Category: Arts & Culture
AND U.S. MARSHAL BASS REEVES CONTINUES TO GROW IN ARKANSAS, GLOBALLY What do Jay Z, highly acclaimed British actor David Oyelowo, a new exhibit at the Arkansas State Capital, and the recently opened U.S. Marshalls Museum (USMM) in Fort Smith all have in common? They all bring newfound attention to the exploits and legend of […]
New York based Chakaia Booker and her international sculptures have made it to Little Rock as her exhibition Intentional Risks will be featured in the newly redesigned Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) Grand Opening Celebration held on April 22, 2023. “Intentional Risks,” an exhibition of nearly thirty prints and one large-scale sculpture, “The Fatality […]
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra held two free concerts in April to celebrate Little Rock natives Florence Price, William Grant Still Sr., and other important African American composers. Florence Beatrice Price was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on April 9, 1887. Florence was a prodigy of piano and an outstanding teacher and composer. She studied at […]
Quantia Fletcher is the executive director of the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center (MTCC), one of only three African American history museums in the South. She proudly explained that the Cultural Center is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, an accomplishment only three percent of the 33,000 museums in the United States have achieved. Pre-COVID-19, […]
