UM Art Department

09/03/2026

✨ For one night only! ✨
Experience an immersive video projection by acclaimed text-based artist Barry Jones, digital media artist and Professor of Art at Austin Peay State University. Join us at 7 p.m. on the Gallery side of Bloch Hall as Jones transforms language and light into a powerful visual experience inspired by Gandhi's List of Social Sins.

Free and open to the public. Don't miss this unique evening of contemporary art under the night sky.

09/03/2026

🎨 Calling all Art Majors! Join us for our Art Majors Meeting on September 3 at 4:30 PM in the Humanities Hall Auditorium.
We'll share exciting student opportunities, upcoming events, and plans for the year ahead, along with ways to get involved and make the most of your time in the department.
After the meeting, stay for an art opening reception in the Gallery at Bloch Hall and celebrate the start of a new year of creativity with an Emerging Curators Show by Kandice Clayton. Plus, we'll be giving away some special art department swag! ✨
We can't wait to see you there! 🎨🖌️

09/03/2026

Please join us for the opening reception of Anthology an Emerging Curators Program exhibition curated by art major Kandice Clayton, at 5:30 pm today in The Gallery at Bloch Hall. Exhibiting artists include: Avianna Aguilar, Parker Altice, Lily Burford, Danielle Brown, Candice Clayton, Shirlinda Crawford, Stella Duren, Henry Evans, Finley Golden, Alexis Locke, Cindy Molina, Gracie Skinner, Scout Strong, and Kiera Underwood.

08/28/2026

Congratulations, Julia Jones! 🎉 We are so proud of our 2024 Art & Theatre alumna, who has been selected for the highly competitive Scenic Art Apprenticeship at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago for the 2026–2027 season. Way to represent UM and take your talent to the next level! 🎨🎭 We can’t wait to see all that you accomplish!

08/27/2026

Join us for the opening reception of A Long Way from There, an exhibition by artist Kelsey Duncan, whose figurative ceramic sculptures explore the resilience of the human experience and the complex politics of the body. Duncan invites viewers into a thoughtful conversation about identity, vulnerability, and endurance.

08/14/2026

The academic year hasn’t started yet, but we’ve already completed our first group project 🔧😂 Welcome back, Art Falcons!
And HUGE thanks to some very special donors who made this happen! Check back for a plaque outside Room 3 in Bloch Hall. 💜💛

06/29/2026

Congratulations to Art major Stella Duren, this year’s winner of the Hazel Award in Drawing! Her graphite and white charcoal drawing on toned paper perfectly captures a contemplative moment of domestic life, with both technical skill and emotional connection.

Students can start planning for next year’s Hazel Awards, in both Drawing and Painting! Entries will be due on April 1st and must be artwork completed outside of classes. Many thanks to our benefactor, former Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Professor of Art, Ken Procter, who made this award possible. The award is named for his grandmother, Hazel Truth Shelhamer Procter, an accomplished artist, published author and illustrator, to recognize accomplishment and promote further achievement in the arts.

05/29/2026

Congratulations to Yi Syuan Fang on her beautiful exhibition, “Dwelling As Structure” in The Gallery at Bloch Hall until 5 pm Friday. Come by and see it today!

05/27/2026

Art majors engaged in service learning right here in Shelby County! Stay tuned for pictures of the completed murals 🎨

Students at the University of Montevallo are partnering with Baptist Health to create murals designed to bring comfort and encouragement to patients and staff i...

05/15/2026

Today’s the day! All are welcome at the opening reception of Dwelling as Structure, an exhibition of new work by Yi Syuan, Fang, visiting the Art Department this semester from the Graduate Institute of Applied Arts (M.F.A. Program, Second Year), at the Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan. Her work focuses on the issue of stray animals in Taiwan, and the relationship between animals, humans, and urban development. The show opens at 4 pm in The Gallery at Bloch Hall.