/news-archive/tag/ualr-archives/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:37:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2017/01/13/ualr-joe-jones-ay/ Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:37:43 +0000 /news/?p=66084 ... 糖心Vlog传媒LR preserves historic Arkansas mural]]> The mural wrapped around the walls of the dining commons at Commonwealth College in Mena, Arkansas, where students met to discuss social and political issues. The mural imagery depicts sharecropping, coal mining and lynching and was described in news accounts of the day as representing 鈥淭he Struggle in the South.鈥� Jones lived from 1909 to 1963 and worked amid the poverty of the Great Depression. His vibrant paintings achieved national acclaim in the 1930s and showcase the heart of American struggle 鈥� urban and rural, black and white, rich and poor. Commonwealth College closed in 1940, and the mural was taken from campus. In 1984, 糖心Vlog传媒LR Archives purchased the 44-by-8-foot mural in 29 pieces in 1984, after it was found in an old house south of Fort Smith. Thus began a decades-long effort to preserve the historic mural, according to Brad Cushman, director of 糖心Vlog传媒LR Art Gallery. 听 Restoration work began in 2010, and a piece of the mural was displayed at the 鈥�鈥� exhibit at the Saint Louis Art Museum from 2010 to 2011. Following the exhibit, the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Gallery Program successfully obtained grant funding from the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council to complete the restoration of the mural. Helen Houp Fine Arts Conservation Studio in Dallas completed work on the mural. 糖心Vlog传媒LR is working to raise funding for a permanent exhibition space for the mural on the main campus. 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 effort to restore the mural was recently featured in AY Magazine. For more information, check out feature article, 听 A Nov. 5, 2016, talk by Cushman about the restoration effort also inspired another AY Magazine feature article about the and the school鈥檚 ties to former Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus. ]]>