Tuscaloosa. — The University of Alabama’s Department of Art and Art History is proud to present the master of arts thesis exhibition of Katie Adams, titled Space Between the Ears. The exhibition will be held March 21-29, 2019, at Harrison Galleries, in downtown Tuscaloosa. A reception for the artist will be held Friday, March 22 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. in the gallery. Adams designs and builds sculptures that visually express the effects of neurological disorders on those afflicted as well as the people around them, both in form and through the media in which she works. “My sculptures examine the complications of neurological disorders. Each piece builds a perspective for viewers to experience simultaneously the breakdown of neurological systems as well as the disruption of function and communication.” She wants the experience of viewing her sculpture to bring a realization to the viewer that, as she says, “perspective can be distorted without materially changing objects.” Adams works with metal, glass, ceramics and photography for the work in this exhibition. She explains, "Each brain model is different: with each disease the portions of the brain affected are either missing or made of glass instead of metal.” Adams hopes that by bridging the gap between art and medicine through her work, she will help people understand what is happening physically and mentally with neurological diseases. Katie Adams is a graduate student in sculpture. Adams received the BA from Western Kentucky University in art with a concentration in sculpture. Her work has been included in numerous juried and group exhibitions including Height x Width x Depth (HWD) in Kettering, Ohio; 51st Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Corpus Christi, Texas, and 24th Annual Jack Lunt Memorial Juried Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, Ky. She demonstrated at the 2016 Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design Convention (SOFA) in Chicago. Her work consists mostly of metal, wood and glass components. Adams says that she searches to understand and combine nature’s physical elements and systems with emotional connections. Image credit: Katie Adams, Brain, versatile plastic, 10 x 10 x 12 inches. Image courtesy of the artist. 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 The University of Alabama’s Department of Art and Art History degree programs, visit our website: https://art.ua.edu/academics/. Harrison Galleries, LLC, is located at 2315 University Boulevard in downtown Tuscaloosa. The hours of the UA Gallery are Monday through Friday, 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m., and First Fridays of the month, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. For more information call (205) 464-0054 or visit the website: http://www.firstfridaytuscaloosa.com/art-galleries/harrison-galleries-llc.
Iranian Artist Explores Her Cultural Identity Through Ceramic Art
Tuscaloosa. — The University of Alabama's Department of Art and Art History is proud to present the master of arts thesis exhibition of Nasrin Iravani, titled, “I’m a Woman Here Standing in the Mist.” The exhibition will be held April 3-30, 2019, at The University of Alabama Gallery in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, in downtown Tuscaloosa. A First Friday reception will be held Friday, April 5 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. in the gallery. Nasrin Iravani is a graduate student in ceramics and serves as a graduate teaching assistant in ceramics. Iravani received the MA in Handicrafts (ceramics) from Tehran University of Art. Her work is inspired by Persian art and she is particularly interested in figurative forms. She presents a critical view of ethical, social and cultural issues in her art work and is currently working on a collection of pieces titled Femininity, which refers to women’s rights and concerns. She writes, “The history and culture of Iran, my home country, gives me a sense of identity, tranquility, and confidence. I use symbols and signs of traditional Iranian art to showcase some of that history and culture. In my work, I explore feminine narratives in aesthetics, politics, history and personal experiences, and I use the concept of art as a tool to address contemporary women’s rights and concerns.” Iravani uses elements such as asymmetry, color contrast and the simultaneous presentation of the inside and the outside of some of her pieces to convey her own conflicts with Iran's traditional ways, especially regarding women. The title of her exhibition is taken from a poem, written by her husband the Iranian poet Saeid Ranjbar, which she feels expresses her relationship to the culture she loves but struggles with. “While incorporating signs of traditional and contemporary art, I strive to reflect the view that the relationship between tradition and modernity needs to be continuously reconsidered.” Nasrin Iravani's selected international, national and juried exhibitions include L’artigiano in Fiera 2016, Milan; Fitur 2016, Feria de Madrid, Spain; International Handicraft Exhibition; Tehran; 46th International Art Show, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art (Texas); The Millennial Show (juried), TEJAS Gallery, Dayton, OH; Clay: A Southern Census (juried), New Orleans; 33rd Annual Alabama Clay Conference, Montgomery, AL; The Ritual Table: A Place of Memory, A State of Mind, Corning, NY; and Vitreous (juried), Clay Center of New Orleans. Image credit: Nasrin Iravani, Aspire, 2019, 30 x 25 x 20 cm., porcelain. Image courtesy of the artist. 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 The University of Alabama's Department of Art and Art History degree programs, visit our website. The Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center is located at 620 Greensboro Avenue in downtown Tuscaloosa. The DWCAC is the home of The University of Alabama Gallery and The Arts Council Gallery. The hours of the UA Gallery are Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, and First Fridays of the month, 12 noon to 8 pm. For more information call (205) 342-2060 or visit the website: https://uagallery.as.ua.edu/.
Nigerian Artist Creates a Spontaneous Tapestry of Painting in Exhibit
Tuscaloosa. — The University of Alabama Department of Art and Art History is pleased to present "The Wor(l)d Is An Idea…," the master of arts exhibition of Jude Anogwih, April 4-11, 2019, in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery on UA campus. The public is invited to a reception for the artist Monday, April 8, 5-8 pm. Anogwih's exhibition is a compound visual reflection of his travels and encounters within and beyond his home city of Lagos, Nigeria, the "sociocultural nerve point for the country." Anogwih describes this body of work, primarily in mixed media, as an "imprint of drawings, paintings and installation that retraces my presences (physical, mental, and imagined…) in various spaces, places, countries and entities that I encountered and longed to be. They embody memories, perceptions/assumptions and history that I retrace, reconstruct, draw, paint, paste…into dense, abundant layers of persistent marks that build up with time. These fragments of my memories and encounters clutter like a spontaneous tapestry to tell my story." Jude Anogwih is a graduate teaching assistant in drawing and painting.He received the MA in art history from the University of Lagos, Nigeria and a Post Graduate Diploma in Education from Federal University of Technology Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria. He received the BA with honors from the University of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, in Creative Arts. Anogwih’s work has been shown internationally in many exhibitions including Videonale (Lagos, Nigeria); Biennale Jogja XII (Yogyakarta, Indonesia); “Shifting Africa,” Mediation Biennale (Poznan, Poland); Suspension of Disbelief, Brundyn+ (Cape Town South Africa); Analogue Eye-Video Art Africa, National Arts Festival (Grahamstown, South Africa); Jardim Canadá Centro de Arte (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil); 5th International Festival of Video Art, FIVAC 2013 (Camagüey, Cuba); Imagined Communities, Golden Thread Gallery (Northern Ireland). He was selected as a Goethe-Institut Moving Africa Participant at Salon Urbain de Douala and he won a Goethe-Institut Fellowship to dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany, among other awards. He is a founding member and co-coordinator of Video Art Network Lagos. For more information about the UA Department of Art and Art History and its programs, visit this link: https://art.ua.edu/academics/or contact the department at (205) 348-5967. Funding support for the Sella-Granata Art Gallery comes from the Department of Art and Art History and the College of Arts and Sciences. Admission to the gallery is always free. Hours are Monday through Wednesday 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m., Thursday 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Friday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The gallery is located at 109 Woods Hall in the heart of the UA campus on Woods Quad. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/. For more information, contact the gallery at (205) 348-2783 or go to https://art.ua.edu/gallery/sgg/.
Artist Explores Patterns of Water in MA Exhibition
Tuscaloosa. — The University of Alabama Department of Art and Art History is pleased to present Waterways, the master of arts exhibition of Ulrike Franz, April 4-11, 2019, in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery on UA campus. The public is invited to a reception for the exhibition Monday, April 8, 5-8 p.m. Originally from Germany, Ulrike Franz is a papermaker, printmaker and painter. Franz said her art work is inspired by her surroundings and she has been overwhelmed by the diversity of the natural world since she has lived in Alabama. "During the past few years in Alabama, the observation of water has become more and more interesting to me," she said, "as Tuscaloosa is surrounded by many lakes, creeks and rivers. The moving water surface creates patterns that fascinate me." This exhibition features Franz's work in several series of prints and paintings on paper created in the past two years, as well as photo-based prints series of cyanotypes and screen prints that are mixed with watercolor paintings. Ulrike Franz has held solo and group exhibitions of her artwork in Germany, France, Hungary and the Czech Republic. She was artist-in-residence in Szolnok, Hungary; freelanced in graphic design, painting; taught art classes to adults and children; and has worked as a gallery assistant and collections manager. Franz received the MA in art history, archeology and anthropology at the University of Tübingen, and has taken courses in Book Arts at The University of Alabama. She has held a private glider pilot license since 1983. For more information about the UA Department of Art and Art History and its programs, visit this link: https://art.ua.edu/academics/ or contact the department at (205) 348-5967. Funding support for the Sella-Granata Art Gallery comes from the Department of Art and Art History and the College of Arts and Sciences. Admission to the gallery is always free. Hours are Monday through Wednesday 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m., Thursday 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Friday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The gallery is located at 109 Woods Hall in the heart of the UA campus on Woods Quad. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/. For more information, contact the gallery at (205) 348-2783 or go to https://art.ua.edu/gallery/sgg/.
Mexican-American Biologist Explores Identity Through Painting
Tuscaloosa. — The University of Alabama Department of Art and Art History is pleased to present The Immigrant Life, the master of arts exhibition of Juan López-Bautista, April 4-11, 2019, in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery on UA campus. The public is invited to a reception for the artist, Monday, April 8, 5-8 pm. Juan López-Bautista has interwoven issues of identity, contemporary political reality and the natural world into his art. He writes, My artwork explores the search for a Mexican-American self-identity. The journey that I undertook to become a visual artist includes the personal and social challenges that I face as an immigrant. I find resonance between my artwork and the divided political discourse of today. Organic forms are used in my mixed media paintings to signify the threads of the fabric of our society. The resulting matrices are metaphors for the strengths and gaps of the many layers that form our American culture. I envision my abstract paintings as human landscapes, where issues of race, separation, injustice, survival, resilience and pursuit of happiness, occupy the same pictorial space. López-Bautista has a PhD in plant biology from Louisiana State University and a MS in biology from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He has taught for a decade in UA’s department of biology. His scientific research focuses on the biodiversity, systematics and phylogenomics of marine and terrestrial algae. His most recent project, funded by the National Science Foundation, is the assembling of the tree of life for green and red algae. He teaches courses in the biology of algae, plant biology and advanced phycology. Before entering the MFA program in studio art, he took courses in painting at LSU and at UA. In 2018, he had a solo exhibition at the Ayers LRC Art Gallery in Anniston, Ala., and has exhibited work in the UA Graduate Student Exhibition in 2018 and 2017. He has shown his work at Highland Coffees Gallery in Baton Rouge, La., and the Charles Saucier Gallery in New Orleans, among others. For more information about the UA Department of Art and Art History and its programs, visit this link: https://art.ua.edu/academics/ or contact the department at (205) 348-5967. Funding support for the Sella-Granata Art Gallery comes from the Department of Art and Art History and the College of Arts and Sciences. Admission to the gallery is always free. Hours are Monday through Wednesday 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m., Thursday 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Friday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The gallery is located at 109 Woods Hall in the heart of the UA campus on Woods Quad. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/. For more information, contact the gallery at (205) 348-2783 or go to https://art.ua.edu/gallery/sgg/.
Refocused: Patrick Hoban Master of Arts Exhibition
Tuscaloosa. -- The University of Alabama Department of Art and Art History is pleased to present Refocused, the master of arts exhibition of Patrick Hoban, April 16-20, 2018, in the Arts Construction Building on 16th Street, one block east of Queen City Avenue, in Tuscaloosa. The public is invited to a reception for the exhibition Thursday, April 19, 5-7 pm in the ACB. Growing up with anxiety and ADHD has not been easy for graduate student Patrick Hoban. In the studio graduate program at UA, he has turned his struggles into the foundation of his art practice, using the natural qualities of clay to bring meaning to his work. “Having mental disorders like anxiety and ADHD have been a constant battle for me to complete tasks in a timely manner,” he writes. “I decided to work repetitively, in a structured and focused practice that in turn eases the anxiety within myself.” The repetitive practice becomes a meditative process that Hoban says he uses “to reveal my mental struggles. By stacking, balancing and forming processed installation sculptures made of Alabama clay, I bring an energy reflective of natural phenomena through the evolving creative and drying process of each piece. By using a versatile material that can crack and break, I leave opportunity for unexpected results and consistently keep the work evolving.” Patrick Hoban is a graduate student in ceramics with an assistantship teaching ceramics and 3D design. Hoban received the BFA in sculpture from Pennsylvania State University. He was juried into the 19th Annual National K-12 Ceramic Exhibition in Kansas City, Mo. He was the recipient of a full scholarship to ceramic summer class at Penn Valley School with the renowned artist, Chris Staley, and a recipient of the Emerging Artist Award at Malvern Preparatory School. 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/graduate-programs/. The Arts Construction Building is at 1708 16th Street, one block east of Queen City Avenue, south of 15th Street.
Graduate Studio Artists Present Master’s Exhibitions
The University of Alabama Department of Art and Art History is pleased to present the master of arts exhibitions of graduate students Amy Smoot and John Klosterman, Feb. 8-22, 2018, in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery. The public is cordially invited to attend a reception for the artists Thursday, Feb. 15 from 4 to 6 p.m. Through his art work, John Klosterman searches for answers to our most basic questions about life, such as Why are we like we are? And, Will we change as we grow? He uses imagery to represent his influences and experiences – the elements in life that have helped shape him – in his prints. Klosterman gives an example: “The varying use of rope or knots are metaphors for my relationships. The rope, much like family, can be strained or broken. On the other hand, rope can also be taken care of and used to tie a knot that cannot be undone. I aim to interpret the relationships I have had with these different figures or issues by use of the rope.” Schematic drawings or plans also serve as metaphors in his art. He explains, “Schematics also reappear throughout the work as they represent a path forward, as well as the path I’ve taken so far. Do our ever-evolving interpretations of these memories affect the schematics that we have laid out for ourselves going forward?” John Klosterman is a graduate student in printmaking and holds an assistantship in studio art. Growing up in Daphne, Ala., he developed a fondness for machines and the tinkering that came along with them. Klosterman says that his love of tinkering "now takes on a two-dimensional form as he transfers ink to paper. Instead of the turn of a wrench," he notes, "it is now the carving of a block with a gouge. Layers of each print, much like parts of a car, are assembled in a manner that creates a functioning vehicle for the message of each piece." Klosterman received the BFA from the University of South Alabama in 2015, with a major in printmaking and a minor in interdisciplinary studies. His work was included in the Hot-N-Ready Print Portfolio Exchange, which traveled to Wichita State University (Kansas), Westminster College (New Wilmington, Pa.) and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. His work will also be included in the upcoming invitational exhibition, Nine, at Eichold Gallery at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala. He participated in the department's 2017 Graduate Student Show and spoke about his work process in a video here. Ceramic artist Amy Smoot explores what she describes as "insignificant moments of discomfort" that may "implode in a moment's notice" in our everyday lives. She says, "The focus of my work lies with the everyday insecurities that we experience as we move through the world. What seems to lie dormant can suddenly bubble to the surface and alter how you react to what or who is around you. How do I and others compensate for these insecurities? How does this build-up of worry impact our emotional health? What does it do to a person when they constantly doubt themselves? How can we grow to accept the things we cannot change?" Amy Smoot is a graduate student in ceramics. She has taught Figure Modeling and assists Ceramics I, III and IV. She participated in the department's 2017 Graduate Student Show and spoke about her work process in a video here. Smoot received the BFA in ceramics from the University of West Georgia where she was a studio assistant in ceramics and a student research assistant. She was one of three artists selected for Air Air in 2017, an artist residency where artists make art on airplanes. In the spring of 2017, she gave a 19th-century ceramics presentation at historic Lyon Hall in Demopolis, Ala. and led a "Fifty-minute Heads" workshop at the 2017 Georgia High School Clay Symposium (at UWG). In 2016-2017, she received a UA Graduate Council Fellowship. She currently serves as president of Crimson Clay. Image credit (top): John Klosterman, Self Portrait, monoprint, screen print and photo transfer, 15 x 22 inches, 2017. Image courtesy of the artist. Image credit (bottom): Amy Smoot, Touch, ceramics, 14.5 x 6 x 12 inches, 2017. Image courtesy of the artist. 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/graduate-programs/. Woods Quad and Woods Hall is a five-minute walk from the Campus Drive Parking Deck and Bus Hub on Hackberry Lane. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/.
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/
Passage: Celestia Morgan MA Exhibition
Exhibition: Passage: Celestia Morgan MA Exhibition Dates: April 18-May 3, 2016 Where: Sella-Granata Art Gallery, 109 Woods Hall, UA campus Reception: Thursday, April 21, 5-7 p.m., Sella-Granata Art Gallery The University of Alabama Department of Art and Art History is pleased to present Celestia Morgan's master of arts exhibition, Passage, April 18-May 3, in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery in Woods Hall on UA campus. There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, April 21, 5-7 p.m. The public is cordially invited to attend. Artist's Statement: Passage explores the connections between social landscapes, memory, history and identity. Private and public perceptions of landscape are explored through a series of tondo (round format) photographs and carved wood block panels. These photographs and maps depict personal historical landmarks and GPS map lines within urban neighborhoods in the surrounding areas of Birmingham, Alabama. The private landscape points to a subjective experience. These tondo photographs shift the perspective between myself and my mother, providing a passageway to the past. The emphasis is focused on specific details that recall history and offers an opportunity for the viewer to gain a sense of what has been lost. The public explores the qualities of a map line as an indexical mechanism of power. These map lines anchor each landscape in a social, historical frame, serving both as a metaphor and referent, to welcome a larger public to decipher and experience this journey, both collectively and individually. These maps also suggest a personal timeline and progression during a period of social and economic change. -- Celestia Morgan Celestia Morgan is a photographic-based artist working primarily in the area of retrospect imagery. She writes that she found a love for photography in high school with a 35mm camera. "After high school I hesitated to attend college, but was inspired to be the first member of my family to receive a college education. With great endurance and my faith in God I accomplished my goal." Morgan received the Associate Degree in Elementary Education at Lawson State Community College. She earned a BFA in photography at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is currently pursuing her MFA at The University of Alabama. Her work is currently exhibited at Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minneapolis, Minn.; State of the Art: Discovering American Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark.; Alabama Artist: Birmingham Museum of Art; Birmingham Civil Rights Institute; South X Southeast online feature; UAB Hospital Palliative and Comfort Care Unit and held in numerous private collections across America. Her artist website is here: http://www.celestiamorgan.com/. Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/222994454729282/ Crimson White profile of the artist: http://www.cw.ua.edu/article/2016/04/passage-mfa A thesis exhibition is one of the requirements for the successful completion of the Master of Arts program. For more information about the graduate programs of the UA Department of Art and Art History, visit these links: 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/