Painter Susie Henley and her husband, photographer Jim Henley, share their love of travel in "Paints and Pixels," on display Monday-March 31 at Christ Episcopal Church, 509 Scott St., Little Rock.
Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-noon Friday, all day Sunday. Admission is free. A 2nd Friday Art Night reception, 5:30-8 p.m. Feb. 9, will highlight the exhibit; free parking will be available on the church's south side. Call (501) 375-2342 or email dianashearon@gmail.com.
'Sorting Out Race'
"Sorting Out Race: Examining Racial Identity and Stereotypes in Thrift Store Donations" will be on display Monday-March 10 at the Arkansas State University Museum, 320 University Loop West, Jonesboro. The setting is a "colorful, object-rich thrift store setting amid antique advertising cards, collectible salt-and-pepper shakers, vintage children's books and many other items," according to a news release, but "upon closer inspection ... visitors will perceive unsettling, racially-based imagery."
Funding for the exhibition, on loan from the Kauffman Museum at Bethel College in North Newton, Kan., comes from the ASU Office of Diversity. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday and Wednesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. The museum will host a panel discussion, 5-7 p.m. Feb. 6 in the Museum Auditorium. Admission is free. Call (870) 972-2074 or email jkary@AState.edu.
Architecture lecture
Martin Smith, partner and landscape architect with Little Rock-based Ecological Design Group, will focus on the Delta Region and the Big Woods of Arkansas in a lecture titled "Revitalization of the Arkansas Delta Culture for the 21st Century," 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Lecture Hall, lower level, Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock.
It's part of the Architecture and Design Network's 2017-18 June Freeman lecture series. A 5:30 p.m. reception will precede the lecture. Admission is free. Call (501) 952-7274 or visit architecturedesignnetwork.com. Smith, a native of Arkansas, is raising his family in a home in Birdeye built by his great-great-grandfather in 1901.
Springdale exhibitions
"Lasting Impressions: A Retrospective" by photographer-graphic designer K. Nelson "Katie" Harper and "It's Time to Address'er Drawers," an installation by illustrator and graphic designer Joel Armstrong, will be on display Monday-Feb. 7 at the Arts Center of the Ozarks, 214 S. Main St., Springdale. The center will hold a reception, 6-8 p.m. Jan. 19. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free; works will be for sale. Call (479) 751-5441 or visit acozarks.org.
Foundation fundraiser
Foundation of Arts in Jonesboro will put on Cabin Fever: A Red Carpet Murder for the group's annual fundraising gala, Jan. 20 (6 p.m. cocktail hour, 7 p.m. dinner and show), Centennial Hall, Arkansas State University, 1101 E. Wooster St., Jonesboro. Tickets are $100, $800 for a table. Call (870) 935-2726 or visit foajonesboro.org.
Singing pigs
Wildwood Park for the Arts, 20919 Denny Road, Little Rock, will hold auditions for young performers and technical staff, starting at 1 p.m. Jan. 20 in Wildwood's Lucy Lockett-Cabe Festival Theatre, for its 2018 Art to Go! educational touring company production, The Three Little Pigs (music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, lyrics and story adaptation by John Davies).
Director Bevan Keating is seeking a soprano, mezzo-soprano and a baritone (or a tenor with an extended low range), all age 21-30, and a bass, age 21-35, as well as a stage manager/technical director (responsible for management of set, props, and cast). Compensation is $225-$275 per week.
Prepare one Mozart aria or an aria of similar style and one brief children's theater monologue. Initial auditions are by appointment; callback times will be assigned. Contact educational programs coordinator Ashley Nipp at (501) 821-7275, Extension 259, or email education@wildwoodpark.org.
Afternoon and/or evening rehearsals begin April 24; the show, targeted for pre-K through fifth-grade audiences, tours May 6-18 during school hours to schools, libraries and education centers across the state. Contact Nipp to book the show, which requires a 25-foot-square playing area. The Arkansas Arts Council can underwrite up to $200 of the $500 performance fee for public schools, government entities or 501(c)3 organizations.
UCA music lessons
The University of Central Arkansas Community School of Music is registering children and adults for spring music lessons, which start Jan. 15. Instructors -- primarily UCA music faculty and selected graduate and undergraduate students, as well as professional musicians and teachers -- will provide private instruction in piano, voice, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, ukulele and all band and orchestral instruments. Tuition varies depending upon the level of the instructor; costs are listed at uca.edu/csm. Registration information is available at uca.edu/csm/registration; call (501) 450-3672 or email rwm04004@uca.edu.
Ballet auditions
Hot Springs Children's Dance Theater Company will hold open auditions Feb. 10 at 321 Section Line Road, Suite G, Hot Springs, for dancers of all ages and abilities for a ballet version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, based on the Shakespeare play.
The audition schedule:
• 9-10 a.m., age 6-9
• 10-11:30 a.m., age 10-12
• 11:30-1 p.m., age 13 and up.
Dress code: for female dancers, black leotard, pink tights, hair in a bun and ballet shoes (pointe shoes for advanced dancers); for males, white T-shirts, black tights or shorts.
There is a $10 audition fee, and, if cast, a $50 production fee and a $90 costume fee. Rehearsals will be 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturdays with additional weeknight evening rehearsals for some performers, based on size and challenges of particular roles. Production dates are May 11-12 and 18-19. Email hotspringscdt@gmail.com.
Style on 01/07/2018