The Arkansas State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts is a nonprofit volunteer organization established as an affiliate of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C.
The Arkansas State Committee of NMWA was founded in 1989 when, on a visit to Washington, D.C., Ed Dell Wortz and Helen Walton learned of the museum. They called together a group of women interested in the arts to develop a plan for a state committee, dedicated to supporting the museum's mission and promoting awareness of the work of Arkansas women artists.
Les Christensen, Flight from Servitude, Mixed Media, 2000.
Artists and educator Mary Ann Stafford of Maumelle has been awarded the 2012 Polly Wood Crews Scholarship from the Arkansas Committee of NMWA. Stafford's proposal is to draw 25 structures that are listed on the National Historic Register in the Argenta district of North Little Rock. The drawings will record the most important buildings architecturally and historically speaking and will highlight the North Little Rock Argenta renaissance.
2ND FRIDAY ART NIGHT, 5-8 P.M., LITTLE ROCK
On the second Friday of each month, the Butler Center Galleries participate in 2nd Friday Art Night, when galleries, museums, and businesses in downtown Little Rock are open from 5 to 8 p.m. for an after-hours gallery walk. The current exhibition is _Women to Watch_, organized by the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The exhibition is located in Concordia Hall, Butler Center Galleries, 401 President Clinton Avenue, Little Rock. For more information, please visit the Butler Center website.
Read about Crystal Bridges, a world class art museum in Bentonville, Arkansas in this Washington Post article. The article was also featured in Arts and Antiques magazine.
The 2011 Governor's Arts Awards and Individual Artist Fellowship Awards Sponsored by Governor Beebe and the Arkansas Arts Council will be held at the Peabody in Little Rock on Tuesday October 18th at noon. Arkansas Committee of NMWA board member Denise Garner and her husband Hershey of Fayettville will be awarded a 2011 Patron award.
“Drunken Monk” (1944), a hanging scroll, at the Metropolitan Museum.This exhibition of brush-and-ink works by Fu Baoshi is the first full-dress retrospective of a 20th-century Chinese artist to be seen at the Met.
