"Dug Deeper" at the Vernon Filley Art Museum - Curated by Qwist Joseph
Jan
27
to Apr 6

"Dug Deeper" at the Vernon Filley Art Museum - Curated by Qwist Joseph

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Double Gallery Exhibition North and South Rooms January 27th – April 6, 2024

“DUG DEEPER” Ceramics Exhibition - Curated by Qwist Joseph

Clay has long been a narrative material. For 30,000 years, through its responsive plasticity, clay has given us insights into how people felt, thought, and lived. Today, the field of ceramics is at an exciting moment when artists are using this sensitive material to tell their own stories in more explicit ways.

Dug Deeper will showcase contemporary ceramic artists who boldly confront their identities head on. These artists specifically use clay to celebrate, investigate, and question themselves and their place in the world, generously teaching us about ourselves in the process. The Filley is honored to feature these renowned artists in this exhibition.

Claudia Alvarez (New York, NY), Anabeth Rosen (Brooklyn, NY), Jennifer Ling Datchuk (Tempe, AZ), Nick Lenker (Philedelphia, PA), Sam Mack (Baltimore, MD), Syd Carpenter (Pittsburg, PA), Raheleh Filsoofi (Nashville, TN), Armando Minjárez Monárrez (Wichita, KS), Diego Romero (Santa Fe, NM), Shae Bishop (Bakersville, NC), Malcolm Mobutu Smith, (Bloomington, IN), Tyler Dallis, (Pratt, KS)

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End of the Semester Exhibition and Sale
Dec
9
10:00 AM10:00

End of the Semester Exhibition and Sale

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Please join us for our end of semester exhibition and sale. Occuring on the last Saturday of the Fall and Spring semesters for more than a decade, we open the doors to the public to view works created by our undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate students. In addition to the exhibition, which is held in the classroom and gallery space on the first floor, ACE (our student-run ceramics club) will be hosting a sale of pottery and other small works in the lobby.

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MFA Open House (1st Year Students)
Dec
1
4:00 PM16:00

MFA Open House (1st Year Students)

Our doors will be open to the public to view this semester’s output from our 1st year MFA cohort. Galleries on all four floors of the Windgate Studio Art and Design Center will feature summary exhibitions from students from all media areas. Please swing by, enjoy the work, and meet the artists!

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MFA Open House (2nd Year Students)
Nov
17
4:00 PM16:00

MFA Open House (2nd Year Students)

Our doors will be open to the public to view this semester’s output from our 2nd year MFA cohort. Galleries on all four floors of the Windgate Studio Art and Design Center will feature summary exhibitions from students from all media areas. Please swing by, enjoy the work, and meet the artists!

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Glenn Adamson Lecture
Nov
9
5:30 PM17:30

Glenn Adamson Lecture

Very pleased to have Glenn slinging his craft knowledge for UARK this semester! Come join us.

Glenn Adamson is a curator and writer who works at the intersection of craft, design history and contemporary art. He has previously been Director of the Museum of Arts and Design; Head of Research at the V&A; and Curator at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee.

Adamson’s publications include Fewer Better Things (2019); Art in the Making (2016, co-authored with Julia Bryan-Wilson); The Invention of Craft (2013); Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (2011); The Craft Reader (2010); and Thinking Through Craft (2007). He contributes regularly to Art in America.

Adamson was the co-curator of Crafting America at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (2021); Objects: USA 2020 at R & Company Gallery (2021); Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years at MAD (2016); Beazley Designs of the Year 2017, at the Design Museum, London; and Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery, at the Yale Center for British Art (2017). His biographical study of the artist Lenore Tawney is included in the John Michael Kohler Art Center’s exhibition catalogue Mirror of the Universe.

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Meet The Artist: Raven Halfmoon (Little Rock)
Oct
4
5:00 PM17:00

Meet The Artist: Raven Halfmoon (Little Rock)

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Kick off Raven Halfmoon’s artist residency at AMFA with a reception featuring a playlist curated by Raven and a specialty cocktail inspired by her favorite drink.

Guests will have the opportunity to visit with Raven, ask questions about her artistic practice, and learn more about the work she plans to create during her time at the Museum.

Halfmoon is an Artist-in-Residence at AMFA October 1-31, 2023. Her work Do You Practice Your Culture? was recently acquired for the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation Collection and is currently on view in the Harriet and Warren Stephens Galleries. She has been featured in multiple exhibitions throughout the U.S. as well as internationally.

Tickets here: https://events.arkmfa.org/event/meet-the-artist-raven-halfmoon/

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Sniper Vincent Frimpong at the Daum Museum in Y`akyi nnwa: Let’s Have a Conversation
Sep
30
to Feb 29

Sniper Vincent Frimpong at the Daum Museum in Y`akyi nnwa: Let’s Have a Conversation

Vincent Frimpong (SNIPER) and Ross Junior Owusu are contemporary Ghanaian artists currently based in the United States. This two-person exhibition is a place for sharing the visual language of “What does it mean to be African?”

https://www.daummuseum.org/event/yakyi-nnwa-lets-have-a-conversation/?mode=current

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Anna Graef at PH Gallery
Sep
30
5:00 PM17:00

Anna Graef at PH Gallery

Ceramics graduate exchange student, Anna Graef, will be presenting a series of small works at PH Gallery in West Fork. We are thrilled to be hosting Anna from the University of Colorado, Boulder for two weeks. This exchange is coordinated through a group of ceramics programs working collectively to enhance cross-institutional dialogue, CIRCA (Consortium for Intercollegiate Research in the Ceramic Arts).

Bio: Anna (she/her) is curious about the spaces and modalities in which she operates, and how they overlap. Utility, awe, in/efficiency, time, and nonsense continually pop up among her inquiries. Anna was selected as an ASPN resident at Red Lodge Clay Center, as well as La Serra Collective resident artist in 2021, and worked at Harvard Ceramics in 2022. Anna earned a BFA in Ceramics from the Pennsylvania State University, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Ceramics at CU Boulder.

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Jeannie Hulen in "Animal/Vegetable/Mineral" at the Daum
Sep
29
to Feb 29

Jeannie Hulen in "Animal/Vegetable/Mineral" at the Daum

September 30, 2023 - February 29, 2024

This exhibition takes the form of a familiar childhood game and is meant to enhance the desire and ability of visitors to creatively think and question the work presented. Most visitors will have heard of or played Twenty Questions, which is sometimes called animal, vegetable, or mineral. Other visitors will be familiar with the Linnaeus classification system and others will have heard of the radio and television game show of the same name. This approach provides multiple points of entry from lived existence and popular culture for visitors to engage with art. The theme is meant to provide a context that is not intimidating to viewers who might not see themselves as museum patrons or who do not have a background in art history.

Artists in a wide range of media will be featured. Selected works from the Daum collection will be displayed in conjunction with artists from around the nation. This exhibit will situate the permanent collection work into a broader conversation and extend its meaning. It also makes the underlying complex themes of the artists approachable by presenting them in the context of a familiar game that invites the viewer to build connections between the works presented. The works selected intentionally highlight the contrast between materials and subjects and create different representations of what might be labeled animal, vegetable, or mineral.

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Salvador Jimenez Flores Visiting Artist Lecture
Sep
28
5:30 PM17:30

Salvador Jimenez Flores Visiting Artist Lecture

Visiting Artist Lecture Salvador Jimenez Flores

Salvador Jiménez-Flores is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Jalisco, México. He explores the politics of identity and the state of double consciousness. Jiménez-Flores addresses issues of colonization, migration, “the other,” and futurism by producing a mixture of socially conscious installation, public, and studio-based art. His work spans from community-based work, drawing, ceramics, prints, and mixed media sculpture.

Jiménez-Flores has presented his work at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and Museum of Art and Design amongst others. He served as Artist-In-Residence for the city of Boston, Harvard Ceramics Program, Office of the Arts at Harvard University, and Kohler Arts Industry. Jiménez-Flores is a recipient of Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants and The New England Foundation for the Arts, Threewalls’ RaD Lab+Outside the Walls Fellowship Grant, and he is a 2021 United States Artist Fellow. He is an Assistant Professor in ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Nov
13
11:00 AM11:00

Prospective MFA Info and Q+A Session II

Interested in joining our MFA program? Drop by our open info session any time to meet with our ceramics faculty, Jeannie Hulen, Adam Posnak, Linda Lopez, Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Deshun Peoples, and Mathew McConnell. We will be speaking about all major aspects of the program (funding, curriculum, application process, etc.) and leading (virtual) studio tours. Feel free to drop by with your questions, or just listen in.

Join us via Zoom:
https://uark.zoom.us/j/88130607571?pwd=a3E1ZDY4Ty8rbXhoamY5QTV1RE1mQT09

Meeting ID: 881 3060 7571
Passcode: wyFS93S$

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Oct
16
11:00 AM11:00

Prospective MFA Info and Q+A Session I

Interested in joining our MFA program? Drop by our open info session any time to meet with our ceramics faculty, Jeannie Hulen, Adam Posnak, Linda Lopez, Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Deshun Peoples, and Mathew McConnell. We will be speaking about all major aspects of the program (funding, curriculum, application process, etc.) and leading (virtual) studio tours. Feel free to drop by with your questions, or just listen in.

Join us via Zoom:
https://uark.zoom.us/j/81061690704?pwd=K1E3RUU4T001R1ZBODM2cFVYbTdQUT09

Meeting ID: 810 6169 0704
Passcode: R$j8t*+Y

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Mar
23
1:00 PM13:00

Crafternoon with Faculty Anthony Sonnenberg and Jeffery Mitchell

Crafternoon » Anthony Sonnenberg and Jeffry Mitchell

Join Crystal Bridges for an afternoon of creativity and community with their monthly bring-your-own-craft virtual gathering! Local artists Anthony Sonnenberg and Jeffry Mitchell will share stories and tips as they discuss their current projects and the role that craft plays in their friendship and community. Guests are welcome to bring any creative project they’re working on and connect virtually with other crafters and our hosts.

Free. Register online or by calling Crystal Bridges at 479.657.2335 to join via Zoom webinar. Once registered, you’ll receive a link to join the Zoom meeting in your ticket confirmation email. 

 

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Mar
18
1:15 PM13:15

NCECA PANEL: Ghanaian Ceramics Now: Ado)den!

Join Samual Nortey, Japheth Taah Asiedu-Kwarteng, and Uarks Jeannie Hulen, Eric Andre and Adam Posnak for a panel discussion on Ghanaian Ceramics on Thursday, March 18, 2:15pm EST via NCECA’s virtual fair platform in room 4!

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Contemporary ceramics in Ghana are vibrant and vital, though critically underrepresented in the international dialogue. This discussion will include participants from Ghana and the United States, and cover a range of topics, including cross-cultural exchange, challenges faced by ceramic artists in West Africa, tradition versus contemporaneity, ceramics in academia, and the experiences of a Fulbright scholar.

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Mar
12
to Mar 21

CeramiCurious Exhibition

On Friday, March 12, pH gallery in West Fork will host the inaugural annual exhibitionCeramiCurious, featuring work by SoA Ceramics undergraduate students. The exhibition includes participation from students who are not necessarily Ceramics majors, but who have taken a ceramics class and have an interest in the medium. The exhibition will run March 12-21, with masked single-person viewing and a social distanced, outdoor opening exhibition Friday, March 12, 5-8 pm, pH gallery, West Fork, AR, 10 minutes south of Fayetteville. For more information please email jhulen@uark.edu

"Covid Koozies" by Ceramics undergraduate student Rachel Bernstein.

"Covid Koozies" by Ceramics undergraduate student Rachel Bernstein.

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Feb
6
to May 31

Faculty Linda Lopez in "Crafting America" Exhibition

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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

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Crafting America, a new exhibition developed by Crystal Bridges, celebrates the skill and individuality of craft within the broad context of American art. From jewelry to furniture to sculptures and more, this exhibition is dazzling and full of surprises.

Featuring over 100 works in ceramics, fiber, wood, metal, glass, and more unexpected materials, Crafting America presents a diverse and inclusive story of American craft from the 1940s to today, highlighting the work of artists such as Ruth Asawa, Peter Voulkos, Jeffrey Gibson, Sonya Clark, and more. Craft has long been a realm accessible to the broadest range of individuals, providing an opportunity to explore personal creativity, innovation, and technical skill. This exhibition foregrounds varied backgrounds and perspectives in craft, from the vital contributions of Indigenous artists to the new skills and points of view brought by immigrants to the United States.

Developed by Jen Padgett, associate curator at Crystal Bridges, and Glenn Adamson, guest curator and scholar of craft, design history, and contemporary art, Crafting America asserts craft’s integral role in expanding the story of American art and is accompanied by a major multi-author illustrated publication published by Crystal Bridges and the University of Arkansas Press.

Detail: Linda Lopez

Detail: Linda Lopez

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Dec
5
1:00 PM13:00

Prospective MFA Info and Q+A Session II

Interested in joining our MFA program? Drop by our open info session any time to meet with our ceramics faculty, Jeannie Hulen, Adam Posnak, Linda Lopez, Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Tony Sonnenberg, and Mathew McConnell. We will be speaking about all major aspects of the program (funding, curriculum, application process, etc.) and leading (virtual) studio tours. Feel free to drop by with your questions, or just listen in.

Join us via Zoom:
https://uark.zoom.us/j/82903274356?pwd=WkxyWTZTK1VFMlZ3b1NLWHRsSXlJQT09

Meeting ID: 829 0327 4356
Passcode: Info.2020!

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Dec
3
6:30 PM18:30

Voices For Change Exhibition Panel Discussion

Please join us for a virtual Panel Discussion with the artists from The Color Network: NATALIA ARBELAEZ, ADAM CHAU, APRIL FELIPE, SALVADOR JIMÉNEZ-FLORES, BOBBY SCROGGINS, PAUL ANDREW WANDLESS and facilitated by curator + writer Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy!

This exhibition is organized by The Color Network and will be on display from October 30-December 4, 2020.

Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy (She/Her) is a Los Angeles and New York-based curator, writer, and arts administrator who focuses on contemporary art and craft, with a particular interest in increasing the visibility of artists of color. She is currently the Assistant Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York. Since 2016, she has been part of MAD’s curatorial team, helping organize over twenty exhibitions. She also manages MAD’s Burke Prize, a contemporary craft award, and curates its accompanying exhibition.

 In 2020, Vizcarrondo-Laboy curated Clay Is Just Thick Paint, an exhibition of Jennifer Rochlin’s ceramics for the Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York. She is also curating Sleight of Hand, a group exhibition featuring artists of color, on the power of humor in ceramics as a tool of resistance, resilience, and healing, for the Center for Craft, Asheville, where she is a 2020 Curatorial Fellow. In 2018, she began an initiative that uses social media’s immediacy and influence to share artists’ practices with a broader community to highlight and expand the visibility of artists of color working across different artistic disciplines, especially those in craft.

She holds a BA in Art History from the University of Florida with minors in Anthropology and Ceramics and an MA from the Bard Graduate Center, New York in Decorative Arts, Design History & Material Culture. Vizcarrondo-Laboy was born and raised in Puerto Rico.


Thursday, December 3, 2020, 6:30pm-8:00PM CDT

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89744883365?pwd=OVVZU01uZ0N4UTUrMUs0dFY4RzgyUT09 

Zoom Webinar ID: 897 4488 3365

Passcode: 091283

*Free and open to the virtual public!

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Nov
16
9:00 AM09:00

Osa Atoe Studio Talk

Join Adam Posnak’s Wheel Throwing 2 class for a visit with Osa Atoe on Monday, November 16, 9-10:30 PM CDT. Email Adam Posnak for zoom link: aposnak@uark.edu

Check out her website and Instagram for more info on Osa Atoe!

My name is Osa Atoe. I grew up in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC and I lived in Oregon, California and Louisiana before settling in Sarasota, Florida. I started taking community pottery classes in 2013 when I was living in New Orleans, quickly became obsessed with the medium and made a small at-home studio for myself in the spring of 2015. I had my pottery wheel in the kitchen and a small Skutt KM-818 in a shed in the backyard. A year later, I moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana with my husband and our two dogs. There, I completed a one-year post-baccalaureate program for ceramics at Louisiana State University in May 2018. My bachelor's degree is in Sociology with a minor in Women's Studies and I've always been a musician playing in various punk rock bands, so discovering pottery changed the course of my life.

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Nov
11
5:15 PM17:15

Julie Moon Studio Talk

Join Anthony Sonnenberg’s Handbuilding class for a visit with Julie Moon on Wednesday, November 11, 5:15-6:30 PM CDT.

Zoom Meeting ID: 839 7608 4855
Passcode: 4?.as#dN

Julie received her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2010. She has participated in numerous residencies within Canada and the United States, such as The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Archie Bray Foundation in Montana and Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado. She has exhibited widely throughout the US and Canada. Some recent exhibitions include the Birch Contemporary, Toronto; The Clay Studio, Philadelphia; Baltimore Clayworks, MD; and Katzman Kamen, Toronto. Julie currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

For more on Julie Moon’s work check out her Instagram and website!

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Nov
6
1:00 PM13:00

Prospective MFA Info and Q+A Session I

Interested in joining our MFA program? Drop by our open info session any time to meet with our ceramics faculty, Jeannie Hulen, Adam Posnak, Linda Lopez, Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Tony Sonnenberg, and Mathew McConnell. We will be speaking about all major aspects of the program (funding, curriculum, application process, etc.) and leading (virtual) studio tours. Feel free to drop by with your questions, or just listen in.

Join us via Zoom:
https://uark.zoom.us/j/85678862442?pwd=TTJlV2JMQ3ZNZElSNmtLN3dXLzZhZz09

Meeting ID: 856 7886 2442
Passcode: Info.2020!

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