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Arts and Blues performance to raise money for music lessons

Arts and Blues performance to raise money for music lessons

Erica Wright February 12, 2016

The Alabama Blues Project is on a mission to serve the community and the Band of Brothers Brewing Co. is here to help.Alabama Blues Project will host its ninth annual Evening of Arts and Blues Fundraiser...

Art ownership at the University remains unclear

Art ownership at the University remains unclear

Elizabeth Elkin January 21, 2016

After the tornado, the mangled remains of the man’s metal sculpture lay on the ground, a mile from where he last saw it. He found it, metal shards missing, pieces twisted, tree bark and rocks permanently...

New Art Exhibit “Two Boys and the Love Doll” deals with the loneliness of modern life

Sam West January 20, 2016

What appears to be a woman in the traditional outfit of a Japanese geisha is actually a lifeless doll with vacant eyes. This unsettling image is one of many at a new exhibit in Sarah Moody Gallery.“Two...

West Alabama Juried Art Show highlights local artists

Caroline Watt December 3, 2015

Tucked inside Tuscaloosa's iconic Bama Theatre is the Junior League Art Gallery, where various local artists will soon display work in the Art Council's 31st Annual West Alabama Juried Art Show.The show...

Gorgas painting gives picture of the past

Gorgas painting gives picture of the past

Amanda Thompson November 19, 2015

If you were to sit on the front porch of the the President’s Mansion, with a perfect view of the Quad, you may be inspired to ask, “What did this view look like in 1831, the founding year of our University?”...

Cuban Printmaking makes big impression

Cuban Printmaking makes big impression

Sam West November 12, 2015

Lonely figures in stark black and white dwell on existence. One is trapped in a wooden prison, being watched by an immense, muscular overlord. Another reclines with a flag between her feet. A third sits...

Local artist adds splash of color to community

Local artist adds splash of color to community

Elizabeth Elkin November 2, 2015

Caleb O’Connor began creating art as a child. His mother tells stories of him in elementary school doodling in class. Once, his teacher picked up one of his drawings and asked him who drew it. When Caleb...

Repairing the beauty of art for heart's sake

Repairing the beauty of art for heart's sake

Elizabeth Elkin October 22, 2015

The tornado flew through the streets, leaving devastation and destruction in its wake. The woman had no basement, no place to hide. She and the dogs stood in the bathtub and waited for it to hit.A branch...

New Strokes

New Strokes

Sam West October 19, 2015

By day, a downtown storefront nestled near Birmingham’s Alabama Theatre is the studio of artist Amy Pleasant. But at night, she often transforms this space into a gallery for the work of others. The...

Southern artists work exhibited at the Fuel and Lumber Company

Southern artists work exhibited at the Fuel and Lumber Company

Sam West September 18, 2015

"Hither and Yon" is a new exhibit at the Fuel and Lumber Company gallery in Downtown Birmingham that attempts to reckon with a modern situation—the internet age and its assault of jumbled together images,...

Artist combines modern and classical art techniques for "Apocrypha" exhibit

Artist combines modern and classical art techniques for “Apocrypha” exhibit

Sam West September 1, 2015

Protestors and police fight as a man with the head of a tiger is crowned king by an angel. A jilted manikin bride stands alone at an empty outdoor wedding. A lupine scientist is flanked by skeletons and...

Joyce Scott's multimedia exhibition, Truth and Visions, highlights gender and identity

Joyce Scott's multimedia exhibition, Truth and Visions, highlights gender and identity

Margaret Wilbourne August 27, 2015

In the interlude after a lengthy introduction peppered with accomplishments, a soulful wail suddenly commanded the room: Joyce J. Scott, artist, had arrived.  Following her a cappella performance of “And...