“The Beautifully Strange World of Wayne Sides” exhibition at Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts

EXHIBIT: August 30 - October 11

RECEPTION: September 6, 6-8pm

The Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts is pleased to present “The Beautifully Strange World of Wayne Sides”, beginning August 30, 2024, and continuing through October 11, 2024.  Artist and UNA Professor Emeritus, Wayne Sides, describes this exhibition as “three shows in one.  It’s a little bit of a strange retrospective in the sense that it borrows work from different periods of my career, 3D and 2D, but also includes new work too.”  A reception for Sides will be held at the Arts Center on Fri., September 6, 6-8 p.m.

Wayne Sides is a native of Calhoun County, Alabama.  He has received a bachelor’s degree in visual and performing arts from the University of Alabama New College in Tuscaloosa and earned a master’s degree in photo image making/art from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.  He worked as a lecturer and artist in residence with Southwest State University of Marshall, MN, the New York Federation for the Arts.  His work has been displayed nationally and internationally in galleries that include the OK Harris Gallery, Soho, NYC; A Palazzo Panichi Museum in Pietra Santa, Italy; and Birmingham Civil Rights Museum in Birmingham, AL

His photographs are published in several books such as Side Show, Litany of a Vanishing Landscape, White Knights, Silence and the Hammer, Human Traces, Gather Up Our Voices, and Interpreter.  His work has also been used as cover art for The Ballad of Little River by Paul Hemphill, Goodbye to the Buttermilk Sky by Julia Oliver, and three collections of poetry by Jeanie Thompson: How to Enter the River, Witness, White for Harvest, and New and Selected Poems.