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OFFICERS
President: Bill Buchanan
Vice-President: John Hicks
Treasurer: Mark Sullivan
Secretary: Liz Sadler
Member Representative: Emily Rogers
Past President: Voncile Pearce

STAFF
Executive Director: Dr. Pamela Penick
Director of Educational Programs:
Sandra Wolfe
Bama Theatre Manager: David Allgood
Publicist and Kiosk Editor:
Dr. Kevin Ledgewood

MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS
Alabama Blues Project
Alabama Choir School
Arts and Autism
Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility
Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama
Children’s Hands-On Museum
Downtown Tuscaloosa Merchant’s Association
Friends of the Arboretum
Friends of the Library
Insurance Hall of Fame
Kentuck Association
Pointe Society of West Alabama
PRIDE
Shelton State Foundation
String Quartet Society of Tuscaloosa
Theatre Tuscaloosa
Tuscaloosa Art Guild
Tuscaloosa Children’s Theatre
Tuscaloosa City Schools Arts Division
Tuscaloosa Convention & Visitors Bureau
Tuscaloosa Community Dancers
Tuscaloosa Community Singers
Tuscaloosa County High Drama Program
Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society
Tuscaloosa Symphony Guild
Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra
Tuscaloosa/University Women Painters
UA College of Arts and Sciences
UA Community Music School
UA Creative Campus Initiative
UA Creative Writing Program
UA Department of Theatre & Dance
UA Museums
UA School of Music
University Programs
West Alabama AIDS Outreach
West Alabama Quilter’s Guild
Westervelt-Warner Museum
WUAL-FM

The Kentuck Art Center will present I Cannot See the Forest for the Trees, a show featuring works by artist Colin C. Stearns. The exhibit will run March 6 - 29 with an opening reception held Thursday, March 6th from 5 - 9 p.m. during Art Night.

The exhibit will feature photographs of clear cut areas in West Alabama. The prints in the show are made on Printing Out Paper. For the first 65 years of photographic history, POP was a major means of photographic prints. It is silver gelatin process similar to typical black and white silver development; however, POP paper is exposed by sunlight, not by an enlarger in a darkroom. This paper and the process Stearns has chosen have a history that starts about 1880, after Albumen printing out papers.

Stearns has recently moved to the Tuscaloosa area. Since being here he has traveled the state, thinking and learning. He was born in Georgia and has since lived in West Virginia, Dallas, Memphis, Chicago, Ireland, New York City, and now Northport.

Colin received his BFA in 2001 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and in 2007 his MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Currently adjunct faculty at The University of Alabama and Shelton State Community College, Stearns teaches photography and drawing as well as being the Director of Hale Photographic Studies, a community based outreach project in Greenboro, Alabama.

A special reception and opportunity to meet Stearns will be held in conjunction with Art Night, March 6th from 5 to 9 p.m. Art Night is the first Thursday of each month, and celebrates the opening of all exhibits in the downtown Northport galleries. Kentuck studio artists also host their monthly Open Studios for visitors to see works in progress, meet the artists, and see the actual workspaces where the artists apply materials, design, technique, and equipment to the creative process. For additional information call (205) 758-1257, or visit www.kentuck.org. For further information about the artist, visit his web site at http://colincstearns.org.