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"A Month of Sundays: Art and the Persistence of Time"
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR. February 19 – September 6, 2026. Full Calendar of Events related to this exhibition: https://arkmfa.org/series/a-month-of-sundays/ A Month of Sundays installed at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock, AR. Divided into five themes: Slow Time, For the Durations, Aging and Erosion, Marking Time, and A Sense of Pause, A Month of Sundays explores the intersection between art and time. Special care has been made in the signa
Rachel Trusty
Mar 114 min read


Vivian Chiu, "Facing," Brad Cushman Gallery, Windgate Art + Design Building, UA Little Rock. Jan 20 - March 15.
Artist Round Table and Reception: February 12 th , 6 – 8 pm. Gallery Walk-Through with Artist: Friday, February 13 th , 12 – 1 pm. Content Advisory: This article contains images with nudity and discusses LGBT+ art practices. As artists, we are taught to contextualize our practice within the canon of art history through a process of citation, in which we argue for which artists, genres, or artworks we are working with and against. A canonical citation has long been one cog in
Rachel Trusty
Feb 95 min read


Interview with Alice Aida Ayers for her retrospective exhibition, "Ancestral Spirits: Weaving the Past to the Present."
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
Rachel Trusty
Jan 315 min read


Disfarmer: Portraits of Rural Arkansas.
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
Rachel Trusty
Jan 163 min read
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