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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

ArtBreak – Decoding the Ancient Egyptian False Door

Programs

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

Virtual Programs

AiC: Women Artists of Late Imperial China

Virtual Programs
a black and white image of Reverend Shuttlesworth walking forward toward the viewer with lines in colors of black, green, red, and yellow sprouting from his back like wings

Illuminating Shuttlesworth

Virtual Programs

New Digital Studio // Submit Your Art!

Kids and Families

Panel Discussion: The Importance of Yoga

Virtual Programs

22nd Annual LaVona Rushton Concert

Virtual Programs

Art in Conversation: Hidden in Plain Sight: Queer Art in a Deep Southern Museum

Virtual Programs

Art in Conversation: Ruined by Design

Virtual Programs

11th annual Holi Festival Dance Performances

Virtual Programs

The ReFRAME Lecture: Manjari Sharma – Play through It

Virtual Programs

Art in Conversation: Reparations Now!

Virtual Programs

Darsie Alexander: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art

Uncategorized - Virtual Programs

ArtBreak: Uncovering Provenance

Virtual Programs

ArtBreak: Looking Toward a Brighter Future

Virtual Programs

Art in Conversation: Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography

Virtual Programs

Art in Conversation: The Transformation of Indigenous Cultural Practices by Colonial Powers

Virtual Programs

2021 Native American Heritage Festival Performances

Virtual Programs

ArtBreak: The Importance of Archaeology and Excavation

Virtual Programs

Annual Chenoweth Lecture: Kaywin Feldman

Virtual Programs

ArtBreak: Bird Motifs in Mississippian Art

Virtual Programs

Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project

Virtual Programs

Art in Conversation: Weaving Together Southeastern Indigenous Art and Ecology

Virtual Programs

Art in Conversation: Power Women of Asia

Virtual Programs

Self-Soothe Saturday

Virtual Programs

Film Screening: Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Virtual Programs

Virtual Panel Discussion: The Green Book – Then & Now

Virtual Programs

ArtBreak: The Importance of Stereoscopy

Virtual Programs

Art in Conversation: Rebuilding our Communities

Virtual Programs

ArtBreak: The History of Collage

Virtual Programs

World Collage Day

Virtual Programs

BMA Kids Calming Stories: “Sally the Bunny Goes On a Picnic”

Art of Meditation - Kids and Families - Video

ArtBreak: Logging in Alabama

Virtual Programs

Art in Conversation: The Cahaba River Lilies

Virtual Programs
Zelda Fitzgerald's Ober House

ArtBreak: Women Artists of Alabama

Virtual Programs

Panel Discussion: The History of Linn Park

Virtual Programs

Confronting an Ugly Past, Building a Beautiful Future: The Legacy of Jim Crow at the Birmingham Museum of Art.

Virtual Programs

Jacob Lawrence & History Forward

Virtual Programs

Jacob Lawrence Through My Eyes – Steven Mark Finley, Jr.

Virtual Programs

BMA Kids Calming Stories: “Rat Finds A Friend”

Art of Meditation - Kids and Families - Video

Chris Pugh

Artists in Quarantine - Interviews - Virtual Programs

Art in Conversation: The Relocation of Temple Abu Simbel

Virtual Programs

Buddy the Elf Digital Adventure

Scavenger Hunt

ArtBreak: Lawrence and Libraries

Virtual Programs

What Picture Would Jacob Lawrence Paint Today?

Uncategorized - Video

Jacob Lawrence Through My Eyes – Erin Mitchell

Video - Virtual Programs

Artbreak: The Hidden Identity of Migrant Labor

Virtual Programs

Curator Talk: Jacob Lawrence & The Struggle Series

Virtual Programs

Amy Sherald: In Conversation

Virtual Programs

Concert featuring Ramneek Singh

Virtual Programs

Art In Conversation: Wall to Wall

Virtual Programs

Looking Yosemite Valley, Again

BMA Director's Cut

A Private Collection of 19th Century American Decorative Arts

BMA Director's Cut
large, white ceramic jar that is resembles a full moon

Visualization Meditation on Korean Moon Jar

Art of Meditation

Behind the Mask

Art Shots

Visualization Meditation on Ganesha Sculpture from Southeast Asia

Bitmoji Meditation Studio

Micah Lewis

Artists in Quarantine - Interviews - Virtual Programs

Queen Bey Crowns

Art Making

Moroccan Scene

Art Puzzles

Red Mountain Garden Club Memorial Garden

BMA Director's Cut

Dutch and Flemish Art

BMA Director's Cut

Leanna Leithauser Lesley

Artists in Quarantine - Interviews - Virtual Programs

Tony Bingham

Artists in Quarantine - Interviews - Virtual Programs

The Other Side

Art Shots

Berlin Cast iron

BMA Director's Cut

Loom Making

Art Making
Drawing of Mt. Etna and its surrounding landscape and village in Sicily. The drawing contains no color, but some areas, like Mt. Etna, are drawn in more detail, while other areas like the village in the foreground are simple outlines.

Visualization Meditation on “View of Mt. Etna” by Thomas Cole

Art of Meditation

Melissa Yes

Artists in Quarantine - Interviews - Virtual Programs

Scene from the Tale of Genji

Art Puzzles

War and American Art

BMA Director's Cut

Porcelain Performers: The Art of Comedy

Art Shots

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

Bitmoji Meditation Studio

Zachary Edison

Artists in Quarantine - Interviews - Virtual Programs

Everlasting Pride

Art Making

Vanitas Still Life

Art Puzzles

Dale Chihuly, Birmingham Persian Wall

BMA Director's Cut

BMA Announces Nancy Hendrix Director of Development

Art News - Giving News + Support

Director’s Office “Potpourri”

BMA Director's Cut

Helga Mendoza

Artists in Quarantine - Interviews - Virtual Programs

From Studio Window, Isola di Capri, October Evening

Art Puzzles

Roaming: American Artists Explore the Outdoors

Art Shots

Visualization and Color Meditation on Qilin and Cloud Motif Dish

Bitmoji Meditation Studio

Potpourri

BMA Director's Cut

Visualization Meditation on “Fushimi Inari Yashiro, Miyako Meisho no uchi” by Hasegawa Sadanobu

Art of Meditation

Visualization Meditation on “Yō (Distance)” by Miyashita Zanji

Art of Meditation

Visualization Meditation on “Platter” by Morikazu Kimura

Art of Meditation

Color Meditation on “Vase” by Tokuda Yasokichi III

Art of Meditation

Color Meditation on “Black Rust Flower Vase” by Morino Hiroaki

Art of Meditation

Celeste Amparo Pfau

Artists in Quarantine - Interviews - Virtual Programs

Lonnie Holley Wire Sculptures

Art Making

Tending the Ground

Art Puzzles

The Art of Demon-Quelling in Asia

Art Shots

Ancient Americas

BMA Director's Cut

Figurative Tradition in Wedgwood

BMA Director's Cut

Meet the Manager of Public Programs Carey Fountain

Staff Updates

BMA Receives Coronavirus Relief Grant

Art News - Press Release

Portrayal of Women in American Art

BMA Director's Cut

Battle of Ichinotani Folding Screen

Art Puzzles

Library Highlights

BMA Director's Cut

Doug Baulos

Artists in Quarantine - Interviews - Virtual Programs

BMA Announces Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Art News - Press Release

I Spy: A Game of Conscious Viewing

Art Shots

Trailblazing Women

BMA Director's Cut

How Artists Use Color

BMA Director's Cut

American Decorative

BMA Director's Cut

Ways of Seeing: Buildings and Monuments

BMA Director's Cut

Still Life with Fruit

Art Puzzles

Grand Tourists: American Artists Abroad

BMA Director's Cut

T. Marie King

Artists in Quarantine - Interviews

Advocacy and Action in Contemporary Art, part 2

BMA Director's Cut

Welcome to Paradise, Your Buddhist Neighbors in Chinese Art

BMA Director's Cut

Action and Advocacy in Contemporary Art

BMA Director's Cut

Alabama Art Happy Hour

BMA Director's Cut
Measuring, Measuring, Emma Amos, 1995. Acrylic on linen canvas, Kente fragment, batiked hand swatches, African strip woven borders, and laser-transfer photographs, 84 x 70 in. (213.4 x 177.8 cm). Museum purchase with funds provided by the Collectors Circle for Contemporary Art and the Traditional Arts Acquisition Fund, 2003.35. Art © Emma Amos/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Remembering Emma Amos

Art News

Art of the American West

BMA Director's Cut

Frank Hartley Anderson: Birmingham Printmaker

BMA Director's Cut

African Art at the BMA

BMA Director's Cut

How Tea Swept a Nation

Art Shots

Children of the Marquis de Béthune Playing with a Dog

Work of the Week

Venice: Grand Canal at Sunset

Art Puzzles

The Power of Color

Coloring with Kids

Looking at Landscape in American Art

BMA Director's Cut

Indian and Southeast Asian Sculpture

BMA Director's Cut

Steven Mark Finley Jr.

Artists in Quarantine - Interviews

17th- and 18th-century European Art

BMA Director's Cut

Mother and Child

Work of the Week

Animals in African Art

Coloring with Kids

Aspen Forest

Art Escapes

A Dream of Italy

Art Puzzles

Natural, Supernatural: Animals in African Art

Art Shots

American Narrative Tradition

BMA Director's Cut

Selections from All Things Bright and Beautiful

BMA Director's Cut

Wedgwood Meets Modernity

BMA Director's Cut

DIY Face Masks

Art Making

Create and Color a Mini Exhibition

Coloring with Kids

People & Places Story Activity

Writing with Kids

Erin LeAnn Mitchell

Artists in Quarantine - Interviews

A Guide to Looking at East Asian Landscape Hanging Scrolls

Collections

Temple Murals of Pureland Paradise

Art Escapes

Revisiting Sharing Traditions: Black Artists in 19th-Century America

BMA Director's Cut

Les Baigneuses (Female Bathers in a Landscape)

Art Puzzles

Return to the Written Word

Art Shots

Trapezium Altar

Work of the Week

The Figurative Tradition in 20th-century American Art

BMA Director's Cut

19th-century European Sculpture

BMA Director's Cut
Black female figure crawling across the screen of a large analog television, indicated by the brown, paneled frame and two large, black dials on the right hand side. The background is comprised of long strips of colored paper – white, yellow, light blue, green army camouflage, fuchsia, stars and stripes, and cobalt blue – that are arranged in the form of the SMPTE (The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) color bars test pattern. Though the central figure crawls across this pattern, she also appears to emerge from it as the long piece of camouflage paper dissects her body at the waist. She has wild, black, tentacles for hair. Her face is rendered with several small pieces of colored paper – red, pink, yellow, blue, green, and white. The outside of her left arm, as well as the inside of her right arm are constructed in a similar manner, made out of various sized colored triangular paper. She also wears a leopard print bikini.

Screen Time

Art Shots

The Potter

Art Escapes

Perseus Armed by Mercury and Minerva

Coloring with Kids

Andy Jordan

Artists in Quarantine - Interviews

Quranic Feasting Dish

Work of the Week

The Sorceress

Art Puzzles

American Impressionism

BMA Director's Cut
Helmet and tosei gusoku full-body armor from our Japanese Gallery.

Samurai Armor

BMA Director's Cut

18th-century British Art

BMA Director's Cut

BMA Zoom Backgrounds

Uncategorized

Sara Garden Armstrong

Artists in Quarantine - Interviews

Filling in the Blanks

Coloring with Kids

The Blue and White Pandemic

Art Shots

Untitled (Couple Embracing)

Work of the Week

Abstract American Art

BMA Director's Cut

Gravity’s Rainbow

Art Escapes

Paper Beads

Art Making

National Library Week: BMA Reading List

Art News

Interior of Antwerp Cathedral

Art Puzzles

Native American Art

BMA Director's Cut

The Birmingham Museum of Art Launches Digital Asian Art Initiative

Kids and Families - Press Release

The Eugenia Woodward Hitt Collection of 18th-Century French Art

BMA Director's Cut

Q&A with Artist Erin LeAnn Mitchell

Interviews

The Farmers

Work of the Week

The Farmers

I Spy

Ganesha

Art Escapes

#NotJustMarch: Women Artists from the American Collection

Art Shots

#NotJustMarch

Coloring with Kids

Lady Helen Vincent

Coloring with Kids

American Modernism, 1920-1950

BMA Director's Cut

Watercolor Mosaics

Art Making - Video

All Things Bright and Beautiful

BMA Director's Cut

Golden Age of Dutch Art

BMA Director's Cut

Cosijo

Coloring with Kids
ceramic urn depicting a Zapotec god sitting on his knees and wearing a large headdress

Cosijo

Work of the Week

Wooden Wall Hanging

Art Making

Ajisai (Hydrangea)

Art Puzzles

Tin Can Drums

Art Making

Vanitas Still Life

I Spy

Chinese Jade

BMA Director's Cut

Late Afternoon

Art Escapes

Portrait of Lady Helen Vincent

BMA Director's Cut

Birds & Botanicals: Backyard Art & Science

Art Shots

Lady Helen Vincent

Art Puzzles

View of the Grand Canal

Art Puzzles

The Kress Collection of Italian Renaissance Art

BMA Director's Cut

Monet’s Foggy Morning at Pourville

Coloring with Kids

East Meets West

BMA Director's Cut

10 Champions: Gods of Asia as Agents of Healing

Art Shots

Paper Garlands

Art Making

Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California

Art Puzzles

Wonderful World of Wedgwood

BMA Director's Cut

The Green Apple

Work of the Week

African Ceramics

BMA Director's Cut

School of Beauty, School of Culture

BMA Director's Cut

Dixon Hall Lewis

BMA Director's Cut

Looking Down Yosemite Valley

BMA Director's Cut

A Letter from the Director

Community News

Wild Heliotrope and Poppies, San Francisco

Art Escapes
Wendy Red Star

1880 Crow Peace Delegation

Recent Acquisitions

Sunset, Haywagon in the Distance

Art Escapes

Mango Tree Unlocks the Identity of an Indian Goddess

Spotlight on the Collection
This is a photograph of a young child, perhaps around 3 years old. He is wearing a warm sweater, is holding a paper heart in his hands, and is laughing at someone out of view.

Hearts for Art Returns to the BMA

Kids and Families - Programs

5 Ways to Celebrate Black History Month at the BMA

Programs

64th Annual Museum Ball Chairs

Giving News + Support

Community Partner Spotlight: Better Basics

In the Community

John Flaxman

Spotlight on the Collection

Conservation at the BMA: XFR Scanner

Caring for Art

Adoration of the Shepherds

Spotlight on the Collection

Your Year-End Checklist

Uncategorized

Super Ennio Scavenger Hunt

Video

2019 Family Festival Series Recap

Kids and Families

Kabuki Portrait

Spotlight on the Collection

Q&A with Jay Brandrup, Kinetic Communications

Corporate Spotlight - Interviews

Vendor Spotlight: Eric & Jamie Photography

Event Spotlight

Corn Maiden

Spotlight on the Collection

Tod, Frau und Kind (Death, Woman and Child)

Spotlight on the Collection

Q&A with Kate Taylor Boehm of Studio BOCA

Exhibitions - Interviews

Trapezium Altar

Spotlight on the Collection

One Hundred Thirty Seven Years of Le Matin, temps brumeux, Pourville

Collections

Four Corners Gallery

Corporate Spotlight - Giving News + Support

Meet BMA Volunteer Art Abbs

Volunteer Spotlight

Q&A with Terry Beckham

Staff Updates

Museum Staff Visits National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Staff Updates

Dr. Katherine Anne Paul Named Curator of Asian Art

Staff Updates

What to Wear to Art On The Rocks

Art On The Rocks

Meet Barbie: 6 Things to Know Before You Go

Exhibitions

Megan LaRussa’s Style Tips Inspired by Ways of Seeing: Fashion

Exhibitions

ART ON THE ROCKS EXCLUSIVE: Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears

Art On The Rocks

3 Art-Inspired Tito’s Handmade Vodka Cocktails to Sip This Summer

Art On The Rocks

Strike a Pose at the BMA

Exhibitions - Slideshows

Don’t Miss AfterRocks at Paper Doll

Art On The Rocks - Interviews

2019 Art On The Rock Sponsors Shoutout

Art On The Rocks

The Farmers

Spotlight on the Collection

The 63rd Annual Museum Ball

Event Spotlight - Giving News + Support

Meet the Education Office Manager: Mariah Wick

Interviews - Staff Updates

A Beautiful Bromberg’s Giveaway at Art On The Rocks

Art On The Rocks

Art On The Rocks Exclusive: Durand Jones & the Indications

Art On The Rocks - Interviews - Video

Art On The Rocks FAQs

Art On The Rocks

What to Wear: Fluid Fashion

Art On The Rocks

Get to Know the BMA Summer Interns

Interviews - Staff Updates

Things to Do at African Heritage Festival

Kids and Families

Meet the Museum Shop Manager, Sophie Cosper

Interviews - Staff Updates

Teen Night 2019 Recap

Programs

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

Fashion: A Q&A with Megan LaRussa

Exhibitions

BMA Smartguide: Fashion

Exhibitions

Ways of Seeing: Fashion

Exhibitions

Wedding Photographer: Mary Margaret Smith

Event Spotlight

Hallie Ringle Awarded Warhol Fellowship

Staff Updates
white marble sculpture of the Jain Goddess Sarasvati surrounded by much smaller depictions of musicians and attendant figures

Saraswati

Spotlight on the Collection

Visitors’ View: Holi Festival 2019

Kids and Families - Slideshows - Visitors' View

5 Things to Do at Holi: A Festival of Color

Kids and Families
Flower or Tulip Vase, about 1693, tin-glazed earthenware (Delft), De Griexe A factory (The "Greek A" factory), the Netherlands

Delft Tulip Vase

Recent Acquisitions

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

Vendor Spotlight: M. Elizabeth Events

Event Spotlight

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

Spotlight on the Collection: July 2018

Spotlight on the Collection

Durga

Spotlight on the Collection

Art On The Rocks: Sponsor Shoutout

Art On The Rocks

Art On The Rocks Tips & Tricks: A Guide to July’s Event

Art On The Rocks

Art On The Rocks Exclusive: Seratones

Art On The Rocks

Meet the BMA Interns

Interviews - Staff Updates

Deputy Director Selected as NextGen2018 Fellow

Staff Updates

Coming Soon: Waterline

Exhibitions

Meet the Goodrich Intern: Shannon Bewley

Interviews

Q&A with Paula Beck, Wells Fargo

Corporate Spotlight

A Gift Between Friends

Spotlight on the Collection

Teen Night Recap

Programs

The Original Makers: Folk Art from the Cargo Collection

Collections - Exhibitions

5 Things To Do At The Original Makers Festival

Kids and Families - Programs

Art On The Rocks: June 2018 Recap

Art On The Rocks

The Birmingham Museum of Art Debuts Work by Artist Amy Sherald

Art News

Art On The Rocks Exclusive: The Suffers

Art On The Rocks - Interviews

5 Can’t-Miss Events At Art On The Rocks

Art On The Rocks

Pam Collins

Volunteer Spotlight

Adoration of the Shepherds

Recent Acquisitions

Teen BMA Trip to Nashville

Art News

Charles Sheeler’s Tree and Landscape

Recent Acquisitions

Intersections

Collections

Coe: Then & Now

Collections - Exhibitions
2x’s, 2016, Xavier Vendrell, Steve Long, Rural Studio, Auburn University, southern pine, Courtesy of the artists T.2016.393 © Rural Studio, College of Architecture, Design, and Construction, Auburn University

Connecting the Global South

Exhibitions

Am I not a Man and a Brother?

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

In Memoriam: Frank Fleming

Art News

Birmingham Then and Now

Exhibitions

What’s Up at the BMA: Inuit Sculptures

What's Up at the BMA
Do What Makes You Satisfied (from the She Works Hard for the Money series), Mickalene Thomas, 2006, rhinestones, acrylic and enamel on wood, 36 x 48 in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm), Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI.109.2011.

Women Artists in Third Space

Collections - Exhibitions

Holi: A Festival of Color

Kids and Families

Where in the ‘Ham?

Collections - Exhibitions

Year of the Dog

Collections

Debbie Bennett

Volunteer Spotlight
Unknown photographer, Montgomery, Alabama—Negroes Seek Admission to All-White School, 1954, gelatin silver print, Museum purchase 2011.51

Civil Rights Press Prints

Spotlight on the Collection
Cole created this monumental print by embedding the perforated surface of an ironing board and twelve iron faceplates into a plywood sheet, flush to its surface. He then applied black ink to the whole and transferred the resulting image onto a sheet of white kozo-shi paper. The silhouetted image of the ironing board's surface resembles a historic slave-ship diagram, and the faceplate designs recall the facial scarification patterns worn by some tribal Africans.

Third Space Rotation

Exhibitions

Honoring an Expert

Art News - Collections - Recent Acquisitions

What’s Up at the BMA: Guanyin

What's Up at the BMA

5 Things to Do at Asian Heritage Festival

Kids and Families - Programs

The Qilin

Spotlight on the Collection

Tribute to Don Wood

Staff Updates

Last-Minute Gift Guide

Uncategorized

Why I Give: Maacah Davis

Giving News + Support - Video

Dr. Don Wood Receives Japan’s Highest Cultural Honor

Press Release - Staff Updates

Spotlight on the Collection: December 2017

Spotlight on the Collection

BMA Names New Deputy Director

Press Release - Staff Updates

Why I Give: Judy Cook

Giving News + Support - Video

Why I Give: Henry Joe

Giving News + Support - Video
The object is inspired by a traditional Kiowa parfleche, a type of container made from rawhide—deerskin that has not been tanned and is stiff. Some parfleches are flat, rectangular containers, like folded envelopes; the Kiowa traditional form is cylindrical. Hers is made of two hides—the interior is rawhide, giving the container its shape, and the exterior is soft, tanned deer-hide, onto which she has sewn the beads

Between Worlds

Recent Acquisitions

Why I Give: Sanjay Singh

Giving News + Support - Video

Q&A with Angie Godwin McEwen, Butler Snow Law Firm

Corporate Spotlight - Interviews

Education Gallery Dedication

Giving News + Support

Spotlight on the Collection: November 2017

Exhibitions - Spotlight on the Collection

Volunteer Spotlight: Mary Helen Crowe

Volunteer Spotlight

Meet the Manager of Youth and Family Programs: Willow Scott

Staff Updates

The New Director

Interviews - Staff Updates

Afterlife: Asian Art from the Weldon Collection

Collections - Exhibitions
Pair of Candlesticks, France, 1872, gilt bronze and cloisonné enam - el, Bronze caster: Ferdinand Barbedienne, France, 1810–1892; Decorator: Louis-Constant Sévin, France, 1821–1888; Chaser: Désiré Attarge, France, about 1820–1878; Museum purchase with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Chester Huck, by exchange 2017.37.1-.2

Vive la France!

Recent Acquisitions
During her 20 years at the helm of the Museum, Andrews grew the collection from 13,000 objects to 27,000 objects, raised the endowment by $21 million, expanded the staff and programming, and greatly increased the Museum’s holdings of work by women and African American artists.

Gail Andrews Reflects on 40 Years at the BMA

Interviews - Staff Updates

Summer Wedgwood Intern

Art News

Spotlight on the Collection: October 2017

Spotlight on the Collection

Graham C. Boettcher Named Director of BMA

Staff Updates

5 Things to Do at Hispanic Heritage Festival

Kids and Families - Programs

7 Things to See and Do at Art On The Rocks

Art On The Rocks

ART ON THE ROCKS EXCLUSIVE: LOS COLOGNES

Art On The Rocks - Interviews

What is a Rotation?

Art News - Caring for Art - Collections - Exhibitions

Volunteer Spotlight: Teen BMA

Volunteer Spotlight

Recent Acquisitions: Pure Abstraction

Recent Acquisitions
Gauri Gill, India, born 1970, Sunita, Sita and Nirmala, 2003, archival inkjet print mounted in Dibond; Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase in honor of Gail C. Andrews for her dedicated service to Birmingham’s Indian community with funds provided by Dora and Sanjay Singh AFI 14 2017

Recent Acquisitions: Sunita, Sita, and Nirmala

Art News - Collections - Recent Acquisitions
Clara Weaver Parrish, American; Selma, Alabama, 1861–1925, Study for “The Resurrection,” about 1902, watercolor on paper with original matting; Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase in memory of Judge Sam C. Pointer, Jr. with funds provided by the Pointer Family Fund through the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham AFI.152.2016

Collecting and Preserving Alabama’s Artistic Heritage

Caring for Art - Collections - Giving News + Support

Art On The Rocks Exclusive: The Underhill Family Orchestra

Art On The Rocks - Interviews

Teaching Artist Q&A: Carolyn Wass and Merrilee Challiss

Interviews

Meet the Curatorial Fellow: Carmen Gonzalez Fraile

Interviews

Spotlight on the Collection: July 2017

Spotlight on the Collection

What’s Up at the BMA: Yosemite Meets Sun Mountain

What's Up at the BMA

Art On The Rocks Exclusive: The Burning Peppermints

Art On The Rocks - Interviews

Art On The Rocks Summer Soundtrack

Art On The Rocks

5 New Things to See at Art On The Rocks

Art On The Rocks
Third Space Volunteers

Volunteer Spotlight: Third Space Gallery Attendants

Exhibitions - Volunteer Spotlight

5 Things to Do at African Heritage Festival

Kids and Families
porcelain sculpture of a woman and a jester in a dancing position with a dog at their feet

Spotlight on the Collection: June 2017

Spotlight on the Collection

Collective Performance – Gendering Memories of IRAQ

Video

BMA Hires New Curator of Education

Staff Updates

European Art Conservation

Caring for Art

Director Gail Andrews Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Art News - Staff Updates
MAYE HEAD FREI, VICE PRESIDENT OF ADMINISTRATION AT RAM TOOL

Q&A with Maye Head Frei, Vice President of Administration, Ram Tool

Corporate Spotlight

Save Big with Your BMA Membership

Giving News + Support

BMA Hires New Curator of American Art

Staff Updates
From Instagram user @narrra

Contemporary Gallery Closing

Collections - Slideshows - Visitors' View

Third Space / Chapter One: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith

Video

The Samurai Spirit

Recent Acquisitions

Spotlight on the collection: April 2017

Spotlight on the Collection
Henry Lynn

Curator of European Art Endowment

Giving News + Support
Lana Beardslee, Manager of Public Programs

I Create Birmingham: Lana Beardslee

Interviews - Staff Updates

Bham Now: Chapter 01 at the BMA

Exhibitions - Programs
Sybil Sylvester

Sybil Sylvester to Host Demo at Art After 5

Interviews

Bham Now: Chapter 01

Exhibitions - Programs

Spotlight on the Collection: March 2017

Spotlight on the Collection

Visitors’ View: 2x’s by Rural Studio

Slideshows - Visitors' View

Completely Redesigned Smartguide

Mobile Tours

Longtime Birmingham Museum of Art Director Gail Andrews to Retire

Press Release
People throwing colored powders on the garden walk during the Holi Family Festival.

Holi Festival Recap

Kids and Families - Programs - Slideshows

Third Space Featured on Talk of Alabama

Exhibitions - Video
Merrill Stewart, Jr. President and Founder of Stewart Perry

Merrill Stewart, Jr., President and Founder of Stewart Perry

Corporate Spotlight

Spotlight on the Collection: February 2017

Spotlight on the Collection

5 Reasons to Say ‘I Do’ at the BMA

Event Spotlight
Susan Folwell

Q&A with Ceramic Artist Susan Folwell

Interviews - Programs
Edward Mitchell Bannister (American, born Canada, 1828 - 1901), Tending the Ground, 1886. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with additional funds given in honor of Norman B. Davis, Jr.

Our Common Ground

Recent Acquisitions

Call for Event Photographers

Uncategorized

Third Space Opening Party Recap

Exhibitions - Slideshows
Asian scroll from the Edo period.

Year of the Rooster

Collections

5 Things to Know about Third Space

Collections - Exhibitions

Q&A with Merrilee Challiss

Interviews
DJ Holly Waxwing

Q&A with DJ Holly Waxwing

Interviews
Jake Orr

Q&A with Jake Orr of TrimTab Brewing Co.

Interviews

Spotlight on the Collection: January 2017

Spotlight on the Collection

Third Space Opening This Month

Exhibitions

5 Reasons to Volunteer for Third Space

Exhibitions

Dr. Emily Hanna Selected for Curatorial Fellowship

Staff Updates

2016 Family Festival Recap

Kids and Families - Programs - Slideshows

Spotlight on the Collection: December 2016

Spotlight on the Collection

Remembering William Christenberry

Art News

A BMA Thanksgiving Turkey

Collections

Spotlight on the Collection: November 2016

Spotlight on the Collection
Paul Wayland Bartlett (American, 1865-1925), Eagle of Preparedness, 1916. Bronze. 13 x 4 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. Collection of Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Mrs. Armistead Peter III 1958.37

Honoring Those Who Served: The Origins of Veterans Day

Collections
Bread plate from the President Theodore Roosevelt White House dinner service, 1903, designed by John Goodwin (English, 1867-1949) and Herbert A. Cholerton (English, 1883-1955), Wedgwood (est. 1759), Stoke-on-Trent, England, bone china, 6 inches diameter. Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York 4510.2008

A Presidential Plate

Collections - Slideshows

A Christenberry Collection

Art News - Collections - Giving News + Support - Recent Acquisitions

BEAUX ARTS KREWE 50TH ANNIVERSARY

Art News

Corporate Spotlight: Medical Properties Trust

Corporate Spotlight - Interviews
James Outland speaking at a Collectors Circle Dinner.

A Chat with the BMA’s New Board Chairman, James Outland

Interviews

Spotlight on the Collection: October 2016

Spotlight on the Collection

ArtBreak: A Curator Q&A

Interviews - Staff Updates

Art After 5 Recap

Programs - Slideshows

Meet the Manager of Public Programs Lana Beardslee

Interviews - Staff Updates
Visitor's instagram post in sculpture garden.

Visitors’ View: Beyond the BMA Walls

Slideshows - Visitors' View

Spotlight On the Collection: September 2016

Spotlight on the Collection

Spotlight on the Collection: September 2016

Recent Acquisitions - Spotlight on the Collection
Cosijo Illustration

5 Things to do at Hispanic Heritage Festival

Kids and Families
Zelda Fitzgerald's Ober House

What’s Up at the BMA: The Legend of Zelda

Giving News + Support - Recent Acquisitions - What's Up at the BMA

Spotlight on the Collection: August 2016

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

What to Expect at the BMA Studio School

Kids and Families

Art On The Rocks Event Schedule

Art On The Rocks

Art On The Rocks is Instagram Gold

Art On The Rocks

Art On The Rocks Exclusive: Sweet Crude

Art On The Rocks - Interviews

What’s Up at the BMA: Musée du Louvre II

What's Up at the BMA

Consilience – A Conversation Between Art and Science

Interviews - Programs - Video

Spotlight on the Collection: August 2016

Spotlight on the Collection

Art On The Rocks Exclusive- Magic at the Museum

Art On The Rocks - Interviews - Video

Art Papers Live: Extreme Gulf Present

Programs - Video
From Instagram user @madysonelizabeth_

Visitors’ View: Flin Flon VI

Collections - Slideshows - Visitors' View

Art on the Rocks Schedule

Art On The Rocks - Programs
The Lonely Biscuits, who will play at Art On The Rocks in July.

Art On The Rocks Exclusive: The Lonely Biscuits

Art On The Rocks - Interviews

What’s Up at the BMA: Japanese Battle Screen

Collections - What's Up at the BMA
Meredith Knight, coordinator for studio programs

Meet the Coordinator for Studio Programs

Interviews - Museum Studio - Staff Updates
Etching and engraving of Independence Hall in 1926 by Childe Hassam.

Celebrating Independence at Independence Hall

Collections
Charles Caryl Coleman's painting of Mount Vesuvius.

Spotlight on the Collection: June 2016

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

5 Things To Know About Ikats

Exhibitions

What’s Up at the BMA: All in the Dressy Details

What's Up at the BMA

Caribbean Day Recap

Kids and Families - Slideshows

This Day in History

Giving News + Support - Recent Acquisitions
Anna Laura Hopper of the Gypsy Leaf will be doing Henna tattoos at Art On The Rocks.

4 NEW Features at Art On The Rocks

Uncategorized
Members of Amasa Hines band.

Art On The Rocks Exclusive: Amasa Hines

Interviews - Video

4 Caribbean Traditions You’ll See Saturday

In the Community - Interviews
Family viewing sculptures in the gallery.

Five Reasons for a BMA Staycation

Art News - Kids and Families - Programs

Art Museum Day 2016

Art News

Med Students Improve Practice With Art

Art News - In the Community

Popular Sculpture to be Conserved

Caring for Art - Collections

Lobby Projects: Artist Talk With Bethany Collins

Programs - Video

What is IndiaFest?

Programs

Slow Art Weekend

Collections - Programs

Hats Off To Ikat!

Exhibitions - Slideshows

Museum Event Parking

Programs

5 Reasons You’ll Love “All The Colors Of The Rainbow”

Exhibitions

The Language of Design: Ikat Patterns

Exhibitions

Happy Women’s History Month

Art News - Collections

5 Things To Know About Holi

In the Community - Programs

10 Steps To Creating An Ikat Robe

Exhibitions

Spotlight on the Collection: March 2016

Collections - Exhibitions - Spotlight on the Collection

What Is One Rule You’ll Never Break?

Interviews - Programs

Interview with Dr. Cathleen Cummings: Film in Post-Partition India

Interviews - Programs

5 Things To Know About “Haitian Flags”

Exhibitions

Curator Chat: Haitian Vodou Ceremonies, Songs, and Sacred Objects

Exhibitions - Interviews - Programs

5 Reasons To Volunteer At Your Museum

Giving News + Support - In the Community

Happy Presidents’ Day!

Art News

An Unconventional Love Story

Art News - Collections

5 Reasons To Attend Summer Art Camp

In the Community - Programs

Meet the Curatorial Fellow: Amelia Hobson

Interviews - Staff Updates

Love is in the Air: Weddings at the Birmingham Museum of Art

In the Community

Happy Birthday, Lonnie Holley!

Art News - Collections

Birmingham Speaks: An Evolving Program for a Changing City

In the Community - Programs

Happy Chinese New Year!

Art News - Programs

Summer Art Camp 2016: Register Today!

In the Community - Programs

What’s Up At The BMA?: “Seeing Things”

Collections - Exhibitions

Director Gail Andrews On The Loss Of Thornton Dial

Art News - Collections - In the Community - Interviews

Happy Birthday, Thomas Cole!

Art News - Collections

Visitors’ View: January 2016

Collections - In the Community - Visitors' View

Behind The Scenes: Shiva Has Landed!

Collections - Press Release - Recent Acquisitions

Happy Birthday, Robert Motherwell!

Art News

What the Body Can Say

Interviews - Programs - Video

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend At The Museum

Art News - Collections

January ArtBreak: Parlor Sofa

Collections - Programs

Visitors’ View: Albert Bierstadt

Collections - In the Community - Visitors' View

Curator Chat: Interview with Artist Bethany Collins

Interviews - Programs

Spotlight on the Collection: January 2016, “Two Forms in Echelon”

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Laureate Comes To The Museum

Interviews - Programs - Video

5 Resolutions You Can Keep In 2016

Art News

Curator’s Choice: 5 Reasons To See Haitian Flags

Exhibitions

Winter In The Galleries

Art News - Collections - Slideshows

Year in Review: INSPIRE

Art News - Giving News + Support - In the Community

Year in Review: CREATE

Art News - Giving News + Support - In the Community

Holiday Shopping Guide For The Art Lover

Art News - Press Release - Slideshows

Year in Review: SERVE

Art News - Giving News + Support - In the Community

A BMA Birthday Weekend: Monet and O’Keeffe

Art News - Collections - In the Community

An Artist and a Veteran: John Taylor Arms

Art News - Collections - In the Community

Best Art Tattoo Coming To Birmingham

Programs

November 2015: Driven Back

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

Curator to Curator: Graham Boettcher and Carter Foster

Interviews - Programs

Happy Birthday, Roy Lichtenstein!

Art News - Collections

Huffington Post Features BMA Exhibition

Exhibitions - Press Release

Museum Brings Art To Community KaBOOM! Project

In the Community - Press Release - Slideshows

Fairfield Fire Department’s Cultural Arts Festival

In the Community - Slideshows

Gandhi Jayanti 2015 Poster and Essay Contest

Giving News + Support - In the Community - Slideshows

Interview with Designer Natalie Chanin

Interviews - Programs

Pianist Sean Chen Performs at the Museum

Programs - Video

BMA Patrons Featured in B-Metro

Giving News + Support - In the Community - Press Release - Slideshows

Party With A Purpose 2015

Giving News + Support - In the Community - Slideshows

A Trip to the New York Art Book Fair

Staff Updates

October 2015: So Close to Heaven

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

Gandhi Jayanti: Essay and Poster Contest Submissions

In the Community - Press Release - Programs

Happy Fall!

Art News - Collections - Slideshows

The First Birmingham Museum of Art Club!

In the Community

The Art of Meditation smartguide feature

Collections - Exhibitions

A Weekend In The Community

In the Community - Slideshows

Happy #AskACurator Day!

Art News - Interviews - Staff Updates

Religion in Modern Art: Interview with Dr. Erika Doss

Interviews - Programs

Art Matters: Conservation On Paper

Collections - Recent Acquisitions - Slideshows - Staff Updates

Meet the Librarian: Lindsey Reynolds

Interviews - Staff Updates

Labor Day: “Industrial Beauty”

Art News - Collections - Exhibitions

Art On The Rocks 2015: Recap

In the Community - Press Release - Programs - Slideshows

September 2015: David Puxley

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

What’s In Store?: 5 Favorite Fair Trade Items

Slideshows

Curator’s Choice: August Anniversaries

Collections - Slideshows

Heart Gallery Alabama smartguide feature

Exhibitions - In the Community

Meet the New Curator: Horace Ballard

Interviews - Staff Updates

BMA Welcomes New Curator of Education

Press Release - Staff Updates

Artist Profile: 5 Things To Know About Hale Woodruff

Exhibitions

Behind The Exhibition: The Making Of “Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals at Talladega College”

Exhibitions - Interviews

Art On The Rocks Exclusive: Clear Plastic Masks

Interviews - Video

Happy Birthday, Andy Warhol!

Art News - Slideshows

Analyzing the Amistad

Exhibitions

August 2015: Woman in a Green Coat

Spotlight on the Collection

Reconstructing a 14th-Century Painting

Slideshows - Staff Updates

Mural Project Unveiling

Press Release - Slideshows

Meet the Fellow: Ruoxin Wang

Interviews - Staff Updates

Happy Birthday, Rembrandt van Rijn!

Art News - Collections - Slideshows

Black Like Who? smartguide feature

Exhibitions

Lady Helen: Ready For Her Close-Up

Art News - Collections

Meet the Members of The Moth

In the Community - Interviews

“Victory! Liberty! Peace!” Happy Independence Day!

Art News - Collections

July 2015: Spirit Catcher

Spotlight on the Collection

Art On The Rocks Exclusive: Interview with The Shadowboxers

Interviews - Programs - Video

Art Camp’s Special Visitor

Programs - Slideshows

5 Faces of Fatherhood

Art News - Collections - Slideshows

Summer Solstice: Centering in on the Sun

Art News - Collections - Slideshows

Meet the Curator: Kelli Morgan

Interviews - Staff Updates

BMA Honors Late Jazz Legend

Art News - Collections

Art On The Rocks Exclusive: Interview with Reptar

Interviews - Programs

10 Must-See Artworks In The Garden

Collections

5 New Things To See At Art On The Rocks

Programs

5 Reasons You Can’t Miss “Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals at Talladega College”

Exhibitions

June 2015: Chatsworth House and Park

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree

Collections - Programs

BMA Places Third for Neighborhood Project

In the Community

Memorial Day: Honoring Heroes At Home and Abroad

Art News - Collections

Happy Birthday, Mary Cassatt!

Art News - Collections

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

Staff Updates

Contemporary Curator Featured in “Power of Women” Issue

Staff Updates

Week in Review: BMA in the Community

In the Community - Slideshows

5 Ideas For Mother’s Day

Art News - In the Community - Slideshows

The Centennial of the Lusitania

Art News - Collections

Celebrating 25 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Art News - Giving News + Support - In the Community

May 2015: Moon Jar

Interviews - Spotlight on the Collection - Video

Talk of the Town: Small Treasures

Exhibitions

Curator’s Choice: Small Treasures

Exhibitions

Rick Lowe

Programs - Video

David Puxley smartguide feature

Collections - Exhibitions

Spring-Fall 2015: Eye Wash

Collections - Mystery Object

New Exhibition Dedicated To Baseball

Collections - Exhibitions - In the Community

Art On The Rocks 2015: Ticket Sales Open and Line Up Announced

Press Release - Programs

Derrick Adams’ “The Entertainer”

Programs - Video

UAB Students Curate Exhibition

Collections - Exhibitions

April 2015: Bands of Color in Various Directions

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

Behind the Scenes of Birmingham Fashion Week: Rising Design Star Challenge

In the Community - Programs - Slideshows

BMA at Birmingham City Schools’ Parent Camp

In the Community - Slideshows

Create Birmingham Profiles BMA Creative Director

In the Community - Interviews - Staff Updates

Happy Spring!

Collections - Programs - Slideshows

5 Things To Know About “Girl With The Red Hat”

Exhibitions

Interview with National Gallery of Art’s Arthur Wheelock

Exhibitions - Interviews

March 2014: Britannia Triumphant

Spotlight on the Collection

Interview with Kathy Butterly

Interviews

5 Reasons To Attend the Second Bunting Biennial Ceramics Symposium

Exhibitions - Programs

Old Hollywood In Our Collection

Collections - Slideshows

Fretted Foot

Exhibitions

Tongue Cake

Exhibitions

Walrus Room

Exhibitions - In the Community - Interviews

Pig Lounging on Chaise

Exhibitions - In the Community

Walrus Reading

Exhibitions

Rhinoceros

Exhibitions

Alligator with Purse

Exhibitions

Frank’s Boot

Exhibitions

Reclining Walrus

Exhibitions

Untitled

Exhibitions

Fish Sandwich

Exhibitions

Mirror

Exhibitions

Catfish Plate

Exhibitions

Goat Man

Exhibitions

A Boy and His Dog

Exhibitions

Spirit Catcher

Exhibitions

Alligator Lady

Exhibitions

Lip Sandwich

Exhibitions

Chinese Ambassador Visits BMA

In the Community - Slideshows

February 2015: Beer Vessel

Spotlight on the Collection

Curator’s Choice: 5 Reasons You’ll Love Small Treasures

Exhibitions

Sneak Peek of Small Treasures

Exhibitions

Volunteer for Small Treasures!

Exhibitions - Giving News + Support - In the Community

Past, Present, and Future with Our Parks

In the Community - Press Release

Summer Art Camp Registration: Now Open!

In the Community - Programs

January 2015: Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess d’Abernon

Slideshows - Spotlight on the Collection

An Art Attack ArtBreak!

Collections - Exhibitions - Interviews - Programs

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

1 Gift, 6 Ways You’ll Give Back

Collections - Giving News + Support

Gandhi Jayanti 2014

Art News - In the Community

Be a Part of the Big Picture

Giving News + Support - In the Community - Video

Honoring A Hero: The Purple Heart

Art News - In the Community

Interview with Photographer Curran Hatleberg

Exhibitions - Interviews

BMA staff previews Small Treasures

Exhibitions

November 2014: Buffalo Vector

Spotlight on the Collection

10 Art-Inspired Halloween Costumes

Art News - Slideshows

Meet the BMA’s Newest Support Group

Collections - Giving News + Support

So Close to Heaven smartguide feature

Collections - Exhibitions

Interview: Design Week Birmingham

Art News - In the Community - Interviews

Art Inspires Art

Collections - Giving News + Support - Interviews - Programs

5 Facts About Gandhi

Art News

BMA Behind-The-Scenes: New Logo

Press Release - Staff Updates
BMA Teens

Tell Us What You Think!

Giving News + Support - In the Community - Press Release

Interview with Beatrice Rana

Art News - Interviews - Programs

Meet the Curator: Wassan Al-Khudhairi

Interviews - Staff Updates

Revitalizing with Art

Art News - In the Community

Art Sparks

In the Community - Programs

October 2014: Metate

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

Slavs and Tatars: Long Legged Linguistics, September 20, 2014

Programs - Video

Happy Fall!

Art News - Slideshows

Curator’s Choice: Lethal Beauty

Collections - Staff Updates

Behind the Scenes with the Curator: Art Papers Live

In the Community - Interviews - Programs

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

September 2014: It’s the Real Thing!

Spotlight on the Collection

Dog Day at the BMA

Art News - Collections - Slideshows

Art Matters: What’s In A Color?

Caring for Art - Collections - Programs

August 2014: Hot Water Urn

Spotlight on the Collection

Mark Drew, Maynard Cooper & Gale PC

Corporate Spotlight

5 Benefits of Meditation

Uncategorized

Summer 2014-Spring 2015: Culinary Molds

Collections - Mystery Object

Cutting a Fine Figure

Art News - Collections - Press Release

European Masters on Paper

Collections - Recent Acquisitions - Slideshows

Art Matters: New Gallery, New Ideas

Caring for Art - Collections - Slideshows

July 2014: Armor

Spotlight on the Collection

10 Artworks To Welcome Summertime

Art News - Collections - Slideshows

BMA Dads Are The Best!

Art News - In the Community - Slideshows

10 Years of Art On The Rocks, 10 Favorite Things

In the Community - Press Release - Programs

Nijikai: A Celebration of Downtown!

Giving News + Support - In the Community
This is a painting of two children dressed as adults wearing gray wigs and frilly velvet clothing. One child is holding a Spanish guitar while the other child holds a pug's paw to the guitar as if playing.

Remembering D-Day and the Monuments Men

Art News - Collections

June 2014: Somnus

Spotlight on the Collection

Art for Memorial Day

Art News - Collections

Happy Art Museum Day!

Art News - Collections - Slideshows

BMA Speaks Named Innovative Program by AAMD

Art News - In the Community - Press Release - Programs

5 Great Gifts for Mom!

Slideshows

May 2014: Plank Mask

Spotlight on the Collection

All-New African Gallery Opening

Collections - Slideshows

5 Natural Artworks For Earth Day

Art News - Slideshows

Birmingham Museum of Art to Open Renovated African Galleries

Collections - Press Release

5 Images of Christ by Delacroix

Art News - Collections - Slideshows

Birmingham Fashion Week: Up Close and Personal

In the Community - Slideshows

Remembering Caldwell Marks

Giving News + Support - Press Release

A Glimpse into Inuit Life

Collections - Recent Acquisitions - Slideshows

Yes Sir, That’s My Baby

Collections - Recent Acquisitions

Birmingham Museum of Art Appoints Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

Staff Updates

Terry Kellogg, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama

Corporate Spotlight

Partners in Art: UAB and the BMA

In the Community

Art Matters: A Changing “Target”

Caring for Art - Slideshows
large, gray stone sculpture from Cambodia of the HIndu elephant headed god, Ganesha

April 2014: Ganesha

Spotlight on the Collection

5 Great Artists Inspired by Delacroix

Art News - Collections - Slideshows

10 Favorite Instagrams of Quilted Vessel

Exhibitions - In the Community - Slideshows

5 Things for a Creative Spring Break!

Collections - In the Community - Programs

7 Lucky Works of Art

Art News - Collections - Slideshows

5 Things To Know About Holi

Art News - In the Community

Into The Streets: A Community Day of Service

In the Community - Programs

The Birmingham Project at the Whitney Biennial

Collections - In the Community - Press Release - Staff Updates

Callahan Lecture: Illustrating Victorious Lives: Jaina Narrative Painting

Video

March 2014: Hamilton Folios

Spotlight on the Collection

The BMA’s Best Dressed

Art News - Collections

Fête Delacroix a Success!

Exhibitions - Press Release - Programs

BMA smartguide

Collections - Exhibitions - Programs

Art Speaks mobile app

Collections - Exhibitions - Programs

Look of Love for Apple iPad

Collections - Exhibitions

Meet the New Curator: Robert Schindler

Interviews - Press Release - Staff Updates

Tickets on sale now for the 2014 Museum Ball

Giving News + Support - In the Community - Press Release

Monuments Men and the BMA

Art News - Collections - Press Release

Special Visually Impaired Tour

In the Community - Press Release - Programs

February 2014: Jizo Bosatsu

Spotlight on the Collection

College Connections

In the Community - Press Release

Children Create Artwork Inspired By Etched In Collective History

In the Community - Programs

Jim Hansen, PNC

Giving News + Support - Interviews - Press Release

Company Spotlight: Alabama Power Foundation

Art News - Giving News + Support - In the Community - Interviews

Birmingham Fashion Week: Rising Design Star Challenge

In the Community

The BMA Welcomes Two Young Scholars

Staff Updates

Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow for African American Art

Giving News + Support - In the Community - Staff Updates

Chinese New Year: The Year of the Horse

Art News - Exhibitions - In the Community

Merrily We Roll Along

Collections - Recent Acquisitions

A New Look at Contemporary Artists

Collections - Recent Acquisitions

A Major Gift of Japanese Treasures

Collections - Recent Acquisitions

Summer Camp 2014

In the Community - Programs

January 2014: Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

Staff Updates

Staff Updates

Top-Shelf Donations to the Museum Library

Collections - Recent Acquisitions

Reaching Our Community, One Neighborhood at a Time

In the Community - Programs

Partnering With UAB Multicultural Programs

In the Community - Programs

December 2013: Jar

Spotlight on the Collection

John D. Johns, Protective Life

Giving News + Support - In the Community - Interviews

November 2013: Chilkat Blanket

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

Party With A Purpose 2013

In the Community - Programs

October 2013: Cup

Spotlight on the Collection

September 2013: I Am a Man

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

“Jazzed” By Discovery of a Rare Print

Collections - Recent Acquisitions

Modern Shin Hanga Prints Gifted to the Museum

Collections - Recent Acquisitions

Renaissance Revival Vase Added to Collection

Collections - Recent Acquisitions

Chatsworth House Arrives at BMA

Collections - Recent Acquisitions

From Paper Trails to Digital Delivery

Caring for Art

Summer 2013-Spring 2014: Egg Beater

Collections - Mystery Object
This is tall, larger than life painting of a nude woman slightly draped in a sheer white cloth, standing on water with just one toe touching the water's surface. She is smelling a white lily and it the sun is just rising in the background. The colors are very soft and pink.

August 2013: Dawn

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

Staff Updates – July 2013

Staff Updates

July 2013: Perfume Fountain

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

Lauren Reynolds and John Malloch III

Giving News + Support - In the Community

Lauren Reynolds and John Malloch III

Giving News + Support - In the Community
This is a photograph of a blue and a blank ceramic jug. Each jug has a mythological scene depicted in white. Each jug has two handles on the side that reach from the neck up to the rim.

June 2013: Portland Vase copy

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

May 2013: School of Beauty, School of Culture

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

April 2013: Urn Representing Cosijo, the God of Rain

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

March 2013: Shiva and Parvati

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

February 2013: Power Figure (Nkishi)

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

January 2013: The Sorceress

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

December 2012: Cradleboard

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

Winter 2012-Spring 2013: Asparagus Shells

Collections - Mystery Object

November 2012: The Ascetic Sakyamuni

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection
painting of a boy wearing brown knee length paints and a dingy beige shirt holding pink flowers

October 2012: Three for Five

Collections - Spotlight on the Collection

Mignon Arrington and Thomas Lunsford

In the Community - Press Release - Programs

Following Our Paper Trail: Caring for the Museum’s Works on Paper Collection

Caring for Art

Museum Acquires Four Videos by Young African-American Artists

Collections - Recent Acquisitions

Limewood Sculpture Enters the Museum’s Collection

Collections - Recent Acquisitions

A Giant Discovery of Miniature Proportions

Collections - Recent Acquisitions

Donor Profile: Dr. Erica Liebelt

Giving News + Support

Protecting Our Material Assets

Caring for Art

Family Photos Damaged in Tornadoes Can Possibly Be Saved

Caring for Art

Staff Updates – December 2011

Staff Updates

Keeping the Collection “Young”

Caring for Art

Keeping Our Cool

Caring for Art

Staff Updates – September 2011

Staff Updates

Staff Updates – July 2011

Staff Updates

Donor Profile: Mr. and Mrs. William C. Hulsey

Giving News + Support

Conservation of the Fleming Fountain: The Never Ending Story

Caring for Art

Caring for the Collection: Outdoor Sculpture

Caring for Art