Julie and Bruce Webb have been promoting and selling contemporary and visionary art for 33 + years. Their gallery is housed in a building constructed in 1902 just off the downtown square in Waxahachie, Texas (about 40 miles south of Dallas/Fort Worth). They also live at the property. They routinely visit art environments all over the world and spend time with many incredible artists in their homes and studios.

Brad Cushman has served as the Gallery Director and Curator at the UA Little Rock since July 2000. He received a B.A. in Studio Art from Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois, and an M.F.A. in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He is the voice of Picture This on NPR in central Arkansas. His audio essays on art and design have been broadcast since 2005. He can also be seen hosting Inside Art, a television program produced on University TV.

A Visionary Vernacular Road Trip highlights folk art, self-taught art, and outsider art in three exhibits at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The three exhibits A Visionary Vernacular Road Trip, Butch Anthony, and The Road Trip Continues curated by Brad Cushman, illustrate the story of unique creative people from across the United States, individuals that are often invisible in our communities creating art outside of the traditional art world. The exhibition features non-conventional work created by artists not formally trained, from as early as 1854-60 to works created throughout the 20^th Century, as well as objects made in the 21^st Century.

This is part one of two exhibitions curated by Brad Cushman, Gallery Director for UA Little Rock. The series features visionary makers of pictures and sculptural objects inspired by a divine spirit, as well as seemingly ordinary people making marks and transforming commonplace materials into extraordinary art to communicate messages to a keen observer.  A catalog will accompany this survey. Twenty-one states are represented in this road trip.

Reception:

5:30 – 7:30 pm, Friday, October 15, 2021

artWORKS Zoom Presentations:

Collector Lecture: Here, There, and Everywhere

6 pm Friday, Sept. 17, 2021
Presented by Julie and Bruce Webb. Register and attend here.

Curator Lecture: A Visionary Vernacular Road Trip

6 pm Friday, Oct. 8, 2021
Presented by Brad Cushman. Register and attend here.

Gallery Hours

10 am – 4 pm, M – F – Free Open to the Public
For more information email – becushman@ualr.edu
Main Office – 501-916-3182, Gallery Office – 501-916-5103
Due to Covid 19, the galleries are closed on Weekends and University Holidays.