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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


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


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
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