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ART DEPARTMENT WEB SITE AWARDED IMA OUTSTANDING AWARD
The new Department of Art + Art History web site, launched last spring, has been awarded an OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD by the Interactive Media Awards. Websites are rated by a jury of design peers.The Outstanding Achievement award is the second highest honor bestowed by IMA and an extremely challenging award to win. IMA reserves this award for websites who have excelled in all areas of judging criteria and represents a very high standard of planning, execution and overall professionalism

DOUG BAULOS RECEIVES PRESIDENT'S AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
Baulos, an instructor of art, received his undergraduate degree in fine arts from UAB in 1990 and his master from the University of New Orleans in 1993. His paintings, videos and books have been exhibited or published nationally and across Europe and Asia...See full article here.

PHOTOGRAPHY STUDENT FRED MITCHELL PLACED AS PHOTOGRAPHER’S FORUM FINALIST...
...in the 29th Anuual Student Photography Contest, sponsored by Nikon, USA. Over 4000 students participated from around the world. Judges for this years contest were instructors Rob Winner, Brooks Institute of Photography, and Peter Glendinning, Michigan State University, as well as Karen Sinsheimer, Curator of Photography, Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

CRACCO ENGAGES PROSPECTIVE ART STUDENTS IN STUDIO WORK
Derek Cracco relishes the opportunity to sell the virtues of the Department of Art & Art History. The department's talent, facilities and Birmingham's rich cultural resources provide the three foundations for his pitch. Art Professor Derek Cracco shows Spain Park High School students how to create prints on the intaglio press in the department's print-making studio...See full article here.

THE ELLEN SHIZUKO TAKAHASHI
AWARD FOR PAINTING APPLICATION
DEADLINE APPROACHING
The Department of Art and Art History annually awards the Ellen Shizuko Takahashi Award for Painting to a student demonstrating talent in the area of painting. The Award is granted from the income of an endowment created by the family and friends of the late Ellen Shizuko Takahashi, Professor in the Department of Physiological Optics at UAB. Download application here.

CHRISTOPHER LOWTHER EXHIBITING IN "BOYS WILL BE BOYS" EXHIBITION
Fe Gallery proudly presents "Boys Will Be Boys," a national exhibition that includes artists Garry Pyles, Pittsburgh; Richard Schnap, Pittsburgh; Christopher Lowther, Birmingham, AL; and Juan Juarez, Syracuse, NY. The exhibit opening is on March 20, from 7 to 9 p.m., and runs until May 1. Gallery hours are 12 to 4 p.m., Thursday through Saturday. Fe Gallery is located at 4102 Butler Street in Lawrenceville. For more information, call 412-860-6028.

CATHLEEN CUMMINGS TO CURATE EXHIBITION OF INDIAN FOLK BRONZES
Dr. Cummings is to curate an exhibition of 18th and 19th century metal sculpture from the Deccan region of India for the Peabody-Essex Museum, near Boston. The show will open in February of 2010 and will feature works from the Louis Figiel Collection recently gifted to the Museum. She has also been asked to co-author a catalogue of highly important Indian folk bronzes in the collection of the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Art in Hyderabad, India. Work on this project, to be co-written with Jagdish Mittal, will commence in the summer of 2009.

ART HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENT JENNIFER BLOUNT AWARDED UAB IRELAND RESEARCH TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP.
Blount will travel to Boston this spring to complete research for her M.A. thesis, “The Black Male Nude: A Study of John Singer Sargent´s Thomas McKeller Nude within the Context of Nineteenth-Century Art and Culture.” Blount´s thesis will provide the first in-depth study of this important Sargent painting.