Category Archives: Museum

Spring Break activities at the Museum of Discovery

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The Museum of Discovery has special events planned during Sprint Break.

Monday, March 23 – Tuesday, March 24
Celebrate spring break at the Museum of Discovery with special guests from AETN – Arkansas Educational Television Network!

Meet and have photos taken with PBS KIDS characters Curious George and The Man in the Yellow Hat Monday, March 23, and Peg + Cat, Tuesday, March 24, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day.

There will be science demos and special programming throughout the week.

Tinkering Studio
Open all Day

Meet the Museum Animals
9:30 to 10 a.m.
10:15 to 10:45 a.m.
11 to 11:30 a.m.
12 to 12:30 p.m.
1:30 to 2 p.m.
2:15 to 2:45 p.m.
3 to 3:30 p.m.
3:45 to 4:15 p.m.

Science Demos in Front of Discovery Hall Sign
11:15 to 11:45 a.m.
12:15 to 12:30 p.m.
2:15 to 2:45 p.m.

Kevin Delaney’s Awesome Science Shows in the Theater
1 to 1:45 p.m.
3 to 3:45 p.m.

Story Time in Room to Grow
10 a.m.
12 p.m.
2 p.m.
3:30 p.m.

Craft Stations
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Wiggle Worms : The Science of Magic Sand; 10am on Tuesday

 

Science demos, shows and animal programs will continue throughout the week.

 

Celebrate National Quilting Day at Historic Arkansas Museum 

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Join the Arkansas Quilters Guild at Historic Arkansas Museum to celebrate National Quilting Day!

Arkansas Quilters guild will celebrate National Quilting Day by presenting demonstrations of several quilting techniques. Learn about English paper piecing, how to create a 2-color binding and modern cutting techniques. There will be a demo of the official National Quilting Day Quilt Pattern with instructions for its construction. See also how to create a “Disappearing Hourglass”. Learn more about the art of quilting and the rich heritage it offers us as you visit with guild members.

While you’re at HAM, check out the award-winning quilts on display in the Great Arkansas Quilt Show III exhibit.  Historic Arkansas Museum is an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage.

Women Entrepreneurs celebrated at Mosaic Templars today

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Women Phenomenal: A Celebration of Women Entrepreneurs – Join Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in celebration of some of central Arkansas’s phenomenal women in honor of National Women’s History Month. The program runs from 11:30am until 1:00pm. 

Enjoy lunch and a candid conversation with a group of business savvy leaders and entrepreneurs who will share their stories of success and struggles as they found their path in the business world. 

Special guests include: Leanna Godley, founder and president of Goddess Products, Inc.; Yolanda Hughes, owner, RSVP Catering; Ashley Jones, owner, Ashley Ann’s Event Planning Service and Patricia Nunn Brown, director, Arkansas Economic Development Commission’s Small and Minority Business Division. 

The event will be moderated by MTCC Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of “PowerPlay” magazine, Sericia Cole.

Lunch is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Contact Tameka Lee at 501.683.3620 or tameka@arkansasheritage.org to reserve your seat.

Governor’s Arts Awards presented today

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Today at noon at the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion, Governor Asa Hutchinson will join with the Arkansas Arts Council to present the annual Governor’s Arts Awards.

Lifetime Achievement Award-Jana L. Beard, Little Rock

Arts Community Development Award-Remica Gray, Texarkana

Arts in Education Award-DeltaARTS, West Memphis

Corporate Sponsorship of the Arts Award-Entergy Arkansas, Inc.

Folklife Award-Margaret Jones Bolsterli, Fayetteville

Individual Artist Award-Kevin Kresse, Little Rock

Patron Award-Curt & Chucki Bradbury, Little Rock

Judges Recognition Award-Kaki Hockersmith, Little Rock

 

The annual Governor’s Arts Awards were established in 1991 to recognize Arkansas artists, arts patrons and corporations for their outstanding contributions to the arts community. The recipients are nominated by the public and selected by distinguished panel of arts professionals from around the state.

The Arkansas Arts Council is an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage.

NATIONAL GALLERY film shown tonight through Clinton School/LR Film Festival partnership

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Frederick Wiseman’s “National Gallery” takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. 

The documentary is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings. In a perpetual and dizzying game of mirrors, film watches painting watches film. 

Fred Wiseman is one of today’s greatest living documentary filmmakers. For close to thirty years, he has created an exceptional body of work consisting of thirty full-length films devoted primarily to exploring American institutions.

The film will be shown tonight at the Ron Robinson Theater at 6pm. It is sponsored by the Clinton School for Public Service and the Little Rock Film Festival. 

Civil War Archeology is Brown Bag topic today at Old State House

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The Old State House Museum will host a Brown Bag lecture today at 12 noon. 

Dr. Carl Drexler will discuss recent Civil War archaeology in Arkansas, including the battlefield at Wallace’s Ferry, near Helena-West Helena, fortifications at Camden, and civilians along the Red River. 

Dr. Drexler is a historical archaeologist with the Arkansas Archaeological Survey, specializing in the archaeology of the Civil War.

The Ides of March Are Come

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“The Ides of March are come” – so wrote William Shakespeare.

In tribute to the day on which Julius Caesar was felled by assassins in Rome, a look at a two pieces of art featuring views of Rome, which are in the Arkansas Arts Center collection.    
The first presents a classical take on Rome. View of the Piazza del Campidoglio (Veduta della Piazza del Campdoglio) was created in 1774 by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 – 1778). The print is an etching, acquired by the Arts Center in 1990; it was a gift of John and Grace Marjorie Wood Keppel and Nell Wood.

According to the Arkansas Arts Center,

The Campidoglio has been the seat of the city government of Rome from ancient times to the present. At the top of the Capitoline Hill-one of the famed Seven Hills of Rome-the buildings in Piranesi’s etching are the work of Michelangelo. These elegant Renaissance palaces, perched on this ancient site, were important tourist destinations in the 18th century just as they are today.

Piranesi takes a viewpoint from the side of the site, giving us a dramatic diagonal view of one palace and a head-on view of the other. In the foreground are Grand Tourists in their three-cornered hats as well as a number of less well dressed, slightly suspicious-looking figures.

The second piece is John Heliker’s Pertaining to Rome. Heliker was a 20th Century artist from New York living from 1909 to 2000. His painting is an abstract look at the Italian capital city. It was a gift in 2005 to the Arkansas Arts Center from the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation, Inc.