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The University of Alabama is located in Tuscaloosa.
The institution was established in 1831; its present enrollment
is approximately
21,000 students. The Department of Art was formed in the late 1940’s
and was initially housed in a single story building located in
University
Boulevard near what is now the university’s Student Health
Center. One of the founding faculty members of the Art Department
was the late Richard Zoellner, Professor of Printmaking. He was
joined several years later by the late Dr. Joseph Bolt, Richard
Brough, Professor of Design and Illustration, Angelo Granata, Professor
Emeritus of Sculpture, and the late Frank Engle, Professor of Ceramics.
The department is presently housed in Woods Hall and Garland Hall,
two buildings of an architecturally historic, neo-Gothic quadrangle.
Studio art courses are taught in Woods Hall and an adjacent complex
that houses sculpture and ceramics, while Garland Hall provides
space for departmental offices and art history. The 2.800 square-foot
Sarah Moody Gallery of Art is located on the ground floor of Garland
Hall and features year-round contemporary arts programming. It
has
a growing Permanent Collection dedicated primarily to contemporary
works on paper, graphics and photography. The department has an
annual enrollment of over 1,450 students with slightly more than
200 majors with approximately 25 students in the graduate studio
art program. There are 13 full time faculty members in the studio
art and art history areas.
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