Opening Reception with “Wild and Precious” artists, Rebecca Sower and Tonya Gillespie Witt

Main Gallery, Visual Arts bldg.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 13 from 5:30 – 7:00 pm

The exhibit and reception are both free and open to the public.

The theme for the show was inspired by a poem titled “A Summer Day” by Mary Oliver, specifically the line “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Wild and Precious will focus on what is wild and precious in life and nature, and also feature a play on the theme of how we choose to live the precious moments of our lives, what we value, and what we want our days and moments to look like.

The exhibit will feature work heavily nature-based in theme, specifically North Alabama wildlife, river, and refuge themes. Running alongside these themes will be symbolic narrative, figurative and portraiture art sharing Sower and Gillespie Witt’s interpretation of the quote from Mary Oliver’s poem.