A new exhibit at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock will feature 10 silkscreens that were donated to the closed Alternative Museum in New York City to protest cuts in public funding. 

The exhibit, “Artist as a Catalyst,” will be on display in Gallery III on the second floor of the UA Little Rock Fine Arts Building from Oct. 10 to Nov. 10.

In response to serious cuts in public funding in 1992, 10 artists contributed silkscreens to benefit the Alternative Museum in New York City, which opened in 1975 and closed its doors in 2000.

The nonprofit museum’s primary functions were to provide a professional showcase for artists, leadership with an “artist” perspective, and an atmosphere where ideas could be presented and challenged. Commercial interests did not govern the museum’s choice of artistic presentation.

The artists represented in this exhibit address social and humanitarian issues in their imagery, which still resonate in today’s cultural landscape. The exhibit features work from Ida Applebroog, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Leon Golub, Luis Jimenez, Jerry Kearns, Komar and Melamid, Adrian Piper, Ben Sakoguchi, Andres Serrano, Lorna Simpson, and Robert Storr.

The exhibit is free and open to the public. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and closed university holidays.

For more information, contact Gallery Director Brad Cushman at 501-916-5103 or becushman@ualr.edu.

The upper right photo is Leon Golub’s 1992 seven-color serigraph “Interrogation,” which will be a part of the “Artist as a Catalyst” exhibit.