The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Art and Art History will present a free lecture and exhibition by Jane Hammond, the 2009 Pauline Ireland Visiting Artist.

   September 11, 2009

Work by Jane Hammond. Download image.

• Exhibition of Hammond's works Oct. 2-31

• Private reception after lecture, tickets $100

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Art and Art History will present a free lecture and exhibition by Jane Hammond, the 2009 Pauline Ireland Visiting Artist.

Hammond will lecture at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9 in the UAB Mary Culp Hulsey Recital Hall, 950 13th St. South, on the UAB campus. The lecture is free and open to the public. Call 205-934-4941.

A private reception with Hammond will take place after the lecture in the UAB Visual Arts Gallery next door. Tickets to the private reception are $100 each, and all proceeds benefit the department scholarship fund. For more information, contact Mary Balfour Van Zandt at 205-975-9644.

Hammond's artwork will be featured in the UAB Visual Arts Gallery Oct. 2-31. The gallery is located at 900 13th St. South. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. The gallery is closed Sundays and holidays. Admission to the gallery is free. Call 205-934-0815.

Hammond is a renowned artist working in a wide range of media. Her works are in the permanent collection of galleries and museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Biblioteque Nationale in Paris, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has had many one-person shows at galleries all over the world.

About UAB:

The UAB Visual Arts Gallery showcases historical and contemporary artworks by local, regional, national and international artists. Its exhibitions highlight works by faculty and students plus emerging and established artists, in as many as a dozen regularly changing shows that always are free and open to the public.