You’ve reached the website of The University of Alabama’s Department of Art and Art History in the College of Arts and Sciences. Here you’ll find information on our programs, people, and events. To reach us click Contact Us. Our main office is located in 103 Garland Hall, in the heart of campus, and is open 8:00 am to 4:00 pm Monday through Friday.
We mourn the loss of a friend of the Department of Art and Art History.
WHAT’S NEW?!
Wed. and Thurs., Feb. 10, 11, DRIVE BY PRESS Art Collective printmakers will be demonstrating the art and craft of block printmaking on the UA Crimson Promenade. Passersby are welcome!
“Argyle” is a new sculpture by Craig Wedderspoon at the center of Woods Quad. More photos on our Flickr site. Read Mark Cobb’s article, with discussion about the meaning of public sculpture.
Our SPRING EXHIBITION SCHEDULE is posted. See below.
SCHOLARSHIPS!! If you are a high school art teacher helping your seniors apply for college, click here. The deadline for scholarship applications for current students is February 19, 2010. Click here for requirements and applications.
GIFTS for Any Occasion: We have notecards and department T-shirts created from designs by students for sale. Proceeds benefit student scholarships.
Notecards with designs by undergraduates Catalina Bonet-Lopez, Jeremy Davis, and Joseph Stalnaker, are now on sale. Proceeds go to benefit research scholarships for undergraduate students in the department. A packet of 15 cards costs $20 and features five designs. They are featured in the new Tuscaloosa Magazine’s Gift Guide.
Office associates Jennifer Maddox and Brittni Jones commissioned Professor Laura Lineberry’s design class to create official ART/ARH department T-shirts. We have all sizes at a great price, so stock up for Christmas, Hanukkah, or Festivus. Call us at 348-5967 to purchase notecards or T-shirts or for more information.
February 5 – March 5 Ann Betak Recollections at Canterbury Chapel on Hackberry Lane. Opening reception Friday, Feb. 5, 5-7 pm.
February 22-March 5 Liz Wuestefeld: Little Things BFA Exhibition, Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Woods Hall. Opening reception: Thursday, February 25, 7-9 pm.
February 25-April 9 Jasper Johns: Prints from the Walker Arts Center Collection in the Sarah Moody Gallery.
February 26 15th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Art History, part of our joint masters program, hosted by UAB this year.
March 4-31 Hanga: Two Hundred Years of Japanese Woodblock Prints in the Ferguson Center Art Gallery. Opening reception is Thursday, March 4, 6:00 p.m., in the Ferg Gallery.
March 15-19 SPRING BREAK!
March 22-April 2 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Sella-Granata Gallery
April 5-9 Joe McCreary MA Thesis Exhibition, Sella-Granata Gallery
April 5-30 Maria Muller MA Thesis Exhibition, Ferguson Center Art Gallery
April 12-16 Raven Felice MA Thesis Exhibition, Sella-Granata Gallery
April TBA Annual BFA Exhibition in the Harrison Galleries, Tuscaloosa
April 19-23 April Livingston MA Thesis Exhibition, Sella-Granata Gallery
April 22-June 4 An Eye Full: Selections from the Permanent Collection in the Sarah Moody Gallery
April 26-30 Leigh Walker MFA Thesis Exhibition, Sella-Granata Gallery
May 3-7 Sarah Cusimano Miles MFA Thesis Exhibition, Sella-Granata Gallery
April 9 Honors Day: 1:30 pm ceremony in the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art.
ONGOING
January 14-February 14 (TW)IN SITE(S) Biennial All-Faculty Exhibition in the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art and the Sella-Granata Art Gallery. Opening reception Thursday, Jan. 14, 6-8 pm, in both galleries.
February 4 Molly Brooke Threadgill solo exhibition opens 5:00 pm at Kentuck Museum, Northport, for Art Night, and runs through February 27. Photos of Molly Brooke’s opening at Kentuck.
Installation of 15 Picassos: “Mes Dessins d’Antibes” from the Permanent Collection in the J. Wray and Joan Billingsley Pearce Grand Foyer, second floor, Gorgas Library.
Congratulations to Patricia Davis who is a 2010 McNair Scholar. Davis is working on a BFA in printmaking and sculpture.
Roger Jones, MA 2009, has a drawing published in Drawing magazine, in the Winter 2010 issue which hits the stands in February. Jones’ Untitled #2 will be featured in an article titled “Interior Views” by Kenneth J. Procter, Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Art at Georgia College and State University. Drawing magazine is part of the American Artist magazine collection.
Brian Evans’ and Jerry Lamme’s photo works are included in the seventh annual Double Exposure Juried Photography Exhibition presented by the Arts and Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa County. The exhibition will run from January 24 through February 26, 2010 at the in the Junior League Gallery at the Bama Theatre. The exhibit opening and awards presentation will take place on January 24, 2010, from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m in the gallery. The event is hosted by the Arts Council and sponsored by Harrison Galleries and American Shutterbug.
Congratulations to Mark Stevenson, our longtime Mechanician on his promotion to Arts Technician Senior! And welcome to Michael Dudley, BFA 2002, who has been hired as an assistant in the woodshop. Dudley is also teaching drawing and 2-D design, and will be assisting in an Interior Design course.
William Christenberry
Sculpture professor Craig Wedderspoon was one of four recipients of the University’s highest honor for excellence in teaching – the Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Awards – given each year by The University of Alabama National Alumni Association. The award was announced by UA President Robert E. Witt at the fall faculty/staff meeting October 21 in the Bryant Conference Center. For the full story go to UA News.
The Woods Hall Gallery has been renamed the Sella-Granata Art Gallery, in honor of two professors emeriti, Al Sella and the late Jack Granata.
Amber Jones, undergraduate art major, recently blew up a chair for her sculpture class (ARH 222). You can watch her video “Chair Explosion” here.
ARTstor available! - The University of Alabama has joined UAB and USA in offering ARTstor to its online community. ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. It is now accessible on the database tab at Gorgas Library’s databases page. Also on the UA Library’s database page are links to a Help page and short tutorials on ARTstor. Please contact Rachel Dobson, or Jill Grogg (jgrogg@ua.edu or 348-7994) for more information.
Daniel Livingston designed and created the trophies for this year’s U. S. Elite Triathlon Championship, held in Tuscaloosa on August 22.
Dr. Lucy Curzon researched in England in July. Keep up with her adventures on her blog, “Visual Culture and Mass Observation.”
In Memoriam – Angelo “Jack” Granata. Read more…
Check out our Flickr site, join our Facebook group, and find all kinds of art resources on Delicious.
