September 11, 2015
Theatre UAB Commissions New Play on the Voting Rights Act, Staged Reading Sept. 19
Theatre UAB commissioned playwright Robert Earl Price to write a play instead of hosting a competition for the Ruby Lloyd Apsey Play Search. The free reading will feature a talkback with the playwright.
September 11, 2015
UAB Art Professor’s Works on Show in Beta Pictoris Gallery
Sonja Rieger’s new series of photographs are portraits of young girls in rural Camden, Alabama, in their Halloween costumes.
September 10, 2015
UAB Department of Art and Art History Introduces the Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lecture Series
The series will feature artists’ paint masters Art Graham and Mark Golden, as well as a creative professionalism roundtable with local creative professionals Merrilee Challiss, Elizabeth Hughey and Taylor Robinson.
September 09, 2015
Theatre UAB’s New Season: “Dancing at Lughnasa,” “SFB,” “Buried Child,” Festival of 10-Minute Plays and “Spring Awakening”
Each year the UAB Department of Theatre presents a new season featuring five main-stage plays, performed in UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
September 04, 2015
UAB DAAH Presents “Hither and Yon” Lecture and Panel Discussion Sept. 12
A panel discussion with four artists, “Hither and Yon” is set for 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at the new Project Space, 900 13th St. South.
September 02, 2015
Erika Doss to Speak at BMA on 20th Century Artists and Religion Sept. 16
University of Notre Dame Professor Erika Doss will speak Wednesday, Sept. 16, on 20th century artists and issues of religion at the Birmingham Museum of Art.
September 02, 2015
New Fall 2015 Season Presented by UAB Department of Music to Include Guest Artists, Free Faculty and Student Recitals
A new season of performances by talented students, accomplished faculty, local talent and impressive guest artists has been announced for fall 2015 by the Department of Music.
September 02, 2015
Birmingham Flag Project Looking to Reimagine City’s Flag
Each entry to the project will be exhibited at the UAB Department of Art and Art History’s Project Space from Oct. 19-24, with an opening reception from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20.
Out of a talented international pool of 33 pianists, junior Aleksandra Kasman took the top prize at the 2015 International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York City on Aug. 2.
Once a month, the Department of English hosts BookTalk. The informal discussions, led by department faculty, are open to the public and will meet from 6-7 p.m. in Mervyn Sterne Library.
August 19, 2015
UAB’s AEIVA Presents “DAVID MAISEL/BLACK MAPS: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime”
DAVID MAISEL/BLACK MAPS, a solo exhibition surveying four chapters of the photographer and visual artist’s larger ongoing series, will be on exhibition at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts from Aug. 28-Nov. 14.
August 03, 2015
UAB Students Use Performance, Interactivity and Alternative Materials to Create Art for One-night-only Exhibition Aug. 5
Sculptural objects, masks, puppets, performances and art installations created by Department of Art and Art History students will be shown in a one-night-only exhibition.
July 21, 2015
UAB’s AEIVA Presents International Poster Exhibition Commemorating Voting Rights Act Anniversary
“The Right to Decide,” an international poster invitational organized by the group Posters Without Borders, will be on exhibition from Aug. 6-Nov. 14.
July 13, 2015
Kerry Madden’s Book "Up Close: Harper Lee" Re-released to Coincide with "Go Set a Watchman"
UAB professor Kerry Madden-Lunsford's biography of To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee has been re-released to coincide with the publication of Lee's novel Go Set a Watchman.
UAB photography students have taken their work on the road and will open an exhibition, “Accidental Grace: Photographs Made in and About the South” on Friday, June 26, at the Shelby County Arts Council Gallery in Columbiana.
June 03, 2015
UAB Music Plans Summer Concerts for All on Campus
Summer events presented by the Department of Music include the UAB Summer Band Independence Day concert, the summer music camp final concert, the Marching Blazers Band Camp show, and the UAB Gospel Choir's summer concert.
June 03, 2015
Art Class Brings Science into the Studio
When the worlds of art and science collide, don't expect an earth-shattering kaboom. Instead, you might just get a clearer understanding of how nature works.
June 02, 2015
Boston Pops, Blind Boys of Alabama to Perform Orchestral Arrangements by UAB’s Henry Panion
The Boston Pops will perform four orchestral arrangements by University of Alabama at Birmingham University Professor Henry Panion III, Ph.D., for a show with the Blind Boys of Alabama on Saturday, June 6, at Symphony Hall in Boston.
May 29, 2015
Three Powerful Summer Exhibits at AEIVA
Following the tremendous success of “Warhol: Fabricated” this winter, the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts will be hosting three exhibitions this summer that tell powerful stories of race, heritage, human rights, and human dignity: “The Freedom Exhibition: Two Countries One Struggle,” “Willie Cole: Transformations,” and “Focus I: Identified.”
A new series of exhibitions spotlighting local and regional art collections is the latest offering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences’ Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts.
