Small Works<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cSmall Works on Paper,\u201d the Arkansas Arts Council\u2019s annual traveling exhibit of works no larger than 18-by-24 inches, opens Monday at the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, 701 S. Main St., Pine Bluff. The center will hold an opening reception and artist\u2019s talk, 5-7 p.m. Thursday. Admission to both is free.<\/p>\n
The exhibit will be on display through Jan. 26, 10 a.m-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n
The 2026 edition of the show, now in its 39th year, features art by 40 Arkansas artists, chosen from more than 300 entries by juror Kelli Scott Kelley, an artist and professor of painting at Louisiana State University. Kelley chose pieces by Melissa Lashbrook of Cabot and Lisa Thorpe of Little Rock for purchase awards that will be part of the Small Works on Paper permanent collection.<\/p>\n
The exhibit subsequently travels to Arkansas Tech University at Russellville, where it opens Feb. 2, and from there to Fort Smith, Bentonville, Batesville, North Little Rock, Stuttgart, Helena-West Helena, West Memphis and Forrest City.<\/p>\n
For more information, including a list of this year\u2019s artists, visit the Small Works on Paper page at arkansasheritage.com.<\/p>\n
Photo competition<\/strong><\/p>\nJan. 27 is the deadline to submit photos for the South Arkansas Arts Center\u2019s\u00a02026 Viewfinder Photography Competition, Feb. 2-March 1 at the center, 110 E. Fifth St., El Dorado.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s Sponsor\u2019s Purchase Award theme, \u201cAmerica 250,\u201d invites photographic interpretations celebrating the United States\u2019 \u201c250 years of freedom and the enduring spirit of patriotism within Union County,\u201d according to a news release. The winner of the \u201cAmerica 250\u201d Purchase Award will receive $250 and their work will be featured in the El Dorado Insider, which is co-sponsoring the biennial competition with the Diamond Agency.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s more than $1,250 in prize money on the line, including $500 for Best of Show, $250 for First Place, $150 for Second Place and $100 for Third Place. Awards will be announced at an artists\u2019 reception, 5:30-7 p.m. Feb. 12.<\/p>\n
Photographers may use any type of camera, and produce prints on any medium. Basic corrective editing, whether completed in a darkroom or digitally, is permitted, but not graphic manipulation. Submitted works must not have been previously shown in the Viewfinder Competition. Each photographer may submit up to two framed photographs. There\u2019s a $10 entry fee; center members get one free entry. Find the online entry form and more details at saac-arts.org\/the-viewfinder. Or call (870) 862-5474.<\/p>\n
AMFA exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cA Month of Sundays: Art and the Persistence of Time,\u201d\u00a0examining the human perception of time, opens Feb. 19 in the Harriet and Warren Stephens Family Gallery at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, and kicks off the museum\u2019s 2026 exhibition schedule.<\/p>\n
The exhibition, up through Sept. 6, is organized by the Mid-South Cohort, an art-sharing collaboration among the Memphis Brooks\u00a0Museum of Art; Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts; Birmingham Museum of Art; Fisk University Galleries; and Mississippi Museum of Art.<\/p>\n
The exhibition is linked to two contemplative new media works in the museum\u2019s Fine Arts Club New Media Gallery:<\/p>\n
\u25fc\ufe0f Finnish artist and filmmaker Eija-Liisa Attila\u2019s \u201cOn Breathing,\u201d up through May 24, a 9-minute, 45-second video showing a stately oak tree consumed by morning fog, along with the sounds of birdsong, the ebb and flow of the tides of the nearby seashore and wind rustling through the leaves; all create the illusion that the tree itself is breathing.<\/p>\n
\u25fc\ufe0f The U.S. premiere of \u201cAftermaths,\u201d a 7-minute, 39-second video by British painter, photographer, sculptor and filmmaker Mat Collishaw, depicting sea creatures mutating, evolving and swimming through a dystopian world to vividly illustrate the price of progress and humanity\u2019s impact on the planet, incorporating a recording of Arvo P\u00e4rt\u2019s \u201cCantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten.\u201d It\u2019s on display June 6-Nov. 15.<\/p>\n
The rest of the lineup:<\/p>\n
\u25fc\ufe0f May 2-Oct. 11: \u201cWill Barnet: Seasons of Life,\u201d in the museum\u2019s Berta and John Baird Gallery. Pulled from an extensive selection of works on paper by Barnet (1911-2012) in the AMFA Foundation Collection, the exhibition celebrates an artist \u201cfor whom the pendulum between realism and abstraction swung profoundly,\u201d according to a news release.<\/p>\n
\u25fc\ufe0f Aug. 22-April 25, 2027: \u201cMaterial Nature: The Robyn and John Horn Collection,\u201d in the Robyn and John Horn Gallery. These are works, primarily non-functional and sculptural, from the AMFA Foundation Collection that the Horns gave the museum.<\/p>\n
\u25fc\ufe0f Oct. 9-Jan. 10, 2027: \u201cThe Age of Anxiety: German Expressionism in Art and Film\u201d in the Harriet and Warren Stephens Family Gallery. This is a look at works produced in Germany during the period of political and economic turmoil following World War I \u2014 paintings, sculptures and graphic works sit side by side with images from the era\u2019s films, including \u201cThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari\u201d (1920), \u201cNosferatu\u201d (1921) and \u201cMetropolis\u201d (1927).<\/p>\n
\u25fc\ufe0f Oct. 24-March 14, 2027: \u201cSoviet Cinema: Mikhail Dlugach and 1920s Poster Design,\u201d in the Berta and John Baird Gallery. Ukrainian artist Mikhail O. Dlugach (1893-1988), among poster artists in 1920s Moscow, created a new graphic design language prior to ultimate governmental suppression. The exhibition marks the recent donation to the museum by San Francisco-based collector and gallerist Martin Muller.<\/p>\n
Museum admission is free. Visit arkmfa.org.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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