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Sculpture Opens Doors to Art
By Becca Bacon Martin
Look Here!
The Morning NewsSculptor Hank Kaminsky’s work already graces the Fayetteville square. Commissioned in 2000 for installation at the new Fayetteville Town Center, the 10-foot bronze globe took a team of 20 sculptors a combined 8,000 hours to create. After molds were taken, 42 bronze segments were poured in Kaminsky’s foundry and assembled into the 4-ton artwork, which says on its face “May peace prevail on earth” in more than 100 languages.
Kaminsky is returning to the mainstage of public art this summer, displaying five of his large bronze and steel sculptures at five sites downtown. Receptions at each site open the “gallery without walls” experience at 6:30 p.m. today.
The works will be installed at the Town Center, the Arvest Plaza on the square, the West Avenue Garden of the Walton Arts Center, the Meditation Garden of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and in the front entry of the Fayetteville Public Library until the end of the Fayetteville Arts Festival, which will be Sept. 1-9.
Kaminsky says the sculptures are all part of a series of works Kaminsky calls “Pages From the Book of the Earth,” an exhibition that has been shown at the Shidoni Gallery in Santa Fe for the past year. Each of the sculptures is related to the World Peace Prayer Fountain.
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Rita Blitt Guest At Art Party
Kaminsky isn’t the only artist turning Northwest Arkansas into an outdoor gallery.
Currently on display outside the Walton Arts Center — as well as in the Joy Pratt Markham Gallery and the Cynthia H. Coughlin Gallery — is “Passionate Gestures: Painting and Sculpture by Rita Blitt,” featuring sculptures “formed by sweeping curves and undulating lines … in three-dimensional space,” says Michele McGuire, curator of visual arts at WAC. “The peaceful yet lively nature of her art radiates with joie de vive.
Art patrons are invited to meet Blitt, internationally recognized as a painter, sculptor and filmmaker, at an Art Party from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the arts center. The informal event includes live music from the Claudia Burson Trio, hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. Admission to the Art Party and the exhibition is free.
Bentonville Square Gallery for a Day
In Bentonville, artists will strut their stuff indoors at the annual Spring Art Walk, set for 4-9 p.m. Monday on the square. Businesses become galleries for the evening, as more than 40 artists showcase original works in pastel, watercolor, clay, metal, oil, acrylic, mixed media, fiber, glass, ceramic, beadwork and more.
Children and adults can get into the act themselves by adding strokes to a “public art canvas” for a $1 donation.
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New Art Honors Friend of Library
In Rogers, tributes to the Rebecca Trammel, late wife of Dick Trammel and former president of the Rogers Public Library Foundation, are funding a new outdoor feature at the Rogers Public Library. Artist Xi Krump of Studio Xi and collaborator Sara Ford started work June 9 on Rebecca’s Garden.
The three-dimensional garden mural will grace the preschool and toddler area, and once it is completed in late June, a free-standing reading arbor will be added, along with a large working clock that will be incorporated into the overall design of the room.
Books, puzzles and games about time and nature purchased in memory of Rebecca Trammel will also be added. Completion of the project is expected by late July.
ARTS CENTER OF THE OZARKS at 214 S. Main St. in Springdale (751-5441): Milan Jilka’s “From the Sun to the Sea” and Brad Williams’ “Black, White, & Blues,” through July 9.
ARSAGA’S on Crossover Road in Fayetteville (527-0690): Oil on canvas and metal sculpture by Eugene Sargent, through June.
ARSAGA’S on Gregg Avenue in Fayetteville (444-6557): Group showing of recent works by Amy Wolfe, Colin Miles and Chad Sims, through June.
ART EMPORIUM at 2914 N. College Ave. in Fayetteville (521-4141): Works by Christina Mariotti, Gail Stoops, Ruben Morawicki, William Flanagan, Nathan Beatty, Judy Maurer, Jane Garrison, Don House, Alice Lynn Greenwood, Nathan Bottoms, Sharon Gonzalez, Lila Rostenberg, Nadine Rippelmeyer and Robert Andes.
ARTFUL SPACES at 266 W. Mountain St. in Fayetteville (582-5554): Giclee prints by Don House; watercolors by Dan Kerlin; lamps by Don Hardgrave; stained glass by P.J. and Steve Robowski; pottery by Peter Lippincott.
ART RESOURCES at 3291 S. Thompson St., Suite H101, in Springdale (725-2100): Prints and original works by artists including Erica Daniel, Jane Garrison, Diana Harvey, Rebecca Johnson, Paul Rossi, Hank and JoAnne Kaminsky.
DUCK CLUB GALLERY at 2333 N. College Ave. in Fayetteville (443-7262): Prints by William McNamara, Jane Wier Garrison, Wilnita Holland, Ed Daggett, Karolyn Farrell and Richard DeSpain; photography and prints by Tim Ernst; collector decoys by Jules Bouillet; federal and state duck stamp prints; University of Arkansas art prints by various artists; engraving by Linda Cullers.
ENIGMA at 15 N. Block Ave. in Fayetteville (587-0304): Contemporary American crafts, pottery and jewelry.
ESSENTIAL ARTS at 1208 N. Garland Ave. in Fayetteville (442-0100): Paintings by James Yale and Annemieke Knox, photography by Clare Marie Cosmos and Marc Quiley, pottery by Carsten Ewald and Katy Carnaham, crafts by local artists.
FLAT ROCK CLAY STUDIO at 2002 S. School Ave. in Fayetteville (521-3181): Works by Oklahoma and Arkansas potters and studio clay artists.
FUSION FINE ARTS GALLERY at 109 N. Main St. in Bentonville (273-9278): Works by Mark Rademacher, Nancy Baptiste, Kyle Henry, Stephanie Henry, P.J. and Steve Robowski, Victor Chalfant, Toeri Jackman, Carol Cooper, Eric Haun, Kelly Green and Dan McWilliams.
HEARTWOOD GALLERY at 428 S. Government Ave. in Fayetteville (444-0888): Artists’ cooperative featuring the works of more than 20 regional artists.
J. GALLERY at 311 W. Dickson St., Suite 103, in Fayetteville (521-2004): Works by Christina Mariotti, Eric Smith, John Fitzgibbon, Sean Fitzgibbon, Jason Howell-Smith, Thomas Arvid, Jeanette Baxter, Eric Miser, Amy Laser, N. Yarbrough and Steven Wise.
MYSTIC MELON at 16 S. West Ave. in Fayetteville (582-9482): Folk art, jewelry and gems by Sat and Teresa Pictor.
SHELBY LANE THOMAS KINKADE GALLERY at 120 S. Second St. in Rogers (621-0505): Prints, canvases and more by Thomas Kinkade.
TERRA STUDIOS at 12103 Hazel Valley Road in Durham (643-3185): Whimsical works in glass and pottery plus Bluebirds of Happiness.
WALTON ARTS CENTER, at West Avenue and Dickson Street, Fayetteville (443-5600): “My Story: Children’s Lives in Pictures,” McCoy Gallery at Nadine Baum Studios, through Aug. 18; “Passionate Gestures: Painting and Sculpture by Rita Blitt,” Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Cynthia H. Coughlin Gallery and Tyson Plaza, through Aug. 5. An art party for Rita Blitt’s exhibit is set for 5-7 p.m. today.
WISHING SPRING ART& CRAFTS GALLERY, east of U.S. 71 and Benton County 40 in Bella Vista (273-1798): Fine art and crafts created and sold by members of the Village Art Club. Featured artist for June is woodcarver Don Hunt.
EUREKA SPRINGS
DREAM GALLERY at 99 Spring St. (253-8422): Paintings, prints, sculpture, metal work and more.
EUREKAN ART STUDIO AND GALLERY at 150 N. Main St. (253-0928): Local and regional artists.
EUREKA THYME at 121 E. Van Buren (363-9600): Featuring works by more than 90 local artists and craftspeople, including painting, jewelry, woodcraft and metal works. Cynthia Re Robbins will be the featured artist of the month for June. The theme of her show is “visionary paintings of ‘Brilliant Beings’.”
GUMPSHUN GALLERY at 84 Spring St. (253-0123): Original carvings, Western and Native American art.
ONE TRICK PONY at 82 Spring St. (253-8310): Fine art prints, bronze and furniture.
QUICKSILVER ART & FINE CRAFT GALLERY at 73 Spring St. (253-7679): Pottery; smoke drawings by Ed Lohrum; wildlife watercolors by Christina Smith; photography by Jim Mayfield; the McNamara Collection of limited edition prints; artist-made jewelry in silver, gold and bronze; more.
STUDIO 62 at 335 W. Van Buren (363-9209): Art by Ron Lutz and Jody Stephenson.
WILLOW SPRING GALLERY at 33 White St. (253-7806): Works by members of the Arkansas Craft Guild.