Our faculty, staff, and students also offer community education programs that have an impact on children and adults alike in Alabama.
Art Galleries & Exhibitions
UA Art Galleries & Exhibitions provide a wealth of resources for the campus and West Alabama communities.
Paul R. Jones Museum
Public Sculpture
Sarah Moody Gallery of Art
The Sarah Moody Gallery of Art presents a year-round schedule of changing exhibitions devoted to contemporary art, including works from the Permanent Collection.
UA Gallery
Located in downtown Tuscaloosa’s Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, the UA Gallery at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center offers a year-round schedule of exhibitions of artistic works, artifacts, textiles, and more from permanent collections held by The University of Alabama as well as works by faculty, students, guest artists, and designers.
Public Sculpture
The University of Alabama has a large and growing collection of outdoor, public sculpture, in the Woods Quad Sculpture Garden and elsewhere on campus.
Community Programs
Art Roundup
Art Roundup is a compilation of Arts activities in and around the Tuscaloosa area.
Community Music School
The Community Music School is a non-degree granting outreach program for the School of Music which serves interested students of all ages and levels of ability.
Druid City Girls Media Camp
Druid City Girls Media Camp is a camp for girls in Tuscaloosa where they learn about media production, digital storytelling, and the media industry.
Embrace Tuscaloosa
Embrace Tuscaloosa is a day of service hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences. This event gives A&S students, staff, and faculty an opportunity to engage in the Tuscaloosa community and consider the impact of a lifelong commitment to service.
Learn more about the 2021 Embrace Tuscaloosa service day.
Empty Bowls
For more than a decade, UA ceramics students have donated hundreds of handcrafted ceramic bowls to raise money and awareness to fight hunger in West Alabama as part of Grace Presbyterian Church’s Empty Bowls event.
K-12 Summer Programs
The University hosts a wide range of summer programs on campus for K-12 students. The College of Arts and Sciences sponsors a number of these programs.
Theatre & Dance Understudy Program
In the UA Theatre & Dance Understudy Program, high school students serve as understudies for theatre and dance. They attend classes and shadow faculty and students to learn about careers in theatre and dance.