Previous Exhibitions
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Setting the Elegant Table – with the Burrow CollectionFall 2018Get in the holiday spirit by visiting The Evelyn Burrow Museum for a showcase of some of the most elegant tablewares and still life paintings from our permanent collection.The award-winning Evelyn Burrow Museum, located in the Ottis and Evelyn Burrow Center for the Fine and Performing Arts, opened in Spring 2010. The 42nd building on Wallace State’s 300-acre campus, the Burrow Center was constructed using sustainable materials and green energy concepts… |
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The Essence of Autumn on display at The Evelyn Burrow MuseumFall 2018The Evelyn Burrow Museum is proud to announce the opening of a new photography exhibit, The Essence of Autumn. Located in the Exhibit Hall of the Burrow Center for the Fine and Performing Arts, dozens of photographs by six photographers shine a spotlight on the splendor of nature in the fall. “This is a beautiful exhibit,” said Donny Wilson, director of The Evelyn Burrow Museum. “We’ve gathered some amazing photographs from several photographers in the region, showcasing scenes of autumn.” The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State is hosting The Essence of Autumn, a photography exhibit featuring the work of regional… |
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Daniel Moore Exhibition Opens Sept. 11September 11 – November 2, 2018The Evelyn Burrow Museum is proud to announce an upcoming exhibition featuring the artwork of renowned sports artist Daniel A. Moore, just in time for football season. A collection of original paintings and bronze sculpture by the artist will be on display from Sept. 11 through Nov. 2 in the museum located on the campus of Wallace State Community College. “We are very pleased to be able to show the work of such an amazing artist, especially during the… |
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Alabama History of AviationJuly 31 – August 22, 2018“Alabama History of Aviation” Exhibit at Cullman Regional Airport – on loan from the Alabama Humanities Foundation – sponsored by The Evelyn Burrow Museum, Wallace State Flight and Cullman Regional Airport…. |
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The Evelyn Burrow Museum opens biennial sculptors’ exhibition “Rendezvous”July 1 – August 31, 2018The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State Community College announces its biennial sculptors’ exhibition “Rendezvous” on display through Aug. 31, 2018. The exhibit features the work of 12 acclaimed sculptors from across the region. Featured sculptors in the exhibition are Gokden Alpman Matthews, Walter Black, Everett Cox, Casey Downing Jr., Glenn Dasher, Howard King, Bruce Larsen, Dale Lewis, Ted Metz, Brad Morton, Nov Ontos and Duane Paxson. The installations include a collection of small cast bronze pieces (Morton), an elaborate wall hanging… |
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Making Alabama: A Bicentennial Traveling ExhibitApril 19 – May 24, 2018Wallace State Community College and The Evelyn Burrow Museum welcomes the Making Alabama: A Bicentennial Traveling Exhibit on campus starting this week and continuing through May 24. Presented by the Alabama Humanities Foundation in partnership with the Alabama Bicentennial Commission, Alabama Department of Archives and History, and the Cullman County Museum, the centerpiece is the interactive exhibit that tells of the state’s history from the 1700s through… |
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The Evelyn Burrow Museum Welcomes Artwork By Mississippi’s Bewey BowdenJanuary 10 – March 31, 2018Known as the “Poppy Lady,” Bowden’s oil paintings are filled with colorful flora and fauna. She is considered one of Mississippi’s leading artists, with pieces on display in numerous public and private collections throughout at least 18 states in the nation.Known as the “Poppy Lady,” several of the pieces from the collection of Mississippi artist Bewey Bowden include floral themes. “Mrs. Bowden’s paintings are amazing,” said Evelyn Burrow Museum Director Donny Wilson. “We feel honored to be able to share her talent with our visitors and hope many people will come… |
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Sweet Home: Alabama’s History in MapsJanuary 5 – Feb 28, 2018The Evelyn Burrow Museum, in conjunction with the Alabama 200 bicentennial celebration, is exhibiting a collection of maps of the state documenting its changes before and after statehood was established. On loan from the Birmingham Public Library, “Sweet Home: Alabama’s History in Maps” will be on display through at least… |
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Evelyn Burrow Museum Exhibit Celebrates Artist Andy WarholAugust 29 – October 31, 2017The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State Community College welcomes a special exhibit featuring works celebrating American artist, director and producer Andy Warhol. “FIFTEEN MINUTES: Homage to Andy Warhol, an Exhibition of Sight and Sound” will be on display from August 29 to October 31 in the main gallery of the museum. The “FIFTEEN MINUTES” exhibition, which includes reflections on the legacy of Andy Warhol, was curated and produced by conceptual artist Jeff Gordon and painter Path Soong. It features both audio and visual artistry in its collection of silkscreen prints and original recordings. The audio works range … |
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Out Of The DepthsFebruary 2017The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State Community College welcomes a new exhibit opening on Feb. 17 that presents two different views on current events in the Middle East. “Out of the Depths” is a joint exhibition of street photography and abstract painting, each showing the artists efforts in documenting life in the tumultuous region. The photographs are by Fadi BouKaram of Lebanon and the abstract paintings are by Joe Cory of Birmingham. Guest curator Canon Matt Schneider, a minister at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, brought the exhibition together as… |
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Salute To Service: Commemorating America’s Military History From WWI To Present DayNovember 2016The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State is honored to present an exhibition commemorating America’s military service in the 21st Century in photographs and videography. Memorabilia to complement the exhibition is also on display, on loan from members of the community. The exhibition opened on Veterans Day and will continue through Pearl Harbor… |
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Exhibit Of Laura Willingham Walker PaintingsNovember 2016Visitors to the Burrow Center for the Fine and Performing Arts at Wallace State Community College can enjoy the whimsy, humor and thoughtfulness of the paintings of Cullman artist Laura Willingham Walker. Presented by The Evelyn Burrow Museum, Walker’s work is on display in the Exhibit Hall of the Burrow Center, which is open during regular campus hours Monday through Saturday. The exhibit includes pieces from Walker’s… |
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The Evelyn Burrow Museum Welcomes Sculptors To “Rendezvous” ExhibitionAugust 2016The work of more than dozen artists — including that of world-renowned sculptor Frank Fleming — will be joined together soon at The Evelyn Burrow Museum in an exhibit fittingly called “Rendezvous.” The 2016 Burrow Sculptors Invitational is the third installment of the annual summer event that shines a spotlight on the work of some of the most celebrated artists in the United States. The exhibit will run from Tuesday, August 2 through Friday, October 30 at The Evelyn Burrow Museum located on the campus of Wallace State… |
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Images Of Australia On Display At The Evelyn Burrow MuseumJuly 2016Dozens of photographs by Australian photographer Anatole Zurrer are on display at The Evelyn Burrow Museum on the campus of Wallace State Community College. Based out of Sydney, Australia, Zurrer’s photography celebrates everything that is Australia, from photos of the Australian outback to city scenes, landmarks and everything in between. He is a graduate of the University of New South Wales… |
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Charlotte Cummings Memorial Sneaker CollectionJanuary 2016Robin Cummings will debut the Charlotte Cummings Memorial Sneaker Collection, and according to Cummings, this is “a dream come true.” Cummings’ collection includes 536 pairs of sneakers, 430 of which will be on display at the exhibit. “We have 12 complete sets of original Air Jordan shoes. We have complete collections of all colorways of the 7’s, 10’s, 11’s (except 1), 15’s (except 1) and 29’s. Our collection includes selected Kobe, KD and Lebron releases. We also have memorabilia displays of Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley,… |
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Angels & Relics: From Florence Italy, to Florence, AlabamaNovember 2015A new photography exhibit at The Evelyn Burrow Museum features the work of Steve Kinney and Kathy Hagood. “Angels & Relics: From Florence Italy, to Florence, Alabama” will be on display in the Exhibit Hall of the Burrow Center for Fine and Performing Arts through the end of the year. The photographers chose 60 of their favorite photographs “that celebrate exquisitely aged stone figures and vintage vehicles found and photographed primarily in the deep south, but also far beyond,” according to… |
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Fleeting Pleasures: Japanese Woodblock Prints From The Georgia Museum Of ArtOctober 2015The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State Community College is pleased to present “Fleeting Pleasures: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Georgia Museum of Art” through December 10. Drawing from the outstanding collection of works on paper at the Georgia Museum of Art, this exhibition will provide a history and overview of Japanese woodblock prints or ukiyo-e, literally, pictures of the floating or fleeting world. As their name suggests, these landscapes, cityscapes and scenes of domestic life were intended to emphasize the impermanence and fleeting beauty of the world around us… |
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Evelyn Burrow Museum Hosting Sculptors Invitational ExhibitionJuly 2015The work of 16 artists is on display during the 2015 Burrow Sculptors Invitational Exhibition at The Evelyn Burrow Museum. The exhibit will run through September 30 at the museum located in the Burrow Center for the Fine and Performing Arts at Wallace State Community College. “This will be the second year for the invitational exhibit, with the artists who exhibited the previous year helping to choose the artists on exhibit this year,” said museum director Donny Wilson. “We thought that would be a great way for them to pay it forward and introduce us to other talented artists… |
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National Watercolor Society ExhibitJuly 2015The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State Community College will host the National Watercolor Society (NWS) 94th International Exhibition starting July 18. Dozens of watercolors will line the exhibit hall of the Burrow Center for Fine and Performing Arts for all to view. A Jury of Selection for the NWS who viewed nearly 850 entries from across the… |
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The Evelyn Burrow Museum Showing Work Of Folk Artists MoseT And Jerry BrownMay 2015The work of one of the nation’s most renowned folk artists is on display at The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State Community College. More than 90 pieces of artwork created by Mose Tolliver are on loan from the collection of Dr. R. Douglas Hawkins of Troy, Ala. Mose Tolliver was born on July 4 around 1920 (the exact year of his birth is unknown) in Pike County, near Montgomery. He was one of 12 children born to sharecroppers and only completed the third grade of school. The family moved to Macedonia in Pickens County before eventually… |
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Burrow Museum Showing Work Of Lacey’s Spring ArtistMay 2015If you were to create a mash-up (one new word created from two) to describe the artwork of Leslie Wood’s that is on display at The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State Community College, it might be whimsineering. Combining whimsy with a touch of engineering, the dozens of pieces hanging in the Museum’s exhibit hall showcase… |
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Fine Art Photography Exhibition By Arden Ward UptonApril 2015Upton uses the lens of her camera to convey the viewer into a world full of beauty, emotion, and sentiment. Whether photographing people, or in this case, horses, for her it has always been about the details. She seeks to make those details the focus of every image produced, immortalizing the essence of life as seen in intimate moments. “Equus”, her most recent collection, is the personification of her… |
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The Evelyn Burrow Museum To Host Smithsonian’s ‘The Way We Worked’ ExhibitFebruary 2015The Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibition “The Way We Worked” will make its next stop in Cullman County, settling in at The Evelyn Burrow Museum on the campus of Wallace State Community College in Hanceville from Feb. 10 to March 20. Expressly chosen by the Alabama Humanities Foundation to host “The Way We Worked” as part of the Museum on Main Street project, the Cullman area is one of only six communities in the… |
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‘Study Of Hands’ On Display At The Evelyn Burrow MuseumJanuary 2015Our hands tell a story. The lines, the scars, even the lack there of give a glimpse of a person’s character, evoke feelings, show a life of hard work and points out how people have made their mark on the world. An exhibit hosted by The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State Community College features dozens of original paintings by Lee Nabors that… |
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New Exhibit Features Primitive Cigar Box InstrumentsNovember 2014The art of creating musical instruments out of common household objects dates back to before the Civil War. Around 100 examples of that art is now on display at The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville. The History of the Cigar Box Guitar From the Collection of William J. Jehle will be on exhibit Nov. 4, 2014, through January 15, 2015. Along with the stringed instruments there are also etchings from Edward Forbes’ “Life Studies of the Great Army,” depicting the lives of Civil War soldiers. At least one of those shows a… |
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Regional Sculptors Invitational ExhibitJuly 2014The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Ala., is hosting its first Regional Sculptors Invitational Exhibit. Acclaimed regional sculptors, including the world-renowned artist Nall, have lent the museum numerous pieces of artwork that range from metalwork and glass to wood and paper and more. “This is a marvelous show, and one that rivals exhibits at larger museums,” said Donny Wilson, director of the Evelyn Burrow Museum. “We’ve worked very hard to show a variety of mediums and artistic styles through this exhibit. The caliber of artists we’ve attracted is amazing and the pieces we have on display will have something to suit everyone’s taste… |
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A New Exhibition At The Burrow Museum Features Rural Farm ScenesJune 2014Dozens of prints depicting rural life are now on display at the Burrow Museum in an exhibition entitled “Days Gone By.” The exhibition is on loan to the museum from Grover and Irma Reeves of Vinemont, who have been collecting prints that remind them of… |
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Wallace State Exhibit Spans Dersham’s 50 Years as PhotographerNovember 2013The work of North Alabama photographer John Dersham is currently on display at Wallace State Community College, documenting 50 years of his life spent taking photos. Dersham’s work in black and white photography began when his father gifted him in 1960 with a Kodak Brownie camera he received from an Eastman Kodak promotion… |
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Audubon ExhibitionSeptember 2013Visitors to the Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State Community College this month can take in the beauty and detailed artistry of 20 American birds illustrated by famed naturalist John James Audubon. Lithographs of the various works are on display at the museum and can be viewed free of charge from 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. Saturday through Sept. 30. Since Audubon is such a well-known artist, Wallace State seized the opportunity to exhibit the lithographs on loan from the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art in… |
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New Exhibition Of Pre-1900s Alabama Folk Pottery; 8th Annual Pottery Show To Be Held March 16March 2013The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville is hosting “Pre-1900’s Alabama Folk Pottery” through May 2013. This exhibition, one of the largest known exhibitions of 19th century Alabama pottery in recent history, features the pottery of Shelby, Autauga, Elmore, Blount, Perry, Tuscaloosa, Randolph, DeKalb and Cleburne counties, areas which have produced some of the most highly sought-after pottery from… |
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Burrow Museum Hosts “Scenes from Nature” Exhibition by Blount County Photographer Larry ClowdusNovember 2012Larry Clowdus, the photographer whose works are featured, hails from Blount County. He takes his subjects from flora and fauna as close as his backyard and as far away as the Grand Tetons. Bald eagles are frequently featured as are panoramic mountain scenes, and wildlife that only the most patient photographer could have captured on film. The exhibition features more than 70 breathtaking works… |
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“Art that Worked: WPA Prints from the Amity Art Foundation”August 2012This exhibition, made possible by a grant from the Alabama Tourism Department and sponsored in part by the Wallace State Art Department, features more than 80 etchings and lithographs by Depression-era artists. Art that Worked. The WPA (Works Progress Administration) was created on May 6, 1935, as part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, providing work and economic relief to Americans suffering through the Great Depression. The Federal Art Project was one of the divisions of the WPA created under Federal Project One. Its primary goals were… |
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May 2012
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February 2012
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October 2011
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August 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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September – October 2010
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