Open now through January 18, 2015, Winthrop Rockefeller Gallery
The Sculpture of Stoney Lamar

This exhibition presents work from 1987 to the present. Uninspired by traditional turned wood vessel forms, Stoney Lamar embarked on a personal exploration of the lathe and other tools of turners and woodworkers. This spirit of experimentation has firmly placed his work in the avant-garde of the wood turning world. Not only was he one of the first to use multi-axial turning, but eventually he added steel, color and distressed surface treatments.

Open now through February 1, 2015, Jeannette Edris Rockefeller and Townsend Wolfe Galleries
William Beckman: Drawings, 1967-2013

This exhibition includes intimate portraits of friends and family members, alongside arresting nudes of the artist and his wife. Some of the most attention-demanding works are massive portrayals of bulls. Accompanying the exhibition is a 112-page, full-color catalogue of Beckman’s work, which includes a revealing interview with the artist by exhibition curator Tom Butler and also illustrates archival photos from his childhood and college days. The catalogue is published by D Giles, Ltd., London. The exhibition was originated by the Columbus Museum in response to the ideas of Townsend Wolfe, the long-time director of the Arkansas Arts Center.

Open now through February 15, 2015, Museum School Gallery
Color, An Artist’s Tale: Paintings by Virmarie DePoyster

As a child, DePoyster absorbed the brilliant colors of her birth country, Puerto Rico, which now dominate her art, as featured in the Color, An Artist’s Tale: Paintings by Virmarie DePoyster exhibition. She first started painting at the Arkansas Art Center Museum School where she quickly fell in love with the bright pigments of soft pastels and developed a true passion for painting with pastels on surfaces she created