Popular Culture

Curator Tour
Friday, September 20
6:30 – 7 pm
Free and Open to the Public

Curator Janie Welker leads a tour of  the exhibition, Interwoven, discussing the works of Joan Snyder, Judy Ledgerwood, and Crystal Gregory.

Image credit:  Joan Snyder, Still, 2011, oil, acrylic, paper maché, twigs, glass beads, cheesecloth, silk, burlap, and rosebuds on linen. Courtesy of the artist.  

R.C. May Photography Lecture Series: Laura Letinsky
4 – 5 pm
Bill Gatton Student Center, Worsham Cinema
FREE and Open to the public

Exhibiting artist Laura Letinsky discusses her spare and evocative still lifes, and how photography can help access feelings about intimacy and domesticity. 

An exhibition of Letinsky's  photographs, Laura Letinsky: Recent Work will be on view at the Art Museum
September 14 - December 8, 2019
 

The SCFA Signature Series presents Raul Midón and Lionel Loueke in the SCFA Recital Hall

The Singletary Center Signature Series presents Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Bluegrass Band in the SCFA Recital Hall.

Bands have been covering Beatles tunes for decades, but the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Bluegrass Band is a Beatles cover band like no other! In 2002, after seeing Paul McCartney on his U.S. tour, lead vocalist and guitarist Dave Walser was inspired to form a Beatles cover band of his own. Thus, The Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Bluegrass Band was born!

The Singletary Center Signature Series presents the Blind Boys of Alabama Christmas Show in the SCFA Concert Hall.

The Blind Boys of Alabama are recognized worldwide as living legends of gospel music. Celebrated by The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) with Lifetime Achievement Awards, inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, and winners of five Grammy® Awards, they have attained the highest levels of achievement in a career that spans over 70 years.

The Singletary Center Signature Series presents Postmodern Jukebox in the SCFA Concert Hall.

The Singletary Center Signature Series presents Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, and Zakir Hussain with special guest Rakesh Chaurasia in the SCFA Concert Hall.

We welcome the public to a reception celebrating our new exhibitions,including Off the Menu: Looking at Food, Illumination, and The Good Earth. Light refreshments. Free and open to everyone.

image: Julia Jacquette, A Constant Stream, 2014, oil on linen. Courtesy of the artist.

Museum members enjoy a private preview of our new exhibitions, including Off the Menu: Looking at Food, Illumination, and The Good Earth. Remarks at 6:30 pm.

image: Julia Jacquette, A Constant Stream, 2014, oil on linen. Courtesy of the artist.

ANNUAL UNDERGRAD ART HISTORY SYMPOSIUM 2019
Sunday, April 14, 2019
9:00AM-1:00PM
Free
Bolivar Art Gallery

Presenting on the theme of "Women and Art"

Taylor Hedges, "Expressing Anger is Necessary: Jenny Holzer and the Feminist Power of Woman's Expression."

Sydney Mullins, “A Portrait of Myself: Gaze Through the Eyes of Florine Stettheimer.”

Josh Porter, "Black Feminist Acts of Reclamation and Re-Appropriation Through Art from the 1960s to The Present.”