The UALR Department of Art announces the group exhibition, “Subtractive Sculpture: Marble, Alabaster, & Limestone,” in Gallery I of the UALR Fine Arts Building.

It features the work of UALR faculty and students of art Michael Warrick, Kerry Hartman, Emily Shiell, Diane Harper, Katherine Purcell, Kendle Carter, Laura Mackey, Shawnette Thomas, Shan Bowers and David O’Brien.

The group exhibition will be held July 3 through Aug. 1. A reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 10.

Summer gallery hours run through Aug. 17. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. There are no weekend hours during the summer.

For more information, contact UALR Gallery Director and Curator Brad Cushman at becushman@ualr.edu or 501.569.8977.

The faculty and student group exhibition in Gallery I will feature subtractive sculpture, which involves removing material from a block or, in this case, various stones, through cutting, chiseling, chipping or scraping. The stone used by these artists include marble, alabaster and limestone.

In Gallery II of the Fine Arts Building, “Landscape of Consciousness,” the thesis exhibition of ceramic artist Julia Baugh, will be on display July 7 – 21.

Baugh first attended UALR as a teen. At 25, she became a respiratory therapist, where her work contributed to her admiration for human anatomy. She practiced as a respiratory therapist for 10 years in both Little Rock and San Francisco. Baugh took her first wheel throwing class at Ruby’s Clay Studio in northern California.

Baugh returned to Little Rock in 2009, and took a wheel throwing class at the Arkansas Art Center as a creative outlet. Following the encouragement of her class instructor, Baugh took an independent study wheel throwing class at UALR, and she began working on her Master of Arts in Studio Art.

The ceramic forms created by Baugh incorporate textures, undulations and recurring gouged shapes where inner human anatomy, woodland forms and underwater life are blended together.

Some characteristics of the art are linked to her childhood, others to Baugh’s adult experiences. Her work holds, hides and partially reveals familiar concepts, feelings, or memories in figurative pieces.