The Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock — it’s a smaller museum with several enjoyable pieces. This Judy Onofrio: Just Pretending 1995 is placed prominently at the entrance
Her more recent works seem to take on a neutral palette with anatomical forms.
Bisa Butler, Basin Street Blues 2013. acquired by the museum in the last couple of years and is the museum’s first denim quilt.
The quilt is made up of denim and indigo-dyed cloth from Ghana and is an “homage to (the artist’s) favorite jazz musician, Louis Armstrong”.
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Here, Diego Rivera’s Dos Mujeres (Two Women) 1914
Particularly compelling is this piece by Gerry Williams, Rendering Lorraine//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js
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Gerry Williams was the son of missionaries who ran a school in India. His father worked to improve sanitation there and built a septic tank, which was so novel that Gandhi made a point to see. Gandhi asked his father to build one for his house, which he did. Gerry says:
“I never met Gandhi myself because we were in school when he came. But I have been deeply influenced by Gandhi over the years. The idea of handicraft and low agricultural economies, living in mud-brick homes, growing things, making things for use by other people.
“[Gandhi] also influenced me in my ethics and moral life. I became a pacifist and spent time in jail as a conscientious objector. He allowed me to say ‘what am I going to do with my life that will be ethical and politically responsible?’ Being a potter is what I came to believe the answer to that question was.”
Civil Rights photography by Will Counts of the Little Rock Nine//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js
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This is the 5th Grade Gibbs Magnet School Project, Blancaflor (White Flower) which is based on a folk tale from Oaxaca, Mexico
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Heifer is behind the Clinton Presidential Center//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js
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Letter from Willie Morris (with mention of a Razorback game)//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js
Letter from Mister Rogers//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js
Letter from Queen Noor to Hillary Clinton//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js
Replica Oval Office//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js
Makings of a formal White House dinner//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js
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Dale Chihuly Crystal Tree of Light
