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March 2013
The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville is hosting “Pre-1900’s Alabama Folk Pottery” through May 2013. This exhibition, one of the largest known exhibitions of 19th century Alabama pottery in recent history, features the pottery of Shelby, Autauga, Elmore, Blount, Perry, Tuscaloosa, Randolph, DeKalb and Cleburne counties, areas which have produced some of the most highly sought-after pottery from… |
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November 2012
Larry Clowdus, the photographer whose works are featured, hails from Blount County. He takes his subjects from flora and fauna as close as his backyard and as far away as the Grand Tetons. Bald eagles are frequently featured as are panoramic mountain scenes, and wildlife that only the most patient photographer could have captured on film. The exhibition features more than 70 breathtaking works… |
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August 2012
This exhibition, made possible by a grant from the Alabama Tourism Department and sponsored in part by the Wallace State Art Department, features more than 80 etchings and lithographs by Depression-era artists. Art that Worked. The WPA (Works Progress Administration) was created on May 6, 1935, as part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, providing work and economic relief to Americans suffering through the Great Depression. The Federal Art Project was one of the divisions of the WPA created under Federal Project One. Its primary goals were… |
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May 2012
“I was overwhelmed with the results. It was absolutely fabulous to see students who had never met before come together from different departments and work hard towards a common goal,” said Wallace State’s Tracie Fuqua, Medical Assistant Program Director. “The students embraced the project, developed critical thinking skills and learned how to work together with people unfamiliar to them, knowing they were working on a project that was equally important to someone else. No one wanted to be let down.” Added Wallace State Drafting Instructor Kristi Bain: “This project was about student ownership and required each one to… |
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February 2012
As a professional photographer for more than 35 years, David Haynes’ work has included photojournalism, portrait and wedding photography, commercial and advertising photography. He now focuses primarily on black and white portrait photography, fine art photography, guiding photo excursions and teaching photographic technique. Haynes’ latest book, “Motorcycling Alabama: Fifty Ride Loops through the… |
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October 2011
According to Tarrasch, fresco painting has been particularly important in the development of his artistic expression. “Fresco inspired me to create different surfaces on my paintings. It could be rough like cross plaster, or very fine like polished part of a fresco layer, it is both in many cases. It is a very saturated and very transparent surface,” he said, which can even…” |
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August 2011
An Alabama native, Nov Ontos holds undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Civil Engineering from Alabama A&M, Architecture from Auburn University, and undergraduate and graduate degrees in Sculpture from Yale. He has taught in the Architecture Department of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., and in several colleges in Alabama, and spent much of his professional life with a number of Architectural and Engineering firms in Alabama. He describes his creative process this… |
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March 2011
The dual language Japanese-English catalog of these works was published in 1990 to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Toppan Printing Company and the Japanese printing industry, which today is one of the most advanced in the world. The “Japanese Posters” exhibit will be on view at the Burrow Center through April 2. The catalog, now out of print, is also available for viewing… |
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February 2011
In his teens, Sharpton developed a tremendous wanderlust, spurred in part by his older brother’s enlistment in the Navy and his stories of adventure. So, on turning 17 in 1948, his parents signed enlistment papers and off to the Navy he also went. He was sent to boot camp at Great Lakes, Ill. and spent the hot days of that summer drilling and preparing for naval duty. His first assignment was on the USS Edisto, a new icebreaker stationed at the old shipyard in Boston, Mass.—at the foot of Bunker Hill near Old Ironsides. The most enjoyable experiences in his 20 year career in the Navy were spent on the Edisto. The science of icebreaking was new and the Edisto traveled to… |
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September – October 2010
In this sensitive assembly of photography by Becky Seitel and art by Mitzi J. Levin, viewers are provided intimate glimpses into the private memories of twenty Alabama Holocaust survivors. Seitel and Levin spent hours visiting each survivor and listening to their stories. The survivors began with their memories of life before occupation and imprisonment. Their stories continue with their lives in Birmingham, Huntsville, Montgomery, Mobile and Opelika. Both artists provide bold, thought-provoking and moving paintings and photographs with text explaining the personal… |
