See graduating art students present their work online beginning April 14

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student artwork BFA stream"Fancy Cat" by Hannah SlatskyTake in original art — from a distance — during the Department of Art and Art History’s online thesis exhibit featuring works by graduating seniors earning their Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree. The exhibit opens April 14; all individual works can be viewed at uab.edu/art.

The department also will host a digital reception 6-7 p.m. April 24 via Facebook Live; several student artists will discuss their work with faculty and staff from the department and the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts.

The annual exhibition is the culmination of students’ academic and studio education at UAB, says program coordinator Melissa Yes.

“A BFA is a professional undergraduate degree, and the quality and breadth of the students’ work showcases their talent and reflects the strengths of our dynamic academic program.”

“A BFA is a professional undergraduate degree, and the quality and breadth of the students’ work showcases their talent and reflects the strengths of our dynamic academic program.”

The presenting student artists are Shea Glaster, Salma Hernandez Palma, Haley Hester Knight, Izzy Looney, Angelica Lyublinskaya, Matthew McAdams, Maddie McCann, Sophie McVicar, Kole Nichols, Hannah Slatsky and Aubrey Venkler.

UAB’s BFA degree offers students an intensive exploration across a breadth of media and within a depth of discipline that prepares undergraduates be artists or designers, to begin careers in the arts or to continue their studies while gaining skills and competencies in team-based learning, technology, communication, aesthetic judgment, interdisciplinary and innovative approaches, critical analysis and professional development.