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EXHIBITION: My Spot in the Sunlight

Paul R. Jones Museum 2308 6th Street, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

This exhibition is part of the effort for the For Freedoms 50 State Initiative. For Freedoms is a platform for greater participation in the arts and in civil society. We produce exhibitions, installations, public programs, and billboard campaigns to advocate for inclusive civic participation. Inspired by American artist Norman Rockwell’s paintings of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms (1941)—freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear— For Freedoms Federation uses art to encourage and deepen public [...]

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EXHIBITION: The Shadows

Paul R. Jones Museum 2308 6th Street, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

We are proud to present a curated show by Honors Students led by Chris Davenport, of New College here at The University of Alabama. They selected the works and prepared the following curatorial statement: A large aspect of society is our perception of the idea of womanhood and the female role. Despite large steps in support of the independent woman in recent times, we are still surrounded by the traditional stereotype that women cannot support themselves outside of a domestic environment. In [...]

Beverly Buchanan: Habitat for Humanity

The Paul R. Jones Museum presents Beverly Buchanan: Habitat for Humanity Guest Curated by Paul Barrett, featuring loans from Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and a Private Collector, as well as from the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art. The exhibition runs March 1- April 26.   2308 Sixth Street Tuscaloosa, AL 35401 M-F: 9am-5pm First Friday of the Month noon–8 p.m. 205.345.3038 Image: Untitled (Red Ladder) Beverly Buchanan Spelman College of Fine Art 2012.11. Gift of Lucinda [...]

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Purvis Young: Born in Liberty City

Purvis Young, Untitled, acrylic on wood, Seiler Zaden Rimes Collection, © Larry T. Clemons / Gallery 721 / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York   The Paul R. Jones Museum presents Purvis Young: Born in Liberty City, September 6 through October 25, 2019, in downtown Tuscaloosa. The exhibition of 27 pieces by the self-taught artist has been selected entirely from the Seiler Zaden Rimes Collection, with the assistance of UA alumnus Richard Zaden. The public is invited to a First [...]

Celebrate! Investigate! Create! A Collaboration between Arcadia Elementary School and the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art

Celebrate! Investigate! Create! A Collaboration between Arcadia Elementary School and the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art January 8- February 28 2020 The Musical Mural Pre-Kindergarten through third grade students participating in the Paul R. Jones Art Classes this past October and November (held on Thursdays from 3:30 to 5:30pm) will have their art displayed at the Paul R. Jones Museum from January 10th to February 28th, 2020. We will celebrate Arcadia students with a special reception held at [...]

IT’S LIKE THAT – Selections from the Collection of Rebecca and Jack Drake

The Paul R. Jones Museum presents It’s Like That: Selections from the Collection of Rebecca and Jack Drake, March 6-April 24, 2020. The public is invited to a reception on Friday, April 3 (First Friday in downtown Tuscaloosa), from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Works for this exhibition were selected by independent curator Paul Barrett who previously curated Purvis Young: Born in Liberty City, at the Jones Museum and A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw: Self-Taught Alabama Artists from [...]