Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
Live jazz
Barry McVinney and Banda Cabrito — McVinney on sax, Pat Lindsey on drums, Steve Hudelson on guitar and Brian Wolverton on bass — will perform for Oxford American magazine’s Local Live Wednesday night concert series at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at South on Main, 1304 Main St., Little Rock. Admission is free. Visit the website, southonmain.com, or the Facebook page, facebook.com/SouthonMainLR.
Landers Fiat of Benton is sponsoring the series. The rest of the fourth-quarter lineup:
Oct. 8: Chris DeClerk
Oct. 15: Isaac Alexander
Oct. 22: Opera in the Rock
Oct. 29: Sound So Good
Nov. 5: Jimmy Kinard Group
Nov. 12: Steve Howell & The Mighty Men
Nov. 19: Handmade Moments
Nov. 26: Bonnie Montgomery and Friends
Dec. 3: Trey Johnson and Dave Almond
Dec. 10: Kevin Kerby and Friends
Dec. 17: Chris Parker Group
Caraway talk
Actor and author Nancy Hendricks, who played Arkansas U.S. Sen. Hattie Caraway in the Arkansas Educational Television Network film Hattie Caraway: The Silent Woman, will discuss and sign copies of her book, Hattie Caraway: An Arkansas Legacy, for the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies’ monthly Legacies & Lunch lecture, noon Wednesday in the Darragh Center, Central Arkansas Library System Main Library, 100 Rock St., Little Rock. The talk is sponsored in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council. Admission is free; bring a sack lunch; the Butler Center will provide drinks and dessert. Call (501) 918-3033.
‘Dancing Bear’ talk
Kartick Satyanaran, known in India as the “Bear Man” and the co-founder of Wildlife SOS, a nonprofit wildlife conservation organization campaigning to rescue the “dancing bears” (sloth bears that have been exploited by humans in India for the past 400 years), will give a talk titled “Solving the Dancing Bear Problem” at 6 p.m. today in Sturgis Hall, Clinton School of Public Service, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. The talk is in partnership with the Little Rock Zoo. Admission is free; reserve seats by emailing publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu or calling (501) 683-5239.
All dolled up
The American Girl Fashion Show, featuring fashions for girls and dolls, will take place 12:30 and 4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday at the Arts Center of the Ozarks, 214 S. Main St., Springdale. The event will include refreshments; attendees can enter to win door prizes. Tickets are $35. Call (479) 751-5441 or visit the website, acozarks.org.
INC artists
Artist INC has chosen 25 central Arkansas artists for the 2014 fall session of the Artist INC Live-Argenta seminar, continuing through Nov. 3.
The list for the eight-week session consists of visual artists Brian Elliott, Cecelia Storey, Chris Massingill, Christie Young, Denise White, Diane Harper, Fran Austin, Jeff Waddle, Jennifer Wilson, Justin Bryant, Karlyn Holloway, Kelly Furr, Leigh Jacobs, Lilia Hernandez, Lisa Krannichfeld, Marty Justice, Melissa Kordsmeier, Robert Bean, Sally Nixon and Steve Rockwell; cellist Felice Magendanz-Farrell; writer Rhonda Owen; filmmakers Mark Thiedeman and Morgan Page; and comedian Amy Pannell.
“Peer Facilitators” are area artists Kevin Kresse, Matt McLeod, Kristina Marinova, Judy Goss, Dominique Simmons and Kandy Jones. “Subject Matter Experts” are Marion Boyd, Micky Stuart, Jamie Fugitt, Robin McClea and Stephen Cefalo.
The seminar, a collaborative partnership between the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, the Charlotte Street Foundation and the University of Missouri-Kansas City Innovation Center with regional partner Mid-America Arts Alliance, lets artists learn business skills and hone and apply those skills cooperatively with their peers.
Winning quilts
Great Arkansas Quilt Show winners, whose work remains on display through May 3 at the Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St., Little Rock:
Group — First place: “Buttons and Beads on a Winding Road,” Bonnie Kastler; second place: “My Carolina Lily,” Phyllis Holder; third place: “Reminiscence,” Gail Zukowski
Mixed — First place: “Irish Knots and Golden Coins,” Jaynette Huff; second place: “Feathered Friends,” Darlene Garstecki; third place: “Rose Cottage,” Terrie Newman
Pieced — First place: “Forest Primeval,” Karen Harmony; second place: “Starry Starry Bright,” Donna Toombs; third place: “Old Military Road,” Victoria Kauth
Applique: First place: “Victorian Elegance — Newel Posts and Wrought Iron,” Jaynette Huff; second place: “Just a Little Snack,” Linda Tiano; third place: “If Only It Was That Easy,” Karen Harmony
Best machine quilting: “Winter Sky,” Wilma Richter
Best in Show: Huff’s “Irish Knots and Golden Coins”
Viewer’s Choice Award: “Chinoiserie,” Pamela Davis
Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Gallery admission and parking are free. Call (501) 324-9351 or visit the website, HistoricArkansas.org.