The juried Pine Bluff Art League Exhibit
- Ongoing: until Thursday, August 25, 2011
- Monday: 10:00am
- Tuesday: 10:00am
- Wednesday: 10:00am
- Thursday: 10:00am
- Friday: 10:00am
- Saturday: 1:00pm
- Where: Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff
- Cost: Free
- Age limit: Not available
A reception honoring the Pine Bluff Art League’s Annual Exhibit, a juried show, will be held 5-7 p.m. Thursday, June 16, at the Arts & Science Center, 701 Main St., Pine Bluff.
Top winners of the competition will be announced during the reception. Prizes include “Best of Show Gold Domino” with a cash award of $500; “Silver Domino,” $400; “Bronze Domino,” $300, and three “Pearl Dominos,” $100 each. The art league also will give out domino necklaces along with the award checks.
The juried Pine Bluff Art League Exhibit, open from June 10 to Aug. 25, features approximately 50 works of art from its 100-plus membership. Members of the League range from amateur to professional and many have been acknowledged throughout the state and nation for painting, sculpture and photography. The Pine Bluff Art League began as The Brush and Palette Guild, a small group of enthusiastic artists in the 1940s.
Curator, artist and art historian Ruth Pasquine will judge the show. She served as Curator of Art at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock from 1991 through 1997 and as Curator of Education from 1989 through 1991 at the Norton Gallery of Art in West Palm Beach, FL. She received her doctorate from City University of New York, master’s degree from Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA, and bachelor’s from Franconia College in Franconia, NH.
The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. Also open at the center is the hands-on science exhibit, Astronomy: It’s a Blast!
The center, located at 701 Main St. in Pine Bluff, is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1-4 p.m. Saturday and closed on Sunday. Support for the center is provided in part by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hands-on science exhibits are made available through the Center’s partnership with Arkansas Discovery Network, funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. For more information, contact the center at (870) 536-3375 or visit the website at www.artssciencecenter.org.
This event was posted June 22, 2011 and last updated June 23, 2011
