The Arkansas Arts Center has created an array of activities around the exhibition "30 Americans," including:
• Feed Your Mind Friday, a series of artists' talks. It opens with silverpoint artist Marjorie Smith at noon Friday. Others scheduled include Delita Martin, April 17; Virmarie DePoster, April 24; A.J. Smith, May 8; David Clemons, May 15; Garbo and Dr. Archie Hearn, May 22; Angela Davis Johnson, June 19. Stephens Inc. Visitors Center, 111 Center St., Little Rock. Free.
• A panel on building an art collection with Don and Mera Rubell, whose collection was the source of "30 Americans," along with Juan Roselione-Valadez, director, Rubell Family Collection and Contemporary Arts Foundation. "30 Americans" artist Shinique Smith will also participate. 6 p.m. May 7, Lower Lobby Lecture Hall, Arkansas Arts Center. Free for members, $10 nonmembers.
• A film series at 2 p.m. on selected Sundays includes Jean-Michel Basquiat: Radiant Child, May 31; Through a Lens Darkly, June 7; Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace, June 14. Lower Lobby Lecture Hall. Free.
• Poetry slam, "Art on Art: An Ekphrastic Slam," 6:30 p.m. June 2, Lower Lobby Lecture Hall. Call the Arts Center, (501) 372-4000 for ticket information.
• "Art as Activism," co-sponsored with the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 6:30 p.m. June 18. Ila Sheren, professor at Washington University in St. Louis, will moderate a discussion with Thomas Allen Harris, filmmaker of Through a Lens Darkly; Deborah Willis, photography and imaging department chairman, Tisch School of the Arts, New York; and artists Charley Palmer and Delita Martin. Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 W. Ninth St., Little Rock. Free.
Information on these and other events is available at arkansasartscenter.org.
Style on 04/05/2015