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Current Exhibitions

Merrilee Challiss

Friends Gallery / Jul 10 - Jul 31, 2018
Plaza Gallery / Aug 1 - Aug 31, 2018

Born in Clevleland, OH in 1971, Merrilee Challiss lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama, where she shares an artist's loft with three cats. Over a varied career, spanning several decades, she has shown work in far-flung places such as San Francisco, Portland, Phnom Penh, Miami, and regionally in New Orleans, Birmingham, Nashville and Huntsville, etc. She holds a BA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Winnie K. Cooper

George P. Farmer Gallery / Aug 1 - Sep 30, 2018

Winnie K. Cooper was born in Buffalo, NY and graduated from Birmingham Southern College in 1966 with a BA in Art. While living in Portland, Oregon she studied calligraphy and, in 1981, she founded Winsomes Designs and published her own line of note cards that were sold nationwide. In 1983, she returned to Alabama and began a long career as artist.

Bluff Park Preview Show

Friends Gallery / Aug 6 - Aug 30, 2018

The Hoover Public Library and the Bluff Park Art Association have been collaborating for over 20 years to produce the annual Bluff Park Preview Show. This year’s exhibition runs through the end of August and includes artists Jamie Carnathan, Diane Hathcock, Dan McDaniel, Eric Poland and American Road Trip Photography - Sara Beck and Craig Roderick.

Upcoming Exhibitions

Anne Herbert

Friends Gallery / Sep 4 - Sep 30, 2018
Plaza Gallery / Oct 1 - Oct 31, 2018
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Anne Herbert

The Work of Joe Minter: A Photo Essay

Plaza Gallery / Sep 4 - Sep 30, 2018

Misty Bennett

Friends Gallery / Oct 2 - Oct 31, 2018
Plaza Gallery / Nov 1 – Nov 28, 2018
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Misty Bennett

Natalie Harrison

George P. Farmer Gallery / Oct 2 – Nov 28, 2018
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Natalie Harrison

David Diodate

Friends Art Gallery / Nov 2- Nov 30, 2018
Plaza Gallery / Dec 1 - Dec 31, 2018
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David Diodate

Celeste Amparo Pfau

Friends Gallery / Dec 1 - Dec 31, 2018
Plaza Gallery / Jan 1 - Jan 31, 2019
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Celeste Amparo Pfau

Sonja Rieger

Friends Gallery / Jan 3 - Jan 31, 2019
Plaza Gallery / Feb 1 - Feb 28, 2019
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Sonja Rieger

Cahaba River Watershed Project: Elisabeth Pellathy, Scott Stephens and Lee Somers

HPL Galleries / Feb 1 - Mar 31, 2019
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Elisabeth Pellathy
Scott Stephens
Lee Somers

Frances Osborn Robb

Friends Gallery / May 1 - May 31, 2019
Plaza Gallery / Jun 1 - Jun 30, 2019
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Frances Osborn Robb

Past Exhibitions



About the Hoover Public Library Galleries

Visual art is an integral to the Hoover Public Library. We have a vast permanent collection ranging from purchase awards from our Southern Voices featured artists to pieces selected to complement our facility. Through our partnership with the Bluff Park Art Association, we sometimes host pieces from their permanent collection. We have a Frank Fleming sculpture on permanent loan from them as well.

We own two photography collections, Chip Cooper's Alabama Troubadours collection and photos of Joe Minter's Sculpture garden. These travel for display throughout the Hoover/Birmingham area.

To encourage art for all ages, the Hoover Public Library displays artwork by children from Hoover schools.

We rotate the displays in our other galleries to exhibit nationally and regionally juried artists (Friends Gallery and Plaza Gallery) as well as up-and-coming local artists (Administrative Gallery).



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