March 2015 Noteworthy
Dr. Allan Ward,UALR professor emeritus and civil rights activist, was featured in a recent episode of the KUAR radio show Arts & Letters. Ward’s latest book,Civil Rights Brothers, The Journey of Albert Porter and Allan Ward, published by Award Press in Little Rock, talks about his friendship with civil rights activist Albert Porter. Read more at the College of Social Sciences and Communication »
Nickole Brown, assistant professor of English, was the March 9 featured poet on Poem-A-Day, a service from the Academy of American Poets. Brown, who was recently selected by the Arkansas Times as one of “the 15 Little Rock artists you should know,” has a new book of poems coming out in April. “Fanny Says” is available for early orders from publisher BOA Editions, LTD.
Former Donaghey Scholar Alex Leme, a UALR alumnus and former Donaghey Scholar, recently opened his new show, “Small Town: Portraits of a Disappearing America” at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center in Oklahoma City, Okla. The exhibit is open through May 2. Leme’s haunting photographs capture the mood of Cotton Plant, a once thriving small town in rural northeast Arkansas now filled with abandoned schools and crumbling buildings. Leme–a multilingual Brazilian who first came to the U.S. as a stockbroker before his acceptance into the Donaghey Scholars program at UALR–is currently pursuing graduate studies in art history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is a curatorial fellow at the UM Amherst Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2013, Leme became the first UALR Donaghey Scholar to earn the distinction of earning the prestigious Portz Prize by the National Collegiate Honors Council.