Yesterday’s Architeaser was a cast iron shutter dog in the shape of a bunch of grapes. It can be found on 3rd Street on the campus of Historic Arkansas Museum. Other structures on that campus have shutter dogs in the shape of stars, this building is the only one with the shape of grapes. Histories Arkansas Museum is a museum of the Department of Arkansas Heritage.
Since today is Flag Day, here is today’s Architeaser.
As Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote, “June is bustin’ out all over.” Tonight, art is bustin’ out all over downtown with the monthly 2nd Friday Art Night.
Among the many stops are:
Quapaw Quarter Association at Curran Hall, 615 East Capitol Avenue. The artists Dixie Rogers and David Bud Bell will have art on display throughout the period rooms in Little Rock’s official visitors center.
Butler Center Galleries, 401 President Clinton Avenue. Pattern in Perspective: Recent Work by Carly Dahl and Dustyn Bork. Carly Dahl and Dustyn Bork are an artist couple who both work in painting, printmaking, and installation.
Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 East Third Street. Recent Acquistions; A Collection Vision, 2008-2012. A look at artwork acquired by HAM over the past four years. In addition there will be live music by Blue-Collared Greens and a beer tasting with our local brewery, Diamond Bear.
Christ Episcopal Church, 509 Scott Street. Art Musings. Work by clients of the Creative Expressions Program of the Arkansas State Hospital.
Earlier this month, Ballet Arkansas hosted its annual spring soiree. At the evening, Joseph F. Kolb was presented with the “Above the Barre” award. Kolb was recognized for his past leadership on the Ballet Arkansas board. In the early 2000s, Kolb served as the producer of the annual Ballet Arkansas production of The Nutcracker when there was no staff available to do so.
Joe and Cindy Kolb
Kolb has also been an active board member of the Arkansas Repertory Theatre and Historic Arkansas Museum. He and his wife Cindy have two daughters. The oldest one is taking dance classes, so he now his most important connection is a ballet dad instead of being a ballet board member.
Also at the soiree, Ballet Arkansas announced its 2012-2013 season and featured dancers presenting preview moments. The season will kick off with American Images on October 12 – 14, 2012. The dancers will interpret iconic pieces of art in dance. The performances will take place at Wildwood Park for the Arts in conjunction with Wildwood’s Harvest Fest.
Next up will be the annual production of The Nutcracker from December 7 – 9, 2012 at Robinson Center Music Hall. This holiday tradition will featured not only Company members and Ballet Arkansas II but also dozens upon dozens of local dance students.
Ballet Arkansas spring into Spring at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre. From April 5 – 7, 2013, it will present Spring into Motion which will feature a variety of dances.
Throughout the season, the Company tour beyondCATEGORY throughout the state. In conjunction with this tour, the Company will also offer workshops.
Lauren Quick Strother is the Executive Director of Ballet Arkansas. The guest artist and artistic advisor is Michael Bearden, courtesy of BalletWest. Guy Couch is the Tour Director. The 2012-2013 Company includes: Leslie Dodge, Lauren McCarty Horak, Toby Lewellen, Anna Maris, Sean Porter, Laurel Dix, Paul Tillman, Katchiri Feys Tillman and Amanda Sewell.
Tonight is the monthly Second Friday Art Night. Among the many stops on the way is Historic Arkansas Museum, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage.
In keeping the May being Heritage Month, HAM is opening an exhibit tonight which showcases three Arkansas artists who celebrate Arkansas’ history. In the Trinity Gallery for Arkansas Artists the exhibit is called Creating the Elements of Discovery: Tim Imhauser, Jason Powers and Emily Wood.
The exhibit will run through August 5. Each artist’s approach makes way for a subtle discovery, into object, person and place.
Little Rock sculptor Tim Imhauser’s wood pieces reveal the nature of the wood’s grain as he, through sculpting, enhances those patterns to tell its story. Ozark artist Jason Powers’ graphite drawings capture the small expressions of human emotion, while he continues to pursue diversity in the subject matter and media of his art. Little Rock artist Emily Wood expresses a sense of a place in her landscapes, drawing inspiration from her southern Arkansas upbringing.
Down the street from HAM at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, two exhibits will be highlighted: Arkansas Arts Educators State Youth Art Show 2012 plus Small Town: Portraits of a Disappearing America.
The Arkansas Art Educators State Youth Art Show 2012 includes the Best of Show winners from art competitions held in seven different regions in the state: Northwest, Northeast, Central, Eastern, Southwest, Southeastern, and Western. The artwork was created by talented students from kindergarten through twelfth grade.
The photographic exhibition Small Town: Portraits of a Disappearing America will also be opening.
The UALR Evenings with History program concludes the 2011-2012 series tonight with Edward Anson’s “Counter-Insurgency: The Lessons of Alexander the Great.”
During Alexander the Great’s conquering expedition, which took him from Greece to Egypt to the Punjab, he only endured one serious insurrection against his once established authority. This talk shows how he dealt with the peoples of the areas he conquered, mollifying them through the retention of basic political, cultural, and religious institutions and establishing close bonds with local elites. Why, then, did his policy fail in the one instance that produced an insurgency? The talk assesses that failure and examines the brutal counter-insurgent measures employed by Alexander to deal with this resistance to his authority.
Edward M. Anson has authored or edited five books, including Eumenes of Cardia: A Greek Among Macedonians (Leiden, Boston, Tokyo: E. J. Brill, 2004), more than thirty articles in journals, including Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, The Journal of Cuneiform Studies, The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Classical Philology, Historia: Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte, Phoenix, Classical Journal, Greece and Rome, Ancient Society, Ancient History Bulletin, The Ancient World, and The American Journal of Philology; ten book chapters, and over fifty encyclopedia articles. He received his PhD from the University of Virginia and is currently Professor of History, a faculty senator, and a former President of the University Assembly.
The Evenings with History take place in the Ottenheimer Auditorium in the Historic Arkansas Museum at 200 E. Third Street. Refreshments are served at 7:00 p.m., and the talk begins at 7:30 p.m.
Corporate sponsors for the 2011-2012 season are Delta Trust, Union Pacific Railroad, the Little Rock School District—Teaching American History Program; the law firms of Friday, Eldredge, & Clark and Wright, Lindsey & Jennings. Also thanks for support and gifts in kind from the Ottenheimer Library; Historic Arkansas Museum, a museum of the Department of Arkansas Heritage; UALR Public Radio–KLRE-KUAR; and Grapevine Spirits
History takes front and center at this month’s 2nd Friday Art Night.
First up, the Butler Center Galleries of the Arkansas Studies Institute are featuring the new exhibit “Making a Place: Jewish Experience in Arkansas.” This exhibit explores the development of the Jewish community in Arkansas focusing on immigration, isolation and assimilation.
Over at Historic Arkansas Museum, the Smittle Band will be entertaining visitors who are looking at the temporary and permanent exhibits of art and history. The evening will also feature a sample of wines hosted by downtown’s very own Zin Wine Bar.
The Old State House Museum will be open so that visitors can see the new exhibit “Things You Need to Hear: Memories of Growing up in Arkansas from 1890 to 1980.”
Another exhibit with a history flavor will be at studioMain. The March exhibition is “The History of Our Downtown.”
These and other stops of 2nd Friday Art Night will be open from 5pm to 8pm. While on-street parking is available near most sites, a free trolley makes stops at each of the venues. The Arkansas Times is a sponsor of 2nd Friday Art Night.
The UALR Evenings with History program returns tomorrow night (March 6) with Charles W. Romney’s “A Brief History of Human Rights.”
What are Human Rights? Some claim humans have always had rights that cannot be traded, infringed, or given away. Others argue international organizations and American officials invented the concept of human rights in the 1970s to further various political agendas. In this Evening with History we will discuss the two historical interpretations behind each vision of human rights, assess the relative strength of both ideas of international rights, and explore the political and intellectual stakes in the debate over the origins of Human Rights.
Charles Romney graduated from Pomona College and received his Ph.D. in history from UCLA. He worked in public history for seven years on documentary films and digital history projects, and in the five years before joining UALR taught Asian and African history at Whittier College in California. At UALR he is the Graduate Coordinator of the History Department’s MA program in Public History. Dr. Romney teaches classes on public history, digital history, African history, and on the United States and the world. His current research includes a study of law, labor, and the state in modern America and a comparative history of colonial Hawaii.
The Evenings with History take place in the Ottenheimer Auditorium in the Historic Arkansas Museum at 200 E. Third Street. Refreshments are served at 7:00 p.m., and the talk begins at 7:30 p.m.
Corporate sponsors for the 2011-2012 season are Delta Trust, Union Pacific Railroad, the Little Rock School District—Teaching American History Program; the law firms of Friday, Eldredge, & Clark and Wright, Lindsey & Jennings. Also thanks for support and gifts in kind from the Ottenheimer Library; Historic Arkansas Museum, a museum of the Department of Arkansas Heritage; UALR Public Radio–KLRE-KUAR; and Grapevine Spirits
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