Art

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.

UALR Friends of the Arts (FOA) will host the fundraising event “6×6 ‘at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 in the Applied Design Studio in University Plaza, Suite 300.

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.

When studying Mayan art and architecture, some students found that experiencing the real thing in the Yucatan peninsula was the best way to learn.

While escaping the sweltering summer heat is one reason to visit the Fine Arts Building right now, the best reason to stop by is the visual feast that is the “Works from the Permanent Collection.”

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.

An art installation by award-winning artist Dorothy Gillespie has found a home in the new Student Services Center.

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.