Baum Gallery of Art. University of Central Arkansas Campus, Feb. 2nd – March 6th. Alice Aida Ayers' Ancestral Spirits installed at the Baum Gallery on the UCA Campus, Conway, AR. As I am in the infancy of this writing series, we all know it would be terribly uncouth of me to review an exhibition in gallery where I work. Instead, I would like to share an interview with one of our current artists-in-residence: Alice Aida Ayers. This early spring, Ayers has been an artist-in-res

Old State House Museum, Little Rock, AR. January 9th – June 2026. Oddly the first Mike Disfarmer exhibition I experienced was in Paris in 2017. I had paid too much to attend my first large academic conference and it was a bust. Staying with a friend of a friend in a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city, I took the metro in and spent my days walking and looking. The first day there, I wandered in an industrial mixed-use gallery. I recognized familiar faces right away – th