This fall at UA’s Majors Fair for undergraduates, we featured the variety of career choices available to art majors and masters students — and the news from our alumni bears this out! KAREN GRAFFEO (MFA 1987) exhibited 20 mixed media images and 30 lenticular (3-D) images in a solo exhibition, Cuba: de lo profundo del
Paperworkers Local: Alumni Creating Art Community
UA’s art alumni live and work around the globe. The spring issue of The Loupe features stories of our alumni making their way in the world. Paperworkers Local (PWL) is an artist co-operative in Birmingham started by two of UA’s Department of Art and Art History alumni, Roger Jones (MFA 2012) and Michael Merry (BFA 2008).
Graduate Student to Present Research at Renaissance Conference
Art history graduate teaching assistant Micah-Shea McKibben’s paper dedicated to “Botticelli’s Isis” was accepted to the 65th meeting of the South Central Renaissance Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, in March. McKibben specializes in 15th-century Renaissance Italy and early 20th-century art in UA’s graduate art history program and is a graduate teaching assistant. She graduated cum laude from the University
Graduate Student in Art to Present Research at Gender Studies Conference
Graduate teaching assistant Heather Whidden presented her paper, “Interpreting the Stitch,” at the eighth annual ACS Gender Studies Conference, titled “Gender Across…,” at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, in February. Whidden said that the paper is the first half of her MFA thesis explaining the gesture of stitches in her work. Here is an excerpt: The stitch: it passes through, passes
Wayne Sides: Collecting Four Decades of Photos – Part Two
Wayne Sides, 1975 New College alumnus in visual and performing arts, is in the process of scanning his entire photographic oeuvre of more than four decades. As part of this project, he is displaying more and more of those pieces on his new website. Part Two of our feature on artists digitizing their work outlines how he has
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
Senior Photography Major to Attend International Feminist Art Conference
Tanesha Childs, a senior studio art major with a minor in art history, was accepted to a 10-day residency at the Feminist Art Conference in Toronto, Ontario, in May. The conference invited applications from multidisciplinary artists who focus on social justice issues in their work. Childs, whose concentration is photography, said that she submitted photographs from her two series, Enroute to
UA Alumna to Exhibit at International Surrealist Museum
UA art alumna and surrealist artist Janice Hathaway (BFA 1973, MFA 1975) has been invited to exhibit her collages at The Eugenio Granell Fundación in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, May 26 – July 10, 2016. Granell’s daughter, Executive Director Natalia Fernandez, extended the invitation to Hathaway as part of a year of women Surrealist exhibitions
Students Tour West Alabama Architecture
Students in Dr. Rachel Stephens‘ ARH 477 (Topics in American Art) traveled through several west Alabama towns on a rainy autumn day to study antebellum planter elite architecture firsthand. Their tour included stops at four plantation homes: Magnolia Grove in Greensboro, Gaineswood and Bluff Hall in Demopolis, and the Moore-Webb-Holmes Plantation in Marion. At the Moore-Webb-Holmes