Works Spring 2018

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER SPRING 2018

Letter from the Director FY 17–18 TRUSTEES
Merritt Dyke – President
Spring is always an exciting time at the Arkansas Arts Center. Spring-break classes Van Tilbury – Vice-President
and camps are available to inject some fun into the school year while keeping the Robert Burnett – Treasurer
kids learning! Two of our most beloved and long-lived exhibitions will open in May: Dale Ronnel – Secretary
the 57th edition of Young Arkansas Artists, and the 60th Delta exhibition. Both of Todd Herman – Executive Director
these exhibitions allow us to highlight our local artistic talent—both amateur and Isabel Anthony
professional–and inspire others to pick up a brush, pencil, hunk of clay, or any Sara Hendricks Batcheller
other material from which to express themselves visually. Del Boyette
Gary Cooper
As you thumb through these pages, you will see a wide range of educational Maribeth Frazer
activities for creative thinkers of all ages. We are proud to be able to transform your Marion Fulk
memberships and financial support into interesting programs that enrich the lives of Diane Gilleland
those in our community, from established programs like Feed Your Mind Friday, Art Kaki Hockersmith
of Motion and Music, and Super Sunday Free Family Funday, to programs that have Jim Hugg
become new favorites such as our Art of Fashion series, Art Together, and Art Start!, Diane Jonsson
a reading program that includes gallery activities and an art project. Craig Lair
Ashley Merriman
In January, we opened “Becoming John Marin: Modernist at Work." This important Brenda Mize
exhibition highlights the gift of 290 drawings and watercolors donated to the Arts Patrick O’Sullivan
Center by the artist’s daughter-in-law, making the AAC the holder of the second Gordon Silaski
largest group of works by Marin in the world. The exhibition explores Marin’s Terri Snowden
process and development, as though you are looking over his shoulder as he Pat Wilson
thinks through solutions to visual problems. The exhibition does nothing short of
revolutionize how we understand the creative process of this icon of American HONORARY TRUSTEE
Modernism. We have developed additional platforms to aid in the enjoyment and Jeane Hamilton
educational layers of the exhibition including a website (www.becomingjohnmarin.
org), a catalogue with each of the 290 works reproduced and essays about John EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEES
Marin and, for the technology buffs, Beacons, that will populate your smart phone Mark Stodola, Mayor
with additional information and images about the artist and works as you move City of Little Rock
through the exhibition. Best of all, the exhibition is FREE! Joe Smith, Mayor
City of North Little Rock
Visit us often and take part in as many programs and events as you can. We are Lisa Nichols
here to build a better community and strengthen our ties to one another through Fine Arts Club
the visual arts. Emily Mitchell
Fine Arts Club
Todd A. Herman, Ph.D. Kenya Eddings
Executive Director Junior League of Little Rock
Kelly Phillips
Junior League of North
Little Rock
Catherine Robben
Contemporaries
Neil Gillespie
Friends of Contemporary Craft
Paul Bash
Docents

Arkansas Arts Center programs
are supported in part by: the City
of Little Rock; The Little Rock
Convention and Visitors Bureau;
The City of North Little Rock;
and the Arkansas Arts Council,
an agency of the Department of
Arkansas Heritage and the National
Endowment for the Arts.

NEW STAFF

Welcome
LEIGHANNE ALFORD
Donor Stewardship and Volunteer Coordinator
Leighanne was born and raised in Benton and attended Hendrix College
where she graduated with a degree in Psychology. For the last 11 years,
she has served the community through her work in development and
fundraising for local nonprofits, including Garvan Woodland Gardens,
Arkansas Foodbank, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Arkansas, and, most
recently, Arkansas Repertory Theatre. Leighanne enjoys cooking, traveling,
dancing, and most of all, laughing with her best friend and husband.

CHRISTOPHER BONE

Part Time Facilities Associate
Christopher Bone joined the Arkansas Arts Center as a part-time
facilities associate late last year. He is currently attending the
University of Central Arkansas, studying graphic design. Christopher
also draws and does illustration.

ANITA MITCHELL

Assistant Registrar for Collections
Anita earned her B.A. in Combined Studies (with honors) and her M.A.
in Art Museum and Gallery Studies from the University of Leicester in
the United Kingdom. During her studies she served as a Collections
Volunteer at the Royal Cornwall Museum, where she worked with the
institution’s works on paper collection, notably several sketchbooks
by George Romney. Later she worked as a Collections Assistant at the
Falmouth Art Gallery, where she catalogued and managed the Henry
Scott Tuke Collection, comprised of over 200 paintings, historical
documents, and records related to Tuke’s personal life, family and
models. Anita is fluent in several languages, including Romanian (native),
English, Spanish and Italian.

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NEW STAFF ADRIAN QUINTANAR

Resident Artist, Ceramics
Adrian is a full time studio potter living in Little Rock, Arkansas. While
earning a fine arts degree in photography from UALR, Adrian discovered
his passion for pottery. Since graduating, he has worked with clay as his
primary medium and joined the Arkansas Arts Center’s ceramic studio
staff. His ceramic and photographic work has been shown in fine art
galleries, featured in local news outlets including the Arkansas Times, and
commissioned by individuals and businesses including the University of
Arkansas at Little Rock and the Arkansas Arts Center.

MATTHEW ROWE

Digital Media Producer
Matt has worked as a producer and editor on videos for national and local
audiences in styles ranging from nonprofit and documentary to news and
commercial. In his video work, Matt is particularly interested in building
honest and fair personal connections between subject and viewer. Before
going freelance, Matt worked as the public information officer at the Old
State House Museum, and as a photographer and editor at TV stations
across the state.

ANGELA STROUD

Development Officer
Angela brings more than 16 years of fundraising and relationship building
experience to the Arts Center. An Arkansas native, Angela graduated from
Sylvan Hills High School and from John Brown University. Prior to joining
the AAC Staff she was a Business Development Officer for Centennial
Bank. Angela is the secretary for Little Rock Mid-Town Rotary, a sustaining
member of the North Little Rock Junior League, Treasurer for Sylvan
Hills High School Alumni Board, and is the 2018 Chair of the Little Rock
Regional Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors.

ERIK J. SWINDLE

Head of Facilities and Security, LEED GA, GCP, SCFM, CFM
Erik has previously served as Director of Business Development
with Clear Energy, Inc., leveraging energy savings to finance capital
improvements to critical equipment in facilities. Before Clear Energy,
Erik served as Director of Facilities, Services and Business Development
with Cromwell Architects Engineers, and prior to that, was Director of
Facilities Management and Global Properties for Heifer International.
His work at Heifer International led to a LEED Platinum certified facility,
which was the first in the southern region, as well as achieving a BOMA
Earth Award in 2009. Eric has served on the boards of Keep Little Rock
Beautiful, the Little Rock Sustainability Commission, the City of Little
Rock Green Operations and Energy Team, the Village Commons Center
of Environmental Justice, the Arkansas Association of Energy Engineers
and the Illuminating Engineering Society. Eric has a Bachelor of Business
Administration in Finance from Harding University.

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DON'T FORGET TO PACK YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARD!

Upgrade your membership today to the Friend level ($150), and
you will have access and discounts to hundreds of outstanding
cultural institutions across North America! As one of your Arkansas
Arts Center membership benefits at this level and above, you are
enrolled in NARM, or North American Reciprocal Museum Program.

ALL MEMBERS OF NARM RECEIVE: John Doe
• Access to more than 900 arts and cultural institutions VInadliidvitdhurual1M/1e/2m0b1e5r #55555

throughout North America, including the nearby Crystal

Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, the Brooks

in Memphis, the Frist in Nashville and the Blanton in Austin,

among others. Offerings also range from the prestigious de Young in

San Francisco to the Frick Collection in New York to the Georgia O’Keefe “I have used the reciprocal

Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. membership benefit at many

museums across the country and

• Member discounts on ticketed admissions at participating NARM institutions. have always appreciated the warm

• Member discounts on shopping at participating NARM institutions. and gracious reception at these
facilities that the NARM benefit

Make an investment in your family’s travel plans and the Arts Center has provided to me—in essence,
at the same time! Upgrade your AAC membership today by calling it has offered hometown access
Spencer Jansen, Membership Manager, at 501-396-0360 or email at to a wide network of world-class
[email protected]. facilities that I have enjoyed due to
my level of membership.”

For a complete listing of participating NARM institutions, visit: – Anthony Black
Little Rock
arkansasartscenter.org/NARM

COLLECTORS SHOW RECAP Arts Center members tour
the Windy City; Acquire
Sculpture at SOFA Fair

Members of the Collectors Group, Friends of
Contemporary Craft, and the Arkansas Arts Center
Contemporaries joined Arts Center Chief Curator Brian
Lang on a trip to the Windy City in early November.
While there, the group visited the offices of Studio Gang,
architects for the upcoming Arts Center renovation,
toured the Driehaus Museum and its superb collection
of Tiffany lamps and related Gilded Age decorative
arts, enjoyed private viewings at several commercial art
galleries, and attended the VIP-preview of the annual
Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design (SOFA) Fair,
among other highlights.
While at SOFA, Lang acquired Embrace (2017), a lathe-
turned wood sculpture by Betty Scarpino, for the Art
Center’s collection. The artist’s superb mastery of the
wood medium and her exquisite execution of line results
in a lyrical and abstract biomorphic form suggestive
of the human figure, a seed pod, or other organic
structure. Visitors to the Arts Center may view the work,
together with other examples in wood, beginning in
late-February 2018 in the newly re-installed Winthrop
Rockefeller Gallery.

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COLLECTORS SHOW RECAP

Clockwise from top left:

Arts Center members with
Chief Curator Brian Lang
in Chicago.

Arts Center members Ginanne
Long, Sarah Shell Teague,
Patricia Holifield, Priscilla
Green, and John Crow (l-r)
pose in front of the Studio
Gang-designed Aqua Tower
(in distance at center).

Embrace, a newly acquired
sculpture for the Arkansas Arts
Center Foundation Collection
by sculptor Betty Scarpino.

Sculptor Betty Scarpino poses
with Forms of Desire.

Gallery owner Tom McCormick
shares selections from his
inventory during a private
viewing for Arts Center
members.

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LECTURE & RECEPTION RECAP JoBhecnoMmainrgin
MODERNIST AT WORK

Members and guests attended a sold-out lecture on
January 25 with Dr. Ann Prentice Wagner to learn more
about the life and work of iconic American artist John
Marin. Members also enjoyed a lively reception and
preview of the exhibition, which includes 79 works from
the Arts Center’s Marin collection (the largest in the world
next to the National Gallery of Art), shown alongside 33
distinguished Marin works loaned by public and private
collections, including Crystal Bridges Museum of American
Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Philadelphia Museum
of Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Colby College Museum of Art and the
Phillips Collection, among others.
Equipped with only their smartphones, members were
connected to the life and work of John Marin through a
newly developed interactive gallery experience based on
a narrative website that treats the Arts Center's collection
of Marin works to in-depth analysis, including images from
other collections, timelines, artist stories and interactive
maps. Becoming John Marin: Modernist at Work runs
through April 22, 2018.

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LECTURE & RECEPTION RECAP

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ANATOMY OF A WORK OAFAWnaotrokmy 2

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The artistic tradition of trompe-l'oeil, French 1 The artist said in 2012:
for “fool the eye,” has fascinated viewers for “My drawings of tree branches and trunks embrace
millennia. In ancient Rome, a person might nature. I love the springtime when there are eruptive
step daintily over chicken bones thrown explosions of buds with new leaves and berries. I am
onto a dining room floor only to discover the seduced by the sensual shape and color of the buds
“trash” was an illusionistic mosaic. During the protruding from the branches. I love the firecracker
nineteenth-century, American saloon-goers explosion of the red and yellow berries of the crabapple.
might place bets as to whether the wrinkled My drawings capture a moment of this existence. I am also
dollar bill pinned to the wall behind the bar fascinated with fallen tree branches with their scarification
was real, or a painted copy. A contemporary left by diseases, infestation, decomposition and storm
viewer might not actually be fooled into damage. My drawings capture the degeneration cycle of
believing a rotting log in a frame behind glass plant materials and how they echo the living conditions of
is real, yet it is hard to believe David Morrison’s man and nature. I am interested in capturing the reality of
amazing drawings from nature are merely their existence, with all the imperfections, echoing their
color on flat pieces of paper. fragile existence in nature, not an idealized beautification
of nature like botanical illustrations.
David Morrison, American (Indianapolis,
Indiana, 1956 - ), Mushroom Log, 2016, Colored The drawings are hyper realistic: they capture minute
pencil on paper, 16 x 42 inches, Arkansas details of the subjects that I portray, but they are only
Arts Center Foundation Collection: Purchase, an illusion of the actual reality. I became obsessed with
Contemporaries Fund. 2017.045. drawing branches and tree trunks by looking at them
through magnifying glasses that allowed me to peer
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patterns. I then realized the complexity of nature and
how magnificent it is. Every time I start a new drawing the
discovery process starts anew.”

ANATOMY OF A WORK

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2 Morrison works in colored pencil, a medium often His shadows, also as in nature, are not merely grey.
associated with softly colored drawings. This artist, They have hints of color that reflect the colors in the
however, uses colors that range from soft neutral hues to world around them.
nearly black. He creates an intricate array of tones side
by side to evoke rough bark or the soft flesh of fungus on 4 Morrison’s fascinating drawings have been popular
the surfaces of his branches. Drawing in colored pencil features in the Arkansas Arts Center’s Collectors
requires working in layers, laying colors over one another Show and Sale for the last several years. They tend to
to blend them and to build up dense color. This requires sell quickly. Thanks to the generosity of the Arkansas
precise planning and control by the artist. If he draws too Arts Center Contemporaries, and the success of Fountain
heavily in early layers, the waxy medium will cover the Fest, the museum itself has finally acquired one of these
surface of the paper and become too slick for later layers riveting drawings.
to stick to it.

3 The artist says, “In the finished drawings, the 49th Annual Collectors Show and Sale, 2017, Gift of the Arkansas
branches and tree trunks are isolated on a pristine Arts Center Contemporaries
white background, devoid of all the distractions of other
plant materials. My intention is to show the beauty of a
simple flowering branch or a scarified tree trunk for the
viewer to reexamine the realities of nature.” He links
his subjects to their white backgrounds and gives them
the illusion of depth by drawing shadows on the paper.
As in nature, the farther the object casting a shadow
is from the surface where the shadow falls, the softer
is the edge of the shadow. Even the difference of an
inch or two changes the shadow’s border perceptibly.
Morrison’s drawn shadows capture this effect exactly.

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LECTURE RECAP RUSSIAN FAKES LECTURE RECAP

Arts Center patrons thoroughly enjoyed the fascinating In a recent article for ArtNews, Butterwick claims that
stories of Mr. James Butterwick, esteemed art dealer “most of the Russian avant-garde works available on the
and one of the world’s leading experts on the Russian market are fakes—ten times as many fakes as genuine
avant-garde. works.” Butterwick walked the audience through several
works of questionable provenance and the various ways
Butterwick began collecting and selling Russian art in collectors can view works with a healthy suspicion and
1985. As the market for Russian avant-garde art heated do their own research, vetting carefully for key criteria
up, so did the frequency of forgeries of such prized such as provenance, exhibition history and appropriate
artists as Goncharova, Malevich, and El Lissitzky. market value before considering an acquisition.

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JoBhecnoMmainrgin ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
MODERNIST AT WORK

Through April 22, 2018

Jeannette Edris Rockefeller and Townsend Wolfe Galleries

John Marin, American (Rutherford, New Jersey, 1870 – 1953, Cape
Split, Maine), Landscape, Ramapo Mountains, New Jersey (detail),
1942, watercolor and charcoal on textured watercolor paper, 14 3/4 x
17 1/8 in., Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection: Gift of Norma B.

Marin, New York, New York. 2013.018.139 (catalog 70)

PAUL SIGNAC DRAWINGS Forty Years of Metalpoint Drawings by Susan Schwalb
AND WATERCOLORS
Through April 29, 2018
THE JAMES T. DYKE COLLECTION
Sam Strauss Sr. and Stella Boyle Smith Galleries
Through June 3, 2018
Susan Schwalb, American (New York, New York, 1944 - ),
Signac Gallery Harmonizations #15 (detail), 2017, 18 x 18in., gold/brass/copper/

Paul Signac, French (Paris, France, 1863 - 1935, Paris, France), silver/aluminum/platinum point, black gesso on paper,
Landerneau (detail) , September 23, 1929, watercolor and graphite courtesy of Garvey | Simon, New York
on paper, 11 1/8 x 17 3/16 inches, Arkansas Arts Center Foundation
[ AAC Collection ]
Collection: Gift of James T. Dyke. 1999.065.096
ALWAYS NEW

ALWAYS FREE

Bud Latven, American (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1949 - ), Hyperboloid
Fragment in Maple, 1997, lathe-turned tiger maple, Madagascar
rosewood, and avonite, 9 x 12 x 16 inches, Arkansas Arts Center

Foundation Collection: Purchase, General Acquisition Fund. 1997.053

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SPRING BREAK CAMP

STORYTELLING ART STUDIO

(Ages 6–9)

5 Sessions: March 19–23, 2018
Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.– 5 p.m.

$212 members, $265 non-members

Use your imagination to bring characters
and settings from works of literature to life

in your own works of art! Join us on this
literature-inspired journey, creating paintings,

sculptures, collage, prints, and much more.

Tuition includes the cost of all materials plus
one free ticket to the AAC Children’s Theatre

matinee performance of Junie B. Jones is
Not a Crook on Friday, March 23. Additional

tickets (for siblings and parents) may be
purchased online or by phone.

Register online at
www.arkansasartscenter.org/spring-break-programs

Payment plans and scholarships available. For more
information, call the Museum School Office
at (501) 396-0353.

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SPRING BREAK CAMP

A FEAST FOR THE EYES

(Ages 6–9)

10 Sessions: June 4–15, 2018
Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.– 5 p.m.

Play & Display:
Friday, June 16, 6:30–8:30 p.m.

$444 members; $555 non-members

(Includes cost of all materials and one JAA t-shirt)

Now in its 22nd season, this annual summer
program provides both visual and theatrical

arts instruction. Students learn about
different artists, build skills in both theatre
and visual arts techniques and vocabulary,
make new friends, and spend two weeks

working toward Play & Display a final
performance and art exhibition.

Register online at
www.arkansasartscenter.org/JAA

Payment plans and scholarships available. For more
information, call the Museum School Office
at (501) 396-0353.

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YOUNG ARKANSAS ARTISTS 57th

May 8 – July 22, 2018 Jackson Brown, Slowly Slowly Draws the Sloth, soft pastel, crayon and
watercolor, 12 x 18 inches, Miss Selma’s Schools, 1st grade
Alice Pratt Brown Atrium and Sam Strauss Sr. Gallery
Each year, hundreds of works are submitted and juried
YOUNG ARKANSAS ARTISTS INSPIRES by a panel of professional artists, collectors and art
STUDENTS ACROSS THE STATE TO CREATE educators. Selected artworks feature a wide range of
artistic mediums and techniques, from the outpouring of
The annual Young Arkansas Artists exhibition, back youthful expression to more sophisticated works from
for its 57th year, is a celebration of both the creative higher grade levels. A chief juror will select a “Best in
achievements of young artists and the youthful Class” and two honorable mentions for each grade level.
spirits of Arkansans. Since its inception in 1961, this Monetary awards are given to each winning student’s
exhibition has provided students with the inspiration school to support art education.
to express themselves through the visual arts. The
exhibition showcases artwork by Arkansas students, Last year, 495 works in a variety of media were entered
from kindergarten through 12th grade, with the goal by 132 teachers or instructors from 124 schools. A jury of
of encouraging learning, inspiration and creative art professionals selected 104 works for the exhibition,
expression in our state’s classrooms. representing 58 schools in 27 towns

After the exhibition closes at the AAC, selections from
the exhibition travel the state, stopping in schools,
hospitals and other venues around Arkansas, including
Clinton National Airport. YAA on Tour showcases the
talent of Arkansas' youth and inspire young artists to
achieve – and perhaps exceed – the talent of their peers
in the pursuit of a lifelong relationship with the arts.

The 57th Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition is
sponsored by (at time of printing):

HoganTaylor LLP
Ces and Drew Kelso

Dale and Lee Ronnel

Awards sponsored by:

Arkansas Children's Hospital

YAA FAMILY FESTIVAL

Olive Harrington, The Phoenix, Prismacolor pencil, 11 x 14, Sequoyah Saturday, May 12, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Elementary, 4th grade 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Awards Ceremony

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March 9 – 31, 2018

Fridays 7 p.m. | Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m.
Spring Break Public Performances: March 20 - 23, 2018 at 2 p.m.

What a day for Junie B. Jones. Someone took her gorgeous new furry fur mittens, and they didn’t put them in
the lost and found box! But then she found the coolest new pen of many colors. Finders keepers, losers
weepers! Right? But wait. Does that mean finders keepers on her mittens too? And on top of all that, there’s
a dreamy new boy—let’s call him Handsome Warren—in kindergarten. Can you “finder keeper” a boyfriend?
Find out in this uproarious comedy by Allison Gregory based on the book series by Barbara Park.

By Allison Gregory | Based on the books by Barbara Park

501 East 9th Street | 501-372-4000

arkansasartscenter.org/tickets

SPRING SPONSORS: SHOW SPONSOR: MEDIA SPONSOR:

MLoagrtuhea

Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre is supported in part by: the City of Little Rock; the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau; the City of North Little
Rock; The Shubert Foundation; and the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Produced in special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (www.playscripts.com)

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April 27 – May 13, 2018

Fridays 7 p.m. | Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m.

One day, a lovable wanderer came upon a little house at the end of a long road. “Hello inside,” he called.
“Is anyone home? I’m a hungry traveler who wants food to feed his tummy.” A little woman peeked out and
smiled. Then she opened her door. Delighted, the traveler stepped inside to discover a treasure even more
precious than a pot of delicious soup: he found a friend. Earnest charm, playful imagination, and heart-warming
music are the key ingredients in this fresh, nourishing new play.

501 East 9th Street | 501-372-4000

arkansasartscenter.org/tickets

SPRING SPONSORS: SHOW SPONSOR: MEDIA SPONSOR:

MLoagrtuhea GCriengdyFealntuds

Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre is supported in part by: the City of Little Rock; the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau; the City of North Little
Rock; The Shubert Foundation; and the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Awards: UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Grand Award: $2,500
Delta Awards (2): $750 each
Contemporaries Award: $250

Showcasing artists living and working in Arkansas and The 60th Annual Delta Exhibition is sponsored
its border states, the Annual Delta Exhibition presents by (at time of printing):
a vision of contemporary art in the American South.
Founded in 1958, the exhibition provides a unique Isabel and John Ed Anthony
snapshot of the Delta region and features work in Mrs. Lisenne Rockefeller
all media. The exhibition reflects the region’s strong
traditions of craftsmanship and observation, combined Terri and Chuck Erwin
with an innovative use of materials and an experimental Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP
approach to subject matter.
AAC Contemporaries
The 60th Annual Delta Exhibition is open to all artists Barbara House
who live in or were born in one of the following states:
Arkansas; Louisiana; Mississippi; Missouri; Oklahoma; The Grand Award is supported by:
Tennessee; and Texas.
The John William Linn Endowment Fund

The exhibition is supported by the Andre Simon Memorial
Trust in memory of everyone who has died of acquired
immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Thursday, May 24 2017 Delta Grand Award Winner: Dawn Holder, born in Boston, Massachusetts, lives in
Clarksville, Arkansas, Grass Variation (Mown Path), 2015, porcelain, 60 x 60 x 2.5 inches
Reception & Preview for artists and
Arkansas Arts Center members

May 25 – August 26

Jeannette Edris Rockefeller and
Townsend Wolfe Galleries

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EDUCATION

Through an array of diverse programs, the Education
Team is dedicated to engaging a variety of audiences
in learning experiences which enhance curiosity and
interest in the arts. The education team creates and
directs a range of experiences from on-site guided
tours and museum school courses to lectures and a
mobile gallery exhibition that travels to schools and
communities across the state of Arkansas.

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JANET UCHENDU, Museum School Registrar, is a repeat EDUCATION
employee, having worked at the AAC as the Membership
Assistant from 2000 to 2004. Since 2008 she has been
assisting students with registering for a wide range
of classes in the Museum School. While music is her
first love, she appreciates the learning, inspiration and
creative expression that can be found in all the arts, and
became a docent in August 2016.

(in order of appearance, left to right) JESSICA WRIGHT, Sr. Education Specialist for Statewide
ArtsReach Programs, oversees the Artmobile, Children’s
ADRIAN QUINTANAR, Resident Artist – Ceramics, Theatre on Tour, and Traveling Exhibitions which travel
teaches clay to both adults and youth students in the throughout the school year and extend the AAC’s reach
Museum School, assists the Department Chair, and to all corners of the state. Additionally, she creates
focuses on developing a body of work in a year that educational materials for the Children’s Theatre and
demonstrates artistic growth. organizes the annual Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition.

DEANNA AHERN, Education Specialist for Onsite
Programs, manages the Docent Corps, oversees the
Art Together and Art of Motion and Music programs,
coordinates onsite school and adult tours, and assists
with educational programs.

GEORGE SPURRIER, Assistant Registrar for the Museum
School, facilitates enrollment in adult and youth Museum
School courses and acts as a liaison between students
and faculty.

KATIE COMBS, Education Specialist—Artmobile, travels BETH LAMBERT, Ceramics Department Chair, directs the
with the mobile gallery to schools and community day to day management of the Ceramics studio, which
events all around the state. She facilitates meaningful includes teaching two classes a quarter, supervising nine
conversations and teaching moments with diverse instructors, mentoring a Resident Artist, and overseeing
audiences onboard the Artmobile; she also conducts a dedicated team of work study students.
research for each exhibition and writes the accompanying
Curriculum Guide that enhances the museum experience’s
educational impact in the classroom.

ROBERT BEAN, Chair of Drawing and Painting, teaches ANDREA “ANDI” TOMPKINS, Museum School Manager,
a range of drawing classes, oversees curriculum for manages the adult classes and workshop offerings in the
drawing, painting, and printmaking offerings, and works Museum School. She develops innovative new learning
on several programs with drawing components during opportunities, supervises over 40 instructors, and
the year. coordinates the Annual Museum School Sale.

MIRANDA YOUNG, Youth and Community Engagement RANA EDGAR, Director of Education and Programs,
Manager, joined the Education Department from supervises the Education Team, develops and
the Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre where implements a full calendar of innovative public programs
she had previously been the Properties Master and and creates art education opportunities for all ages.
a Scenic Designer for 10 years. In her new role, she
develops youth courses, teaches in the studio, and Not pictured: Norma Hargraves, Librarian and Research
builds programs that encourage youth and community Assistant and Karen Chisholm, Museum School
involvement at the Arkansas Arts Center. Administrative Assistant.

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ART OF FASHION ART OF FASHION LECTURE SERIES

presented by

Photo by Merline Labisiere

BECOMING A FASHION DESIGNER:
HOW MERGING ARCHITECTURE AND
FASHION IMPACT THE WORK OF
MERLINE LABISSIERE

Merline Labissiere, a designer from the most recent
Project Runway “All Stars” Season 6 and an alum for
Project Runway Season 14, has utilized her creative
talents to establish her own fashion line and launch a
non-profit, Provoke Style Fashion Camp Corporation,
which utilizes fashion-filled curriculum to instruct
inner city youth in Miami, Florida. Labissiere holds
an Associate of Arts in architecture from Miami Dade
College and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion with a
minor in Architecture from the Savannah College of Art
and Design. She fuses her appreciation of architecture
into each of her fashion designs. Learn more at this
lecture event about her journey and her inspiration.
Thursday, March 29
5:30 p.m. Wine Reception
6 p.m. Lecture
Lower Lobby, Lecture Hall
Free for members, $10 for non-members
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ART OF FASHION

Photo by Adriana Iris Boatwright DECADES: A CENTURY OF FASHION WITH
Photo by Adriana Iris Boatwright CAMERON SILVER

In partnership with Dillard’s Park Plaza

Cameron Silver, Decades Founder & Fashion
Director of H by Halston and H Halston, is a global
celebrity stylist, international best-selling author
and fashion expert appearing regularly on Good
Morning America and CBS This Morning. Silver is
widely recognized as a fashion and style authority.

He is the founder of Decades, an acclaimed vintage
retail store in Los Angeles, and author of best-selling
book, DECADES: A Century of Fashion. He is named
one of Time magazine's "25 Most Influential Names
and Faces in Fashion," he has styled celebrities for
major red-carpet appearances, including the Golden
Globes and Academy Awards, and consulted for
fashion and luxury brands around the world.

In this event, Silver will lecture on fashion of the
20th century, decade by decade, highlighting
the timeless trends from the 1900s to 2000s and
how these style moments influence us in the 21st
century. Enjoy a fashion show and stay after the
event for H by Halston Pop-Up Shop in collaboration
with Dillard’s Park Plaza.

Saturday, April 14
10:30 a.m. Brunch Bites + Book Signing
11 a.m. Lecture
Lower Lobby, Lecture Hall
Noon – 2 p.m. Pop Up Shop
Alice Pratt Brown Atrium
Free for members, $20 for non-members

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PROGRAMS 2017 SPRING PROGRAMMING

For more information, tickets or to register for a program, call 501-372-4000
or visit arkansasartscenter.org/tickets.

MARCH Thursday, March 15
Art of Motion and Music: Traditional Movement and
Thursday, March 8 the Origins of Classical Dance
Art After Hours Join us for a talk with Ballet Arkansas’s Artistic Director,
A lecture with metalpoint artist Susan Schwalb, whose Michael Fothergill, exploring the origins of European
work is featured in A Luminous Line: Forty Years of traditional dance and its evolution to classical ballet. This
Metalpoint Drawings by Susan Schwalb. intriguing discussion highlights the unique cultural and
5:30 p.m. Wine Reception socioeconomic factors that gave rise to the evolution
6 p.m. Lecture, Lecture Hall of movement as a classical form. Demonstration and
Open until 9 p.m. costume display courtesy of Ballet Arkansas.
Free for members, $10 non-members 5:30 p.m. Wine Reception
6 p.m. Lecture
Lecture Hall
Free for members, $10 non-members

Susan Schwalb, American (New York, New York, 1944 - ), Polyphony # 8,
2013, silver/goldpoint, red gesso on Arches watercolor paper, 18 x18 inches,
courtesy of Garvey/Simon, New York

Sunday, March 11, 12 – 3 p.m.
Super Sunday Free Family Funday
Come create an abstract landscape painting.
Alice Pratt Brown Atrium
Free

Thursday, March 15, 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Michael Fothergill, Ballet Arkansas Artistic Director. Photo by JD Pittman.
Art Start!
Art Start invites parents, grandparents, and caregivers and
their toddler through preschool aged child to learn in a
museum. The program includes age-appropriate stories,
gallery play activities, and a make and take art project.
Upon arrival please check-in at the Stephens Inc.
Visitors Desk
Free

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PROGRAMS

Robert Bean, Drawing and Painting Department Chair

APRIL

John Marin, American (Rutherford, New Jersey, 1870 – 1953, Cape Friday, April 6, 12 p.m.
Split, Maine), Woolworth Building under Construction (detail), circa 1911, Feed Your Mind Friday
watercolor on paper, 19 1⁄2 x 15 7⁄16 inches (49.6 x 39.2 cm.), National Join us for a gallery talk with Robert Bean, Drawing and
Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Marin, Jr., Painting Department Chair, Museum School, to learn
1987.19.2.a, SR.13.81 more about the work of John Marin.
Tours begin at the Stephens Inc. Visitors Desk
Friday, March 16, 12 p.m. Free
Feed Your Mind Friday
Katie Hall Garner, Registrar for Collections, and Ann Prentice Sunday, April 8, 12 – 3 p.m.
Wagner, Ph.D., Curator of Drawings, will speak about the care Super Sunday Free Family Funday
and conservation of the John Marin Collection. Join us for an afternoon of drawing pictures of
Tours begin at the Stephens Inc. Visitors Desk seascapes influenced by the work of Paul Signac.
Free Alice Pratt Brown Atrium
Free

Monday, March 19, 10 a.m.
Art Together
A program for those with dementia-spectrum illnesses
and their care partners.
Call 501-372-4000 for reservations.

Thursday, March 29 Fashion Designer Merline Labissiere. Photo by Cedric Smith.
Art of Fashion: Becoming a Fashion Designer | How
Merging Architecture and Fashion Impact the Work of
Merline Labissiere
Join us for a lecture event with Merline Labissiere,
Fashion Designer, and Project Runway Season 14
contestant who will discuss her journey to becoming
a designer.
5:30 p.m. Wine Reception
6 p.m. Lecture
Lecture Hall
Free for members, $10 non-members

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PROGRAMS Thursday, April 12 Saturday, April 14
Art of Motion and Music: The Birth of Contemporary Art of Fashion Lecture: Decades: A Century of Fashion
Dance in America with Cameron Silver
Join us for a discussion with Ballet Arkansas’s Cameron Silver, Decades Founder & Fashion Director
Artistic Director, Michael Fothergill, examining the of H by Halston and H Halston, will discuss 20th
transformation of classical ballet into neoclassical, century fashion – decade by decade – highlighting
modern, and contemporary dance in America the timeless trends from the 1900s to 2000s, and how
between the years of 1930 and the present day. This these style moments influence us in the 21st century.
conversation defines the parallels and differences Enjoy a Pop-Up Shop of H by Halston in collaboration
between dance genres, and brings to light the with Dillard’s Park Plaza after the lecture.
historical catalysts that helped shape America’s 10:30 a.m. Reception
dance community. 11 a.m. Lecture
5:30 p.m. Wine Reception 12 – 2 p.m. Pop-Up Shop
6 p.m. Lecture Lecture Hall, Alice Pratt Brown Atrium
Lecture Hall Free for members, $20 non-members
Free for members, $10 non-members
Monday, April 16, 10 a.m.
Art Together
A program for those with dementia-spectrum illnesses
and their care partners.
Call 501-372-4000 for reservations.

Thursday, April 19, 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Art Start!
Art Start invites parents, grandparents, and caregivers and
their toddler through preschool aged child to learn in a
museum. The program includes age-appropriate stories,
gallery play activities, and a make and take art project.
Upon arrival please check-in at the Stephens Inc.
Visitors Desk
Free

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PROGRAMS

MAY Saturday, May 12, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
YAA Family Festival
Thursday, May 10 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Awards Ceremony
Art of Motion and Music Alice Pratt Brown Atrium
The Arkansas Harp Society invites you to enjoy Free
an inaugural evening celebrating the harp and its
music, including a chance to make music yourself! Thursday, May 17, 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Come hear the mission and story of this newly- Art Start!
formed organization, as well as the celestial Art Start invites parents, grandparents, and
sounds of local Arkansan harpists—solo and en caregivers and their toddler through preschool aged
masse. Harps of many makes and sizes will be child to learn in a museum. The program includes
present. The Arkansas Chapter of the American age-appropriate stories, gallery play activities, and a
Harp Society exists to celebrate harpists and make and take art project.
harp music in Arkansas, to inspire creativity and Upon arrival, please check-in at the Stephens Inc.
excellence through concerts and arts education, Visitors Desk
and to empower harpists of all ages to discover Free
new opportunities for community engagement
through the harp. Monday, May 21, 10 a.m.
5:30 p.m. Wine Reception Art Together
6 p.m. Lecture A program for those with dementia-spectrum illnesses
Lecture Hall and their care partners.
Free for members, $10 non-members Call 501-372-4000 for reservations.

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HONORARY &MEMORIAL GIFTS MeHmoonr&oiarlarGyifts

Gifts made between October 1 and December 31, 2017

HONORARY GIFTS In honor of Mr. and In honor of Barbara Hockersmith
Mrs. John P. Gill (Christmas) Kaki Hockersmith and
In honor of The AAC Staff Max Mehlburger
Mr. Del Boyette Mrs. Jeane M. Hamilton

In honor of Sara and In honor of Diane Gilleland In honor of Barbara Hoover
Jimmy Batcheller (Christmas) (Christmas) Ms. Pat Wilson

Mr. Del Boyette Mr. Del Boyette In honor of Abigail Howe
(Christmas)
In honor of Curt and In honor of Mrs. Jean Gordon
Chucki Bradbury (Christmas) (Christmas) Mr. Del Boyette

Cindy and Greg Feltus Mrs. Jeane M. Hamilton In honor of Mary Ellen Irons and
Scott Bowen (Christmas)
In honor of Elizabeth Brandon In honor of Mrs. Marilyn Hall Mr. Del Boyette
(Christmas) (Christmas)
In honor of Mary Sue Jacobs
Mrs. Jeane M. Hamilton Mrs. Jeane M. Hamilton Kaki Hockersmith and
Max Mehlburger
In honor of Anncha Briggs In honor of Mr. and
(Christmas) Mrs. Don F. Hamilton (Christmas) In honor of Spencer Jansen
Mrs. Dawn M. Prasifka and
Mrs. Jeane M. Hamilton Mrs. Jeane M. Hamilton
Mr. Ken Harrison
In honor of Bob and In honor of Todd Herman and
Charlotte Brown Harry Gerard (Christmas) In honor of Barbara Jarvis
Ms. Pat Wilson Mrs. Jeane M. Hamilton Ms. Scharmel Roussel

In honor of Stuart Cobb In honor of Todd Herman In honor of James and Sally Jones
Ms. Pat Wilson (Christmas) (Christmas)

In honor of Nancy Dickins Mr. Del Boyette Mr. Del Boyette
Mrs. Rebecca A. Slaven
In honor of Jay Hill (Christmas) In honor of Ann Lewis
In honor of Jerome G. Die Mrs. Jeane M. Hamilton Ms. Pat Wilson
Mrs. Jerome G. Die

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In honor of Jean Lynn (Christmas) In memory of Stacy Duckett Betsy and Cyril Hollingsworth HONORARY & MEMORIAL GIFTS
Mrs. Jeane M. Hamilton Mr. Del Boyette Dr. John and Julie Jones

In honor of Leslie Darwin O'Brien In memory of Mary Lynn Dudley Dr. Drew and Nancy Kumpuris
(Christmas) Harriet and Wilson Bynum Joanie and Austin McCaskill

Mr. Del Boyette The Honorable Betty C. Dickey Jane K. Moses
Deirdre S. Newcomb
In honor of Dr. and Mrs. Brian Quinn In memory of Judge Thomas Eisele Barrett Jones Norton

Mrs. Rebecca A. Slaven Mrs. Jeane M. Hamilton Poe Travel
Joanne H. Riddick
In honor of Belinda Shults In memory of Greg Finch Dianne and Bobby Tucker
Ms. Pat Wilson Sandra and Bob Connor Jane and Howard Turney
Justice Robert H. Dudley
In honor of Warren and Helen Porter and Jim Dyke Jane M. Wilson
Harriet Stephens (Christmas) Dianne and Bobby Tucker
In memory of Tish Miller
Cindy and Greg Feltus In memory of Floyd Fulkerson, Jr. Lucy and Paul Robinson
Harriet and Wilson Bynum
In honor of Mayor Mark Stodola In memory of James H.
(Christmas) Frances and Wayne Cranford Penick, III "Bebo"
Irene and George Davis
Mr. Del Boyette Libby and Scott Davis Mrs. William L. (Betty) Terry
Dianne and Bobby Tucker
In honor of Mrs. Julie Truemper Ira Eaker Chapter of Distinguished
(Christmas) Flying Cross Society In memory of Jackie Perkins
Melissa Broomas
Mrs. Jeane M. Hamilton Kaki Hockersmith and Max
Margaret Hatchett Mehlburger In memory of Fred Poe
Margaret Kemp
In honor of Sheila Vaught Janet and Bud Jones
(Christmas) Vaughn and Jan McQuary In memory of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles "Clay" Price
Mr. Del Boyette Jane K. Moses
Mary Lynn and Sheffield Nelson Mary Ruth Brown
In honor of Gus and Ellis Walton
Mrs. Rebecca A. Slaven Gene and Linda Pfeifer In memory of Tammy Scoggins
Nancy and Tad Phillips Carolyn Hooks
In honor of Millie Ward and
Larry Stone (Christmas) Poe Travel In memory of John James
Mr. Del Boyette Mr. Ron Robinson Truemper, Jr.
Dianne and Bobby Tucker
In honor of Jane Wilson (Christmas) Mrs. Julia C. Truemper
Mrs. Jeane M. Hamilton In memory of Hope and
Julian Gilliam In memory of Dr. Ronald William
MEMORIAL GIFTS Mary Ellen Richards
Diane and Mickey Murfee
In memory of Todd Bagwell In memory of Townsend Wolfe
Laura and Russ Curtner In memory of Marilyn McHaney Jane P. McMullin
Ms. Elizabeth G. Arnim
Fine Arts Club of Arkansas Mrs. Barbara A. Darragh 27

In memory of Cameron Bradbury Mr. and Mrs. F. Kramer Darragh, III
Debbie S. Rogers Becky and Jackson Farrow
Mrs. Jeane M. Hamilton
Helen and Fred Harrison

Hilburn, Calhoun, Harper, Pruniski,
Calhoun, Ltd.

Martha and French Hill
Mr. Jay F. Hill

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hodges

MAY 3, 2018

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