Sequoyah National Research Center

The Sequoyah National Research Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Arkansas History Commission will host a free half-day symposium from 9 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14,  at Stabler Hall, Room 107 on the UALR campus.  

Generally, art collections stick to pretty well-defined parameters. Dr. J.W. “Bill” Wiggins took a different route with his Nativity scene collection. Essentially, if he ran across something native-arts related that he liked during his travels, he bought it.

A Crystal Bridges exhibit features ceramics from the collection of J.W. Wiggins, a long-time and avid collector of contemporary Native American art.

The Bailey Alumni and Friends Center at UALR will postpone its grand reopening, which had been set for Friday, Aug. 1. A water pipe burst in the building, flooding several offices and the main banquet hall but not damaging any of the historical pieces on display. The extent of the damage to the flooded areas and infrastructure … UPDATE: Bailey Alumni & Friends Center reopening postponed

UALR’s Sequoyah National Research Center will officially open the James W. and Sallie E. Frazier Collection at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 24.

Two retired UALR professors, James “Jim” Parins, 73, and Carolyn Curry, 87, recently passed away after lengthy illnesses.

The Sequoyah National Research Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host a 30th anniversary dinner from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12 at the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion, 1800 Center St., in Little Rock.

The Sequoyah National Research Center was awarded a $20,000 grant to process and exhibit the Hirschfelder-Molin Stereotypes Collection.

Dr. James W. Parins, associate director of UALR’s Sequoyah National Research Center, has published an article in the most recent issue of Elohi – Indigenous Peoples and the Environment.

UALR’s Sequoyah National Research Center will present a lecture by author and educator Myrelene Ranville, a Canadian Anishinaabe, at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14. Her lecture will be on on “Indian Residential Schools and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.”