Monthly Archives: April 2013

Mixing Music, Drinks and Art at 2nd Friday Art Night

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2FAN logo Font sm2April showers us with another opportunity to enjoy 2nd Friday Art Night downtown in Little Rock from 5pm to 8pm.  Included in the various participating venues are Historic Arkansas Museum and Old State House Museum.  (For those who want to attend City Year’s Red Jacket Ball tonight honoring Rep. Darrin Williams, this works out perfectly because 2nd Friday Art Night starts at 5pm, so you can still enjoy it before RJB starts.)

At Historic Arkansas Museum, Capital Hotel Bar and Grill mixologist—and two-time Nog-off winner—David Burnette will mix and muddle, and show you how to make the perfect mint julep just in time for derby season. Ozark-inspired, funky-folk band Mockingbird will set the whole splendid night to music.

At the Old State House Museum, Tim Anthony will play jazz music.

The Arkansas Studies Institute has several exhibits including: Clinton for Arkansas, Arkansas Society of Printmakers, From the Vault: Works from the CALS Permanent Collection and No I’m Not, He Is: “A Flying Snake and Oyyo” Comic Retropsective.

April 11 Architeaser

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IMG_4810This rounded brick work can be found in the La Harpe’s building on President Clinton Avenue and Rock Street.   Over the decades this building has housed a variety of stores, offices and restaurants.  This photo was taken outside of the KATV River Market studio.

 

Midori, ASYO and CALS collaborate this weekend

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asoyoWorld-famous violinist Midori will accompany the Arkansas Youth Symphony String Quartet for two separate events at the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS). The events will be on Friday, April 12, 3:45 p.m. at the Children’s Library and Learning Center, 4800 W. 10th Street, and Saturday, April 13, 3:30 p.m. at the Terry Library, 2015 Napa Valley Drive.

The Arkansas Symphony Youth Orchestra (ASYO) was chosen as one of two recipients for Midori’s Orchestra Residency Programs for the 2012-2013 season.  The programs are designed to support and encourage youth orchestras in the United States. Through the week-long residency, Midori collaborates in a wide range of activities with both the youth orchestras and their partner professional organizations.

calsIn the 2012-2013 season, violinist Midori will celebrate the 30th anniversary of her performing career.

She made her debut at age 11 as a surprise guest soloist with the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta in 1982. Today, Midori is recognized as an extraordinary performer, a devoted and gifted educator, and an innovative community engagement activist.

The ASYO began as a dream of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s founders in the 1960s and today continues to attract Arkansas’s leading student-musicians. Ranging in age from 9-18 years and traveling from over thirty-seven communities throughout the state, the ASYO has grown to over 200 members. The Arkansas Youth Symphony String Quartet formed eight years ago in 2005.

April 10 Architeaser

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The pyramid capped bricks are found on the building now known as the River Market Ottenheimer Hall.  This detail can be found on the eastern end of the building above the first floor.  The building was designed by Illinois native Charles Thompson and Canadian Fred Rickon who formed a partnership in Little Rock in 1891.  The pair were in a partnership until 1897; the firm continues today as the Cromwell firm.

The repurposed building opened in 1996 as the River Market’s anchor along President Clinton Avenue between Rock Street and River Market Avenue.

AAC Hosts Exhibition of ceramics by Ron Meyers

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“Platter with a Rabbit” – Ron Meyers

Rats, fish, goats, rabbits, frogs, chickens and more—these are the animals that adorn the wildly colorful and functional ceramics of Ron Meyers.With a career spanning nearly fifty years, Ron Meyers is one of the most prolific American ceramics artists working today; and through his spontaneous and expressionistic designs has influenced generations of studio potters.

Ron Meyers: A Potter’s Menagerie is the first comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work and features more than one hundred ceramics in a variety of forms—plates, platters, bowls, covered jars, yunomi (tea bowls)—as well as a selection of his rarely exhibited drawings.

Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, Meyers received his Bachelor of Science (1956) and Master of Science (1961) degrees in art education from Buffalo State University (SUNY-Buffalo) and his Master of Fine Arts (1967) degree in ceramics from the School for American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology. Upon graduating, Meyers served as the first instructor in ceramics at the University of South Carolina, Columbia (1967-1972) before moving to the University of Georgia, Athens, where he taught ceramics from 1972 until his retirement in 1993.

A full-color catalogue, published by the Arkansas Arts Center, will accompany the exhibition.

Sponsored by:
Windgate Charitable Foundation
The Hon. Robert L. and Charlotte B. Brown
Brenda Mize

QQA Preservation Conversations Tonight: Architectural Interiors

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QQAThe Quapaw Quarter Association’s monthly award-winning Preservation Conversation series continues tonight.

This month  Brent Hull, Owner and President of Hull Historical. Known for award-winning design of exceptional architectural interiors, Hull Historical provides expertise in residential and historic preservation. Trained in the art of museum quality preservation at the prestigious North Bennet Street School in Boston, Brent is the exclusive licensee for the architectural interiors of the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate in Wilmington, Delaware, the original home of H.F. du Pont. Hull is a board member of the Texas Chapter of the ICAA, and recipient of the 2012 NBSS Distinguished Alumni Award.

The program takes place this evening at Curran Hall, 615 East Capitol Avenue. From 5 to 5:30 a reception will take place. The program will run from 5:30 to 6:30.

The Quapaw Quarter Association’s mission is to promote the preservation of Little Rock’s architectural heritage through advocacy, marketing and education. Incorporated in 1968, the QQA grew out of an effort to identify and protect significant historic structures in Little Rock during the urban renewal projects of the early 1960s. Throughout its existence, the QQA has been a driving force behind historic preservation in Greater Little Rock.

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April 9 Architeaser

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IMG_4812On the anniversary of La Harpe seeing the “Little Rock” for the first time, today’s Architeaser celebrates a building which is located near the Little Rock and looks to the past and the future.

The Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce headquarters, located on Markham between Scott Street and the 4 Corners intersection (Markham, LaHarpe, Cumberland, President Clinton).  Designed by the firm Polk Stanley and Yeary (now Polk Stanley Wilcox), the building won awards in 2001 and 2002 from chapters of the American Institute of Architects.

The design evokes both mid-century designs with the buff brick and glass blocks, but also incorporates many contemporary facets of architectural design both inside and outside.