- University News Archive - ��Vlog��ý Little Rock

Two professors featured in new exhibit at Boswell-Mourot Gallery

Ajani Oyindamola — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:27:46 +0000

The artwork of two art educators at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock will be on display at a new exhibit at.�� The exhibit will feature fine art created by Kensuke Yamada, assistant professor of ceramics, and Ricky Sikes, instructor of drawing and painting. The exhibit will be on display from Saturday, July 20, to Saturday, Aug. 10. An opening reception will be held from 6-9 p.m. July 20, at the gallery at 5818 Kavanaugh Blvd., Little Rock. Boswell Mourot Gallery is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. For more information, call Boswell Mourot Gallery at 501-664-0030.

Prints by professor on display at North Little Rock library

Janea Snyder — Fri, 17 May 2019 14:47:17 +0000

Work by Joli Livaudais, assistant professor of photography in University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Department of Art and Design, is on display through June 15 at the , 420 Main St., North Little Rock.

“And Then I Will See” is a series of 21 prints Livaudais created using gum bichromate, a historical handmade print process used before film was invented.

Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. For more information, call (501) 687-1061.

Photo of “Breakfast,” courtesy of Joli Livaudais

��Vlog��ý Little Rock to host exhibit on artwork by Jenny Ellerbe

Ajani Oyindamola — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:15:10 +0000

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host an art exhibit featuring the work of photographer Jenny Ellerbe.�� The show, “Not Atget,” which is free and open to the public, will be on display in the Focus Gallery in the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Windgate Center of Art and Design from Feb. 2 to March 15. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, and 2-5 p.m. Sunday. Ellerbe is a self-taught photographer from Monroe, Louisiana. After a 20-year career as a pediatric intensive care nurse in Connecticut, Ellerbe put down the tools of her previous life and returned to Louisiana, where she started over with a kayak paddle and camera. Her photography features the wetlands of northeastern Louisiana. “For the past several years, I have been developing a long-term study of northeastern Louisiana – the overlooked region that lies between the Mississippi and Ouachita Rivers,” she said. “I have wandered through the vast farmland, rural communities, and ancient earthworks collecting photographs – images that tell the story of this land and what it gives to those of us who live here season after season, generation after generation.” For more information, contact Joli Livaudias at 501-569-3182 or jklivaudais@ualr.edu. The upper right photograph is Jenny Ellerbe’s photograph, “Greenwood Cemetery.”

��Vlog��ý Little Rock to host art exhibit featuring faculty work

Ajani Oyindamola — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 15:35:16 +0000

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Art Gallery will host its Faculty Biennial Show from Oct. 15 to Nov. 16 in the Brad Cushman Gallery in the Windgate Center of Art and Design.�� The group exhibition features studio art and design created by the faculty members in the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Department of Art and Design. A reception for the exhibit will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26, in the Windgate Center. The studio disciplines featured in the exhibit include drawing, printmaking, photography, painting, graphic design, metals, ceramics and various sculptural processes. The exhibit is free and open to the public. The galleries in the Windgate Center of Art and Design are open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, and 2-5 p.m. Sunday. For more information, contact Gallery Director Brad Cushman at becushman@ualr.edu or 501-916-5103. In the upper right photo, Joli Livaudais’s 2018 photograph, “Nesting Instincts,” will be one of the pieces in the Faculty Biennial Show.

��Vlog��ý Little Rock exhibit features artwork of Frank Hamrick

Ajani Oyindamola — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:38:31 +0000

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is hosting an exhibit, “It Was There All Along,” by photographer and book artist Frank Hamrick through Oct. 26 in the Focus Gallery in the Windgate Center of Art and Design.�� Hamrick serves as an associate professor and coordinator of the Master of Fine Arts program at Louisiana Tech University’s School of Design. His work mixes photography, storytelling, handmade books, and found objects. Frank received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Georgia and his Master of Fine Arts from New Mexico State University. NPR has written about Hamrick’s handmade books, and Oxford American Magazine listed him as one of the 100 Superstars of Southern Art. His work is housed in collections including The Art Institute of Chicago, The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and The Ogden Museum of Southern Art. His limited edition artist’s book, “,” which combines papermaking, letterpress printing, and tintype photography, earned the 2017 Houston Center for Photography Fellowship and was awarded first place in the Los Angeles Festival of Photography’s 2017 Photobook Competition. In addition to the exhibit, Hamrick will hold a public lecture at 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 19, in the Windgate Center of Art and Design Room 101.

Frank Hamrick’s photograph, “Heather & Alexis”

Hamrick also will hold a free three-day workshop from Oct. 19-21 in the Windgate Center. He will assist participants in curating and sequencing an existing collection of their photographs in order to tell a story, as well as work with students to create a handmade book for their images. The workshop will take place from 5-9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 20-21. The workshop is free, but space is limited to 12 participants. Email Joli Livaudais at jklivaudais@ualr.edu to sign up for the workshop. The exhibit is free and open to the public. The galleries in the Windgate Center of Art and Design are open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, and 2-5 p.m. Sunday.

��Vlog��ý Little Rock employees’ work showcased at exhibits

Ajani Oyindamola — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:10:09 +0000

The work of two University of Arkansas at Little Rock employees is on display at two venues in Little Rock.�� Gallery 26, which offers custom, do-it-yourself framing and fine art, is showcasing 20 photographs from ��Vlog��ý Little Rock photographer Benjamin Krain. His work is on display until Oct. 27. Gallery 26 is located at 2601 Kavanaugh Suite 1 (Ice House Center), Little Rock. Krain got his start in photography at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, taking photography classes with his favorite professor Gary Cawood, a retired professor of art. He graduated from ��Vlog��ý Little Rock in 1995 with bachelor’s degrees in art and broadcast journalism. Krain previously worked as a photojournalist with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for 24 years, traveling the world to cover news events in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Marshall Islands, and Haiti. His newest show features random works from his career as well as new pairings of unrelated photos used to form diptychs, pieces of art formed in two parts.

Benjamin Krain’s diptych features two photos demonstrating the devastation of New Orleans flooding from Hurricane Katrina and the damage from a tornado in Moore, Oklahoma.

A ��Vlog��ý Little Rock faculty member, Dr. Andrew J. Deiser, interim chair of the Department of World Languages, has a love of art as well as language. His display of 13 evocative oil and watercolor landscapes is being shown at Community Bakery, 1200 Main St., Little Rock, through Oct. 31. The paintings feature Pinnacle Mountain, Broadway Bridge, the Arkansas State Capitol building, and the Cathedral Apartments. “The major theme to the exhibit is Arkansas landscapes, both urban and from West Little Rock,” Deiser said. Deiser has been painting and drawing since the age of 10. In 2012, Deiser took a plein air (French for painting outdoors) workshop with German artist Guido Frick, where he became “hooked on painting outdoors.” He has received mentoring from local artist Arden Boyce and has taken workshops with artists Brian Mark Taylor, Trey McCarley, and Lori Putnam. In summer 2017, Deiser was selected as an artist-in-residence at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

Andrew Deiser’s “Surprise on the Broadway Bridge is one of several paintings on display at Community Bakery in Little Rock.

Works by Warrick on display at new Boswell Mourot Gallery exhibit

Ajani Oyindamola — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 20:29:53 +0000

New artwork by Michael Warrick, professor of art at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, is on display at a new exhibit at.�� The exhibit will be on display from Saturday, June 30, to Thursday, July 21. An opening reception will be held from 6-9 p.m. June 30, at the gallery at 5818 Kavanaugh Blvd., Little Rock. The exhibit features Warrick’s new sculptural works in bronze and clay. The exhibit also features the nonrepresentational abstract pieces of artist Elizabeth Weber. Kyle Boswell, owner of Boswell Mourot Gallery, described Warrick’s work as representing a good balance between the hard material of bronze and the softness of organic materials.

Michael Warrick’s sculpture

Warrick has a Bachelor of Science in ceramics from Illinois State University and Master of Fine Arts in both sculpture and ceramics from Southern Illinois University. Boswell Mourot Gallery is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. For more information, call Boswell Mourot Gallery at 501-664-0030.

New summer exhibit features work from ��Vlog��ý Little Rock’s permanent collection

Ajani Oyindamola — Mon, 21 May 2018 16:47:38 +0000

The summer is a great time to check out the talented and diverse work of artists affiliated with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.�� A group exhibition featuring work by 25 artists specially selected from the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock permanent collection is on display in the Brad Cushman Gallery in the Windgate Center of Art and Design until July 10. The exhibit is comprised of drawings, paintings, fine art prints, photographs, sculptural objects, ceramics, and contemporary crafts. The collection represents the work of professional artists with regional, national, and international reputations as well as art produced by art and design students at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock.�� The artists with work on display include Mamma Andersson, William Bailey, Gustave Baumann, Trevor Bennett, Adrian Louis Brewer, Alice Leora Briggs, Chris Cotton, Hugo Crosthwaite, Elsie Bates Freund, Francoise Gilot, Lorre Hoffman, Robyn Horn, Heidi Hogden, Chris Jenkins, Jaime Erin Johnson, Alex Leme, Ron Meyers, Jockum Nordström, John Harlan Norris, Helen Phillips, Jack Radcliffe, Allison Short, Alecia Walls-Barton, Sally Ann Williams, and Arnold Zimmerman.

John Harlan Norris’s 2011 oil on canvas entitled “Builder.”

In the summer, the Windgate Center galleries are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and closed on university holidays. For more information, contact Gallery Director Brad Cushman at 501-916-5103 or becushman@ualr.edu. The upper right photo is Adrian Louis Brewer’s “The Cactus Hill.”

��Vlog��ý Little Rock to host ‘Estamos Aqui’ exhibit as part of community reading program

Ajani Oyindamola — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:06:08 +0000

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host an exhibit that features artists exploring their Hispanic and Latin American culture and heritage through contemporary serigraphs, a printed design produced by means of a silkscreen. The “Estamos Aqui (We Are Here)” exhibit will be on display in the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Art Gallery III from Oct. 11 to Nov. 10. The exhibit is part of the National Endowment of the Arts Big Read program, which encourages communities to engage in reading programs and events that broaden understanding of the world and region. Big Read will run from Tuesday, Sept. 19, to Friday, Nov. 3, and will feature presentations, book discussions, film screenings, and related arts programming. Ottenheimer Library is the only library in Arkansas to receive the grant for the program this year. In 1993, Chicano painter and printmaker Sam Coronado of Coronado Studios provided his workspace and equipment for an Artist-in-Residence program in Austin, Texas, where underrepresented artists could learn serigraphy. The residency featured artists from diverse ethnic and professional backgrounds, but was especially known for fostering contemporary printmaking within the Mexican-American and Latino community. The resulting portfolio of prints speaks to the duality of Latino and Chicano artists living and working across the United States and in other countries, exploring their celebrations, sorrows, challenges, popular culture, and personal experiences. The serigraphs feature family and religious symbols, political motifs, Mexican “Lucha Libre” wrestling matches, video and performance art, neighborhood themes, and Mexican graphic traditions.

Delilah Montoya’s 2007 screenprint, “Los Dos Corazones.”

“Featuring vivid colors and sometimes startling imagery, the works in ‘Estamos Aqui’ encourage audiences to ask questions about the nature of cross-cultural exchange and discover how artists find their voice through personal stories and experiences that become part of the artistic process,” ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Gallery Director Brad Cushman said. Curated by Cushman, “Estamos Aqui” is a traveling exhibit that has visited 17 venues in 10 states from 2013 to 2017. The ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Art Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Building. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, and 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. For more information, contact Cushman at becushman@ualr.edu or 501.569.8977. In the upper right photo, Quintin Gonzalez’s 2007 screenprint, “Chicano 15,” is among the works that will be on display in the “Estamos Aqui” exhibit at the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Art Gallery.��

‘Nasty Woman’ exhibit coming to ��Vlog��ý Little Rock

Ajani Oyindamola — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 13:56:40 +0000

An art exhibit celebrating the female voice in art will be shown June 14 to Aug. 25 at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. “The show explores topics dealing with the woman’s perspective, from reflection on historic female figures to contemporary issues surrounding the female body, the political climate, and varied iterations of the experience of being a 21st century woman,” said Margo Duvall, assistant professor of art at Henderson State University and the show’s curator. The “Nasty Woman” exhibit will be on display in Gallery 1 of the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Fine Arts Building. A closing reception featuring talks with Duvall and participating artists will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18. The work of three ��Vlog��ý Little Rock faculty members will be featured in the “Nasty Woman” exhibit. Several of the artists included in the exhibition have studied art at and graduated from ��Vlog��ý Little Rock. Mia Hall, interim chair of the Department of Art and Design, Joli Livaudais, assistant professor of photography, and Heidi Hogden, visiting professor of painting, are among the 36 female artists from across the nation whose work was selected for the show. Livaudais’ work, “The Mother, Exhumed,” is a life-size casting of a woman’s upper body made from epoxy resin and photographs of bees and beehives. “It ought to be a really great show, and I am proud to be in the company of so many fierce women artists,” Livaudais said. The title of the show, “Nasty Woman,” which was first displayed at Henderson State in March to celebrate Women’s History Month, stems from comments made during the 2016 presidential election.

Joli Livaudais’ work, “The Mother, Exhumed,” will be on display at the “Nasty Woman” exhibit at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock.

During the third debate in October 2016, President Donald Trump responded to a comment made about him by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who was answering a question about social security, by remarking,.” On Twitter, #NastyWoman was trending within minutes. “While it was first mentioned in a derogatory context, it has become a uniting force among women across the globe,” Duvall said. “For many, it represents strength, unity, and the ability to use one’s voice to be heard. The participating artists interpret their reactions through a dynamic use of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, and video pieces.” Participating artists include: Zina Al-Shukri, Heather Beckwith, Darcie Beeman-Black, Megan Berner, Cynthia Buob, Beverly Buys, Susan Chambers, Melissa Cowper-Smith, Norwood Creech, Nancy Dunaway, Margo Duvall, Melissa Gill, Mia Hall, Louise Halsey, Diane Harper, Tammy Harrington, Heidi Hogden, Robyn Horn, Erin House, Jeanie Hursley, Catherine Kim, Kimberly Kwee, Joli Livaudais, Angie Macri, Hannah May, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, Catherine Siri Nugent Laura Raborn, Emily Rogers, Dina Ropele Santos, Dominique Simmons, Kasten Searles, Katherine Strause, Brittany Wilder, Kat Wilson, and Miranda Young-Rice. The ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Art Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission is free. For more information, contact Brad Cushman at becushman@ualr.edu or 501.569.8977 or Margo Duvall at duvallm@hsu.edu or 870.230.5207. In the upper right photo, Zina Al-Shukri’s charcoal drawing, “Gushing with Confidence and Jealousy,” is one of the works on display in the “Nasty Woman” exhibit at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock.��

- University News Archive - ����Vlog��ý Little Rock

Two professors featured in new exhibit at Boswell-Mourot Gallery

Prints by professor on display at North Little Rock library

����Vlog��ý Little Rock to host exhibit on artwork by Jenny Ellerbe

����Vlog��ý Little Rock to host art exhibit featuring faculty work

����Vlog��ý Little Rock exhibit features artwork of Frank Hamrick

����Vlog��ý Little Rock employees’ work showcased at exhibits