Fine Arts Center Gallery

James B. Godfrey, former Director of Chinese Art for Sotheby’s, Inc. and former Curator of Asian Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art, will discuss the funerary traditions of ancient China in an illustrated lecture on Thursday, March 1 at 7:30 pm in Room 213 of the Fine Arts Center.  The ceramics of the Han and Tang Dynasties will be the focus of his talk, organized in conjunction with the Asian Art course being taught this semester by Traci Parnell-Ward.  This program is sponsored by the Joy Pratt Markham Fund and is free and open to the public.

“By Any Means…” is an exhibition of 31 works on paper collected by Emporia State University in eastern Kansas over 25 years of hosting its annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition.  This traveling exhibition is a Program of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance, with the Arkansas Arts Council and the National Endowment of the Arts and is brought to the University of Arkansas Fine Arts Center Gallery with Fine Arts Fee funding.  An opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 15 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm in the Gallery.  The exhibition continues through March 16, 2007.

Defining the word drawing is difficult, and defining it to encompass the entire scope of the discipline would be a monumental endeavor.  It is drawing’s ability to adapt to any circumstance that has kept it vital through millennia. By Any Means:  Works from the National Drawing Invitationals demonstrates that contemporary drawing maintains its vitality through continuous reinvention of the form. 

By Any Means is curated by Donald D. Perry, professor of art at Emporia State University.  It includes works by Peregrine Honig, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Robert Stackhouse, William T. Wiley, Donald Roller Wilson and 26 other artists.