UA Professor’s ‘PhotoVoices’ Project Receives $25,000 NEA Grant
A project by a University of Alabama professor has received a $25,000 “Our Town” grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Arts & Culture
UA Student Wins Internship at “Premier” Art Museum in New York
University of Alabama rising senior Sommer Hallquist has been selected for a highly competitive summer internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Cloisters in New York City.
The Cloisters is a museum specializing in medieval architecture and is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
UA’s Huxford, Tuscaloosa Orchestras Join for First Time
For the first time, The University of Alabama’s Huxford Symphony Orchestra and the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra will come together to perform a joint concert.
UA Symposium Explores whether True Romance Possible between Whites, Subordinate Blacks in 18th, 19th Centuries
Thomas Jefferson’s controversial relationship with Sally Hemings, and the paradox in his thinking that the relationship illustrates, raises the question: Could true love really exist between a white person in authority and a black subordinate?
UA to Screen Documenting Justice Films
The University of Alabama Center for Ethics & Social Responsibility and the UA department of journalism and creative media will host the 11th Annual Documenting Justice film screening at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, at the Bama Theatre in downtown Tuscaloosa. The screening is free and open to the public.
Kentuck Artists Exhibit Work at UA Gallery
The works of eight Kentuck studio artists will be displayed through Thursday, May 25, at The University of Alabama Gallery in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center in downtown Tuscaloosa.
UA’s Gorgas House Museum Highlights WWI Contributions
Contributions made by William C. Gorgas during World War I is the feature of a new exhibit opening at UA’s Gorgas House Museum on Saturday, March 4.
UA Center Sends Reading Kits to Black Belt Schools
The University of Alabama Center for Economic Development, along with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, is promoting the National Education Association’s Read Across America Day by providing Dr. Seuss-themed reading kits to 21 schools in seven counties in the Black Belt region.
UA Leaps into 2017 with Ala. Repertory Dance Theatre
The University of Alabama’s theatre and dance department invites the UA and Tuscaloosa communities to its spring performance of the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre.
UA’s Story Behind the Story: Q&As with The Philadelphia Story Cast, Crew
Students from UA’s Department of Theatre and Dance will bring to life “The Philadelphia Story” and we’re taking you behind-the-scenes for a deeper look into the lives of those who make that possible.