The Department of Art
May - June 2013 Events & Exhibitions

BA and BFA Annual Awards Exhibition

Monday, April 29 - Saturday, May 4, 2013
Awards presentation and gallery reception: Friday, May 3, 2013 at 5 p.m.

The Department of Art is pleased to present a group exhibition of current BA and BFA students. This exhibition will be comprised of work from all media, showcasing each department within the College and will highlight the multidisciplinary talents our students possess. Specific works will be selected for awards and scholarships. Please join us for the awards reception on Friday, May 3 at 5 p.m. for the announcement and presentation of these awards. The exhibition will be open to the public during the ARTwalk on Saturday May 4 from 2 to 5 p.m.




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A Conceptual Art Exhibition


First Thursday, May 2nd
JR's Lightbulb Club
5 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

JR's Lightbulb Club presents a one night only art exhibition featuring works by local artists including Paul Skains, a senior in the Department of Art. The exhibition will include works in a variety of media- sculpture, painting and illustration.
















Painting by Stephanie Petet
Senior Painting and Drawing Students Present: a series of one night exhibitions under the direction of painting professor, Stephanie Pierce  

These exhibitions will take place at LALALAND Art Gallery, located at 641 Martin Luther King Blvd, Fayetteville, AR  (behind the Art Experience).

Stranded in Hypothesis, work by Shannon Vance
Saturday, May 4, 4-6 pm

Synthetic Syncopation, work by Ashley Lindsey and Stephanie Petet
Friday, May 10, reception 7-9 pm with music by WitchSister and Foley's Van starting at 9 pm





Saturday, May 4 is the ARTwalk

sUgAR Projects announces the Spring 2013 ARTwalk. The ARTwalk will be held on Saturday May 4, 2013 from 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. The Fine Arts building and the Ceramics Studio building will host work from the University of Arkansas Departments of Fine Art, Landscape Architecture and Interior Design. Professors and students will be available to answer questions regarding the work on display. Additionally, the fine art studios will be open for touring. This is an exciting time for each of these respective departments and we are delighted to share this with the public.  Receptions will be held at each location and are free and open to the public.



Graduating BFA Exhibition

Monday, May 6 - Saturday, May 11, 2013
Gallery reception: Friday, May 10 at 5 pm.
Gallery will be open on Saturday, May 11 from 12 noon to 5 pm.

The Fine Arts Center Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition of the 2013 BFA Graduating class. The exhibition will present work in a wide range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics and sculpture, as well as graphic design. Emily Chase, included in this exhibition, was just awarded a prestigious Windgate Fellowship.




MFA Group Exhibition

May 13 - July 19, 2013


The Fine Arts Center Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition of current MFA students. The exhibition will present work in a wide range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture and video.




Low Magic

A solo exhibition of new work by artist Luke Knox
August 1 - 30, 2013
Closing reception: Thursday, August 29, 2013

The work of Luke Knox examines the historical presence of animal mythologies and iconography in contemporary human culture. Knox observes cultural tropes that indicate humankind's surviving adoration for the natural universe and the animal image. Knox is interested in the emergence of these myths and phenomena and how they manifest and evolve within a society that has largely devalued the role of nature in everyday life. Animal depictions and archetypal roles presented in classical fables, alchemical literature and contemporary iconography inform his conceptual and aesthetic approach. Inert materials such as manufactured concrete rubble, baling wire, and plastic artificial flowers are utilized to create animal forms- an approach that addresses the often -disjunctive realms of natural and built environments. The creatures emerging from this conceptual and material amalgamation function as indices of the historical, mythological, and technological world in which we exist. By revisiting historical animal myths and images today, Knox hopes to reanimate a visual space that is synthetic by its very nature.
Works by Luke Knox


GALLERY INFO:

Fine Arts Center Gallery
Cynthia Nourse Thompson ([email protected])
Curator and Director of Exhibitions
Department of Art
University of Arkansas, FNAR
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479-575-7987

sUgAR Projects
student directors:
Samantha Dixon ([email protected])
Cambry Pierce-DuPerier-Newton ([email protected])
Laura Polaski ([email protected])
Bryanna Jarmillo ([email protected])
More info: 479-575-5202

Fine Arts Center Gallery and sUgAR Gallery events are free and open to the public.

Thank you for your interest in and support for the Department of Art's free public programming if you would like to make a gift of support to the department, gallery programming, or underwrite our lecture series please contact the J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences or call 479-575-3712.

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