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Arts & Humanities Month: Sculpture at the River Market

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For the fifth year, the River Market Pavilions and surrounding area will be filled with hundreds of sculptures and thousands of people as the annual Sculpture at the River Market returns from October 14 through 16.

Several of the pieces purchased at previous shows are now on display throughout Little Rock including in Riverfront Park’s Vogel Schwartz Sulpture Garden.

The sculptures featured will include all types of media, style, subject matter, and size.  Among the artists participating are Michael Warrick, Kathleen Caricof, Tim Cherry, Denny Haskew, Shelley Buonaiuto, Dale Roark, Margaret Warren, Carolyn Barlock, Rollin Karg, Ed Pennebaker, Don Rambadt, Ron Chapel, Charles White, Jane Dedecker, Seth Vandable, Ted Schaal, Merrilee Cleveland, Timothy Nimmo, Clay Enoch, Mark Leichliter, James Vilona, Darrell Davis, Susie Chisholm, Daivd Nunneley, C.T. Whitehouse, Belgin Yucelen, Dee Clements, Terry Bean, Merlel Randolph, Karla Runquist, James Paulsen, Peter Rujuwa, Bryan Massey Sr., William Kolok, John Sewell, Ken Newman, Kim Shaklee, Gene Sparling, Alex Brown, Connie Hendrix, Pati Stajcar, Jim Goshorn, Julie McCraney-Brogdon, and Kevin Robb.

Admission to Sculpture at the River Market is free. Sculpture at the Market will run from 9AM to 5PM on Saturday, October 15 and from 10AM to 4PM on Sunday, October 16.

The sale and show is sponsored by the City of Little Rock and the National Sculptors’ Guild. Proceeds from the sale of artwork will fund upgrades in Riverfront Park and the River Market.

Arts & Humanities Month: Arkansas Symphony Orchestra

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October is Arts & Humanities Month.  To celebrate this, the LR Culture Vulture will highlight a different arts, humanities, or cultural experience each day of the month.

To kick things off in the month, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra starts its season with a Masterworks concert on October 1 and 2 at Robinson Center Music Hall.

Music Director Philip Mann leads the ASO in Italian Vacation.  The program consists of Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, Rossini’s, Overture to The Italian Girl in Algiers, Puccini’s Chrysanthemums and Respighi’s Pines of Rome.  In addition to the orchestra musicians, there will be an organ on stage for this concert.

The concert will be October 1 at 8pm at Robinson Center Music Hall and repeated again on Sunday, October 2 at 3pm.

For tickets and more information, visit the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra website.

Other ASO concerts this month include:

OCT 4 – Summer Vacation – Chamber Concert
Clinton Presidential Center
Debussy: String Quartet
Vivaldi: Concerto for 4 Violins

OCT 8-9 – Music of John Williams – Pops Concert
Robinson Center Music Hall
Music from Star Wars, Jaws, Superman, Indiana Jones, Schindler’s List, Harry Potter

OCT 22-23 – Fire & Light – Masterworks Concert
featuring Norman Krieger
Haydn: Symphony No. 59 “Fire”
Brahms: Concerto for Piano No. 1

OCT 25 – Norman Krieger – Chamber Concert
Clinton Presidential Center
Chopin: Selection for Solo Piano
Brahms: Piano Quintet