Fine Arts Center Gallery

Dr. Paul Crenshaw of Washington University, St. Louis, will present a lecture, “Value and Judgment in Rembrandt’s Hundred Guilder Print” on Monday, March 9 at 5:00 pm in Room 213 of the Fine Arts Center. Dr. Crenshaw will also give an informal gallery talk focusing on the Rembrandt prints in the current exhibition, The Inspired Line: Selected Prints of Albrecht Durer and Rembrandt van Rijn from the Thrivent Financial Collection of Religious Art, at 2:30 pm on March 9. The exhibition will continue through Friday, March 13.

The Fine Arts Center Gallery will be closed December 20 – January 4. Best wishes for a peaceful holiday season!

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Dr. Mohja Kahf, will read from her novel, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, as well as new work, in the Fine Arts Center Gallery on Wednesday, October 15 at 5:00 pm.

This event is free and open to the public.

A lecture by art educator Dr. Themina Kader (SUNY, NY) will be presented on Thursday, October 9 at 8:00 pm in Giffels Auditorium, 2nd floor of Old Main. This program is being sponsored by the Joy Pratt Markham Fund – Department of Art; an Artists & Concerts Committee Grant; the Art Educators Association, and the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

From May 19 through August 20, the Fine Arts Center Gallery will be filled with recent work created by UA art students in a variety of media. The Gallery is not open regular hours during the summer months, but visitors may request access through the Art Department Office, located in Room 116, between 8:30 am and 4:00 pm, Monday – Friday. The hallway display cases in the Fine Arts Center will also feature work by students this summer

Oversized paintings and a multi-media installation are sharing space in the Fine Arts Center Gallery April 21 – May 1. “Foreshadows of Forefathers” by Jason C. Barnes and “television will save us all” by Shane Richey are the two MFA Thesis exhibitions, which – despite their different formats — share a sense of irony and wry political commentary.

Barnes’ intricate ink, watercolor and pencil works on paper feature icons from American History, such as George Washington crossing the Delaware and The Alamo, albeit in a rather irreverant context. The densely-packed backgrounds of the paintings are testimony to Jason Barnes’ drawing skills and the time dedicated to producing a unique body of work for his Thesis Exhibition.

Shane Richey has taken his visual design talents and mastery of electronic technology art to a new level with a multi-television/sound/computer-generated installation. Richey’s not-so-subtle play on the title of his exhibition is revealed to the viewer, who is mesmerized by the media forces that control so much of our society.

A reception for the artists will be held on Saturday, April 26 from 6 – 8 pm.

Graduating senior art student, Lyla Morrision, is exhibiting her BFA Honors Thesis project in the hallway display cases of the Fine Arts Center April 16 – 23. “Seeing Red: An Artist’s Study of the Visuality of Emotions” is the title of Morrison’s exhibition, which examines the relationships between colors and the emotions associated with them. “Green Envy” and “Orange Lust” are two of the nine oversized posters representing the colors and emotions, which also demonstrate the artist’s proficiency in graphic design.

Lyla Morrison is the third BFA candidate whose Honors Thesis has been presented this spring, following Katherine Lamar (photography) and Mary E. Price (ceramics) who both exhibited their work in the Anne Kittrell Gallery in the Arkansas Union.

Thursday, January 31st
9:30-11:00am
Gallery talk with John Perreault, Art Critic and founder of Artopia
Juried Exhibition: Ceramic Objects/Conceptual Material
Anne Kittrell Gallery, U of A Union 4th Floor

12:30-2:00pm
Lunch Break

2:00-4:30pm
Panel Discussion, University of Arkansas Center for Continuing Education,
Located at 2 East Center Street, on the Downtown Fayetteville Square
John Perrault, Art Critic and founder of Artopia
Benjamin Schulman, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, Drury University
David East, Professor of Ceramics, Maryland Institute-College of Art
Nicholas Kripal, Professor of Ceramics, Tyler School of Art of Temple University
Jeanne Quinn, Associate Professor of Ceramics, University of Colorado-Boulder
Jeannie Hulen, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas
Tanya Batura, Studio Artist, Los Angeles, CA

5:00-6:30pm
Opening Reception Juried Exhibition: Ceramic Objects/ Conceptual Material
Anne Kittrell Gallery, UofA Union 4th Floor
Reception at DDP Gallery, 7 East Mountain Street

Friday, February 1st
9:30-12:30pm
Demonstrations, Material Research: The Process of Thinking and Making
• David East, Professor of Ceramics, Maryland Institute-College of Art
• Jeanne Quinn, Associate Professor of Ceramics, University of Colorado-Boulder
• Tanya Batura, Studio Artist, Los Angeles, CA
All simultaneously, Ceramics Building 326 Eastern Ave

12:30-2:00pm
Lunch Break

2:30-3:30pm
Gallery talk with Benjamin Schulman, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History,
Drury University. Invitational Exhibition: Material Transcendence: Clay as Commentary.
Fine Arts Gallery, Fine Arts Center

3:30-5:30pm
Opening Reception Invitational Exhibition: Material Transcendence: Clay as
Commentary. Fine Arts Gallery, Fine Arts Center

Saturday, February 2nd
9:30-12:30pm
Demonstrations, Material Research: The Process of Thinking and Making
• David East, Professor of Ceramics, Maryland Institute-College of Arti
• Jeanne Quinn, Associate Professor of Ceramics, University of Colorado-Boulder
• Tanya Batura, Studio Artist, Los Angeles, CA
All simultaneously, Ceramics Building 326 Eastern Ave.
End of Symposium

The Fine Arts Center Gallery will be closed December 1, 2006 through January 9, 2007 for the University’s winter break.  The Gallery Office will be open until December 22 and will re-open on January 2.  Hope to see you next year!