Annual Report - The Arkansas Arts Center

Annual Report
July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013

Table of Contents

Mission Statement……………………………………………………………………………………….……………………………3
Board of Trustees…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………….4
Arkansas Arts Center Foundation…………………………………………………………………………………….………..5
Financials………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………...6
Staff………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………….8
Attendance…………………………………………………………………………………………….………………………………..12
Exhibitions & Publications……………………………………………………..…………………………………………………13
Curatorial…………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………….16
Children’s Theatre………………………………………………………………………………………………….…………….….20
Development…………………………………………………………………………..……………………………………………...23
Membership…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….30
Museum School………………………………………………………………..……………………………………………………..32
Education & Library………………………………………………………………………….……………………………………..34
State Services…………………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………….37
Volunteers…………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………………………40
Winthrop Rockefeller Memorial Awards………………………………………………………………………………….44

Mission Statement

The Arkansas Arts Center is an art museum with a children’s theatre and a studio school.
Founded in 1960, its mission is to ensure that learning, inspiration and creative expression in
the arts flourish throughout Arkansas, for people of all ages and backgrounds. The AAC realizes
this mission by developing, preserving and exhibiting its outstanding permanent collection,
offering a rich variety of art from other collections and presenting programs for the education
and cultural benefit of the public.

Mission Statement 3

2012-2013 Board of Trustees

OFFICERS TRUSTEES EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS

Belinda Shults Janet Alley Mark Stodola
Chair Sharon Bailey Mayor, City of Little Rock
Sara Hendricks Batcheller Patrick Henry Hays**
Charlotte Bradbury Lisa Baxter Mayor, City of North Little Rock
President Charlotte Brown Joe Smith
Robert Burnett Mayor, City of North Little Rock
Bob Birch Jay Cranford* Hillis Schild
Vice President Merritt Dyke Fine Arts Club
Cindy Feltus Josie Felton
Mary Ellen Vangilder John P. Fletcher Junior League of Little Rock
Treasurer Errin Dean
Junior League of North Little Rock
W. Wilson Jones
Secretary Honorary Member

Todd Herman Jeane Hamilton
Executive Director
**Retired 12/31/12
Rush Harding

Kaki Hockersmith

Barbara Hoover

Howard Hurst

Mike Maulden

Matthew Reddin

J. Shepherd Russell

Terri Snowden

Ricardo Sotomora, MD

Van Tilbury

*Resigned 01/09/13

Board of Trustees 4

Arkansas Arts Center Foundation

The Arkansas Arts Center Foundation was incorporated on November 22, 1972, to receive, manage and
distribute the Endowment Fund, and to receive and hold in trust the permanent collection. The
Endowment supports the Arkansas Arts Center’s operating budget and provides funds for acquisitions.
The Foundation is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

2012-2013 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS DIRECTORS SPECIAL DIRECTORS

Warren Stephens Sandra M. Connor Belinda Shults
Chair Phil Cox Chair, Arkansas Arts Center
Claiborne P. Deming Board of Trustees
Ben Hussman
Vice Chair Charlotte Bradbury
President, Arkansas Arts Center
George O’Connor Robyn Horn* Board of Trustees
Treasurer Robert W. Tucker
John Tyson
Todd Herman
Secretary

James T. Dyke
Director Emeritus

*Resigned 03/02/13

2012-2013 ACQUISITION FUNDS

Collectors Group
Elizabeth Fletcher Dishongh
Charitable Trust
Herbert Blair Trust
Memorials and Honorary Gifts
Tabriz Fund

2012-2013 GIFTS TO THE ENDOWMENT

Anonymous

Arkansas Arts Center Foundation 5

Financials

Profit and Loss Statement

Budgeted Fiscal Year 2013 Actual Fiscal Year 2013

Income Expense Net Income Expense Net

Exhibitions $116,475 $587,049 ($470,574) $112,685 $576,903 ($464,218)
Special Exhibitions
Community Gallery 350,125 276,500 73,625 159,231 177,710 ($18,479)
Museum School
Museum Education 66,260 39,450 26,810 66,260 45,591 20,669
Performing Arts
State Services 585,577 519,509 66,068 482,372 443,896 38,476
Marketing
Library 4,050 107,053 (103,003) 7,430 96,955 (89,525)
Museum Shop
Administration 570,072 727,477 (157,405) 527,279 663,545 (136,266)
Facilities
Development 53,100 163,436 (110,336) 46,725 139,107 (92,382)
Fundraising Event
Volunteers 5,000 360,581 (355,581) 18,892 430,024 (411,132)

1,000 15,941 (14,941) 1,571 14,527 (12,956)

215,000 255,832 (40,832) 189,725 225,483 (35,758)

0 823,856 (823,856) 204 864,316 (864,112)

115,000 989,506 (874,506) 111,072 974,521 (863,449)

1,894,089 467,084 1,427,005 1,638,424 366,764 1,271,660

600,000 400,000 200,000 837,263 434,813 402,450

0 29,530 (29,530) 0 7,402 (7,402)

Subtotal From Operations $4,575,748 $5,762,804 ($1,187,056) $4,199,133 $5,461,557 ($1,262,424)

Other Income/Expenses: $300,000 $0 $300,000 $478,450 $0 $478,450
City of Little Rock Support 1,145,000 0 1,145,000 1,147,040 0 1,147,040
AAC Foundation Support 0 0
General Gifts 9,000 9,000 9,916 9,916
Interest Income/Expense 0 3,000 (3,000) 226 5,458 (5,232)
Lease Income 0 36,056 0 20,217
Miscellaneous Income 36,056 0 20,217 0
Depreciation 0 0 3,539 3,539
0 300,000 (300,000) 0 336,037 (336,037)
Subtotal From Other
$1,490,056 $303,000 $1,187,056 $1,659,388 $341,495 $1,317,893
Total $6,065,804 $6,065,804 $0 $5,858,521 $5,803,052 $55,469

Financials 6

Sources of Operating Revenue

Percent of Total EARNED REVENUE $1,166,828
20,961
19.9% a) Ticketed Exhibition
b) Museum School 431,595
12.9% c) Children’s Theatre 516,674
35.9% d) Other 197,598
31.3%
SALES REVENUE $756,385
0.0% 189,725
a) Museum Shop 495,638
b) Tabriz 71,022
c) Other
$2,100,854
DONOR CONTRIBUTIONS 321,583

a) Memberships 1,779,271
b) Gifts Including Sponsorships
$1,830,662
SUPPORT REVENUE 1,145,000
478,450
a) AAC Foundation
b) City of Little Rock (includes $128,450 of capital 134,050
40,000
improvements) 33,162
c) AAC Foundation Restricted
d) City of North Little Rock $3,792
e) Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau
$5,858,521
AUXILIARY GROUPS & MISCELLANEOUS

100.0% GRAND TOTAL

Financials 7

Staff Allison Benton, part-time usher

ADMINISTRATION (DECEMBER 2012)
Todd Herman, executive director
DEVELOPMENT
(JULY 2011) Kerri Daniels, director of development

Sharon Howell, executive assistant (SEPTEMBER 2011 – JANUARY 2013)

(MAY 2006) Kelly Ford, part-time director of development

BUSINESS OFFICE (MARCH 2013 – APRIL 2013)
Laine Harber, deputy director/chief financial
Kelly Ford, director of development
officer
(APRIL 2010) (APRIL 2013)

Denise Woods, human resources manager Alysia Colón, development coordinator

(FEBRUARY 1997) (JUNE 2003)

Debra Ball, part-time business office coordinator Matthew Cleveland, member services manager

(JUNE 2012) (AUGUST 2008 – JULY 2012)

Bea Plant, business office coordinator Marci Robertson, part-time associate director of

(MAY 2002) foundation relations
(JANUARY 2012)
Linda Gill, database administrator
Heather Hignite, part-time development assistant
(DECEMBER 1998)
(JANUARY 2012)
Shannon Speer, controller
Kerri Case, part-time volunteer coordinator
(JULY 2009)
(JULY 2012 – JANUARY 2013)
CHILDREN’S THEATRE
Bradley Anderson, artistic director Bret Graves, membership manager

(JULY 1979) (OCTOBER 2012)

Alan Keith Smith, associate director Jean Heslip, facility rental/events coordinator

(NOVEMBER 1984) (AUGUST 2002)

Jimi Brewi, technical director/actor INTERNS
Danny Groshong
(AUGUST 1985 – JANUARY 2013) Rachel Jeffries
Britany Simmons
Erin Larkin, costume designer EXHIBITIONS
Joseph Lampo, deputy director of programs &
(JULY 2004)
curator
Mark Hansen, resident actor (APRIL 2004 – JULY 2012)

(MAY 2007) Brian Lang, chief curator & curator of contemporary

Sinovia Mayfield, production stage manager craft
(SEPTEMBER 2012)
(AUGUST 2010 – MAY 2013)
Thom Hall, registrar
Nikki Webster, costumer/designer
(APRIL 1975)
(OCTOBER 2009)
Keith Melton, assistant registrar/preparator
Linda Carson, part-time usher
(AUGUST 1998)
(SEPTEMBER 2010 – DECEMBER 2012)
Alex Moomey, preparator/curatorial assistant
Cara Clemmons, part-time house manager
(AUGUST 2007)
(MARCH 2011 – NOVEMBER 2012)
Matthew Smith, curatorial assistant
Penelope Poppers, lighting designer/operator
(OCTOBER 2010)
(JUNE 2011)
Ann Wagner, curator of drawings
Miranda Young-Rice, prop master
(SEPTEMBER 2012)
(JUNE 2011)
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Marsha Scullark, part-time usher

(SEPTEMBER 2011)

Staff

FACILITIES Rhonda Converse, visitor services representative
John Pagan, facility manager
(OCTOBER 2011)
(FEBRUARY 1971)
Sarita Riley, part-time sales specialist
Fabian Matthews, facility associate
(AUGUST 2012 – DECEMBER 2012)
(MARCH 2001 – JULY 2012)
Grace Ramsey, part-time box office representative
Patrick Ellis, facility associate
(MARCH 2013 – MAY 2013)
(JULY 2011)
Grace Ramsey, sales specialist
Todd Hennessey, facility associate
(MAY 2013)
(AUGUST 2011 – MARCH 2013)
Cara Clemmons, part-time box office representative
Preston Noland, security supervisor
(MARCH 2013 – MARCH 2013)
(NOVEMBER 2011)
Katharine Hall, part-time box office representative
George Spurrier, part-time facility associate
(APRIL 2013)
(DECEMBER 2012 – MARCH 2013)
Sinovia Mayfield, volunteer/visitor services
George Spurrier, facility associate
coordinator
(MARCH 2013) (MAY 2013)

Christy Simpson, part-time facility associate Dee Welsh, part-time receptionist/visitor

(JUNE 2013) information
(FEBRUARY 2002)
MARKETING
Heather Haywood, deputy director of marketing LIBRARY
Heather Hignite, part-time librarian
(MARCH 2002 – SEPTEMBER 2012)
(FEBRUARY 2010 – JUNE 2013)
Lyndsay Bradshaw, marketing associate
MUSEUM EDUCATION
(SEPTEMBER 2005 – SEPTEMBER 2012) Louise Palermo, director of education

Laura Connor, marketing associate (MARCH 2009)

(OCTOBER 2009 – SEPTEMBER 2012) MUSEUM SCHOOL
Andrea Tompkins, museum school manager
Joann Sullivan, part-time receptionist/visitor
(JANUARY 2007)
information
(MARCH 1988 – AUGUST 2012) Angela Cummings, pottery department manager

VOLUNTEER/VISITOR SERVICES (JULY 2001)
Courtney Chitwood, audience services supervisor
Janet Uchendu, museum school registrar
(AUGUST 2008 – MARCH 2013)
(JUNE 2008)
Heather Canterbury, visitor services supervisor
Elle McCoy, museum school assistant registrar/
(MARCH 2013)
educator
Laurie Tippy, part-time box office ticket (APRIL 2010)

representative Jennifer Fitzhugh, artist-in-residence
(MAY 2006 – MARCH 2013)
(SEPTEMBER 2011 – NOVEMBER 2012)
Heyman Dannawi, part-time box office ticket
Ryan Sniegocki, artist-in-residence
representative
(SEPTEMBER 2010 – DECEMBER 2012) (SEPTEMBER 2012)

Arthur Smith, Jr., audience services representative FACULTY
Daran Adams, woodworking
(MARCH 2011 – JULY 2012) Gary Ahlstrom, woodworking
Selma Blackburn, painting – watercolor
Authur Smith, Jr., part-time sales associate Sharon Boyd-Struthers, children’s art
Nancy Brillos-Henderson, jewelry
(JULY 2012 - MARCH 2013) Laura Brooks, jewelry

Heather Canterbury, part-time box office ticket

representative
(SEPTEMBER 2011 – SEPTEMBER 2012)

Heather Canterbury, audience services

representative
(SEPTEMBER 2012 – MARCH 2013)

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Endia Bumgarner, painting – oil, acrylic, encaustic; Dr. Mary Ann Stafford, drawing; pastels
Celia Storey, pottery
batik Dan Thornhill, painting – acrylic, mixed media
Amber Uptigrove, children’s art
Heather Canterbury, digital photography Donna Uptigrove, pottery; children’s art
Stephen Cefalo, painting Nancy Wilson, jewelry – department chair
John Chapman, woodturning Anna Wingfield, children’s art, Junior Arts Academy
Angela Cummings, pottery – department chair Emily Wood, drawing and painting – department
Linda Danley, yoga
Mike Danley, yoga chair; drawing; painting – oil & acrylic
Amy Davenport, digital photography
Virmarie DePoyster, pastels Miranda Young, children’s art; Junior Arts
David Dodson, digital photography
Hamid Ebrahimifar, pottery Academy; printmaking (adults & children)
Kelly Edwards, pottery; glass
Dr. E. Kim Fifer, woodturning GUEST INSTRUCTORS
Gary Fults, woodworking – department chair Molly Chappell, jewelry
Cookie Golden, Junior Arts Academy Sandy Chai, jewelry
Jann Greenland, jewelry David Clemons, jewelry
Marlene Gremillion, painting – watercolor & Melissa Orsini, jewelry
Catherine Rodgers, painting
collage; jewelry
WORKSTUDY STUDENTS
Victoria Harvey, painting – oil, plein air Gary Ahlstrom, pottery
Tom Herrin, painting – watercolor James Allen, pottery
Patricia Holifield, glass – fused Nancy Conley, pottery; sculpture
Julie Holt, pottery Dain Couch, pottery
Logan Hunter, drawing; figure drawing Ryan Dunn, pottery
Burke Johnston, jewelry Wade Hankins, pottery
Kandy Jones, mosaic Judy Henderson, pottery
Jacqui Kaucher, painting – watercolor Elaine Luber, pottery
Mehreen “Lali” Khalid, digital photography Kim Lynch, glass
Denise Kimbrough, pottery; glass-fused, slumped, Barbara Middleton, pottery
Eric Milner, studio assistant
mold making Ann Spatz Nichols, pottery
Chad Oppenhuizen, pottery
Tony Klepich, jewelry Cheryl Pride, pottery
Jill Kyong-McClain, woodworking Sigrun Simons-Rank, jewelry
Beth Lambert, pottery Brandon Toney, woodworking
Fletcher Larkin, pottery Jennifer Waymack, painting
Barbara Middleton, pottery, children’s art D. Wharton, pottery
Shep Miers, woodworking
Jean Mross, pottery MUSEUM SHOP
Cindy Nahlen, children’s pottery; young adult Kim White, shop manager

pottery (NOVEMBER 2000)

Fred Nahlen, woodturning Sarita Riley, part-time sales associate
Deborah Poe, children’s art – department chair;
(JANUARY 2011 – AUGUST 2012)
Junior Arts Academy

Grace Ramsey, children’s art
Artis Selby, jewelry
Jackie Sheppard, pottery
Teresa Smith, jewelry; holiday workshop
Ryan Sniegocki, children’s pottery; Junior Arts

Academy

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Rachael Huntley, sales associate

(JUNE 2012)

Jennifer Grant, part-time sales associate

(MAY 2011 - NOVEMBER 2012)

Jaqueline Rivera, part-time sales associate

(NOVEMBER 2011 – DECEMBER 2012)

Donita “Star” Decanini, part-time sales associate

(FEBRUARY 2012 – MARCH 2013)

Bailey Crook, part-time sales associate

(MARCH 2013)

Payton Peebles-Hartford, part-time sales associate

(JUNE 2013)

STATE SERVICES
Ned Metcalf, manager

(OCTOBER 1997 – FEBRUARY 2013)

Jessica Wright, senior education specialist

(MARCH 2013)

Virgil Lawrence, artmobile specialist

(FEBRUARY 1987)

Michael Lauderdale, artmobile driver

(OCTOBER 2005)

WOODWORKING VOLUNTEERS
Mike Jones

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Attendance

Attendance* 11-12 12-13

July 20,310 17,559
August 13,704 13,979
September 18,136 16,368
October 19,146 18,971
November 15,482 17,621
December 17,975 21,881
January 15,543 18,824
February 14,803 18,259
March 23,473 23,735
April 17,107 20,252
May 30,186 25,113
June 18,133 21,559
Total Attendance 223,998 234,121

*Attendance figures include visitors to the Arkansas Arts Center including Children’s Theatre, Museum School and
Elizabeth Prewitt Taylor Library.

Arkansas Arts Center Community Gallery 11-12 12-13
At the Terry House 6,563 5,579

State Services 11-12 12-13
Artmobile 47,875 31,277
Traveling Exhibitions 238,668 242,733
Children’s Theatre on Tour 48,450 35,973

Little Rock National Airport Gallery** 11-12 12-13
23,335 Not Open
**The Little Rock National Airport Gallery was closed for 5 588,889 549,683
months in AAC FY11-12 for terminal renovations and
was not reopened in AAC FY12-13.

Total Attendance

Attendance 12

Exhibitions *Building the Collection: Art Acquired in the 2000s
Winthrop Rockefeller Gallery and Foyer
*Building the Collection: Large Drawings Acquired SEPTEMBER 7 – NOVEMBER 11, 2012
in the 1990s
Multiplicity
Alice Pratt Brown Atrium Organized by the Smithsonian American Art
FEBRUARY 17 – AUGUST 8, 2012
*Paul Signac Watercolors and Drawings: Selections Museum, Washington, D.C., with support from the
William R. Kenan, Jr., Endowment Fund. The C. F.
from the James T. Dyke Collection, Arkansas Arts Foundation in Atlanta supports the Museum’s
Center Foundation traveling exhibition program, Treasures to Go.
Paul Signac Gallery Curator: Joann Moser
Ongoing installation, revised: MARCH 6, 2012 and Jeannette Edris Rockefeller Gallery
MAY 21, 2013 SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 – JANUARY 6, 2013
*50 for Arkansas: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Collection
Boundaries of Contemporary Craft Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the
Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
Organized by the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with
Massachusetts generous support from the National Endowment
for the Arts and the Institute for Museum and
Curator: Fo Wilson Library Services
Sam Strauss, Sr., and Stella Boyle Smith Galleries Townsend Wolfe Gallery
APRIL 13 – AUGUST 5, 2012 SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 – JANUARY 6, 2013
*11th National Drawing Invitational: New York, *Art in Context: Selections from the Permanent
Collection
Singular Drawings Virginia and Ted Bailey, Jackson T. Stephens and
Guest Curator: Charlotta Kotik, Curator Emerita, Stella Boyle Smith Galleries
Ongoing installation, opened: SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York Revised: MAY 14, 2013
Jeannette Edris Rockefeller Gallery *38th Toys Designed by Artists
APRIL 20 – SEPTEMBER 9, 2012 Juror: Tim Tate, Washington Glass School, Mt.
Rainier, Maryland
*The Rockefeller Influence Winthrop Rockefeller Gallery and Foyer
Organized by the Arkansas Arts Center in NOVEMBER 21, 2012 – JANUARY 6, 2013
*44th Collectors Show and Sale
collaboration with the Winthrop Rockefeller Sam Strauss, Sr., Gallery and Alice Pratt Brown
Centennial Celebration Atrium
Winthrop Rockefeller Gallery NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 30, 2012
MAY 30 – AUGUST 19, 2012 *50 Works / 50 Weeks / 50 Years
Alice Pratt Brown Atrium
*Doodle 4 Google JANUARY 1, 2013 – JANUARY 5, 2014
Alice Pratt Brown Atrium
JUNE 2 – AUGUST 29, 2012 *Museum School Faculty: Past and Present
Sam Strauss, Sr., Gallery
Tattoo Witness: Photographs by Mark Perrot
Organized by the Westmoreland Museum of JANUARY 11 – MARCH 10, 2013

American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Townsend Wolfe Gallery
JUNE 22 – SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

*Building the Collection: Art Acquired in the 2000s
Alice Pratt Brown Atrium
AUGUST 17 – NOVEMBER 11, 2012
*Formed from Fire: American Studio Glass from the

Permanent Collection
Sam Strauss, Sr., Gallery
SEPTEMBER 4 – NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Exhibitions & Publications 13

*55th Annual Delta Exhibition Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures
Juror: Monica Bowman, Owner, The Butcher’s of Kenwood House, London

Daughter, Detroit, Michigan Organized by the American Federation of Arts and
Winthrop Rockefeller Gallery and Foyer English Heritage
JANUARY 18 – MARCH 10, 2013
Supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council
*Delta Through the Decades: Selections from the on the Arts and the Humanities, with additional
Permanent Collection funding from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Alice Pratt Brown Atrium Jeannette Edris Rockefeller and Townsend Wolfe
JANUARY 18 – MARCH 10, 2013 Galleries

Wendy Maruyama: Executive Order 9066 JUNE 7 – SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
Organized by the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston,
*Interwoven: Craft
Massachusetts Sam Strauss, Sr., Gallery
Curator: Fabio J. Fernández JUNE 18 – NOVEMBER 17, 2013
Jeannette Edris Rockefeller and Townsend Wolfe
Additionally, selections from the Arkansas Arts
Galleries Center Foundation Collection were exhibited in the
FEBRUARY 1 – APRIL 21, 2013 Jackson T. Stephens Gallery, the Winthrop
Rockefeller Gallery, the Virginia and Ted Bailey
*Relics of Rohwer: Gaman and the Art of Gallery, the Stella Boyle Smith Gallery, the Sam
Perseverance Strauss, Sr., Gallery and the Alice Pratt Brown
Atrium.
Organized by the Arkansas Arts Center in
collaboration with the Butler Center for Arkansas *Exhibitions organized by the Arkansas Arts Center
Studies/CALS and the Arkansas Center for History
and Culture/UALR All drawing exhibitions are projects of the Arkansas
Arts Center Museum of Art and the Donald W.
Jeannette Edris Rockefeller Gallery Reynolds Center for Drawing Research and
FEBRUARY 1 – APRIL 21, 2013 Education. All Arkansas Arts Center programs are
supported in part by the City of Little Rock, the Little
Edward Weston: Leaves of Grass Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau, the City of
Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston North Little Rock, and the Arkansas Arts Council, an
Curator: Karen E. Haas agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage and
Townsend Wolfe Gallery the National Endowment for the Arts.
FEBRUARY 1 – APRIL 21, 2013
*52nd Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition Publications
Sam Strauss, Sr., Gallery and Alice Pratt Brown
Will Barnet at the Arkansas Arts Center: A Centennial
Atrium Exhibition, edited by Thom Hall, with essay by Avis
MARCH 15 – APRIL 28, 2013 Berman

*Ron Meyers: A Potter’s Menagerie Arkansas Arts Center, 2011
Winthrop Rockefeller Gallery and Foyer (Exhibition catalogue)
MARCH 22 – MAY 5, 2013 38th Toys Designed by Artists
Arkansas Arts Center, 2012
*Time Travelers (Exhibition brochure)
Alice Pratt Brown Atrium 55th Annual Delta Exhibition
MAY 21 – AUGUST 4, 2013 Arkansas Arts Center, 2013
(Exhibition brochure)
Bauhaus twenty-21: An Ongoing Legacy— 52nd Annual Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition
Photographs by Gordon Watkinson Arkansas Arts Center, 2013
(Exhibition brochure)
Organized by Foto + Synthesis, Inc.
Winthrop Rockefeller Gallery and Foyer
MAY 24 – SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Exhibitions & Publications 14

Ron Meyers: A Potter’s Menagerie, edited by
Brian J. Lang, with contributions by Mary Barringer,
Rick Berman, Tony Clennel, Stephen Driver,
Emily Galusha, Brian J. Lang, George Metropoulos
McCauley, Ron Meyers and Sandi Simon

Arkansas Arts Center, 2013
(Exhibition catalogue)

Community Gallery Exhibitions

The Arkansas Arts Center maintains a gallery at the Terry House designed for community groups, artist
collectives and other organizations to have a space for exhibiting their works. The space is made
available free of charge and operates at the same day and time schedule as the Arts Center’s main
galleries.

Mid-Southern Watercolorists 42nd Annual Juried Exhibition
AUGUST 3 – SEPTEMBER 9, 2012
Arkansas Champion Trees: An Artist’s Journey
SEPTEMBER 16 – NOVEMBER 4, 2012
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHS)
NOVEMBER 16 – DECEMBER 16, 2012
Learning to See: Students of Stephen Cefalo
MAY 3 – JUNE 2, 2013

Museum School Gallery Exhibitions

Museum School Pottery Artist in Residence – Jennifer Fitzhugh
OCTOBER 5 – NOVEMBER 11, 2012
Process to Product: How the Artist Develops an Idea
FEBRUARY 7 – JUNE 23, 2013

Exhibitions & Publications 15

Curatorial Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville,
Arkansas, Abstractions on Paper: From Abstract
LOANS TO OTHER INSTITUTIONS Expressionism to Post Minimalism
Ilya Bolotowsky, Untitled from Portfolio of Four Silkscreens
Arkansas Arts Center, the Columbia Museum of Art, the in Color, 1979, silkscreen
Columbus Museum of Art, and the Denver Art Museum, James Brooks, Untitled, 1984, ink, acrylic and chalk on
in conjunction with the National Gallery of Art, arches paper
Washington, D.C., Mark Rothko in the 1940s: The Dorothy Dehner, Untitled, 1947, ink and wash on paper
Decisive Decade Elena del Rivero, Sewing Minimalism (Tablecloth),
Dorothy Dehner, Measure of Time (Virgin Island Series) 1994-1995, graphite, thread on paper
1948, ink, gouache on paper Helen Frankenthaler, Emerson Series I, 1965, acrylic on
Adolph Gottlieb, Pictograph, 1948, gouache, crayon on lithograph
paper Michael Goldberg, Untitled, 1952, oil and pencil on paper
Morris Louis, D-50, 1948, ink on paper Adolph Gottlieb, Figure Eight, 1967, lithograph
Jackson Pollock, Untitled, circa 1939-1940, pencil, pastel Al Held, Drawing #7, 1966, india ink on paper
on brown paper Donald Judd, Untitled from Suite of Sixteen Etchings, 1978,
Richard Pousette-Dart, Quartet #13, 1950, mixed media on etching
Paper Donald Judd, Untitled from Suite of Sixteen Etchings, 1978,
Max Weber, Seated Nude, about 1914, gouache on paper etching
VENUES: Ellsworth Kelly, Untitled, 1975, silkscreen
Arkansas Arts Center Lee Krasner, Primary Series, Goldstone, 1969, lithograph
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina Blanche Lazzell, Study #6 for Cubist Composition, 1924,
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio pencil on paper
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado Sol LeWitt, Untitled, 1969, ink on paper
Arkansas Governor’s Mansion Sol LeWitt, Black Gouache, 1991, gouache on paper
Adrian Brewer, William E. Woodruff, circa 1935, oil on Conrad Marca-Relli, Multiple A, 1969, silkscreen and
canvas collage on metal
Adrian Brewer, Ozark Valley in Autumn, 1925, oil on Robert Motherwell, Africa 2 from Africa Suite, 1970,
canvas lithograph
Charles Bird King, General George Izard, 1813, oil on board Sean Scully, 10.21.84, 1984, charcoal, chalk on paper
Samuel F. B. Morse, General James Miller, circa 1827, oil Carole Seborovski, Two As One, 1985, charcoal, graphite
on canvas on paper
Elizabeth Price, Iris, 1925, oil and gold leaf on board Sara Sosnowy, Black Study II, 1992, charcoal on paper
after Frederic Remington, The Scout, circa 1895, oil on Theodoros Stamos, Untitled, 1949, watercolor on paper
canvas Mark Tobey, Untitled, circa 1940, ink on calendar page
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina, A Sense Richard Tuttle, Three Europes Drop Through, #1, 1990,
of Balance: The Sculpture of Stoney Lamar pastel on paper
Stoney Lamar, All Dressed Up, circa 2003, lathe-turned Jack Tworkov, Untitled, 1962, oil on paper
madrone burl, steel, milk paint Jack Tworkov, Ch #9, 1976, charcoal on paper
VENUES: Emerson Woelffer, The Argument, 1949, tempera on paper
Arkansas Arts Center Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, Mona Lisa’s Daughters:
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina Portraits of Women from the Arkansas Arts Center
Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Cosmo John Alexander, Portrait of a Lady, circa 1750, oil
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California on canvas
Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, California Austrian School, Empress Eugenia of Austria, circa 1875, oil
Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art, David City, on canvas
Nebraska, Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism Milton Avery, March with Babushka (Head of March),
Dale Nichols, Symphonic Silence, 1965, oil on canvas 1948, etching
Dale Nichols, The Last Load, 1966, oil on canvas Peggy Bacon, Georgia O'Keeffe, circa 1930, charcoal on
VENUES: paper
Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art, David City, Nebraska William Bailey, Head, 1980, etching
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama William Bailey, Untitled (Portrait I), 1987, chine collé
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah etching

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Will Barnet, The Reader, 1979, lithograph Carroll Cloar, The Big Cypress, 1964, casein tempera on
Alexander Bogomazov, Portrait of Wanda Bogomazov, board
1915, charcoal on paper VENUES:
Robert Brawley, Young Woman Listening to Music, 1994, Arkansas Arts Center
graphite on paper Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
Byron Browne, Homage to Ingres, 1952, pencil on paper Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Chuck Close, Marta / Fingerprint, 1985, direct gravure The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, Lee Bontecou:
etching Drawn Worlds
Martha Mayer Erlebacher, Female Nude at Dressing Table, Lee Bontecou, Untitled, 1974-1975, graphite, gesso on
circa 1970, etching plastic paper
Philip Evergood, Girl in Brocade Chemise (Mrs. Joseph VENUES:
James Akston, Palm Beach, FL), 1964, ink, chalk and wash The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
on paper Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Naomi Fisher, Ladies (5/17/06), 2006, ink on vellum Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia,
Paula Gerard, The Artist as a Young Woman, circa 1947, 50 Great Americans
silverpoint on paper Jim Dine, Mauve Figure, 1978, pastel, charcoal, oil, collage
John Graham, Portrait of a Woman II, 1954, pencil on on paper
paper VENUE: Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News,
H. P. Hunt, Portrait of a Woman, 1848, oil on canvas Virginia
Nancy Lawton, Untitled (Self Portrait), 1990, graphite on Everett Shinn, Washington Square, 1940-1941, watercolor
paper on cardboard
Jan Matulka, Fanny, circa 1922, crayon on paper VENUE: Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia
Carol Mothner, Krystal, Age 19, 2006, graphite, acrylic, egg UALR – University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Gallery I,
tempera on board Poetic Transformations
Northern Italian School, Mary Magdalene, circa 1575, oil Alice Leora Briggs, Conduit, 2002, incised clayboard
on canvas Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara,
Paul Otero, Her Waiting: Edda's Voice, 1991, graphite on California, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: Highlights from
paper the Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree Collection in Context
Monique Passicot, Moonlight, 1994, color pencil, graphite Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Vue de Paris prise d'Arcueil
on paper (View of Paris from the North-East), circa 1830-1835,
Mario Robinson, Study for "Ocean County Schoolhouse," graphite, watercolor and gouache(?)
2004, charcoal on paper
Norman Rockwell, Pair of Clasped Hands, an Eye, and the ACQUISITIONS
Head of an Elderly Lady, 1960, charcoal on paper
Nora Speyer, Untitled (Female Figure), 1980, compressed PURCHASES
charcoal on paper (artist, title, date, medium, designated fund)
Mark Tobey, Portrait of a Woman, 1918, pastel on paper Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Vue de Paris prise d'Arcueil
Joyce Treiman, Rose III, 1985, charcoal on paper (View of Paris from the North-East), circa 1830-1835,
John Wilson, Angry Woman (Study for Mural "Incident" at graphite, watercolor and gouache(?), pencil on paper,
Coyoacán, Mexico), 1952, charcoal on paper Tabriz Fund and Collectors Group Fund
Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, Treasures of John Himmelfarb, Dos Guise, 1989, brush, ink on paper,
Arkansas Freemasons: 1823-2012 purchased with a gift from Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in
Unknown, Chess Set (30 Pieces from the Set Used by honor of Kay and Bill Patton
Samuel H. Hempstead and Albert Pike), circa 19th
century, bone
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee,
The Crossroads of Memory: Carroll Cloar and the
American South
Organized by the Arkansas Arts Center and the Memphis
Brooks Museum of Art
Carroll Cloar, Moonstricken Girls, 1968, acrylic on board
Carroll Cloar, Orchard Moribund, 1956, casein tempera on
board
Carroll Cloar, Orchard Renascent, 1956, casein tempera on
board

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GIFTS Charles Burchfield, Study for Black Iron, 1935, crayon on
paper mounted to board, gift of Hope Aldrich, in memory
(artist, title, date, medium, donor) of her father, John D. Rockefeller 3rd
Paul Cadmus, Self-Portrait: Study for Haircut, 1986,
Barbara Adrian, Self-Portrait in Mirror, 1978, egg tempera, graphite, brown pencil on tracing paper, gift of Jackye
pencil on paper, gift of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in and Curtis Finch, Jr., in honor of Jane McGehee Wilson
memory of Virginia Bailey Camark Pottery (John B. Lessell, designer), Candlestick
Bill Amundson, Calf Rancher with Big Bolo, April 2001, with Tree Decoration, circa 1926, molded porcelain with
graphite on paper, gift of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in blue-gray luster glaze, gift of Drs. Kirk and Rosanne
honor of Tad Phillips Steehler, Erie, Pennsylvania
François Bard, Garder, 2002, charcoal, red paint on paper, Camark Pottery, Vase, circa 1926, molded earthenware
gift of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in memory of Bob with dark green mottled glaze, gift of Drs. Kirk and
Hickman Rosanne Steehler, Erie, Pennsylvania
François Bard, Untitled, 2002, charcoal on paper, gift of Camark Pottery, Vase (Castle Series), circa 1930, molded
Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in honor of Anne Hickman earthenware with hand painted decoration, gift of
Thomas Hart Benton, Clay County Farm, 1971, oil on Drs. Kirk and Rosanne Steehler, Erie, Pennsylvania
canvas, bequest from the estates of Louise and Fred Camark Pottery (John B. Lessell, designer), Vase with Tree
Dierks Decoration, circa 1926, molded earthenware with dark
Thomas Hart Benton, Carrying Cotton, circa 1945, graphite red and black luster glaze, gift of Drs. Kirk and Rosanne
on thin wove paper, bequest from the estates of Louise Steehler, Erie, Pennsylvania
and Fred Dierks Camark Pottery (John B. Lessell, designer), Wall Pocket
Thomas Hart Benton, Jagendorf & Joe Stella, circa 1940s, with Tree Decoration, circa 1926, molded earthenware
graphite on thin wove paper, bequest from the estates of with blue-gray and tan luster glaze, gift of Drs. Kirk and
Louise and Fred Dierks Rosanne Steehler, Erie, Pennsylvania
Thomas Hart Benton, Sorghum Mill, 1969, lithograph, Clarence Holbrook Carter, Untitled, 1941, watercolor,
bequest from the estates of Louise and Fred Dierks brush and pen and ink on paper, gift of Jackye and Curtis
Alfred Thompson Bricher, Cape Elizabeth, undated – circa Finch, Jr., in memory of Bob Shults
1880s to 1890s, ink wash on paper, gift of Ruth Pasquine Warren Criswell, Franz Liszt at the Piano, 2001, pencil,
George Elmer Browne, Paris Street, 1893, oil on wood watercolor on paper, gift of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in
panel, gift of Ruth Pasquine memory of Manolo Agullo
Charles Burchfield, Black Iron, 1935, watercolor on paper, Béla Czóbel, Portrait of a Lady, n.d., pencil and conté on
gift of Hope Aldrich, in memory of her father, John D. paper, gift of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in memory of
Rockefeller 3rd Raida Pfeifer
Charles Burchfield, Study for Black Iron, 1935, crayon on John Digby, Untitled from Beside Themselves, mid 1990s,
paper mounted to board, gift of Hope Aldrich, in memory collage on paper, gift of Mark Freeman, Encinitas,
of her father, John D. Rockefeller 3rd California
Charles Burchfield, Study for Black Iron, 1935, crayon on
paper mounted to board, gift of Hope Aldrich, in memory John Digby, Untitled from Beside Themselves, mid 1990s,
of her father, John D. Rockefeller 3rd collage on paper, gift of Mark Freeman, Encinitas,
Charles Burchfield, Study for Black Iron, 1935, crayon on California
paper mounted to board, gift of Hope Aldrich, in memory
of her father, John D. Rockefeller 3rd John Digby, Untitled from Beside Themselves, mid 1990s,
Charles Burchfield, Study for Black Iron, 1935, crayon on collage on paper, gift of Mark Freeman, Encinitas,
paper mounted to board, gift of Hope Aldrich, in memory California
of her father, John D. Rockefeller 3rd
Charles Burchfield, Study for Black Iron, 1935, crayon on Fraunfelter China Company (John B. Lessell, designer)
paper mounted to board, gift of Hope Aldrich, in memory Camark Pottery, retailer, Bowl with Tree Decoration, circa
of her father, John D. Rockefeller 3rd 1926, molded porcelain with blue-gray luster glaze, gift of
Charles Burchfield, Study for Black Iron, 1935, crayon on Drs. Kirk and Rosanne Steehler, Erie, Pennsylvania
paper mounted to board, gift of Hope Aldrich, in memory
of her father, John D. Rockefeller 3rd

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Milton Hebald, Self-Portrait, 1977, ink, white ink wash on Warren MacKenzie, Tall Faceted Yellow Vessel with Cover,
tan paper, gift of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in honor of 2012, glazed stoneware, gift of Katherine D. Rines,
Ben Hussman Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Barbara Hepworth, Genesis II, 1966, oil, graphite on Warren MacKenzie, Yellow Yunomi, 2012, glazed
masonite, bequest from the estates of Louise and Fred stoneware, gift of Katherine D. Rines, Bloomfield Hills,
Dierks Michigan
Barbara Hepworth, Two Heads (Christmas), 1970, white China Marks, Life in Ancient China (Self-Portrait), 2006,
polished marble, bequest from the estates of Louise and black ink, white paint, collage on printed brown rice
Fred Dierks paper, laid down to paper, gift of Jackye and Curtis
Edgar Jerins, Self-Portrait, July 2003, charcoal on paper, Finch, Jr., in honor of Sandy and Dan Phillips
gift of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in honor of Robyn and Robert N. McCauley, Old Friends, 2, 1987, oil pastel on
John Horn paper, gift of Ruth Pasquine
Alex Katz, Self-Portrait, 1965, ball point pen, blue ink on Kenichi Nagakura, Song, 2004, madake (bamboo), gift of
wove paper, gift of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in honor Edmond and June Freeman
of Sandra and Bob Connor Georgia O'Keeffe, From Pink Shell, 1931, pastel on paper
Ron Kent, Untitled (1997-01) from Floating Bowl Series, laid down to board, bequest from the estates of Louise
1997, lathe-turned Norfolk Island Pine, gift of Ruth H. and and Fred Dierks
David M. Waterbury, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in honor Robert Patierno, Abandoned Orchard, Winter, 2009-2010,
of Robyn and John Horn black chalk on Rives BFK paper, gift of the artist,
Alfred Leslie, Self-Portrait, circa 1982, graphite on paper, Manchester, Pennsylvania
gift of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in honor of Harriet and Robert Patierno, Saint Joseph, 2011, varnished black chalk,
Warren Stephens heightened with white acrylic, on Rives BFK paper, gift of
Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Self-Portrait, n.d., pencil, red the artist, Manchester, Pennsylvania
felt-tip pen on paper, gift of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in Hugó Scheiber, Self-Portrait, n.d., pastel on tan paper, gift
honor of Jeane Hamilton of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in honor of Don Munro
Rodger Allen Mack, Euclid's Dream, circa 1973, bronze, Raphael Soyer, Self-Portrait, n.d., pencil on tracing paper,
bequest from the estates of Louise and Fred Dierks gift of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in memory of Missy
Rodger Allen Mack, Sorcerer's Mirror, circa 1973, bronze, Wright Anderson
bequest from the estates of Louise and Fred Dierks Daniel Sprick, Self-Portrait, 2002, charcoal on paper, gift of
Warren MacKenzie, Dark Green Bowl with a Band in Relief Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in honor of Mary Lynn Dudley
around the Circumference, 2012, glazed stoneware, gift of Vladimir Szabó, Marriage Scene, 1966, pencil on paper, gift
Katherine D. Rines, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in memory of Robert
Warren MacKenzie, Faceted Teapot with Bamboo Handle, Chowning
2012, glazed stoneware, gift of Katherine D. Rines, Harold Tovish, Light Study, 1971, ink on paper, gift of
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in memory of Sandy Besser
Warren MacKenzie, Faceted Yellow Bowl, 2012, glazed Jeff Whipple, Long Time, No See, 2004, graphite on paper,
stoneware, gift of Katherine D. Rines, Bloomfield Hills, gift of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., in honor of Chucki and
Michigan Curt Bradbury
Warren MacKenzie, Matt Gray Yunomi with Calligraphic
Design and Blue-Green Spots, 2012, glazed stoneware,
gift of Katherine D. Rines, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Warren MacKenzie, Shino Glazed Yunomi, 2012, glazed
stoneware, gift of Katherine D. Rines, Bloomfield Hills,
Michigan

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Children’s Theatre

The Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre exists to provide high quality theatre experiences for young
people and their families. Each year, Children’s Theatre produces well-loved contemporary stories and
classic tales for the stage. The Children’s Theatre presented six Main Stage productions and three
touring productions.

2012-13 PRODUCTIONS PUBLIC SHOWS ATTENDANCE SCHOOL SHOWS ATTENDANCE

Madeline and the Gypsies 9 2,480 7 1,734

Bunnicula 10 1,948 9 2,705

City Mouse, Country Mouse, 12 2,973 17 5,694
Christmas House
9 2,735 18 6,037
The Three Little Pigs and Three 13 3,275 14 4,234
Billy Goats Gruff 10 2,672 19 6,337
63 16,083 84 26,741
The Princess and the Pea

James and the Giant Peach
Subtotal
Total Attendance: 42,824

Children’s Theatre offers school matinee performances to all Main Stage productions with subsidized
ticket prices for any size school group. School Matinees run throughout the school year. Children’s
Theatre served the following schools during 2012-2013:

34th Avenue School Beverly Lester Homeschool Central Elementary School
Academics Plus Charter Bigelow ABC Preschool CHEC Homeschool
ACCESS Schools Bismarck Elementary Chef School
Adkins Preschool Booker Arts Magnet Elementary Chenal Elementary
Agape Academy Brady Elementary Chicot Elementary
Amboy Elementary Bryant Elementary Child Development Center
Ann Watson Elementary Cabot Area Home Educators Children's Corner Preschool
Arkansas Baptist Elementary Caddo Hills Elementary Children's House Montessori
Arkansas School for the Blind Calvary Academy Christ Lutheran
Arnold Drive Elementary Capital City Christian Academy Christ the King Catholic School
Atkins Elementary Carlisle Elementary Clarendon Public Schools
Badger Elementary Carver Magnet Elementary CLUB Monday Homeschool Group
Baker Elementary Cash Home School Coleman Intermediate
Bale Elementary Center Valley Elementary Colleen Gillespie Homeschool
Batesville School District Centerpoint Primary College Station Elementary
Bayou Meto Elementary Central Arkansas Christian Comm. Central
Beebe Elementary Central Arkansas Homeschoolers Cowsert Elementary

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Crystal Hill Elementary Julie Osborn Homeschool Pottsville Elementary School
Curtis Lassiter Homeschool Kareer Kids Pottsville Junior High
Cutter Morning Star Kim Brown Homeschool Pottsville Middle School
Daisy Bates Elementary Kristi McFarland Homeschool Pulaski County Special School
David O. Dodd Elementary Lake Hamilton Primary District
Davis Elementary Lakeside Intermediate Pulaski Heights Elementary
Des Arc Elementary Lakewood Elementary Pyron Elementary
Dierks Elementary School Lawson Elementary REACH Homeschool
Don Roberts Elementary Leigh Anne Braswell Homeschool Redwood Early Childhood Center
East End Elementary Lisa Bailey Homeschool Retired Senior Volunteer Program
Easter Seals Arkansas Lisa Hardman Homeschool of Central Arkansas
Eastside Elementary Little Life Academy Robinson Elementary
Edgewood Elementary Little Rock Montessori Rockefeller Incentive Elementary
El Dorado Gifted and Talented Little Treasures Learning Academy Romine Elementary
Program London Elementary Rose Bud Elementary
Ellen Smith Elementary Lonoke Primary Saline County Home School
England Elementary LRSD Homeless Education Program Scott Elementary
Episcopal Collegiate School Lynch Drive Elementary Searcy MacRae Elementary
Estem Public Charter School Magness Creek Elementary Sequoyah Elementary
First Baptist Weekday Preschool Magnet Cove Elementary Seventh Street Elementary
Florence Mattison Elementary Malvern Elementary School Sharon Pearcy Homeschool
Forest Heights Middle School Malvern Home School Group Sherwood Elementary
Forest Park Elementary Martin Luther King Elementary Sidney Deener Elementary
Fountain Lake Elementary Maumelle Mommy and Me Sims Homeschool
Fulbright Elementary Mayflower Elementary Smackover Schools
Fuller Middle School Mayflower High School Southside Bee Branch Elementary
Furnell Homeschool Group McDermott Elementary Southside Middle School
Gandy Elementary McGilvray Homeschool St. John Catholic School
Glen Rose Elementary Meadowcliff Elementary Stephens Elementary
Gore Family Daycare Methodist Day Treatment Sylvan Hills Elementary
Grace Lutheran Preschool Miss Selma's School Taylor Elementary
Greenbrier Eastside Elementary Morin Homeschool Terry Elementary
Greenbrier Westside Elementary Morrilton Elementary The Academy at Riverdale
Hardin Elementary Mount Vernon Enola Elementary The Anthony School
Harmony Grove Elementary Mountain Springs Elementary The Group School
Harmony Grove Middle School Murrell Taylor Elementary Theodore Jones Elementary
Harris Elementary Nemo Vista Elementary Timber Ridge Ranch
Hayes Homeschool New Life Christian Academy Tolleson Elementary
Hazen Elementary Newport Elementary Tonya Reck Homeschool
Heart Homeschool North Heights Elementary Touch of Salt Co-Op
Heber Springs Elementary North Little Rock Montessori UAMS MLK Headstart
Heber Springs High School Northside Elementary UCA Child Study Center
Hill Farm Elementary Oak Grove Elementary Valerie Berry Homeschool
Hope Lutheran Church Oakbrooke Elementary Victory Baptist School
Hot Springs Homeschoolers Oaklawn Visual & Performing Arts Vilonia Elementary
Howard Perrin Elementary Magnet Vilonia Primary
Huda Academy Ouachita River School District-Oden Wakefield Elementary
Hurricane Creek Elementary Campus Ward Central Elementary
Immaculate Conception School Our Lady of Fatima School Washington Magnet
In His Image ABC Park Hill Elementary Watson Chapel Elementary
Jacksonville Middle School Park Magnet School Westside Elementary
Jefferson Elementary Parkview Magnet High School White Hall Elementary
Jennifer Chosisch Homeschool Pere Homeschool Whitney Family Home School
Jolly Time Preschool Perryville Elementary Wilson Elementary
Judith Brown Homeschool Pine Forest Elementary School Woodlawn Elementary
Judsonia Elementary Pine Haven Elementary Woodrow Cummins Elementary
Julia Lee Moore Elementary Pinewood Elementary Wooster Elementary

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Educational Theatre Programs

2012-2013 Summer Theatre Academy enrollment – 110
Children’s Theatre conducted lecture demonstrations at the Arkansas Arts Center – 26,400 students participated.

Fall Quarter 2012 NUMBER OF EVENTS TOTAL PARTICIPANTS

Theatre/Children’s Classes 3 36
6 45
Winter Quarter 2013 3 26
0 0
Theatre/Children’s Classes

Spring Quarter 2013

Theatre/Children’s Classes

Summer Quarter 2013

Theatre/Children’s Classes

TOTAL 12 107

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Development

Arkansas Arts Center “Circles” consist of individual, corporate and foundation members with an exemplary commitment to the
arts. Generous annual contributions ensure that learning, inspiration and creative expression in the arts flourish throughout
Arkansas, for people of all ages and backgrounds.

Anonymous ROCKEFELLER SOCIETY
The Bailey Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Rush F. Harding, III
Bank of America The Reverend Canon and Mrs. Christoph Keller, III
Bank of the Ozarks Landers FIAT of Benton
Mr. and Mrs. Curt Bradbury, Jr. Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston Moon Distributors Inc.
Horace C. Cabe Foundation Murphy Oil Corporation
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Connor Mrs. Lisenne Rockefeller
Remmel T. Dickinson Harriet and Warren Stephens, Stephens Inc.
Dillard’s, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Warren A. Stephens
Walton Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Alley PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE
Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield Fine Arts Club of Arkansas
Arkansas Community Foundation, Inc. Friday, Eldredge & Clark
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Bova JPMS Cox, PLLC
Cache Restaurant Mr. and Mrs. Larry Middleton
Centennial Bank National Park Service
CWP Productions Stella Boyle Smith Trust
Justice and Mrs. Robert H. Dudley Tipton & Hurst
Entergy Arkansas, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Tucker
Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Erwin, III U.S. Bank
Windstream Corporation

Arkansas Business Publishing Group DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE
Arkansas Children’s Hospital Little Rock Family
Sara and James Batcheller Martha Logue
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Baxter Metropolitan National Bank
Mrs. Pat C. Booth Ms. Brenda K. Mize
Betty M. Brown Mr. and Mrs. William A. Montgomery
The Honorable Robert L. and Charlotte B. Brown Munro Foundation
Capital Hotel Sarah and Walter Nunnelly
Crews & Associates, Inc. Plum Creek Foundation
Cromwell Architects Engineers Mr. Hugh Pollard and Dr. Amy Pollard
Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Dearnley Helen Porter and James T. Dyke
Mr. and Mrs. Merritt P. Dyke Mr. and Mrs. Walter Quinn, III
East-Harding Construction Rebsamen Fund
Mr. and Mrs. R. Greg Feltus Rose Law Firm
Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr. Belinda Shults
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Fletcher Mr. and Mrs. David E. Snowden, Jr.
Mrs. Anne Hickman Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo Sotomora
Kaki Hockersmith and Max Mehlburger Mr. and Mrs. Van Tilbury
Mrs. Barbara Rogers Hoover Deborah Dunklin Tipton
Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Hussman, Jr. Union Pacific Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Keith Brooks and Townsend Wolfe
LEXICON, Inc. W. W. and Anne Jones Charitable Trust

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CURATOR’S CIRCLE
Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. George R. O’Connor
Batson Inc. Engineering Solutions Dr. James and Eva Pappas
Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. William L. Patton
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chandler Riggs Benevolent Fund
Christie’s, Inc. Target
Crow-Burlingame Company/Bumper to Bumper Auto The Arkansas Chapter of the American Institute
Parts Store of Architects
Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas Thomas & Thomas, LLP
Mr. and Mrs. Edmond W. Freeman, III Mr. Don Tilton
Marion Fulk and Jeff Rosenzweig Dr. and Mrs. R. Stephen Tucker
Mr. Tim Jordan Ms. Pat Wilson
Ms. Ginanne G. Long

Dr. Lee Abel and Dr. Eleanor Kennedy MUSEUM CIRCLE
The Honorable and Mrs. Edwin Alderson Drs. Kimberly and William Golden
Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation Dr. Mary L. Good
Arkansas Federal Credit Union Greg Thompson Fine Art
Delaney T. Bagwell Mrs. Julianne D. Grundfest
Mr. and Mrs. John Bailey Mrs. Jeane M. Hamilton
Mr. and Mrs. Terry R. Bean Mr. Laine Harber
BKD, LLP Mr. and Mrs. Max W. Harris
Mr. and Mrs. Shell Blakely Dr. and Mrs. J. Charles Henry
Mr. and Mrs. Gary M. Blakney Dr. Todd Herman and Harry Gerard
Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Blank, Jr. Ms. Barbara M. House
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bodenhamer Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Hurst, Jr.
Mr. Kyle Boswell and Dr. Jon Mourot The Janet Jones Company
Mr. and Mrs. Larry W. Bowden Sue and Lynn Jenkins
Mr. Del Boyette Dr. and Mrs. Gerald K. Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Braunfisch Mr. and Mrs. Jim D. Johnson
Brent Stevenson Associates Mrs. Frank G. Kumpuris
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Brockinton Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Marshall
Ms. Nancy Brusenhan Mr. Jesse Mason, Jr. and Dr. Gail Reede Jones
Robert and Vicki Burnett Mr. and Mrs. Hugh T. McDonald
Dr. Bettye M. Caldwell Mr. and Mrs. Bob McKuin
Mr. and Mrs. Leon B. Catlett, II Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. McLarty, III
Chevron Humankind Program Mr. Allan E. Meadors
Gertrude Clark Rickey Medlock and Scott Heffington
Mrs. Stuart Cobb Dr. and Mrs. Steve Metzer
Ms. Sandra L. Collet Mid-Southern Watercolorists
Mr. and Mrs. John Cone Mr. Carl H. Miller, Jr.
Susan D. Conley, M.D. Mrs. Anne Bradford Mourning
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Copeland Mrs. Theodosia Nolan
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin A. Crass Briant and Ellis Noland
Mr. and Mrs. William L. Cravens Robin Orsi
D & B Janitorial Service Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O’Sullivan
Kerri and John Daniels Heather and John Pagan
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Davis Cheryl M. Payne
Delta Dental of Arkansas, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. A. Dan Phillips
Mr. and Mrs. Haskell Dickinson Nancy and Tad Phillips
EGP, PLLC Poe Travel
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Emerson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Terry Pollock
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Faulkner Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Porter, Jr.
First Security Leasing, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Powers
Rick Fleetwood Marty and Tricia Rhodes
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Fletcher Dr. and Mrs. Porter R. Rodgers, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Augustus M. Fulk Mr. and Mrs. E. Lee Ronnel
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Scanlon

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Drs. Joanna and Robert Seibert Mr. and Mrs. William L. Terry
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Selig Dr. and Mrs. A. Henry Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. Shearon Rebecca and Reed Thompson
Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Smith Mr. and Mrs. John C. Wade
Martha and Bob Snider West Tree Service, Inc.
Sol Alman Company Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Whiteside, III
Martha N. Sowell Mrs. Jane M. Wilson
Mr. and Mrs. Gray Standridge Mr. and Mrs. James C. Wohlleb
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Steuri Mr. and Mrs. James T. Womble
Stone Ward Mr. and Mrs. Don A. Zimmerman
Strauss McCaskill Foundation

Sponsorship and Program Support

EXHIBITIONS CHILDREN’S THEATRE
Janet and Sam Alley AAC Children’s Theatre Guild
Anonymous Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield
The Arkansas Chapter of the American Institute Blue Bell Creameries, L.P.
of Architects Fine Arts Club of Arkansas
Bank of the Ozarks JPMS Cox, PLLC
Barbara and Steve Bova Landers FIAT of Benton
Chucki and Curt Bradbury Little Rock Family
Brent Stevenson Associates Martha Logue
The Honorable Robert L. and Charlotte B. Brown Rebsamen Fund
Sandra and Bob Connor Target
Cromwell Architects Engineers STATE SERVICES
Maggie and Dick Dearnley Arkansas Community Foundation
Remmel T. Dickinson Bank of America
Terri and Chuck Erwin The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston
Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr. Centennial Bank
Marion Fulk and Jeff Rosenzweig Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas
Barbara Rogers Hoover Horace C. Cabe Foundation
The John William Linn Endowment Fund Plum Creek Foundation
Metropolitan National Bank Union Pacific Foundation
Brenda Mize SPECIAL PROJECTS
Munro Foundation Arkansas Children’s Hospital
National Park Service Coulson Oil Company, Inc.
Lisenne Rockefeller Charlotte Eyerman
Belinda Shults TABRIZ
Andre Simon Memorial Trust Janet and Sam Alley
Rebecca and Gary Smith Bank of the Ozarks
Harriet and Warren Stephens, Stephens Inc. The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston
Dianne and Bobby Tucker Cache Restaurant
U.S. Bank Crews & Associates, Inc.
MUSEUM SCHOOL, EDUCATION & COMMUNITY CWP Productions
OUTREACH Dillard’s, Inc.
Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. East-Harding Construction
Cindy and Greg Feltus Entergy Arkansas, Inc.
Fine Arts Club of Arkansas LEXICON, Inc. / Schueck Steel
The Dorothea Lawrence Gilbert Fund for Art Enrichment

and Outreach
Mr. and Mrs. Bob McKuin
Rebsamen Fund
Thomas & Thomas, LLP

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Moon Distributors Inc.
Murphy Oil Corporation
Rose Law Firm
Stella Boyle Smith Trust
Harriet and Warren Stephens, Stephens Inc.
Windstream Corporation

GENERAL SUPPORT Dr. and Mrs. R. Stephen Tucker
Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Anderson Walton Family Foundation
Anonymous Pat Wilson
Arkansas Business Publishing Group Brooks and Townsend Wolfe
The Bailey Foundation W. W. and Anne Jones Charitable Trust
Sara and James Batcheller IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Baxter Gary Ahlstrom
Mrs. Pat C. Booth Arkansas Business Publishing Group
Betty M. Brown Barry Friedman Ltd.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chandler Batson Inc. Engineering Solutions
Crow-Burlingame Company / Bumper to Bumper Auto Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blair
Blue Bell Creameries, L.P.
Parts Stores Sharon Boyd-Struthers
Justice and Mrs. Robert H. Dudley Mrs. Diana Bratton
Mr. and Mrs. Merritt P. Dyke Capital Hotel
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Fletcher Christie’s, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Edmond W. Freeman, III Jennifer Coleman
Friday, Eldredge & Clark Confetti’s Party Rental
Marion Fulk and Jeff Rosenzweig Ms. Annette A. Costa
Mr. and Mrs. Rush F. Harding, III Cathy Crass
Mrs. Anne Hickman CWP Productions
Kaki Hockersmith and Max Mehlburger Lois Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Hussman, Jr. David Dodson
Mr. Tim Jordan Nancy Green
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Keith Jann Greenland
The Reverend Canon and Mrs. Christoph Keller, III Little Rock Family
Ms. Ginanne G. Long Barbara Middleton
Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Middleton
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Montgomery Moon Distributors Inc.
Moon Distributors Inc. Heather and John Pagan
Murphy Oil Corporation Deborah Poe
Sarah and Walter Nunnelly Cheryl Pride
Mr. and Mrs. George R. O’Connor Susan Rice
Dr. James and Eva Pappas Catherine Rodgers
Mr. and Mrs. William L. Patton Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. Shearon
Helen Porter and Jim Dyke Sigrun Simons-Rank
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Quinn, III Ryan Sniegocki
Riggs Benevolent Fund Sugar Shack Sweets
Mr. and Mrs. David E. Snowden, Jr. Tipton & Hurst
Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo F. Sotomora D. Wharton
Mr. and Mrs. Warren A. Stephens Mr. Gordon Wittenberg
Stone Ward Miranda Young
Mr. and Mrs. Van Tilbury
Mr. Don A. Tilton
Deborah Dunklin Tipton

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.

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Memorials and Honorary Gifts

MEMORIALS

KATHRINE ALBANESE MACKIE HAMILTON
Heather and John Pagan Chuck and Kay Cook

ROSEMARY “MISSY” WRIGHT ANDERSON JOHN FORREST HENRY, JR.
Mr. and Mrs. Haynes Whitney Doris WmSon Mapes

BEN AUBURN PATRICIA P. HILL
David Andrew Auburn Linda and William D. Brown
Lucretia Latta-Tyckoski DR. ALFRED KAHN, JR.
ANN BOYD Fred Poe
Arkansas Arts Council Staff Wanda and Bob Taylor

FREDERICK ISAAC BROWN, JR. PAT KELTNER
Belinda Shults Doris WmSon Mapes

FRANK BROWN SHIRIN KHIMJI
Nancy and Tad Phillips Elise Sutton

JAMES A. BUTTRY VIRGINIA R. LEVEY
Linda and William Brown Doris WmSon Mapes

JUANITA “NITA” WILLIAMS CLARK DOROTHY LOUISE KELLUM LINSLEY
Doris WmSon Mapes David and Nicole Bogard

DR. GEORGE R. COLE MARY ALICE McDERMOTT
Nancy and Tad Phillips Jane M. Wilson

WALTER C. “BUDDY” COLEMAN BARBARA J. MOODY
Kaki Hockersmith and Max Mehlburger Mary Jane and John Calhoun
BILLY GLYNN “B. G.” COZART Joan Dietz
Sharon Estes Marguerite Gamble
ROBERTA DAVIS Marie-Aude Hewes
Stanley Burns and John Harris Ann Nicholson
H. G. “JACK” FROST, JR. Frank and Nancy Wilson
Cydney E. Smith EDITH MULLEN
HARRY T. GILBERT, JR. Jo Claire Pulliam
Ann Hatley HARRIET NEMER
Chris and Paula Newell Heather and John Pagan
Mary and Bud Storey BARBARA L. PHILLIPS
Patti and Jim Womble Family Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hollenberg, Jr.
MARCELLINE EVANS GIROIR Hyden, Miron & Foster, PLLC
Rosemary J. Dyke Fred Poe
Nancy and Tad Phillips FRANK “HANSON” PRATT
Slocum and Allison Pickell Doris WmSon Mapes
Brock and Carter Whisenhunt DOYLE W. ROGERS
PATTE BALL GRAYDON Frances and Sam Buchanan
Doris WmSon Mapes Belinda Shults

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DR. WILLIAM ROSS MR. AND MRS. STEVE BOVA (CHRISTMAS)
Nancy and Tad Phillips Jeane M. Hamilton
LOUIS SCHAUFELE CURT AND CHUCKI BRADBURY
Nancy and Tad Phillips Cindy and Greg Feltus
CAROLYN VAN NESS MANN SMITH FRANCES BUCHANAN
Nancy Phillips and James Rawlings Rebecca and John Slaven
DR. BRIAN F. SUDDERTH VIRGINIA S. COBB
Emily and Jim Burrow Eugene and Ann Lewis
Lynette Haggbloom HOWIE AND KATHERINE COCKRILL
JOAN TACK Eugene and Ann Lewis
Heather and John Pagan SANDRA CONNOR
MARTHA ANN WARREN Rebecca and John Slaven
Stanley Burns and John Harris MAGGIE AND DICK DEARNLEY
ROBERT M. WILSON, JR. Arkansas Arts Center Docents
Sandra and Bob Connor NANCY DICKINS
Kaki Hockersmith and Max Mehlburger Rebecca and John Slaven
Nancy and Tad Phillips HELEN PORTER AND JIM DYKE
Dale and Lee Ronnel Arkansas Arts Center Docents
RICHARD WOODS MERRITT AND ANNE DYKE
Heather and John Pagan Julie and John Jones
CINDY AND GREG FELTUS
HONORARIUMS Julie and John Jones
WALLY AND JULIE ALLEN GASTON AND ANNE GIBSON
Eugene and Ann Lewis Eugene and Ann Lewis
GAYE ANDERSON MR. AND MRS. JOHN P. GILL (CHRISTMAS)
Cindy and Greg Feltus Jeane M. Hamilton
PHIL AND ANNETTE ANDERSON ANN MARIE GORNATTI
Stuart Cobb Rebecca and John Slaven
Phil and Ruthe Kaplan EMILY HALL
Trudy and Peter Kumpe Orville J. Hall, Jr.
Anne Bradford Mourning MRS. FRANK P. HALL, JR. (CHRISTMAS)
Sandy and Dan Phillips Jeane M. Hamilton
Mr. and Mrs. Craig S. Wood MR. AND MRS. DON F. HAMILTON (CHRISTMAS)
BARBARA BABER Jeane M. Hamilton
Sandra and John Cone MR. AND MRS. HOWARD HARDIN (MARRIAGE)
DR. AND MRS. H. A. “TED” BAILEY (CHRISTMAS) Mr. and Mrs. Craig S. Wood
Jeane M. Hamilton MR. AND MRS. LARRY HARE (CHRISTMAS)
SARA BATCHELLER Jeane M. Hamilton
Julie Gundy
TERRY BEAN (BIRTHDAY) 28
Ashley Bean

Development

MR. AND MRS. MAX HARRIS (CHRISTMAS) DR. CHAD RODGERS AND MR. ERIC McDANIEL (WEDDING)
Jeane M. Hamilton Kelly Lassiter
TODD HERMAN (CHRISTMAS) Ray and Cherylon Reid
Jeane M. Hamilton FRANCES SHACKLEFORD (CHRISTMAS)
BARBARA HOOVER Jeane M. Hamilton
Eugene and Ann Lewis MR. AND MRS. BILL SIGLER
JOHN AND ROBYN HORN Eugene and Ann Lewis
Cindy and Greg Feltus WARREN AND HARRIET STEPHENS
BEN AND WALTER HUSSMAN AND THEIR CHILDREN Cindy and Greg Feltus
Julie and John Jones Julie and John Jones
MR. AND MRS. DORSEY JACKSON CELIA STOREY
Eugene and Ann Lewis Griffin and Libby Smith
MR. AND MRS. JOHN JACOBS BUD AND MARY STOREY
Eugene and Ann Lewis Eugene and Ann Lewis
GLENDA JOSEPHSON SUSAN STRAUSS (BIRTHDAY)
Beth and Paul Eaton Michele H. Fox
MR. AND MRS. JOEL LEDBETTER WILLIAM L. TERRY (90TH BIRTHDAY)
Eugene and Ann Lewis Marian D. Goff
MARY ANN AND BOB McKUIN (50TH WEDDING Mr. AND MRS. JOHN J. TRUEMPER, JR. (CHRISTMAS)
ANNIVERSARY) Jeane M. Hamilton
Joel, Sherry, Andrew and Kameron McKuin Margaret Hatchett
MR. AND MRS. CHUCK MEYER BOBBY TUCKER (WINTHROP ROCKEFELLER MEMORIAL
Eugene and Ann Lewis AWARD)
LOU PALERMO Kaki Hockersmith and Max Mehlburger
Little Rock Departmental Club ELLIS WALTON
FRED POE (CHRISTMAS) Rebecca and John Slaven
Jeane M. Hamilton ALICE WILLIAMS
SUE POWELL Rebecca and John Slaven
Rebecca and John Slaven JANE WILSON (CHRISTMAS)
BILL PUMPHREY Jeane M. Hamilton
Kaki Hockersmith and Max Mehlburger BROOKS AND TOWNSEND WOLFE (CHRISTMAS)
Jeane M. Hamilton

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Membership

General and Leadership Members

Individual - 816
Dual - 731
Family - 1013
Friend - 782
Advocate - 156
Benefactor - 37
Corporate Affiliate - 9

Individual and Corporate Circle Members

Museum Circle - 99
Curators' Circle - 13
Director's Circle - 33
President's Circle - 6
Rockefeller Society - 9
Corporate Museum Circle - 18
Corporate Curators' Circle - 14
Corporate Director's Circle - 14
Corporate President's Circle - 18
Corporate Rockefeller Society - 13

Total Memberships: 3,781
New Memberships: 522
Rejoin Memberships: 566

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Member Exhibition Previews Contemporaries Events

Multiplicity / 50 for Arkansas ARTini
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 AUGUST 23, 2012
Collectors Show and Sale Preview with the Collectors
38th Toys Designed by Artists
NOVEMBER 21, 2012 Group
NOVEMBER 29, 2012
44th Collectors Show and Sale Holiday Party
NOVEMBER 29, 2012 DECEMBER 6, 2012
Private Collection Tour at the home of Bobby
55th Annual Delta Exhibition / Museum School
Faculty Exhibition: Past and Present and Dianne Tucker
MARCH 28, 2013
JANUARY 17, 2013 Private exhibition at Greg Thompson Fine Art
MAY 23, 2013
Wendy Maruyama: Executive Order 9066 / Happy Hour Mixer at Next Bistro and Bar
Edward Weston: Leaves of Grass JUNE 27, 2013

FEBRUARY 7, 2013 Friends of Contemporary Craft
Events
52ndAnnual Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition /
Ron Meyers: A Potter’s Menagerie “Conversation with Jennifer Anderson” (Wood)
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
APRIL 4, 2013 “Conversation with Lia Cook:

Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures Faces of Touch: Neural Networks” (Fiber)
of Kenwood House, London DECEMBER 2, 2012
“Conversation with Kerrick Hartman and Sandi Sell:
JUNE 6, 2013
Recent Work by UALR Applied Arts Students”
Member Events FEBRUARY 24, 2013
“Conversation with Ron Meyers and George
Museum School Sale Members Preview
NOVEMBER 16, 2012 Metropoulos McCauley: Ron Meyers and the
Usual Suspects” (Ceramics)
New Member Reception APRIL 7, 2013
DECEMBER 11, 2012

New Member Reception
MARCH 6, 2013

Young Arkansas Artists Family Festival
APRIL 7, 2013

TABRIZ XXIII
MAY 2 and 4, 2013

New Member Reception
JUNE 11, 2013

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Museum School

The Museum School offers classes for children, teens and adults, providing instruction for art enthusiasts of every
skill level. Classes are offered on a quarterly basis with day, evening and weekend classes. Museum School
disciplines include Drawing, Glass (fusing, slumping, mold making), Jewelry and Small Metals, Mixed Media,
Painting, Photography (digital), Pottery / Sculpture, Printmaking, Woodworking, and Children’s Theatre. Special
topics have included Batik, Pysanky (Ukrainian eggs), Encaustic Painting, and Mosaics – to name a few. Beginning,
intermediate and advanced level classes are scheduled to focus on the fundamentals important to progressive
development of artistic technique.

Enrollment NUMBER OF CLASSES TOTAL PARTICIPANTS

Fall Quarter 2012 63 436
12 69
Art / Adult Classes 8 34
Art / Adult Workshops (includes satellites) 3 12
Art / Children’s Classes - --
Art / Children’s Workshops 86 551
Theatre / Children’s Classes*

Total

Winter Quarter 2012 65 418
8 55
Art / Adult Classes 8 30
Art / Adult Workshops (includes satellites) 0 0
Art / Children’s Classes - --
Art / Children’s Workshops 81 503
Theatre / Children’s Classes*

Total

Spring Quarter 2013 58 349
8 49
Art / Adult Classes 9 19
Art / Adult Workshops 1 15
Art / Children’s Classes - --
Art / Children’s Spring Break Workshop 76 432
Theatre / Children’s Classes*

Total

Summer Quarter 2013 55 275
7 25
Art / Adult Classes 5 24
Art / Adult Workshops (includes satellites) 10 82
Art / Children’s Classes - --
Art / Children’s Workshops 1 108
Theatre / Children’s Classes* 78 514
Junior Arts Academy

Total

Grand Total (FY12-13) 321 2,000

Comparative Total (FY 11-12) 308 2,545
Comparative Total (FY10-11) 305 2,273
Comparative Total (FY09-10) 347 2,677
*Reported by Children’s Theatre, beginning FY10-11

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Museum School Workshops Special Programs

In coordination with the curatorial departments, the Annual Museum School Sale
Museum School offers specialized workshops for
teachers and artists, often led by nationally Member Preview Party
recognized figures whose work is in the permanent NOVEMBER 16, 2012
collection, or in conjunction with a special exhibition Clear Channel Metroplex
or program of one of the AAC auxiliary groups, such
as Friends of Contemporary Craft. Sale Day
Handbuilding Dynamic Pieces for the Tabletop with NOVEMBER 17, 2012
Visiting Artist Annie Chrietzberg Clear Channel Metroplex
SEPTEMBER 22 and 23, 2012
Color: Complement, Shade, Tone and Tint with Number of Artists Participating - 110
Catherine Rodgers
OCTOBER 6 and 7, 2012 Number of Visitors – Friday 654
Collaborations in Creative Printmaking – Drypoint/ Number of Visitors – Saturday 1,252
Relief Printmaking with Delita Martin and David
Warren TOTAL 1,906
DECEMBER 3 – 6, 2012
Ron Meyers: Expressive Surfaces Museum School Pottery Department Throw-A-Thon
APRIL 6 and 7, 2013 FEBRUARY 24, 2013
Beyond Reality – Abstract Painting Workshop Using Over 100 Museum School faculty and
Acrylics and Mixed Media with Dan Thornhill students participated and donated over
APRIL 27 and 28, 2013 100 pieces of pottery for the Arkansas Food
Bank’s “Empty Bowls” fundraiser in April,
2013. Our contribution helped them raise
over $90,000 at the one-night event.

Educational Outreach

Boy Scout Merit Badge Day
MAY 11, 2013
Number of Boy Scouts participating - 38

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EDUCATION Rembrandt, Van Dyke, Gainsborough: The Treasures
of Kenwood House, London
Lectures, Gallery Talks, Films & Panel “Kenwood: From Guinness to Gainsborough”
Discussions Julius Bryant, Keeper of Word and Image, Victoria
and Albert Museum, London, England
Multiplicity JUNE 6, 2013
“Multiplicity Reconsidered”
Dr. Joann Moser, Senior Curator of Graphic Arts, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures
Smithsonian American Art Museum, of Kenwood House, London
Washington, DC “The Treasures of Kenwood”
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 Todd A. Herman, PhD, Executive Director,
Multiplicity Arkansas Arts Center
“Relief Process” JUNE 9, 2012
Delita Martin, Owner of Blackbox Press Studio
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 ART OF ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES
Multiplicity
“Intaglio Process” "New Ground, Notable Projects"
David Warren, Assistant Professor of Printmaking Mark Boyer, RLA, ASLA, Landscape Department
and Art Education, Henderson State University, Head, Fay Jones School of Architecture, University
Arkadelphia, Arkansas of Arkansas, Fayetteville
OCTOBER 7, 2012 OCTOBER 16, 2012
Multiplicity "Artists, Architects and Community: The Public
“The Collaborative Process of Printmaking” Art Equation"
Ann Prentice Wagner, PhD, Curator of Drawings, Jack Becker, Executive Director, Forecast Public
Arkansas Arts Center Art + Public Art Review, Minneapolis, Minnesota
OCTOBER 21, 2012 DECEMBER 4, 2012
55th Annual Delta Exhibition "Small but Mighty: Changing the World One
“Risk, Failure, and the Materialization of Place” Installation at a Time”
Monica Bowman, Owner of The Butcher’s Reed Kroloff, AIA, Director, Cranbrook Academy
Daughter Gallery, Detroit, Michigan of Art and Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
JANUARY 17, 2013 DECEMBER 12, 2012
Wendy Maruyama: Executive Order 9066 “Head/Hand”
“The Tag Project/Executive Order 9066” Billie Tsien, AIA, Billie Tsien/Tod Williams,
Wendy Maruyama, Artist, Professor Woodworking New York, New York
and Furniture Design Program, San Diego State MARCH 5, 2013
University, California “Bauhaus and Arkansas: A Gathering of Scholars”
FEBRUARY 7, 2013 Dr. Floyd Martin, Mia Hall and Dr. Ethel Goodstein-
Ron Meyers: A Potter’s Menagerie Murphree, Department of Art History, Applied Arts
“A Surprise to Us All: An Artist’s Story” and Design, and the Faye Jones School of
Ron Meyers, Artist, Professor Emeritus, University Architecture, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
of Georgia, Athens, Georgia and Fayetteville
APRIL 4, 2013 MAY 24, 2013

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FILM FESTIVALS POETRY SLAM
In collaboration with Rock Town Poetry the Arts
50 FOR ARKANSAS: One film focused on Fifty Center staged monthly competitions of performance
Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the poetry. These competitions resulted in the selection
Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel of the National Poetry Slam Team representing
Collection and the National Gallery of Art Arkansas as well as the Women of the World Poetry
Herb & Dorothy: 2008 Slam.
A documentary in which Megumi Sasaki turns her SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
lens on the Vogels during a critical period of OCTOBER 10, 2012
transition for the couple and their cherished NOVEMBER 14, 2012
collection. DECEMBER 12, 2012
OCTOBER 18, 2013 JANUARY 9, 2013
WENDY MARUYAMA: EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066: FEBRUARY 13, 2013
Four films focused on the forced removal and MARCH 13, 2013
evacuation of Japanese American communities APRIL 10, 2013
In 1942. MAY 8, 2013
Cats of Mirikitani: 2006 JUNE 12, 2013
An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of LEAVES OF GRASS: POETRY IN THE GALLERY
war and the healing power of community and art. In conjunction with Edward Weston: Leaves of Grass,
FEBRUARY 19, 2013 Arkansas Times Managing Editor Leslie Peacock;
Unfinished Business: 1984 KATV reporter Roger Susanin; KARN 102.9 “First
The film interweaves personal stories with moving News” host Bob Steel; poet and Slam Master of
archival footage and returns to those men forty Rocktown Slam Amoja Sumler; and Pushcart-
years later. nominated poet from Alexander, Arkansas, and
FEBRUARY 26, 2013 founder and publisher of Sibling Rivalry Press Bryan
Time of Fear: 2005 Borland read excerpts from Walt Whitman’s Leaves
This film traces the lives of the 16,000 people of Grass.
who were sent to two camps in southeast MARCH 1, 2013
Arkansas, one of the most racially segregated ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER 3rd ANNUAL
places in America at that time. EKPHRASTIC POETRY SLAM: ART ON ART
MARCH 12, 2013 This slam invites nationally ranked poets to engage
Farewell to Manzanar: 1976 in the Arkansas Arts Center collection and interpret
This modern classic, often compared with The it in new ways. Poets create original poetry which is
Diary of Anne Frank, explores the effects of war performed live in front of a projection of the poet’s
on youth and the human spirit. selected work of art from the collection. Poetry and
MARCH 19, 2013 performances are judged for originality and
connection to the work of art. Twelve poets from six
EDUCATION PROGRAMS states competed this year. This year’s winner was
Brennen McCloy from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
FAMILY FESTIVALS: Additionally, formal poetry was judged with two
“Young Arkansas Artists Family Festival” awards given for the best Ekphrastic written poetry.
Celebrating art and young artists, this family festival The formal poetry winner was Kita Marshall, Little
engaged families and rewarded artists chosen for Rock, Arkansas.
the 52nd Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition. Awards APRIL 13, 2013
were presented in a ceremony during the festival.
JULY 30, 2012

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ART IN MOTION: When Dreams are Interrupted ARTIST DEMONSTRATIONS
Purple Moon Dance Company Tattoo artists from Lucky Bella Tattoo
A riveting site-specific performance that uncovers JULY 15, 2012
the profound imprint left on a neighborhood by the
forced removal and mass evacuation of Japanese Tattoo artists from 7th Street Tattoo
American communities in 1942. AUGUST 5, 2012
The Purple Moon Dance Project was founded by Jill
Togawa in 1992. The troupe explores the continuum Tattoo artists from Dragon Works Tattoo
of non-western and western dance forms and AUGUST 12, 2012
aesthetics and interdisciplinary collaboration.
APRIL 20, 2013 Tattoo artists from Electric Heart Tattoo
THE ART OF MOTION: TANGO AUGUST 26, 2012
Attracting new audiences to the Arts Center and
encouraging new memberships, the greater Little DOCENT TOURS
Rock dance community enjoys a beautiful evening of Docents gave a total of 313 tours in FY12-13.
dance instruction and dance. Tattoo Witness: Photographs by Mark Perrott: 1 tour
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 Wendy Maruyama: Executive Order 9066: 5 tours
OCTOBER 11, 2012 Edward Weston: Leaves of Grass: 1 tour
NOVEMBER 8, 2012 Ron Meyers: A Potter’s Menagerie: 3 tours
DECEMBER 13, 2012 Paul Signac Watercolors and Drawings: Selections
JANUARY 10, 2013 from the James T. Dyke Collection, Arkansas Arts
FEBRUARY 14, 2013 Center Foundation: 1 tour
MARCH 14, 2013 Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures
APRIL 11, 2013 of Kenwood House, London: 4 tours (through June
MAY 9, 2013 30, 2013)

LIBRARY

The Elizabeth Prewitt Taylor Memorial Library continued to grow through purchases, donations and exchanges
with other museums. New materials were catalogued into the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) catalog to
allow patrons to view the library’s holdings online.
Many materials that were no longer needed were donated to local art teachers.
The collection of materials pertaining to artists in the Arts Center’s permanent collection was expanded. The
materials consist of postcards, pamphlets and small catalogs from artists, galleries and other museums. A
successful book sale was held in the fall in conjunction with the Museum School Sale. Money from the sale of
items that were no longer needed was used to purchase relevant materials for the library.
MEMBERSHIPS
College Art Association
National Art Education Association
Society for North American Goldsmiths
Studio Potter Foundation
ONLINE LIBRARY CATALOG
Central Arkansas Library System,
Dr. Bobby Roberts, Director
Ongoing cooperative partnership,
technical support and training for online
catalog.

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STATE SERVICES

State Services touring programs were delivered to 53 Arkansas communities in 39 counties during the
2012-2013 fiscal year.
Total Attendance for all touring programs: 309,983
Artmobile

The exhibition aboard the Artmobile for the 2012-13 touring year was Weird and Wonderful. Comprised of works
from the Arts Center’s permanent collection, this exhibition featured art that inspired a journey through an artist’s
imagination, exploring characters, strange stories, and unusual places. The works were placed in the context of
social studies, language arts and visual arts. The exhibition catalog and educational materials were available on-
line through the Arts Center’s website. Communities and organizations served by the Artmobile included:

Arkansas Literary Festival, Little Rock Brinkley Public Schools
Arkansas Northeastern College, Blytheville Chaffin Junior High School, Fort Smith
Arkansas State Fair, Little Rock Clarendon Public Schools
Baxter County Library, Mountain Home Dupree Elementary School, Jacksonville

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Fountain Lake Public Schools Jasper Elementary School
Great War Memorial Balloon Race, Little Rock Kingsland Elementary School
Hamburg Public Schools Lynch Drive Elementary School, North Little Rock
Holiday House, Little Rock McDermott Elementary School, Little Rock
Jessieville Public Schools North Heights Elementary School, North Little Rock
KIPP Delta Public Schools, Blytheville Randall G. Lynch Elementary School, Farmington
Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, Little Rock St. Joseph School, Conway
Murrell Taylor Elementary School, Jacksonville Saline County Public Library, Benton
PortFest, Newport Seventh Street Elementary School, North Little Rock
Prairie Grove Elementary School South Arkansas Arts Center, El Dorado
Pulaski Technical College, North Little Rock Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanities Council
Riverfest, Little Rock West Side High School, Greers Ferry
Shirley Public Schools Williams Magnet Elementary School, Little Rock
Woods Elementary School, Fort Smith
Children’s Theatre on Tour
Traveling Exhibitions
Children’s Theatre on Tour, a division of the Arts
Curated exhibitions from the Arkansas Arts Center Center’s resident Children’s Theatre, toured three
Foundation Collection or artist loan were sent to professional theatre productions during the fiscal
galleries throughout the state, including: year. The season included:
Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
Episcopal Collegiate School, Little Rock NOVEMBER 5 – DECEMBER 19, 2012
University of Arkansas – Fort Smith Arkansas Tales
William F. Laman Library, North Little Rock FEBRUARY 4 – MARCH 15, 2013
These exhibitions included: The Just So Stories
Abstract Prints APRIL 1 – MAY 10, 2013
Images from the South The touring theatre troupe presented 96
Little Rock Central Photos by Will Counts performances during the year for public and private
Mid-Southern Watercolorists schools, community performing arts centers,
Watercolors from the Permanent Collection festivals, and libraries. Performance locations for
Young Arkansas Artists – the 2011-2012 Tour the year included:
Arkansas Literary Festival, Little Rock
Five touring components of the Arkansas Arts Arkansas River Educational Service, Pine Bluff
Center’s annual Young Arkansas Artists Arts Council of Conway County, Morrilton
Competition and Exhibition visited 30 schools and ASU-Newport
community organizations, including the following Baxter County Library, Mountain Home
locations: Booker Arts Magnet Elementary School, Little Rock
AETN, Conway Boys & Girls Club, McGehee
Arkansas River Valley Arts Center, Russellville Brinkley Elementary School
Batesville Area Arts Council Central Elementary School, Magnolia
Baxter County Library, Mountain Home Clarendon Elementary School
Bergman Elementary School Clarksville Primary School
Bradley County Historical Museum, Warren Concordia Christian Academy, Jonesboro
Bryant High School Corning Central Elementary School
Central Magnet Elementary School, Forrest City Cross County Arts Council, Wynne
Columbia Christian School, Magnolia Crossett Public Schools
Crestwood Elementary School, North Little Rock Damascus Public Library
Delta Gateway Museum, Blytheville DeQueen Public Schools
Elm Tree Elementary School, Bentonville Dermott Elementary School
Fort Smith Public Schools DeWitt Chamber of Commerce
Glenview Elementary School, North Little Rock Drew-Central Elementary School, Monticello
Highland Middle School, Hardy
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Jackson County Library, Newport

State Services

Dupree Elementary School, Jacksonville Oak Park Elementary School, Pine Bluff
England Elementary School Park Elementary School, Corning
First United Methodist Church, Benton Park Magnet Elementary School, Hot Springs
Fort Smith Public Library Phillips Community College, Stuttgart
Garland County Library, Hot Springs Pulaski Academy, Little Rock
Greenville Elementary, Pine Bluff Southside-Bee Branch Public Schools
Harrisburg Elementary School St. Mary’s Catholic School, Lake Village
Heber Springs Chamber of Commerce 34th Avenue Elementary School, Pine Bluff
Heber Springs Public Schools University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville
Ida Burns Elementary School, Conway Warren Cultural Center
Jackson County Library, Newport Westside Public Schools, Greers Ferry
Kingsland Elementary School Wynne Public Schools
KIPP Delta Public Schools, Blytheville Yellville-Summit Elementary School
Monticello Elementary School
Noble/Allbritton Elementary School, Hamburg

State Services Touring Programs (outreach totals)

Artmobile 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Variance
Traveling Exhibitions 45,299 47,875 31,277 between last 2 years
Children’s Theatre 230,606 238,668 242,733
on Tour 38,449 48,450 35,973 -16,598
Total Attendance + 4,065
314,354 334,993 309,983 -12,477

-25,010

State Services touring program sponsors for 2012-13 included: Arkansas Community Foundation; Bank of America;
The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston; Horace C. Cabe Foundation; Centennial Bank; Electric Cooperatives of
Arkansas; Plum Creek Foundation; and Union Pacific Foundation. State Services programs were also funded, in
part, by grants from the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, and the
National Endowment for the Arts. State Services programs remain extremely indebted to the Winthrop
Rockefeller Foundation and Pat Salmon & Sons for their support.

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Volunteers

Volunteers donated over 15,000 hours to the Arkansas Arts Center this year serving as docents, Museum Shop
sales clerks, members of the Children’s Theatre Guild, Fine Arts Club, Contemporaries, gardeners who maintain the
Butterfly Garden and grounds at the Terry Mansion, Master Gardeners who help beautify the grounds of the Arts
Center, wood workers, staff aides, exhibition aides and interns, Board of Trustees, Foundation Board members,
TABRIZ and Studio Party Volunteers.

Volunteer Hours

Volunteer Area # of Volunteers # of Hours
AAC Board of Trustees, AAC Foundation Board 47 1,228.00
37 7,344.00
of Directors and Board Committees 10 25.75
Children’s Theatre Performers 11 218.00
Committee on Call 42 993.50
Contemporaries Advisory Committee 30 1,315.00
Curatorial Aide/Staff Aide/Interns 16 101.50
Docents 17 71.50
Fine Arts Club Board Members 33 256.00
Friends of Contemporary Craft Advisory Committee 4 18.00
Gardens/Florals 20 134.50
Museum Shop Clerks 64 3,128.25
Reception Hosts 27 528.15
Tabriz 1 60.00
Theatre Guild
Woodworkers

Total 359* 15,422.15

*Total number of volunteers reflects the number of volunteers at the Arkansas Arts Center; some volunteers assist in more than one area of service.

Volunteer Awards

Each year the volunteers of the Arkansas Arts Center are honored at an appreciation dinner. At the
Volunteer Appreciation Dinner, the following volunteers will be recognized for their contribution to the
Arts Center:

1000 Hours Sarah Nicholson Rachel K. Haislip
Mary Ann McKuin Laurie Osborne Peggy Jones
Alison Nicholson Robin Parker Casey Labbate
Jerome Sherman Michael Pere Margaret Lowry
500 Hours Jalin C. Wesley Jordan May
Loren Bartole Kathy Wilkins Anne McCarley
Mattingly Bartole Diondre Wright Brooke Melton
Laura Bryan Jhonika Wright Lucy Miller
Rachel Caffey 150 Hours Brenda K. Mize
Jennie F. Cole Janet Alley Emily Newman
Florence R. Deer Sara Batcheller George O’Connor
Augusta J. Fitzgerald Ashton V. Brass Barbara Patty
June Freeman Brian C. Earles Donna B. Rogers
Gail H. Gerard Kristie Frost Mimi San Pedro
Anna Newman Jennifer Glasgow Mary Ellen Vangilder

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Auxiliary Groups The Fine Arts Club of Arkansas provides educational
programming, volunteer support and financial
Docents conduct gallery tours of the Arts Center’s support to the Arkansas Arts Center for members
permanent collection and special exhibitions. They and the public, and also provides financial and
introduce students to the richness and diversity of volunteer support for specific programs of the Arts
the visual arts. Through their tours they stimulate Center. They also sponsor the biennial TABRIZ event
creativity, critical thinking and judgment skills in that raises funds for art acquisitions and educational
students. Docent tours place visual arts in context programs.
with history, social studies and science. 2012-2013 Fine Arts Club Board
2012-2013 Docent Executive Committee President, Hillis Schild
Chair, Gaye Anderson President Elect, Annamary Thompson
Rising Chair, Paula Furlough Vice President (Programs), Annamary Thompson
Secretary, Susan Day Assistant Vice President (Programs Assistant),
Weekend Representative, Jeanne-Marie Meyer
Weekday Representative, Paul Bash Cynthia Lemley
2012-2013 Docents Vice President (Publicity), Phyllis Barrier
Gaye Anderson Recording Secretary, Lisa Gaddy
Joe Arn Corresponding Secretary, Laurie Osborne
Barbara Baber Treasurer, Robin Reid
Paul Bash Assistant Treasurer, Lisa Nichols
Bonnie Clough Parliamentarian, Phyllis Barrier
Jennie Cole FACSheet Editor, Cindy McGee
Tessa Davidson Government Liaison, Jennifer Owens
Susan Day Hospitality, Traci Earnhart and Cindy Pugh
Flo Deer Membership Directory, Mary Kay Burton
Cindy Feltus Nominating, Hillis Schild
Judy Fletcher Children’s Theatre, Paula Jennings
Paula Furlough Courtyard Gardener, Lorene Wright
Gail Gerard Docents, Gaye Anderson and Ann West
Mary Nancy Henry Museum School, Sarah Henry
Callie Jackson Museum Shop, Diana Smithson
Ginanne Long
Anne McCarley Friends of Contemporary Craft (FOCC) is a dynamic
Cindy Mercado group whose members share an interest in learning
Jeanne-Marie Meyer about and promoting an appreciation of
Anna Mitchell contemporary art in craft-based media – clay, glass,
Susan Moneyhon fiber, metal and wood – and the artists who create
Bobbye Nixon them.
Robin Parker Through exhibitions, tours, and the highly acclaimed
Anna Louise Phillips “Conversations” series, FOCC members enjoy
Rebecca Slaven numerous opportunities throughout the year to
Lynn Sudderth develop a more informed appreciation of the studio
Debbie Weidl craft movement. Equally important, FOCC members
Ann West actively assist in the acquisition of objects for the
Kathy Wilkins Arts Center’s world-renowned craft collection.
Jessica Wright
Docent Class of 2013
Cindy Mercado
Anna Mitchell

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2012-2013 Friends of Contemporary Craft Autumn Jacob
Advisory Committee Courtney Nosari
Chair, John D. Harris Tate Tucker
Vice Chair, Anncha Briggs
Secretary, Gayle Corley The Terry House grounds are maintained by
David Clemons volunteers from the Little Rock Garden Club. These
Brad Cushman volunteers have taken the responsibility for the
Michele Fox design, planting and maintenance of the Butterfly
June Freeman Garden, beds and grounds.
Louise Halsey 2012-2013 Little Rock Garden Club Board
Robyn Horn President, Frances Buchanan
Sammye Johnston 1st Vice President, Cathy Crass
Beth Lambert 2nd Vice President, Emily Thom
Delita Martin Recording Secretary, Marjorie Dudley
Janell Mason Corresponding Secretary, Barbi Rushing
Brenda Long Mauldin Treasurer, Cindy Pugh
Mindi Jones Moore Chair, Terry House and Butterfly Garden, Libby Davis;
Terri Murdoch Co-Chairs, Pam Blank, Mary Ann Gammill and
Helen Moix
The Children’s Theatre Guild promotes the activities
of the Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre by Members of the Pulaski County Master Gardeners
providing volunteer support to opening night are assigned to the Arkansas Arts Center courtyards.
receptions, Summer Theatre Academy, auditions, These master gardeners are responsible for the
concessions, and financially by providing annual design and maintenance of the beds within the
funds for scholarships for Junior Arts Academy courtyards and for the container gardening.
students. Volunteers work throughout the year to add to the
2012-2013 Children’s Theatre Guild Board beauty and enjoyment of the Arts Center courtyards.
Chair, Alison Nicholson 2012-2013 Pulaski County Master Gardeners
Secretary, Peggy Brenner Arkansas Arts Center Project Committee
Treasurer, Michelle Mann Chair, Barbara Patty
Opening Night Coordinator, Nechi Fullerton Co-Chair, Paul Pilkington
Shirley Acchione
The Contemporaries are ages 21-45(ish) who enjoy Kevin Anderson
accessible and entertaining programs centered Linda Anderson
around the arts. They participate in monthly events Dana Downes
aimed at fun, social art education including studio Maureen Gallagher
visits, private collection tours and special events. Mary Harrison
2012-2013 Contemporaries Advisory Committee Kate Lincourt
President, Chris Smith Minerva Lohani
Joseph Brajcki Brenda Mize
Heather Brister Christina Phelps
Michael Cook Jenny Smith
John Crow Nao Ueda
Daniel Felton Lorene Wright
Amy Hester Terry Wright
Kelly Imhoff Mary Zehr

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Tabriz XXIII: 50th Anniversary Celebration

The Arkansas Arts Center, with support from the Fine Arts Club, presented Tabriz XXIII in celebration of the 50th
Anniversary of the AAC on Thursday and Saturday, May 2 and 4, 2013 at the Arts Center. More than 850 guests
attended the casual Thursday night event, with a Moroccan Marketplace theme. Bid Pal, a cell phone-driven
bidding software, helped make the silent auction the most successful in Tabriz history. The more intimate and
elegant Saturday night gala, featuring dinner, live and super silent auctions was attended by approximately 300
guests. Moroccan merriment continued after dinner when The Jump Street Band took the stage at Studio Party: A
50th Anniversary Ball. The three-event extravaganza raised more than $800,000, the largest total in event history.
Proceeds will be used for art acquisitions and educational programs.

Chair Silent and Live Auctions Committee
Kaki Hockersmith Chucki Bradbury
Jackye and Curtis Finch
Honorary Co-Chair Todd Herman
Jeane Hamilton Kaki Hockersmith
Thursday Night Moroccan Marketplace Robyn Horn
Thursday Night Co-Chairs Don Tilton
Sara Batcheller Business Office
Rachel Bradbury Business Office Co-Chairs
Lisa Baxter
Thursday Night Auction Chair Stephanie Gunderman
Del Boyette
Business Office Committee
Thursday Night Committee Paula Aultz
Todd Bagwell Peggy Jones
Lauren Blair Donna Rogers
Chucki Bradbury Studio Party
Laura Bryan Studio Party Co-Chairs
Andrew Carroll Ashley and Haskell Dickinson
Patricia Farnsworth
Ari Fason Studio Party Committee
Josie Felton Ginger Blackmon
Jennifer Glasgow Laura Bryan
Melinda Glasgow Amanda and Tyler Denton
Todd Herman Anna Ruth Douglass
Kaki Hockersmith Eliza and Alec Gaines
Kelly Imhoff Olivia Hussman
Jeanne Johansson Michael Manley
Sally and James Jones Susan and Mark Reynolds
Fred Knight Jessie Russell
Allyson Pittman Joy Secuban
Ashley Russell Chris Smith
Mimi San Pedro Josie and Brent Staggs
Cindy Scott Amy Treadway
Terri Snowden Devon and Robert Tucker, Jr.
Kay Stebbins
Greg Thompson Volunteer Coordinator
Hillis Schild
Saturday Night Gala
Live Auction Chair Entertainment Coordinators
Ellison Poe Tara Gall
Angie Howard
Joyce Harb

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