Shannon Thomason
| This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Public Relations Specialist
thomason@uab.edu | (205) 975-8858Identifies and develops stories that highlight the arts, faculty news, student stories and beyond a UAB. Connects media with experts to enhance their story.
Specific beats:
- Advancement
- The Arts at UAB
- AEIVA
- Alys Stephens Center
- Arts in Medicine
- ArtPlay
- College of Arts and Sciences
- Department of Art and Art History
- Department of Communication Studies
- Department of Music
- Department of Theatre
- Institute for Human Rights
- Department of World Languages and Literatures
- The Graduate School
- Libraries
- National Alumni Society
- WBHM
Bluegrass chart-toppers and festival headliners Steep Canyon Rangers, heralds of the Carolina sound, are frequent collaborators with renowned banjoist, actor and comedian Steve Martin.
This year’s juror is Los Angeles-based artist Amanda Ross-Ho, whose new works will be shown in a companion exhibition.
Artist and UAB Professor Gary Chapman has cut about 10,000 paper snowflakes in the last 15 years. Here are his tips to cut your own.
The free 7 p.m. performance is part of the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center’s Young Concert Artists Series.
Now a finalist in The American Pops Orchestra “NextGen National: Finding the Voices of Tomorrow” competition, UAB musical theater major Jalen Kirkman performed the jazz standard “Guess Who I Saw Today.”
The artist’s new installation, “Untitled Inventory (Catalogue Irraisonné),” was devised specifically for AEIVA. Ross-Ho also selected the works for the 48th Annual Juried Student Exhibition.
AEIVA will present works by Charles Lutz and Andy Warhol, pulling from its impressive collection of original works by the legendary artist, along with loans from The Andy Warhol Museum and local art collectors.
Deemed “A must see!” by The Washington Post, this action-packed, uproariously funny 75-minute comedy dog spectacular leaves audiences everywhere howling for more.
The Teahan awards recognize outstanding work and achievements by students in public relations from across the country.
More than 1,900 students will graduate, and 1,179 students are expected to walk in the ceremonies, which will be held Friday morning and afternoon in Bartow Arena.