the primary patron of the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art for the past 25 years, passed away. Because of Galbraith’s longstanding interest and her endowment, the gallery (originally supported by and named for Galbraith’s mother, Sarah McCorkle Moody) enjoys a strong reputation in the national art community. This issue is dedicated in part to Mrs. Galbraith. Bill Dooley, director of the gallery since 1988, has written a tribute to her, below. Farley Moody Galbraith dedicated significant support to the arts throughout the state. One of the founders of the Shakespeare Festival at its original location in Anniston, Mrs. Galbraith was generous to arts organizations in her native Calhoun County, as well as those at The University of Alabama. She added significantly to support initially given by her mother to the art department at the time of the renovation of Garland and Woods Halls. Mother and daughter both believed that art exhibitions are a key component of the university’s fine arts cultural enrichment and the education of studio artists and art historians. In 1989, Mrs. Galbraith established an endowed exhibition fund to produce changing exhibitions devoted to important contemporary arts programming. She wanted to make sure there was enough financial support available to attract significant artists’ exhibits so that UA students and community would have direct access to notable and influential art. Mrs. Galbraith loved the idea that the work of an internationally known artist such as Robert Rauschenberg could be on view in the department’s art gallery on Woods Quad. Her support was intended to bring the culture here. She wanted visitors to be able to see such a show as many times as they wanted without having to travel to an urban center. Periodically Mrs. Galbraith would call on me to ask how the endowment was supporting exhibit production. Since it was an endowed account, there were a few years when a funding shortfall might require us to adjust our programming accordingly. This did not sit that well with her, and as a result, she made additional gifts to the endowment so that it became more and more robust. In her mind, she did not want us to be limited in programming by a lack of funding! Over the years, we have been fortunate to be able to maintain a high quality of contemporary arts programming for UA students and the surrounding community. The gallery is an amazing amenity for the Department of Art and Art History, thanks in large part to the sustained support created by Mrs. Galbraith. She was modest about her role as supporter of the arts and did not wish to have her name in lights. She herself enjoyed making art and understood the fragility of the creative process and its need for stable funding. She was a solid supporter who expected real-life benefits to come from her gifts, such as an education rich in the arts. That was thanks enough for her. It is my hope that the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art will continue to meet the high expectations enabled by her endowment. It is truly exciting to be part of a gallery program that has had such a dedicated and significant patron as Farley Moody Galbraith. — William T. Dooley Images from the Permanent Collection of the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art
Art Reflects Southern Upbringing for Northport Native
ART REFLECTS SOUTHERN UPBRINGING FOR NORTHPORT NATIVE "Hot Steams" Amber Jones BFA Exhibition, November 7 – December 9, 2011 Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Woods Hall, The University of Alabama campus Opening reception on Thursday, November 10, 6:00-9:00 p.m. Through the art of ceramics and sculpture, Northport native and University of Alabama senior BFA major Amber Jones has been discovering what it means to her to be “Southern.” For Jones, being Southern has to do with hard work and a culture of storytelling in her family and from Southern literature, glazed and fired with the colors and textures of the natural world where she grew up in Tuscaloosa County. Jones has translated her Southern perspective into a body of art work that she will exhibit from November 7 through December 9 in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery on The University of Alabama campus. “Hot Steams” will feature the ceramics and sculpture she has produced as part of her work for the Bachelor of Fine Arts, a professional art degree, from the UA Department of Art and Art History. Jones will graduate in December. The exhibition title alludes to “Hot Steams” — people who, in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, have died, but continue to hang around on earth. In her art work, Jones uses “Hot Steams” as a metaphor for her ancestors who have passed on and yet still influence her every day. “For example,” Jones explained recently, “the mixed media installation Moon Shrine was created to pay homage to the people who kept food on their families’ tables by making illegal moonshine deep in the woods and [then] coming up with creative ways to evade the law. While some may look upon these individuals as criminals, I see them as some of the true heroes of the South.” Moon Shrine is an installation piece, as are most of her sculptures for this show. “[The installation] has several mason and larger jars filled with clear liquid, candles, a gas can, a hubcap, etc, that reference what goes into making moonshine.” Jones adds for clarification: “Cars for hauling.” “I have always been close with my extended family, and have heard countless stories about the members who came before me. My family's history is passed down through an oral tradition of narratives and biographies that are often humorous and usually embellished. In my work, I hope to create a new vein of visual family history that can serve the same purpose of preserving the narrative of my family and explaining why we are who we are.” Amber Jones is who she is in part because of hard work, volunteering, and the “kindness of strangers.” In 2007, Jones was one of 15 Alabama students who received the J. Craig and Paige T. Smith Foundation Scholarship, awarded to first-generation college students who show strong leadership qualities and meet other requirements. Her scholarship totaled $60,000. Jones also received the Capstone Scholarship in 2007. And in 2011, Jones was awarded the Farley Moody Galbraith Endowed Scholarship in Art. Jones has a long history of volunteering in her community, and in at least one case, has given back to an organization that helped her early in life. Born with osteogenesis imperfecta, the disease sometimes known as “brittle bones,” Jones attended UA’s RISE program as a child. As a Tuscaloosa County High School student she volunteered there, as well as with the Children’s Hands-on Museum and United Cerebral Palsy. In college she volunteered with UA’s Circle K Club, where she held leadership positions for three years. Jones’s service work extends to the UA Department of Art and Art History where she is a member of Crimson Ceramics, a student-run organization that raises money for scholarships, and has served as its president for two years. Along with these volunteer positions, Jones has worked part-time jobs through two years of high school and throughout her college career, in positions at UA Housing, the Crimson Calling Center, at Fifth and Main, and most recently in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery. Jones puts a huge amount of energy not only into volunteering and her “regular” jobs, but also into her school and art work. “Because of my bone disease, I've faced limitations my entire life. While these limitations were minor compared with the limitations of others with this disease, I still felt their weight. Walking into the woodshop and metalshop [in the UA Department of Art and Art History] and learning to use the tools my father and uncles have used their entire lives made me feel capable and powerful, while strengthening the connections I have to my family. I shocked my Uncle L.V. when I walked in his cabinet shop and told him I had experience with every tool in there.” “It feels good to know I can do things that other people think I can not. Sometimes I push a little too far and I fail, but I've been lucky that my teachers — like [sculpture professor] Craig Wedderspoon, [ceramics instructor] Daniel Livingston and [Arts Technician Senior] Mark Stevenson — pick me back up. They never make my goals seem out of reach, but they do help me focus my ideas. Without them, I would not have made it this far. Nothing I ever dreamed up was too crazy for them, and they always supported me. I owe them everything.” A reception for the show will be catered by Fifth and Main of Northport, as well as members of Jones's family, and will include Southern fare such as fried okra, fried green tomatoes, cornbread, chicken and dumplings, pimento cheese, deviled eggs, sweet potato pie, and banana pudding. ###