Garland Hall

Garland Hall

Quick Info

Building # 1067 | Abbreviation: GA
College of Arts and Sciences

  • Art
  • Art History
  • Sarah Moody Gallery of Art

Garland Hall houses part of the Department of Art and Art History and the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art. The department office is located on the first floor, adjacent to the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, with art history classrooms on the second floor.

The 2,800-square foot Sarah Moody Gallery of Art houses the Permanent Collection with a schedule of art exhibits throughout the school year. The gallery is open from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm on weekdays and 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm on Thursday evenings. There is no admission charge to view the works. For more information on exhibits, visit the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art web site.

Garland Hall was built in 1888 to house the first Museum of Natural History and provide more dorm rooms for the expanding campus. Professor Eugene Allen Smith’s offices were also located in the first floor of the building along with the museum. They stayed there until the construction of Smith Hall in 1911. In 1967 the much used space was transformed into an art gallery which was named after Sarah McCorkle Moody who donated a Picasso print to the Art Department in 1950.

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Information collected from The University of Alabama : a guide to the campus by Robert Oliver Mellown (Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1988), The University of Alabama, a pictorial history by Suzanne Rau Wolfe (University : University of Alabama Press, c1983), and the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art Web site.