BROOKE McNEELY Northwest Arkansas Times
Martesh Logan, 11, from left, Briance Ivy, 8, Jermarion Logan, 9, and other children at the Donald W. Reynolds Boys & Girls Club show university students from Indonesia an American dance Tuesday. The Indonesian students are visiting as part of the Indonesia English Language Study Program to experience American culture and teach others about their own.
BROOKE McNEELY Northwest Arkansas Times
Trent Tally, from right, helps third-grader Rachael Utecht and fourth-grader Kaylee Smith make clay pots Tuesday during Happy Hollow Elementary’s intercession learning week at Nadine Baum Studios. During the week, Happy Hollow students pick special art classes and learn different skills.
Distinguished artist Tom Block will present a lecture about his human rights painting project at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in ARKU 510-511. The project is currently on display in the Anne Kittrell Art Gallery, fourth floor of the Arkansas Union. For more info about this artist visit www.tomblock.com. His work will be on display until May 2. Gallery hours are 12:30 to 8:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
remy fine art, 720 Garrison, Fort Smith, will be featuring a solo exhibition of new work by Steve Griffith. The exhibit, “Windows to the World”, will open with a reception for the artist on May 1, from 6:00 pm-8:00 pm. The exhibit will be on view from May 1-June 11, 2008. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday from noon to 5:00 pm.
Griffith’s art is represented by galleries in Atlanta, Dallas, Santa Fe and Hot Springs. The artist’s genre of painting ranges from abstraction to expressionism to impressionism and the exhibit will feature new works in sculpture.
For further information visit the gallery’s web site at remyfineart.com
The Fulbright College department of music will feature U of A violin professor, Dr. Er-Gene Kahng in concert on Tuesday afternoon, May 6 at 4:00 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. She will be accompanied on piano by Ryo Yanagitani. They will be performing works by Claude Debussy, Robert Schumann, Ernest Chausson, and Sergei Prokoviev.
Dr. Kahng joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas in 2007. She studied at the R.D. Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles and received degrees from UCLA, Yale, and Northwestern. She has served as a cultural and musical ambassador to Hiroshima, Japan, Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Johannesburg, South Africa. Read more…
Pat Walker Health Center is pleased to announce the sculpture “positive attracts positive,” a sculptural installation concerning serotonin molecules and positivism, on display in the Elizabeth Phillips Stewart Atrium of the Pat Walker Health Center. Artist Sarah E. Miller is a student in the Masters of Fine Arts Program at the University of Arkansas. The suspended sculpture can be viewed in the atrium from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday or any time from the view on Garland Avenue. For more information about the artist, please visit her Web site, www.sarahemiller.com.
A Fun-raiser!
Pearl’s Gettin’ Hitched…Again!
the premiere production of “The 6th Marriage Of Pearl Ernestina Santiago Finklestein Washington Tankoshitsu Covington nee Gates of Dupont, Missisppi.”
Saturday, May 17, 2008
6:30 pm
Metro District Building
509 West Spring Street
(above Flying Burrito)
Tickets
$20 in advance
$25 at the door
limited seating-advanced purchase encouraged
For tickets call 479.571.4879
All proceeds benefit the
2008 Fayetteville Arts Festival
Hors d’ouvres, libations, raffle and silent auction items
The University of Arkansas Jazz Ensembles under the direction of James Greeson will perform their Spring concert featuring guest trombonist Tony Baker from the University of North Texas. The two 17 piece big bands playing music by Count Basie, Matt Harris, Rob McConnell and Miles Davis. Also the faculty jazz combo consisting of Claudia Burson, pianol; Jim Greeson, bass, Ben Harris, guitar & Steve Wilkes will perform a short set with Mr. Baker featuring well-known jazz standards.
Tony Baker is a faculty member at the University of North Texas College of Music where he teaches both in the classical and jazz areas. He holds positions in both the Dallas Opera Orchestra and the Dallas Jazz Orchestra and has performed with Wynton Marsalis, Doc Severinsen, Arturo Sandoval and the Woody Herman Band. He has recorded with the Dallas Jazz Orchestra and the Sounds of Blackness on their Grammy-nominated compact disc, Time for Healing.
The concert will take place at 7:30 pm in the University of Arkansas’ Arkansas Union Theater on Wednesday, April 23. There is no admission charge and the concert is open to the public.
CONTACT PERSON: James Greeson, Jazz Ensemble director 201 Music Bldg. U of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR 72701 (479) 575-4190 (Voice) (479) 575-5409 (Fax) jgreeson@uark.edu
By Brenda Joyce Coda
April 17th, 2008
“Everything must change, nothing stays the same…” goes the 1974 song by Bernard Ighner. Change occurs as people come and go, make new or different choices, form and join and leave groups and affiliations. Those who offer the arts, whether as a business, a class for self-expression, or a product for an audience, are not immune to these changes, and must respond in order to continue.
The following arts-related organizations and businesses in Fayetteville have survived - or come into existence - as a result of being in touch with and working with their community’s needs and wants. Rather than resisting or fearing change, they looked with an eye on both the old and new to add to the experience for both the audience and the artist. Then they worked with the changes large and small externally or within the organization itself.
The decision of which organizations to include in this story was made both subjectively (well-known to the public or by this writer) and randomly. Read more…
