BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – After 25 years of service, Professor Janice Kluge, M.F.A., in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Art and Art History, will retire after this summer.

The department has launched a campaign to establish a scholarship in honor of Kluge and her husband, Cam Langley, a nationally-known glass artist, for their outstanding service to UAB and the Birmingham community, said Gary Chapman, M.F.A., chairman of the UAB Department of Art and Art History. A fundraising party for the Kluge/Langley Endowed Scholarship Fund campaign, hosted by the department, is planned for 5-7 p.m. Saturday, April 28, in the UAB Visual Arts Gallery, 900 13th St. S. Call 205-934-4941 for details. The scholarship will be for outstanding art studio students in the department. The department hopes to exceed their goal of $25,000.

Kluge became a member of the department in 1982 and was interim chairwoman from 2000-2003. She taught sculpture and drawing, implemented the Master of Arts degree in education and collaborated on the interdisciplinary film minor for the UAB School of Arts and Humanities. Her work has been recognized through grants and numerous arts publications and journals. Kluge has exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is included in public collections in Nanjing, China, the Huntsville and Mobile museums of art and private collections in the Southeast.

Cam Langley, a glass artist since 1979, moved his studio to Birmingham in 1983. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Apprentice Fellowship. His work is included in many private collections, including Frederick Weisman, Southern Progress Corporation and the president of the Czech Republic. His work, in public collections, is in the Chrysler Museum in Virginia and in the New Orleans, Mobile, Huntsville and Birmingham museums of art.