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Art Exhibit “Euphoric Recall–Old & New Works”, featuring the art of Jane Peoples will be on display at the Fort Smith Art Center, located in the Historic District of Fort Smith, Arkansas, at 423 North 6th Street.

Jane’s unusual assemblage (or found object) art will be on display from Thursday July 3rd thru Saturday July 26th, with an opening reception, Thursday July 3rd, 5 - 7 p.m.

These works reflect the artist’s passion for combining used and totally dis-similar objects to form singular, thought provoking compositions.

See more of Jane’s work:  http://community.webtv.net/jainsart/Jainsart

Contact: jainsart2@webtv.net

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.

Master of Fine Arts candidate, Kelsey Felthousen, will be utilizing the Fine Arts Center Gallery as a “survelliance site” for her thesis exhibition, myspace, from March 24 - April 4. Felthousen will construct an inverted home in the Union Mall of the University of Arkansas campus, in which she will live during this time period. Gallery visitors will have the opportunity to sit and watch the artist in her “home” via an internet connection and large screen television, set up in the gallery for viewing. The irony of this situation is that the “viewer/voyeur” can also be watched, since the gallery is fronted with glass windows and doors.

Felthousen explains her thesis concept, as “(dealing) with the notions of an overexposed, vulnerable society that…feels unprotected. When creating this work I chose to broach the subject of sacred/private space and how that space is being given away freely, without thought of the consequences.”

“Sacred Space, as defined in this exhibition, is the preciousness of close relationships and the privacy within our lives and homes. One need not search far for evidence of this exposure. It can be seen in all aspects of our society, from television programming to technology.”

Construction on the outdoor installation piece began on March 14, with a house-warming held on Friday, March 21. A reception for the artist will be held on Friday, March 28 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Fine Arts Gallery and on the Union Mall.

To view the site online, go to http://www.uark.edu/home/11136.php

A reception for the artist will be held on Friday, March 28 from 5 - 7 pm in the gallery.

Some of Northwest Arkansas’ best artisans will show and sell their original art in partnership with The Living It Green Expo.  Sponsored by Stiel Direct LLC and the Eureka Springs Artist Registry, approximately twenty (20) artists will be selected to exhibit at The Living It Green Expo.

Original Art to be featured at The Living It Green Expo’s Art Show includes the following themes and mediums:

• Use recycled and/or found-art materials
• Mixed Media
• Outdoor and nature themes, including all mediums (photography, painting, etc.)
• Sculpture and 3-dimensional art
• Other art and mediums that reflects the event’s “Living It Green” theme

The Living It Green Art Show will showcase art and regional artist efforts to embrace, capture, and promote outdoor living, sustainable environmental resources and activities that engage families, individuals, and the community in quality, original art.

Admission and parking to The Living It Green Expo and Art Show is free to the public.

If you are an Artist interested in exhibiting and selling your art at The Living It Green Expo and Art Show, please contact us as soon as possible or visit www.livingitgreen.org

Dear Friends of the ASC –

We have a unique opportunity to invite you to a screening of the movie Black Gold, about the situation of coffee farmers in Ethiopia who do not receive fair prices for their coffee crops.  Literally hundreds of billions of dollars a year are being spent on coffee by consumers, but coffee workers make $0.50 a day or less.

We will be privileged to have with us at the screening Mr. Tadesse Meskela, the star of Black Gold.  Mr. Meskela is manager of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union in Ethiopia.

This film was directed and produced by Nick and Marc Francis and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

If you have an interest in Fair Trade and social sustainability, we encourage you to join us in the Willard J. Walker Hall auditorium at 7 pm on April 3.  This event is free and open to the public.  Tickets are not required for this event.

You can check out the film trailer at www.blackgoldmovie.com
Directions to Walker Hall are available at campusmaps.uark.edu

The official Walton College press release for the screening follows: Read more…

The Fulbright College department of music will feature classical saxophonist Stan Morris in recital on Wednesday evening, April 2 at 7:00 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.  Morris will be joined by Kristen Harwell, piano, and UA professor Dr. Er-Gene Kahng, violin, to present works by Percy Grainger, Walter Hartley, Erwin Schulhoff, and Maurice Whitney.  Also featured on the program is the work The Fields on the Edge of Forever, written by Dr. Robert Mueller, UA professor of composition, in 2002.

UA Saxophone professor, Stan Morris is also a graduate of the University of Arkansas.  He completed four years as a Naval musician, including a two year tour with the Naval Sixth Fleet in Europe, before completing a Master of Fine Arts degree in Saxophone Performance at the University of Georgia.  An active performing artist and clinician, he is listed on the touring roster of the Arkansas Arts Council.

The Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall is located in the Fine Arts Building on the UA campus.  Free parking is available in the parking deck, which can be accessed from Stadium Drive and is located directly to the west of the Fine Arts Building.  The admission is free and the public is cordially invited to attend.  For more information, please call the department of music at (479) 575-4701.

remy fine art is very honored to be featuring a solo exhibition of recent works by Kevin Arnold. The exhibit, “Eventide” will open with a reception for the artist on April 3rd, from 6:00pm-8:00pm. The exhibit will be on view from April 3rd-April 30th, gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday from noon-5pm.

Arnold, a BFA from the University of Arkansas, is widely regarded as one of the finest emerging artists from our region. The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith recently acquired one of Arnold’s paintings for their permanent collection exhibited in the newly dedicated Mary Tinnin Jaye Gallery. The painting, “In the Meantime” hangs alongside the work of Arthur Dove and John Marin.

Think of Kevin Arnold as our own Edward Hopper. He captures the rural heart, painting life with the parts Norman Rockwell left out: brooding loneliness, momentary thought and the silence that is left in the day after all the hard work is done. These are narrative paintings that do what the best art does: imply meaning that is greater than the explicit message of the work itself. This mystery is what will hold the viewer and cause one to return again and again to Arnold’s paintings in an attempt to gain understanding.

remy fine art is located at 720 Garrison, Fort Smith, AR. For additional information please visit www.remyfineart.com

Dance Coalition will present its Annual Spring Dance Concert at the Walton Arts Center Starr Theater, 495 W. Dickson, in Fayetteville on April 4, 5, and 6, 2008.

This year’s program will include new choreography in many styles of dance, including classical and contemporary ballet – some inspired by life right here in Arkansas – as well as, jazz and lyrical, modern dance, and Irish dance.

Choreographers and Guest Artists presenting work this year are Michelle Brekelbaum, Emily Viator, Hannah Pasquinzo, Tamarah Jonason, Anabelle Steeleman-Berry, Ana Ayala, Mary Trulock, Amy Kessler, and Sally Ashcraft.    Read more…

The Fayetteville Public Library will host

Artist Charles Banks Wilson
Wednesday, March 19, Noon
in the library’s Walker Community Room

and

The British Boom in Sci Fi
Wednesday, March 19, 6 pm
in the library’s Reading Room

Wilson will present an informal talk about his art as well as American Indian culture and history.

The British Boom in Sci Fi will be presented by Dr. Keith Booker, Director of Graduate Studies in English at the University of Arkansas, and Sandy Rankin, an English graduate student at the UA. The discussion will focus on important phenomenon in contemporary science fiction and on China Mieville, the leading member of the British Boom.

For more information on either event,
call the Reference Desk at 571.2222 x 4450 or visit www.faylib.org.