Welcome to Birmingham-Southern's “Hilltop Photo of the Week” web page and archives. Each week at this site, we'll feature a photo that depicts some aspect of life on the Hilltop campus, along with brief information about what is taking place in the Photo of the Week.

The college welcomes submissions to be considered for the Hilltop Photo of the Week. Scanned or digital photos can be e-mailed to the Office of Communications at bwagnon@bsc.edu, or photographic prints may be sent through campus mail to Box 549004. Please limit photo submissions to those that depict some aspect of the BSC experience, and be sure to identify what is taking place in the photo, along with location and people involved.

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All fired up—An old-fashioned iron pour by Birmingham's historic industrial museum Sloss Furnaces was the highlight of the opening reception for the Allen Peterson Art Exhibition “Navigating Systems,” which kicked off Oct. 1 in Birmingham–Southern's Durbin Gallery. (Above) Metalsmiths pour scorching hot iron into hardened sand molds in front of an audience of about 300 faculty, staff, students, alumni, and guests. (Below) Bird-sized metal bees are made from the molds, connected to long steel handles, and danced around (still glowing) in the night air. Peterson, a local sculptor and 1994 BSC graduate, was on hand at the reception. His art exhibit can be viewed Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Oct. 29.

Lower photo by Samantha Masdon, a freshman English major from Hoover.

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