“Action/Abstraction Redefined” features 36 artists and over 50 works of art from the Institute of American Indian Arts’ permanent collection across the movements of abstract expressionism, color field and hard-edge painting, showing how Native artists culled inspiration from traditional designs while co-creating and responding to new waves of artistic expression.
Tara Escolin
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Past, present, future, always: A conversation with artist Raven Halfmoon
Raven Halfmoon, an artist whose work is part of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts’ permanent collection, coils and presses thousands of pounds of clay into breathtaking, imposing sculptures honoring her matriarchal family and matrilineal Caddo heritage.
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‘Don’t box yourself in’: Dylan Turk wants to spark an art economy that works for everyone
Dylan Turk, special projects editor of architecture and design at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and co-founder of KIN, talks about the creative economy in Arkansas and democratizing access to art.
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Rock It! Lab gets a launch: A Q&A with Benito Lubazibwa and Leah Patterson
The Rock It! Lab is the latest iteration of Lubazibwa’s work — a collaboration between his nonprofit and the Central Arkansas Library System born out of a strategy session in early 2019 and envisioned as “a launch pad for people’s ideas and dreams.”
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Thrones for the Stoic: Kat Wilson’s Quarantine Habitats reframe self-portraiture and identity
Kat Wilson’s Quarantine Habitats project extends the invitation to anyone with a camera to view themselves in a new light through the composition of a self-portrait in an intimate space.
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From Nigeria to rural Arkansas: Oluwatobi Adewumi on culture shock, crowns and quarantine
“I kind of lean towards beauty — to me, beauty carries more weight,” Adewumi said. “Women have some kind of energy. … To me, they speak volumes more.”
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The Aggressive Forest: A conversation with Anaïs Dassé
“I always felt the way we display the information — the viewer in front of it — everybody is filling gaps. In the end, they [the curators] can tell you whatever they want. This is also the question of colonialism: In these narratives, the ‘winner’ is the one talking. It’s not just missing information; it’s about how we write history. Who are the ‘savages’?”
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‘In wine, there is truth’: Tasting the Arkansas River Valley terroir
Along the Arkansas River Valley in Altus, there is a wine trail rich in history, rooted in family and eclectic in presentation.
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The Fly’s Eye
Buckminster Fuller’s work of genius at Crystal Bridges blends ‘nature’s geometry’ with economy and environmentalism.
