events:

Works by Jane Hammond
Oct. 2-Oct. 31
UAB Visual Arts Gallery presents works by Jane Hammond, UAB 2009 Pauline Ireland Visiting Artist Jane Hammond, renowned photographer and multimedia artist, will be the 2010 Pauline Ireland Visiting Artist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Hammond’s works are held by major museums, including The Museum of Modern Art, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and 1-5 p.m. Saturday. The gallery is closed on Sundays and holidays. Admission to the gallery is free. Call 205-934-0815.

Jane Hammond Lecture and Private Reception
Oct 9, 6pm
Visiting Artist, Jane Hammond, will be giving a lecture about her work on October 9th at 6pm in the UAB Hulsey Recital Hall. The Lecture is free and open to the public. There will be a private reception with the artist right after the lecture. The reception will be held in the Visual Arts Gallery. Tickets for the reception can be purchased for $100 each. People who join the Friends Campaign at the $250 level will receive two tickets to the reception and reserved seating for the lecture. Contact Mary Balfour VanZandt at 205.934.2290 for more information. See the artists invite here.

Hispanic Family Day
at the UAB Visual Arts Gallery
Sept. 26
In conjunction with the “Sacred Steps on the Camino” exhibition, UAB Visiting Jemison Lecturer and exhibit curator George D. Greenia, Ph.D., professor of modern languages at the College of William and Mary, will lecture in Spanish at 12:30 p.m. at the UAB Hispanic Family Day celebration, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, on the patio in front of at the UAB Visual Arts Gallery, 900 13th St. S. The events and the exhibition are free and open to the public. Children are welcome. The celebration and exhibition are co-sponsored by the UAB Department of Foreign Languages and the UAB Visual Arts Gallery. Call the Gallery at 205-934-0815 for more details.

Bill Plympton, FREE Master Animation Class
Sept. 25, 2009
UAB students can participate in a master class taught by the renowned illustrator and animator, Bill Plympton at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, at Heritage Hall in Room 102, 1401 University Blvd. The class is free and open to the general public with reserved seating for UAB students with valid I.D. To register, visit: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/82851 and follow directions for registration, seats are FREE. Everyone who attends will receive a free Plympton drawing.

The Time-based Media Program in the Department of Art and the UAB Jemison Lecture Series are sponsoring the master class, along with the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, the UAB Film Club and the UAB Digital Community Studies Minor. The class is being offered as part of the 11th Annual Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, which will be held Sept. 25-27 in Birmingham. Plympton’s animated feature, Idiots and Angels will make its Alabama premiere Sunday, Sept. 27, at the festival.