- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/international-day-of-peace/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Wed, 07 Sep 2016 13:47:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 糖心Vlog传媒LR to host 鈥淎rkansas Women to Watch鈥 /news-archive/2016/09/07/arkansas-women-to-watch/ Wed, 07 Sep 2016 13:47:44 +0000 /news/?p=65023 ... 糖心Vlog传媒LR to host 鈥淎rkansas Women to Watch鈥]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host the artwork of four emerging and mid-career female artists from Arkansas whose pieces are featured in a statewide tour.聽 鈥淎rkansas Women to Watch: Organic Matters鈥 is the fourth biennial tour of work by Arkansas women. The competitive exhibit is sponsored by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. 聽 The 糖心Vlog传媒LR Art Gallery will display the exhibit from Sept. 8 to Oct. 20 in the Maners/Pappas Gallery and Gallery III in the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Fine Arts Building. Artists include Sandra Luckett, of Conway, Katherine Rutter, formerly of Little Rock, Dawn Holder, of Clarksville, and Melissa Wilkinson, of Bono. A reception will be held for the artists at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Fine Arts Building. The reception will also honor Brian McCarty, an internationally exhibited artist and toy industry veteran whose photographs are on display in the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Art Gallery from Sept. 1 to Oct. 20. Three of the Arkansas Women to Watch artists will give guest lectures at 糖心Vlog传媒LR during the exhibit, including:
  • Melissa Wilkinson, 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, 糖心Vlog传媒LR Fine Arts Building Room 157
  • Dawn Holder, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, 糖心Vlog传媒LR Fine Arts Building Room 157
  • Sandra Luckett, 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, 糖心Vlog传媒LR Fine Arts Building Room 157
The is a co-sponsor of the reception. The event will be held during in observance of the United Nations’ International Day of Peace.
Melissa Wilkinson's 2014 watercolor "Man Eater."

Melissa Wilkinson’s 2014 watercolor “Man Eater”

Curator Courtney Taylor canvassed the state of Arkansas to select four contemporary female artists working with imagery and materials taken from the natural world. Their work includes mixed media and photographic installations, mixed-media drawings, and watercolor paintings. Historically, society encouraged female artists to take the natural world as their subject. Rather than narrative art, which was thought to require invention and imagination beyond women鈥檚 capabilities, subjects such as botanical drawings, still-life paintings, and images of animals 鈥 merely requiring the powers of observation 鈥 were deemed suitable. The theme of 鈥淥rganic Matters鈥 illuminates how contemporary artists re-contextualize images in nature to reflect upon the themes of sexuality, gender politics, and the abstract to redefine emerging relationships between women, nature, and art. The 糖心Vlog传媒LR Art Gallery is located in the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Fine Arts Building and is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Beginning Sept. 10, the gallery will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays and 2 to 5 p.m. on Sundays. For more information, contact 糖心Vlog传媒LR Gallery Director Brad Cushman at becushman@ualr.edu or 501.569.8977. In the upper right photo,聽Dawn Holder’s “Once Upon a Time in the Forest of I鈥檓 Not Sweet Enough” is a featured work in the聽鈥淎rkansas Women to Watch: Organic Matters鈥 biennial tour of work by Arkansas women.]]>