Three current exhibits close this Sunday at the Arkansas Arts Center.

Chuck Close, Self Portrait, 2000
sceenprint on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, © 2000 Chuck Close

Multiplicity
Jeannette Edris Rockefeller Gallery

The concept of making multiple images from the same matrix has been integral to printmaking since the earliest prints were pulled from woodblocks and metal plates in the 15th century.

Pulled from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s permanent collection,Multiplicity demonstrates how today’s most celebrated print makers utilize and exploit the “multiple” nature of printmaking to create complex and innovative works.

Organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with support from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Endowment Fund. The C.F. Foundation in Atlanta supports the museum’s traveling exhibition program, Treasures to Go.

Dorothy and Herbert Vogel at The Clocktower with a drawing by Philip Pearlstein behind them, 1975.
Photography Credit: Nathaniel Tileston. Courtesy Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

50 for Arkansas: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
Townsend Wolfe Gallery

50 for Arkansas features works from the collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel. In 2008, the Vogels, avid art collectors, launched the gift program The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States. After decades of amassing one of the great contemporary art collections, on his salary as a postal worker while living on her salary as a reference librarian, the Vogels gave 50 works from their collection to an art institution in each of the 50 states. The Arkansas Arts Center was selected for Arkansas.

50 for Arkansas is a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.

Sheriff Rubber Ducky by William Price (2010)
Cherry, steel, brass

38th Toys Designed by Artists
Winthrop Rockefeller Gallery

The Toys Designed By Artistsexhibition engages museum visitors, delighting young and old alike. In 1973, the Arkansas Arts Center initiated an exhibition of toys designed by artists. Inspired by Alexander Calder’s circus figures of the late 1920s and early 1930s, this exhibition was launched to stimulate the imagination of both children and adults and to engage them with toys of whimsy, delight and good craftsmanship.

The tradition continues this season with the 38th Toys Designed by Artists. This international juried exhibition challenges artists to take the concept of “toy” and make a personal expression – a piece of art. The wildly inventive toys selected often hearken back to the days before plastic and mass production, when all toys were handmade and, whether simple or elaborate, engaged the imagination of both maker and user.