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��Vlog��ý Little Rock to hold artist talks in February

John Hill — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:17:52 +0000

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will hold three virtual artist talks during February to celebrate its spring 2021 art exhibits.�� The first artist talk begins at 6 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 12. Susannah Schreckhise, a multidisciplinary visual artist, will discuss her work in the “Arkansas Women to Watch: Paper Routes” exhibit. Additionally, Brad Cushman, director of the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Art Gallery, will discuss the work and artists featured in the “Arkansas Women from the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Permanent Collection” exhibit. The second artist talk will feature John Seed, a professor of art and art history at Mt. San Jacinto College, who will give his talk “Disrupted Realism,” Friday, Feb. 19, at 6 p.m. is also a writer who has written about art and artists for Arts of Asia, Art Ltd., Catamaran, Harvard Magazine, International Artist, HuffPost, and Poets and Artists. The final February artist talk will begin at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26. The event will feature Joli Livaudais, professor of photography at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, and Kim Brewer, an artist in Little Rock, who will discuss their work in the “Arkansas Women to Watch: Paper Routes” exhibit. The artist talks will be held via Zoom and are part of the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock artWORKS program. To register, visit the following websites: Feb. 12 – Feb. 19 – Feb. 26 –

��Vlog��ý Little Rock to host lecture with 2020 Arkansas Living Treasure Michael Warrick

John Hill — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:32:59 +0000

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Art and Design will host a virtual lecture featuring the life and works of 2020 Arkansas Living Treasure Michael Warrick Friday, Oct. 9. Warrick, a professor of art at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, will discuss his experience as an artist, show his work, and give insight into the career opportunities for artists. The lecture, “Creative Journeys with Michael Warrick,” will take place from 6-7 p.m. Oct. 9. The annually recognizes an Arkansas artist who excels in the creation of a traditional craft and who actively preserves and advances his or her craft through community outreach and educating others. Warrick began learning metalworking in 1967, when he took an industrial arts class in high school that included welding. He became a certified welder in 1972 and worked on large-scale mining equipment trucks, industrial fixtures, and railroad cars. Since joining ��Vlog��ý Little Rock in 1990, Warrick has been instrumental in securing grants, including one to build a foundry and kilns for metal casting for the university. Another grant allowed him to bring in renowned lecturers in metalworking. Warrick’s work has appeared in exhibitions and public installations locally and worldwide. His career includes 42 solo exhibits and 174 competitive and invitational exhibits. He regularly does commission work, including a 2017 sculpture celebrating the 25th anniversary of the sister cities partnership between Little Rock and Hanam, South Korea. Through his partnership with artist Aaron Hussey, Warrick created the in 2001 and “Straight Lines on a Round World,” a 2017 sculpture commemorating the Louisiana Purchase Survey that stands in front of the Statehouse Convention Center in downtown Little Rock. The ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Department of Art and Design will host the event as part of the artWORKS lecture series, which showcases the different career paths available to artists. The event is free and open to the public. Contact Madeline England at mmengland@ualr.edu for a link to the event.

Photographers learn historic 19th-century photographic process at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock

Ajani Oyindamola — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:54:56 +0000

Erasto Carrananza, a photographer since 1989, has been studying historic photographic processes for more than 15 years.�� “I’m in the middle of my master’s degree in visual arts, and this is one of the four historic photographic processes that I want to use in my final project,” Carrananza said. “That is why I am here to learn this process.” The former architect traveled from his home in Monterey, Mexico, to learn how print photographers use the chemical cyanotype process, a non-toxic, historical light-based printing process discovered in 1842. Joli Livaudais, assistant professor of photography, taught a week-long workshop on the process June 10-14 in the Windgate Center of Art and Design. The workshop is part of ��Vlog��ý Little Rock’s artWORKS Artist Workshops Series, which provides a learning community dedicated to creativity and growth through the making and understanding of the visual arts.�� “This simple and inexpensive technique yields gorgeous handmade prints in Prussian blue and has many options for toning and manipulation of the final print,” Livaudais said. Carrananza’s desire to learn historic photographic processes stems from his desire to preserve these dying arts for the next generation.�� “In 2000, digital photography took flight,” he said. “I don’t like digital photography because I like to use film. At that time, I started to seek printing processes back in the early days of photography. The main reason to learn these processes is to reach the younger generation and not lose the information over time. If just one student learns the process, it’s a win.” Melissa Gill, a professor of drawing and printmaking at Hendrix College, was inspired to learn the chemical cyanotype process after seeing her students use it.

Workshop participants develop photographs in a darkroom at the Windgate Center of Art and Design using a 19th-century photographic process. Photo by Ben Krain.

“I’ve seen my students use this process at Hendrix, and I thought it was so beautiful that I wanted to learn it,” Gill said. “This is working with layers of color, and that is exactly how a printmaker works. I wanted to see how this process could inform my work. Now that I know how it works, I can better advise my students who do this work.” Dave Erickson, a commercial photographer and drone pilot from Milwaukee, traveled from Wisconsin with a friend to attend the workshop. The two have plans to set up a darkroom when they get back to explore the chemical cyanotype process as a hobby.�� “I’ve always had a varied, robust interest in photography,” Erickson said. “I have a lot of respect for people who have mastered this process. There is a lot of artistry involved. It’s not as clean cut as just developing a photograph. It takes a lot of patience.”�� In the upper right photo, ��Vlog��ý Little Rock professor Joli Livaudais, left, works with participants of a week-long art workshop on the chemical cyanotype process. Photo by Ben Krain.

��Vlog��ý Little Rock artWORKS lecture series to feature photographer Alec Soth March 27

Ajani Oyindamola — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:49:38 +0000

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is proud to present an evening with photographer and artist Alec Soth Tuesday, March 27.�� The free public lecture, “: The Space Between Us,” will begin at 6 p.m. in Room 101 of the Windgate Center of Art + Design. Soth will discuss the evolution of his artwork with special emphasis paid to the subject of portraiture. Seats for this special event are limited. Please reserve your seat by emailing Joli Livaudais, assistant professor of photography, at jklivaudais@ualr.edu. Soth is a photographer and artist born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has published more than 25 books and had more than 50 solo exhibitions, including survey shows organized by Jeu de Paume in Paris (2008), the Walker Art Center in Minnesota (2010), and Media Space in London (2015). He has received numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013. In 2008, Soth created Little Brown Mushroom, a multimedia enterprise focused on visual storytelling. Soth is represented by Sean Kelly in New York, Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, and is a member of Magnum Photos. The event is part of the Department of Art and Design’s artWORKS 2018 lecture series, which provides community events dedicated to creativity and growth through the making and understanding of the visual arts. It is made possible by a grant from the Windgate Foundation.

Modern architecture scholar to discuss cinematic images of Emerald City of Oz

Ajani Oyindamola — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:03:06 +0000

A visiting modern architecture scholar will discuss the skyscraper and its effect on popular American culture on Thursday, March 9, at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.�� , chair of the Department of Art History at Pennsylvania State University, will give his lecture, “The American Skyscraper from the Emerald City of Oz to Glass Towers of the 1950s,” at 6 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Fine Arts Building. The event is free and open to the public. The will host a reception at 5 p.m. in the Fine Arts Building. The illustrated presentation will explore two case studies of skyscrapers in popular culture. The first topic is images of the Emerald City of Oz as presented in the 1939 classic film, “The Wizard of Oz.” “The cinematic image of this streamlined magical city will be examined within the context of the skyscraper age of the 1920s and 1930s as well as the Great Depression,” Zabel said. �� The second topic discussed will be the Lever House, a glass-walled skyscraper built in 1952 by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The building serves as a “collision of radical modernism and American consumerism/advertising targeting the 1950s housewife,” Zabel said. �� Zabel teaches courses in modern architecture, with emphases on the architecture of the United States, Russia, Germany, and Great Britain. Before arriving at Penn State in 1985, he taught in the Department of Fine Arts at Dickinson College and in the Schools of Architecture at the University of Virginia and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Additionally, he is co-editor of “American Public Architecture: European Roots and Native Expressions.” He has taught at Penn State since 1985 and chaired the Department of Art History since 1996. This lecture is part of the artWORKS series funded by a grant from the Windgate Foundation, and is co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Design, and the Architecture and Design Network as part of the June Freeman lecture series. For more information, contact Floyd Martin at 501.569.3182 or fwmartin@ualr.edu.

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