Murals, Figure Paintings in University Galleries

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Art: ‘earth.seed’

“Earth. Seed,” A new mural by Justin Bryant, a faculty member at the Pulaski Institute of Technology at the University of Arkansas, was on view Tuesday at the Windgate Gallery at the Center for the Arts and Humanities at 3000 W. Scenic Drive in North Little Rock. The Academy will host an opening reception on January 26th from 6-8 pm; the exhibit will run through March 17th. Admission to the gallery and reception is free. Gallery hours are 10am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. Call (501) 812-2831 or email kleftwich@uaptc.edu.

“Vivid Intentions”

“Vivid Intentions,” Conceptually introspective and avant-garde pieces heralding the changing seasons are on view through January 29 at Fenix ​​Gallery on Mt. Sequoyah, Millar Lodge, 150 N. Skyline Drive, Fayetteville. Gallery hours are Friday noon to 5pm, Saturday noon to 6pm and Sunday 1pm to 5pm. Free admission.access www.fenixarts.org.

Character Drawings

“Robert Bean: Characters Drawing On and Off Screen,” Bean’s paintings, chair of the painting department at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts’ Windgate School of Art and adjunct instructor of figure painting at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, are on view Tuesday at the Ann Maners and Alex Pappas Galleries, Windgate Center for Art and Design, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave. , Little Rock. According to the release, the drawings reflect Bean’s response to the covid-19 pandemic “on a personal and professional level.” The exhibition will run until February 28th. An Artist Reception will be held at the Taylor/Mourning Lobby in the Windgate Center on January 27th from 5:30pm to 7pm. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, Saturday 10am to 1pm and Sunday 2pm to 5pm. Free admission. Call (501) 916-5104 or email nglarson@ualr.edu.

music: chamber concert

The Rockefeller Quartet of the Arkansas Symphony—Trisha McGovern Freeney and Linnaea Brophy, violins; Katherine Reynolds, viola; and Jacob Wunsch, cello—performed Dmitry Shostakovich’s Seventh String Quartet and Ellie Alte Carter’s “Elegy” river rhapsody Chamber music concert, Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in the lobby of the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.

Violinist Kiril Laskarov and pianist Carl Anthony will perform Sergei Prokofiev’s Sonata in D major, op.94bis. Geoffrey Robson and Katherine Williamson, violins; Timothy MacDuff, viola; and David Gerstein, cellist will perform Shulamit Ran’s String Quartet No. 3 “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory.”

Tickets are $26, students and active military $10.Call (501) 666-1761, ext. 1, or visit Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.

Movie: “address”

MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, screen Ken Burns’ documentary “Address,” Follow 50 students as they recite Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address at a school in Putney, Virginia, Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Free admission, popcorn and soft drinks. Call (501) 376-4602.

ETC. : Elaine Symposium

The Hot Springs NAACP will host a “Voice of Elaine: The Arkansas Massacre of 1919 and Its Lasting Impact”, Begins Feb. 4 at 11 a.m. in Central Theater, 1008 Central Ave., Hot Springs. The event, which marks Black History Month, will also feature screenings of the 2022 documentary “We Are Just Beginning – The Elaine Massacre and Looting of 1919,” which explores race in South Phillips County from September 30 to October confrontation. On February 2, 1919, it is estimated that hundreds of blacks were killed after black farmers tried to organize to get a fair price for their crops. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen will deliver a keynote address following the film; the symposium will conclude with a panel discussion on descendants of the Holocaust. Tickets, including lunch boxes, are $18 until Jan. 28 and $25 thereafter; $10 for students. Proceeds benefit the Elaine Museum and the Richard Wright Center for Civil Rights.access voicesofelainehs.org; For more information, please visit ElaineMuseum.org.

Mentorship Program

January 31st is the deadline for educators and/or administrators to nominate students in grades 9-12 who have demonstrated talent, skill or dedication in creative fields Art in ArkansasThe Arkansas Arts Council’s Mentoring Program “encourages, strengthens and expands the original ideas, process, personal experiences and artistic abilities of high school students,” according to a press release. Any teacher or administrator, including those involved in a homeschool program, may nominate students in any or all of the categories: compositional music, photography, literary arts, film, choreography, and visual arts. Students in the program must present their work or performances in the spring state finals, with cash prizes awarded to the winners in each artistic medium. Selected students will receive one-on-one mentoring sessions that include feedback and discussion on their creative process. Details, criteria and nomination form can be found at tinyurl.com/yc2sfuur.

Democratic Gazette staff writer Sean Clancy contributed to this roundup.