Presenting Contemporary art demonstrating the diversity of current artistic practice, the Art Department manages two galleries on campus – the Gallery at Bloch Hall and the Poole Art Galley in the new Center for the Arts. Collectively we present four professional exhibitions and multiple student BFA exhibitions each year.
The galleries support our curriculum and are a significant public venue for the visual arts in the Montevallo community and in Shelby County. Most exhibitions include a reception with an artist’s or curator’s talk.
The galleries are free and open to the public. Please contact our Administrative Assistant, Nita Terrell, if you would like to be on the gallery mailing list. Or join us on Facebook: UM ART Department.
Fall 2024 – Spring 2025 Poole Art Gallery Schedule
August 29 – October 18, 2024Luminations
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Sarah West is an artist from Columbus, Georgia who has been living and working in Birmingham for the past 5 years. Her vivid and detailed oil paintings fuse multiple references within a single composition, combining digitally-influenced abstraction, landscapes and Early Renaissance paintings. In referencing Renaissance compositions and alluding to digital spaces, West explores the alignment between spiritual narratives and a mystical subtext of developing technologies, prompting reflection on a collective and ancient concern with enlightenment, the ineffable and the divine. More at TheSarahWest.com |
October 24 – Dec 6, 2024Disparities
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Celestia Cooke Morgan is a photographer born and raised in Birmingham. Her work utilizes familial relationships, housing, recipes, and other subjects to explore contemporary and historical issues of race, class, and discrimination across the city of Birmingham. Morgan is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Alabama. More at CelestiaMorgan.com |
January 16 – February 15, 2024Alumni Art AuctionPoole Party: Saturday, Feb. 15, 2024, 4 to 5:30 pm
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Feb. 20 – April 4, 2024Danielle JonesReception: Feb. 20, 2024, 4:30 to 6 pm
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Danielle Jones is a mixed-media visual artist from Louisiana. Influenced by the parallels between rising waters and emotions, Jones’s installations and intricate works made of paper respond to the alternation of disaster and repair while celebrating the often-overlooked lurking residuals of destruction. More at DanielleJonesArt.com |
April 10 – May 30, 2024Kaitlyn West
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Kaitlin West is an interdisciplinary artist who blurs the line between photography and sculpture while creating stable sculptures on the verge of collapse. Her work constructs damaged concrete columns, slabs, and hand-formed bricks used to create walls inspired by architecture’s support structures to convey her internal psychic framework. Kaitlyn recently graduated from The University of North Texas and currently teaches at Samford University. More at KaitlinWest.net |
