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UA Little Rock Extended Education offers non-credit community art classes

Finalists for Staff Achievement Awards announced The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Staff Senate has announced the finalists for the 2018 Staff Achievement Awards. A $1,000 cash award is given to the top employee in each of three categories: Ben Fry Service to UA Little Rock, community service, and personal growth. The winners will be announced at the Staff Awards Ceremony at 10 a.m. Friday, April 20, in the Engineering and Information Technology Building Auditorium. “The staff members are a vital part of the success of UA Little Rock,” said Staff Senate President Richard Harper. “The Staff Achievement Award winners underscore UA Little Rock’s commitment to serving the university and community through hard work. Our staff’s dedication to these principles continues to amaze me.” The winners of the Staff Senate Scholarship and Jerry Crittenden Employee Book Scholarship will also be announced. Staff members who are celebrating work anniversaries, have graduated in the past year, and retiring will also be recognized. Members of the university and community are encouraged to attend the awards ceremony and reception to celebrate the achievements of UA Little Rock staff members and to wear UA Little Rock colors and apparel to show school spirit. For more information, contact Angie Faller at 501-907-9320 or amfaller@ualr.edu. The finalists include: Ben fry Service to UA Little Rock • Tom Coffin, senior visualization and operations manager, Emerging Analytics Center • Terry Harrison, higher education program coordinator, William H. Bowen School of Law • William Wagner, operations manager, KLRE/KUAR Community Service • Tiffani McAdoo, grant implementation specialist, School of Social Work/MidSOUTH • Melody Muldrow, research associate, Graduate Institute of Technology • Virginia Oswalt, administrative specialist, Department of Earth Sciences Personal Growth • Erin Fehr, archivist, Sequoyah National Research Center • Marty Mayfield, fiscal support analyst, TRIO Student Support Services • Pamala Stanley, administrative assistant, Department of Systems Engineering

Central Arkansas residents who are looking to learn more about art without the stress of tests and grades can take one of four extended education courses in visual arts and art history this fall at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Extended Education courses are non-credit, community enrichment classes. Leslie Mangiamele, a professional artist who has taught studio art and art history for more than 33 years at UA Little Rock, will offer three drawing classes on Mondays from Sept. 9 to Nov. 11 with a tuition of $189 per student.

Drawing for Adults for those 18 and older will be held from 2-3:15 p.m. This is a comfortable and casual drawing class designed for the adult who has had some, little, or no formal training. It is a class in classical drawing that includes the close observation and rendering of objects from nature and the man-made world. Modeled on college art classes, students will study the elements of art, principles of design, and a variety of traditional drawing techniques.

Drawing for the Young Child will be held from 4-5 p.m. This is a classical drawing class designed for the young child and is for children who have had little or no formal training. The emphasis is on drawing from reality, learning basic techniques, becoming acquainted with the elements of art, and experimentation with a variety of art media. Friendly, fun competitions and rewards will be used for inspiration.

Drawing for Pre-Teens and Teens will take place from 5:15-6:30 p.m. This is a drawing class designed for the student who has had some formal training and achieved a basic level of accomplishment or higher. It is a class in classical drawing technique that includes the close observation and rendering of objects from nature and the man-made world.

Floyd Martin, professor of art history, will teach Great Artists of 18th and 19th Century Europe on Tuesdays from 3-4:15 p.m. The classes will run from Sept. 10 to Nov. 19. Each class will focus on major figures of European art from the Rococo, Neoclassical, Romantic, Realist, and Impressionist periods. The cost of the course is $115, and 75 percent of the tuition will go toward scholarship funds for art and design students at UA Little Rock.

For more information, please visit the Extended Education website or call 501-569-3276.

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