Livaudais’ Work Selected for Elevate Program at 21C Museum and Hotel

The artwork of Joli Livaudais, interim director of the School of Art and Design at UA Little Rock, has been selected for the Elevate Program at 21c program at 21c Museum Hotel Bentonville.

The Elevate at 21c program presents temporary exhibitions for artists living and working in the communities surrounding each 21c Museum Hotel property. Elevate provides hotel guests with unique access to the work of notable regional artists, while featuring their work in the context of 21c’s world-class contemporary art collection.

Livaudais’s exhibition, “All That I Love,” is currently on display at 21C Museum and Hotel. The installation includes more than 1,000 origami beetles folded from photographs. Livaudais’ beetles can be seen swarming along the walls and ceiling of 21C Museum and Hotel through April 2025.

“I am very excited to show at 21C,” Livaudais said. “I love the contemporary exhibitions there, which are always amazing, and it’s a thrill to have my work there.”

The exhibition, “All That I Love,” has had quite a successful history. It was selected as part of the sixth installment of the National Museum of Women in the Arts “Women to Watch” exhibition series in 2020. The exhibition showcased contemporary artists working in paper, celebrating their wide-ranging approaches and the transformation of this ubiquitous material into complex works of art.

Additionally, “All That I Love,” has been displayed at the Materials Hard and Soft exhibition in Denton, Texas, and in five venues across Arkansas in 2021 as part of the Arkansas Chapter of the National Museum of Women in the Arts Tour.