The spring semester for the three art galleries promises to be an exciting one, with exhibits ranging from prints and portraiture to painting and pottery. The galleries will also showcase student works beginning in March. Continue reading “Prints, Pottery Among 2013 Gallery Exhibits”
Aj Smith, professor of art, celebrates the faces of individuals in small towns and relatively isolated communities of the Delta in a new exhibit opening Thursday, Oct. 4, and running through Nov. 16 in Gallery II in UALR’s Fine Arts Building.
Two exhibits currently featured in the UALR art galleries deal with the idea of how the human world and the nature world intersect in artful ways.
A new exhibit documenting influence of the late Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller and his wife, Jeanette, made in the creation of the Arkansas Arts Center features text panels created by UALR Public History graduate student Andrea Ringer.
Continue reading “Scholar’s Collaboration Honors Rockefellers”
Interactive classrooms and Internet sites that add audio and video content to textbooks can make a class on Mayan art and architecture visual and life-like. But Josh Thomsen says there is nothing like the real thing.
Continue reading “Study Abroad: ‘Nothing Like the Real Thing’”
It would be entirely too easy to suggest that everyone beat the heat by stopping by the latest UALR gallery exhibit. While escaping the sweltering summer is one reason to visit the Fine Arts Building right now, it’s not the only, or best, reason.
Reason No. 1 is the visual feast on display in the “Works from the Permanent Collection.” The exhibit showcases several pieces from the 1,600-object Permanent Collection, from photographs and sketches to mixed media sculptures. Continue reading “Summer Art Exhibit Worth a Visit”
The Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council of the Department of Arkansas Heritage has awarded the UALR gallery program a $180,000 grant for the preservation of “The Struggle of the South,” a 44-feet mural painted in 1935 by Joe Jones.
UALR’s newest campus building, the Student Services Center, has its first piece of art – “Fiesta Baroque and Dantata Domine” by Dorothy Gillespie.
Continue reading “Gillespie Art Piece Installed in UALR’s Newest Building”
Visiting artist Paul Andrew Wandless will present a screen printing on clay workshop and lecture on Wednesday and Thursday, April 11 and 12, sponsored by the UALR Clay Guild and the Department of Art.
Continue reading “Screen Printing Artist to Lecture April 12”