Art Connects. AEIVA’s mission is to provide a cultural gateway that enriches and supports accessible learning, research, and thinking for the UAB community, Birmingham, and beyond, through transformative and challenging exhibitions, engaging programming, and purposeful collecting.
AEIVA is the contemporary art center on the campus of UAB, located across the street from the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center. We present between eight and ten exhibitions a year accompanied by a wide range of programs, all of which are free and open to the public. Open since January 2014, highlights from AEIVA’s past exhibitions include Warhol: Fabricated, Willie Cole: Transformations, Jessica Angel: Facing the Hyperstructure, David Sandlin: 76 Manifestations of American Destiny, Thornton Dial: I, Too, Am Alabama, and Vadis Turner: She Drank Gold. AEIVA exhibitions focus on artists of regional, national, and international significance, works from the AEIVA permanent collection, and exhibitions of student work, such as the annual graduating BFA Exhibition each spring.
Designed by the world-renowned architect, the late Randall Stout, the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA), is a center for UAB and the Birmingham community to engage with contemporary art and artists. The 26,000-square-foot building is named for lead donors Judy and Hal Abroms, and Ruth and the late Marvin Engel. AEIVA’s 5,000 square feet of exhibition space features six to nine exhibitions a year. The ... view more »
Art Connects. AEIVA’s mission is to provide a cultural gateway that enriches and supports accessible learning, research, and thinking for the UAB community, Birmingham, and beyond, through transformative and challenging exhibitions, engaging programming, and purposeful collecting.
AEIVA is the contemporary art center on the campus of UAB, located across the street from the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center. We present between eight and ten exhibitions a year accompanied by a wide range of programs, all of which are free and open to the public. Open since January 2014, highlights from AEIVA’s past exhibitions include Warhol: Fabricated, Willie Cole: Transformations, Jessica Angel: Facing the Hyperstructure, David Sandlin: 76 Manifestations of American Destiny, Thornton Dial: I, Too, Am Alabama, and Vadis Turner: She Drank Gold. AEIVA exhibitions focus on artists of regional, national, and international significance, works from the AEIVA permanent collection, and exhibitions of student work, such as the annual graduating BFA Exhibition each spring.
Designed by the world-renowned architect, the late Randall Stout, the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA), is a center for UAB and the Birmingham community to engage with contemporary art and artists. The 26,000-square-foot building is named for lead donors Judy and Hal Abroms, and Ruth and the late Marvin Engel. AEIVA’s 5,000 square feet of exhibition space features six to nine exhibitions a year. The 95-seat Hess Family Lecture Hall serves as a changeable space for a variety of artist talks, panel discussions, performances, installations and educational programming, as well as events at AEIVA. In addition, the building’s academic classrooms, laboratories, and faculty offices are home to the Department of Art and Art History, facilitating a dynamic partnership in AEIVA’s mission of enhancing social, cultural and historical understanding through the visual arts across UAB and the broader community.
The facility is named for lead donors Hal and Judy Abroms, as well as Ruth and the late Marvin Engel. Los Angeles-based architect Randall Stout designed the building. Hoar Construction oversaw the construction of the building. “AEIVA creates a dynamic indoor and outdoor public space that physically and visually connects with the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center across the street,” said UAB President Ray L. Watts, M.D.
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