Little Rock artist Delita Martin's exhibition "Beyond Layers" will open Friday at the Argenta Branch of the William F. Laman Public Library System in North Little Rock for a month-long showing, library officials announced.
The exhibit will be open during regular library hours through Feb. 13 at the Argenta Branch Library, 420 Main St.
"Beyond Layers" consists of portraits that "explore ideas of identity and the role of black women within community and family structures," a news release said.
Martin, a Fine Arts Department faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, is founding director of Black Box Press Studio. Her artwork, which has been on exhibit nationally and internationally, also is included in the "State of the Art" exhibition that ends Monday at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville.
Library exhibits are free and open to the public. No other exhibits have been announced for the Argenta Branch's schedule this year. More information on library activities is available at lamanlibrary.org.
The library system reduced library hours and laid off 11 staff members late last year in cost-cutting moves that also included canceling programs and some planned exhibits.
Two national touring exhibits previously scheduled for later this year at the Argenta Branch were canceled late last year. "Harry Potter's World: Renaissance, Science, Magic and Medicine" was to be May-June and "Backstage Pass: Baron Wolman and the Early Years of Rolling Stone" had been scheduled for June-August.
Laman Library, 2801 Orange St., currently has "Small Works on Paper" on display, an exhibition from the Arkansas Arts Council that consists of 40 works of art no larger than 24-by-24 inches created by 29 Arkansas artists. The exhibit will continue through Jan. 27.
The exhibit "Mail Call" from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service will open at Laman Library on Feb. 7, the first of five national touring exhibits this year to be at the main library's exhibit hall. The exhibition, which was organized with the Smithsonian's National Postal Service Museum and tells the story of military mail and communication through America's war times, is to run through April 19.
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