Marin exhibition programs

Special programs associated with the "John Marin: Modernist at Work" exhibition at the Arkansas Arts Center include:

• 6 p.m. Thursday: Lecture by Ann Prentice Wagner, curator of drawings. Wagner is also the curator of the exhibition. Admission free for museum members, $15 for nonmembers; tickets are required. Lower Lobby Lecture Hall.

• 6:30 p.m. Thursday: reception for Arkansas Arts Center members to see the exhibition. Free for AAC members, Alice Pratt Brown Atrium.

• *10 a.m. Friday: the exhibition opens to the public.

• Noon Friday: Feed Your Mind Friday, with Josephine White Rodgers, who will discuss the art of John Marin. Free

• Noon March 16: Feed Your Mind Friday, Katie Hall, registrar for collections, and Ann Prentice Wagner, curator of drawings, will discuss the care and conservation of the John Marin Collection. Free

• Noon April 6: Feed Your Mind Friday with Arkansas artist Robert Bean, drawing and painting department chair of the Arts Center's Museum School, who will discuss the work of John Marin. Free.

The arts center also has prepared a narrative website about the exhibition that features an in-depth analysis of Marin's life and work, including images, stories, timelines and interactive maps. Visit the online site at www.becomingjohnmarin.org.

For more information, visit arkansasartscenter.org or call (501) 372-4000.

-- Ellis Widner

Style on 01/21/2018