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Director’s Letter Spring 2025
From the Director

Chenoweth Lecture // Through the Lens: Dawoud Bey, The Birmingham Project
Programs - Video - Virtual Programs

Art in Conversation: Art as Historical Artifacts during the Civil Rights Movement
Programs - Video - Virtual Programs

2023 Hiden Lecture – The Whole Gilded Age: Beyond New York and Newport with Ulysses S. Dietz
Virtual Programs

Art in Conversation: The Transformation of Indigenous Cultural Practices by Colonial Powers
Virtual Programs
Art in Conversation: Rebuilding our Communities
Virtual Programs

BMA Kids Calming Stories: “Sally the Bunny Goes On a Picnic”
Art of Meditation - Kids and Families - Video

Confronting an Ugly Past, Building a Beautiful Future: The Legacy of Jim Crow at the Birmingham Museum of Art.
Virtual Programs
ArtBreak: Lawrence and Libraries
Virtual Programs

Visualization and Color Meditation on “Foggy Morning at Pourville” by Claude Monet
Bitmoji Meditation Studio

Visualization Meditation on “Fushimi Inari Yashiro, Miyako Meisho no uchi” by Hasegawa Sadanobu
Art of Meditation
Children of the Marquis de Béthune Playing with a Dog
Work of the Week
Aspen Forest
Art Escapes

The Birmingham Museum of Art Launches Digital Asian Art Initiative
Kids and Families - Press Release
Get to Know the BMA Summer Interns
Interviews - Staff Updates
Best Instagram Spots at Art On The Rocks
Art On The Rocks
5 Things You Don’t Want to Miss at Art On The Rocks
Art On The Rocks
Art On The Rocks Exclusive: Con Brio
Art On The Rocks - Interviews - Video
What to Wear: Hollywood Glam
Art On The Rocks
The First Decade of Le Matin, temps brumeux, Pourville
Spotlight on the Collection
American Painting Survey
Art News - Caring for Art - Collections
Building the Collection
Collections - Giving News + Support - Recent Acquisitions
Volunteer Spotlight: Nick Bouler
Volunteer Spotlight
In the Community: Woodlawn Project
In the Community
Meet the Membership Officer, Mary Little
Interviews - Staff Updates
A Q&A with Author Judith Tankard
Interviews
Contemporary Gallery Reopens this Spring
Collections
BMA Smartguide: Fashion
Exhibitions
Ways of Seeing: Fashion
Exhibitions
Wedding Photographer: Mary Margaret Smith
Event Spotlight
Hallie Ringle Awarded Warhol Fellowship
Staff Updates
Visitors’ View: Holi Festival 2019
Kids and Families - Slideshows - Visitors' View
5 Things to Do at Holi: A Festival of Color
Kids and Families
Lifeline
Recent Acquisitions
Weddings at the BMA
Event Spotlight - Slideshows
Black History Month: 10 Artists You Should Know
Collections
Joyce Benington
Volunteer Spotlight
2019 Museum Ball Chairs
Giving News + Support
Miles College Night Recap
In the Community
What to Expect at Clay Days
Kids and Families
Ibeji Figure
Spotlight on the Collection
William Dobbins, Principal, Dobbins Group
Corporate Spotlight
Hearts for Art
Uncategorized
2018 Museum Art Educator of the Year
Staff Updates
Q&A with New Curator of Contemporary Art
Interviews - Staff Updates
5 Things to do at Japanese Heritage Festival
Kids and Families
January at the BMA
Kids and Families - Museum Studio
Interstate 59/20 Announcement
Press Release
2018 Family Festival Series Recap
Kids and Families
The Baptism of Christ in the River Jordan
Spotlight on the Collection
Five Resolutions for an Artful New Year
Uncategorized
Q&A with New Goodrich Intern, Kristen Pignuolo
Interviews - Staff Updates
BMA Gift Guide: Museum Staff Picks
Uncategorized
Kaikoo II
Spotlight on the Collection
Moonlight in Virginia
Spotlight on the Collection
For Freedoms Town Hall Recap
Exhibitions - In the Community - Programs
The Original Makers: Stitching a Legacy
Exhibitions - Publications
Volunteer Spotlight: Laura Woodard
Volunteer Spotlight
Third Space
Exhibitions
Edgar Marx, President of Marx Brothers, Inc.
Corporate Spotlight
Recent Beaux Arts Krewe Acquisitions
Recent Acquisitions
MS Society Commissions Sculpture by Darius Hill
Art News - Giving News + Support
Q&A with John Lytle Wilson
Art On The Rocks - Video
Wedgwood and the Royal Prussian Iron Foundries
Spotlight on the Collection
Q&A with UAB Fellow Kristen McArthur
Exhibitions - Interviews - Staff Updates
Fall Events Preview
Programs
Artist Talk with Marianne Nicolson
Exhibitions - Programs
BMA Returns Stolen Sculpture to India
Art News
An Original Maker: S.L. Jones
Spotlight on the Collection
BMA Director Receives NAACP Award
Community News - Staff Updates
Planting Seeds with Local Artist Kyoka Akers
Community News - Kids and Families - Video
Art On The Rocks Recap
Art On The Rocks
Former BMA Interns
Interviews - Staff Updates
Hallie Ringle Named Curator of Contemporary Art
Press Release - Staff Updates
Ways of Seeing: An Exploration of Line
Exhibitions
Meet the Director of Development: Kate Tully Delgreco
Staff Updates
Art On The Rocks Exclusive: Tank and the Bangas
Art On The Rocks
What to Wear to AOTR
Art On The Rocks
Painting on Stone
Spotlight on the Collection
What is Folk Art?
Exhibitions
Standing Rock
Collections - Recent Acquisitions
Memories of the Coast of France
Collections - Recent Acquisitions
George Robbins III
Volunteer Spotlight
Meet the BMA Interns
Interviews - Staff Updates
Deputy Director Selected as NextGen2018 Fellow
Staff Updates
Teen Night Recap
Programs
In Memoriam: Frank Fleming
Art News

Collecting and Preserving Alabama’s Artistic Heritage
Caring for Art - Collections - Giving News + Support

What’s Up at the BMA: The Legend of Zelda
Giving News + Support - Recent Acquisitions - What's Up at the BMA
Popular Sculpture to be Conserved
Caring for Art - Collections

Curator Chat: Haitian Vodou Ceremonies, Songs, and Sacred Objects
Exhibitions - Interviews - Programs
An Unconventional Love Story
Art News - Collections

Director Gail Andrews On The Loss Of Thornton Dial
Art News - Collections - In the Community - Interviews
Happy Birthday, Robert Motherwell!
Art News

Spotlight on the Collection: January 2016, “Two Forms in Echelon”
Collections - Spotlight on the Collection
November 2015: Driven Back
Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

BMA Patrons Featured in B-Metro
Giving News + Support - In the Community - Press Release - Slideshows
The Art of Meditation smartguide feature
Collections - Exhibitions
September 2015: David Puxley
Collections - Spotlight on the Collection
Heart Gallery Alabama smartguide feature
Exhibitions - In the Community

Behind The Exhibition: The Making Of “Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals at Talladega College”
Exhibitions - Interviews
August 2015: Woman in a Green Coat
Spotlight on the Collection
Reconstructing a 14th-Century Painting
Slideshows - Staff Updates
Meet the Fellow: Ruoxin Wang
Interviews - Staff Updates
Black Like Who? smartguide feature
Exhibitions
5 Faces of Fatherhood
Art News - Collections - Slideshows
Summer Solstice: Centering in on the Sun
Art News - Collections - Slideshows
BMA Honors Late Jazz Legend
Art News - Collections
June 2015: Chatsworth House and Park
Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

BMA’s Chief Curator Elected To The Association of Art Museum Curators’ Executive Committee
Staff Updates

Celebrating 25 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Art News - Giving News + Support - In the Community

Behind the Scenes of Birmingham Fashion Week: Rising Design Star Challenge
In the Community - Programs - Slideshows

Support the Museum on Giving Tuesday
Art News - Giving News + Support - In the Community - Press Release

December 2014: Madonna and Christ Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist and Three Angels
Spotlight on the Collection
October 2014: Metate
Collections - Spotlight on the Collection
Curator’s Choice: Lethal Beauty
Collections - Staff Updates
2014 Season of Art on the Rocks a Success
In the Community - Press Release - Programs
South Hampton Elementary Mural Projects
Giving News + Support - In the Community - Programs
Dog Day at the BMA
Art News - Collections - Slideshows
Mark Drew, Maynard Cooper & Gale PC
Corporate Spotlight
5 Benefits of Meditation
Uncategorized

The Birmingham Project at the Whitney Biennial
Collections - In the Community - Press Release - Staff Updates
The BMA’s Best Dressed
Art News - Collections
Tickets on sale now for the 2014 Museum Ball
Giving News + Support - In the Community - Press Release
February 2014: Jizo Bosatsu
Spotlight on the Collection

Company Spotlight: Alabama Power Foundation
Art News - Giving News + Support - In the Community - Interviews
