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Current Exhibitions

Bob Shelton

Friends Gallery / Jun 5 - Jul 1, 2018
Plaza Gallery / Jul 2 - Jul 31, 2018

Birmingham Southern College Professor Emeritus, Bob Shelton, was Professor of Art and Film Studies at BSC for 37 years. His work has been shown in over 150 national and regional juried exhibitions, he has won over 60 awards for his work as an artist and teacher and he has participated in over 30 group and solo exhibitions. His artwork is held in many public and private collections in Berlin, New York, Los Angeles and Boston, as well as multiple regional museums including the Birmingham Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.

Debo Groover

Friends Gallery / May 1 - May 31, 2018
Plaza Gallery / Jun 1 - Jun 30, 2018

Debo Groover was raised in Savannah, Georgia and received an MFA from the University of Georgia in ceramics. She has had a successful career as a potter and an itinerate teacher traveling throughout the United States. Although she is formally trained in ceramics, she is self-taught in the use of polymer clay. In both a fortuitous and naive exploration of this new material, she applied every technique she had learned in ceramics and subsequently broke every rule in polymer clay.

Michael Willett: Space & Order

Friends Gallery / Apr 2 - Apr 30, 2018
Plaza Gallery / May 1 - May 31, 2018

Michael Willett currently lives and works in Birmingham, AL. He is as an Assistant Professor of Art and director of the foundations program at the University of Montevallo. He holds a MFA in Painting and Post-Grad degree in Museum Studies from the University of Cincinnati and a BFA in painting from the University of Montevallo. Space & Order is the newest body of work by Michael Willett. While reflecting on the broad history of abstraction, Willett utilizes appropriation as an approach to creating non-objective collages and mixed media works on canvas.

Upcoming Exhibitions

Merrilee Challiss

Opening Reception and Artist Talk
July 19, 2018 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Friends Gallery / Jul 2 - Jul 31, 2018
Plaza Gallery / Aug 1 - Aug 30, 2018
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Merrilee Challiss

Anne Herbert

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

David Diodate

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

Misty Bennett

Friends Gallery / Nov 1 - Nov 30, 2018
Plaza Gallery / Dec 1 – Dec 30, 2018
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Misty Bennett

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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