Elsewhere in entertainment, events and the arts:
TODAY
Shen Yun shows
The Southern USA Falun Dafa Association's 2019 Shen Yun touring show, representing centuries of Chinese culture through Chinese music, classical dance and other performance arts and with an orchestra, will be onstage, 7 p.m. today and Wednesday at Robinson Center Performance Hall, West Markham Street and Broadway, Little Rock. Tickets are $80-$150 plus processing fees; children under 5 won't be admitted. Call (800) 380-8165 or (501) 244-8800 or visit shenyun.com/littlerock.
'Small Works' opens
The Arkansas Arts Council's 2019 "Small Works on Paper" touring arts exhibition goes on display today in the Glassblock Gallery, Fred J. Taylor Library and Technology Center, University of Arkansas at Monticello, 514 University Drive, Monticello. It'll remain up through Feb. 25; gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Thursday and noon-2:30 p.m. Friday. Admission is free.
WEDNESDAY
Love of Art
Art Porter Music Education's annual "For the Love of Art" series recognizes its late namesake, Art Porter Sr., with two events in Little Rock:
• 7 p.m. Wednesday, Cajun's Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road, Little Rock, with an all-star lineup of musicians, APME Minors in Music students and their Mentors in Music paying tribute to Porter ahead of what would have been his 85th birthday (Feb. 8, 1934).
• 6 p.m. Sunday, St. John Missionary Baptist Church, 2501 Main St., Little Rock, featuring performances by the Art Porter Singers, G-Music (former members of the Minors in Music program) and guests, gospel singer-songwriter Jermaine Dolly and multi-instrumentalist, gospel singer-songwriter and producer Restine Jackson.
Admission to both events is free; donations, on-site and online at artporter.org, benefit APME's scholarship program. Visit artporter.org.
Legacies & Lunch
Historian and writer Benji de la Piedra will discuss the life and career of Little Rock native and pioneering Washington Post journalist Herbert Denton Jr. and his father, Little Rock educator Herbert Denton Sr., in "The Two Herbert Dentons: A Principal and a Journalist, from Black Little Rock to Black DC and Beyond," noon Wednesday in the Darragh Center, Central Arkansas Library System Main Library, 100 Rock St., Little Rock. It's the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies' February Legacies & Lunch program; attendees take their own lunches and the Butler Center provides beverages and desserts. Admission is free; a library parking discount is available upon request. Call (501) 918-3030.
Poetry anniversary
Hot Springs' Wednesday Night Poetry will mark its 30th anniversary Wednesday at Kollective Coffee + Tea, 110 Central Ave., Hot Springs, with a 6:30 p.m. open microphone session, a 7 p.m. session with a featured poet -- in this case, Bud Kenny, Wednesday Night Poetry host since June 2015 -- and a second open-mike round. Kenny will then hand the hosting reins to Kai Coggin. Admission is free. Call (501) 520-7344 or email budonfoot@yahoo.com.
The program debuted in 1989 at Giancarlo's Grotto Restaurant in the lower level of Spencer's Corner and, despite fire, flood, weather, holidays and the closing of venues, it has gone on every Wednesday since, at 14 venues throughout downtown Spa City. Slam Poetry founder Marc Smith has dubbed it the longest running weekly open mic in America.
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'Small Prints' awards
Juror Jose Diaz, chief curator of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, has chosen 14 prints for purchase awards for the Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, on display through Feb. 20 at Arkansas State University's Bradbury Art Museum, Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro:
• Chancellor's Purchase Award: Iceberg, 2018, color archival inkjet, by Edward Bernstein
• Les Christensen Purchase Award: Women on the March, 2018, lithograph, by Karen Brussat Butler
• Carol & Dean Christensen Purchase Award: A Question We All Must Answer, 2018, archival pigment print, by Robert S. Hunter
• Don A. Tilton Purchase Award: The Final Thaw, 2018, cyanotype, monotype, screenprint, diamond dust, watercolor and white gel pen, by Stephanie Kolpy
• Cheryl Wall Trimarchi Purchase Award and President's Purchase Award: Dark Days (January), 2018, linocut and screenprint, by Andrew Kozlowski
• Beth and Scot Snodgrass Purchase Award: Singin' the Blues, 2018, engraving and monotype, by Ashton Ludden.
• Lindquist Purchase Award: Migrants, 2016, woodcut, by Ellen Nathan Singer
• Mary and Don Vollman Purchase Award: Moneypit, 2018, color lithograph and screenprint, by Blake Sanders
• Chucki Bradbury Art Purchase Award: Canary Climate Change, 2018, etching, aquatint, and chine colle, by Debrah Santini
• Diane Haynes Purchase Award: Homeless, 2017, screenprint, by Sarah Sipling
• College of Liberal Arts and Communication Purchase Award: Is This My America?, 2018, color lithograph and relief, by Ralph L. Steeds
• Drs. Phyllis & Warren Skaug Purchase Award: What Matters, 2017, collagraph intaglio relief, by Bruce Thayer
• Les Christensen Excellence in Art Purchase Award: Cheat-Ho Smiley, 2016, stone lithograph on digital inkjet, by Ella Weber.
The prints will become part of the university's permanent collection. Gallery hours are noon-5 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday and Friday-Saturday, noon-7 p.m. Thursday, 2-5 p.m. Sunday; and by appointment. Admission is free. Call (870) 972-2567.
Style on 02/05/2019