Shannon Thomason
| This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Public Relations Specialist
thomason@uab.edu | (205) 975-8858Identifies and develops stories that highlight the arts, faculty news, student stories and beyond a UAB. Connects media with experts to enhance their story.
Specific beats:
- Advancement
- The Arts at UAB
- AEIVA
- Alys Stephens Center
- Arts in Medicine
- ArtPlay
- College of Arts and Sciences
- Department of Art and Art History
- Department of Communication Studies
- Department of Music
- Department of Theatre
- Institute for Human Rights
- Department of World Languages and Literatures
- The Graduate School
- Libraries
- National Alumni Society
- WBHM
Highlights include UAB Piano Series performances by Marina Lomazov and Kenny Broberg, Chamber Music @ AEIVA, the third annual PRISM concert, and more.
Discover the history and meaning behind the amabie, which legend says protects against plague and poverty, and learn to make your own at this workshop presented by UAB Arts in Medicine.
Pat Metheny — who has won 20 Grammy Awards — is presented by UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
ArtPlay provides a wide array of arts classes, including writing, dance, visual arts, music, acting and sewing. Classes will begin in March.
Donate items like kitchen supplies, cleaning products and snacks to support the fourth annual Ronald McDonald House Collection Drive and give back to families who truly need support.
The Alabama Dance Festival and the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center will present dance companies staibdance and Bodytraffic.
Submitting work for shows is a must for artists, and the UAB Department of Art and Art History offers students two different opportunities to get their work out of the studio and into the gallery.
Flutist Trionfo and pianist Cano Smit will perform together Nov. 18 at UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
Thile, a master of the mandolin, is a member of Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek, a Grammy Award winner, a MacArthur fellow, and an ASC audience favorite.
Washington, author of “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,” will speak about how legacies of violence and exploitation impact the medical system today.