News & Updates

With support from the Windgate Foundation, the Mid-America Arts Alliance has launched Catalyze, an initiative that will allocate an astonishing amount of grant funding to artists in Central Arkansas.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts celebrates its mission with a statement from Austrian artist Katharina Cibulka, cross-stitched at monumental scale on our construction scaffolding.

The Clinton Presidential Center Presents “Women’s Voices: Activism in Art,” a dynamic conversation with three world-renowned fiber artists whose art quilts are on display in the Clinton Presidential Center’s current exhibition, “Women’s Voices, Women’s Votes, Women’s Rights.”

Here is an excerpt from an Arkansas Art Scene Blog interview artist Elizabeth Weber, a recipient of ACNMWA’s Artist Award and a featured artist in the ACNMWA Artist Registry.

The University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Gallery of Art and Design will host the Arkansas Women to Watch 2023: New Worlds exhibition from January 17 though March 3, 2023. The opening reception will be held on Friday, January 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Gallery of Art and Design, 535 N. Waldron Rd., in Fort Smith.

The excitement of an artist’s studio visit is unique. Seeing the materials, the tools and tables, peeping at bulletin boards and to-do lists…that inside look with the artist as tour guide makes the finished work more impressive and intriguing.