Christina Renfer Vogel holds an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and a BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She currently serves as an associate professor of painting and drawing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Vogel has been an artist-in-residence with the JSS in Civita program (Civita Castellana, Italy), Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts (Rabun Gap, GA), the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Amherst, VA), the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (Nebraska City, NE). She is a recipient of a Lighton International Artists Exchange Program grant and an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant, among other awards.
Juan López-Bautista is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and a College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Board Faculty Fellow at The University of Alabama. He received his Ph.D. in plant biology from Louisiana State University, a Master of Science degree in biology from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He was recently elected as the 2013 president of the Phycological Society of America and his most recent project funded by the National Science Foundation is the assembling of the tree of life for green and red algae. He is currently pursuing his MFA degree at the University of Alabama.
The Hoover Public Library and the Bluff Park Art Association have been collaborating for over twenty years to produce the Bluff Park Preview Show. This year's exhibition is comprised of six local artists that will be participating in the Bluff Park Art Show on October 5th. Presented annually by the Bluff Park Art Association, the Bluff Park Art Show began as a way to raise money to expand the Bluff Park Elementary library and has grown into a nationally recognized and acclaimed art show that attracts thousands of visitors and artists from across the country. Artists included in the exhibition: Katie Adams, Allison Jane Dailey, Yun Jian, Butch Oglesby, Lucy Pike and Mary Lynne Robbins.
