Three new exhibitions will open in October at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts.

An opening reception is planned for all three exhibitions from 6-8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, at the AEIVA, 1221 10th Ave. South. The exhibitions will open Oct. 10. “Symbols, Schemes, and Procedures: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection” will run through Nov. 14. “Comic Book Diplomacy” and “Quantum Harmonic Oscillator” will be on exhibition through Nov. 26.