The Arkansas State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts is a nonprofit volunteer organization established as an affiliate of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C.
The Arkansas State Committee of NMWA was founded in 1989 when, on a visit to Washington, D.C., Ed Dell Wortz and Helen Walton learned of the museum. They called together a group of women interested in the arts to develop a plan for a state committee, dedicated to supporting the museum's mission and promoting awareness of the work of Arkansas women artists.
Les Christensen, Flight from Servitude, Mixed Media, 2000.
The Arkansas State Committee of NMWA will host the New Mexico State Committee at the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, AR on May 16, 2012. The committees will enjoy a brunch at BHK and tour the museum. There will be a reception and dinner to follow. The Arkansas Committee is looking forward to sharing some Arkansas hospitality with the members from the New Mexico following a fabulous time in Santa Fe.
Welcome to Peavine is a Luncheon, Book Signing and Readers Theatre featuring artist and author Jane Hankins and Craig O'Neill. The event will take place on Saturday May 12th at 11:30 a.m. at the Pine Bluff Country Club. A $50 ticket includes a signed copy of Madge's Mobile Home Park and benefits the Arkansas State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Reservations may be made by calling 870-550-5464 or by e-mailing peavine@muleheadbrand.com. Checks can be made payable/mailed to Arkansas Committee NMWA P.O. Box 8962, Pine Bluff, AR 71611. Please include a phone number or e-mail address with your check for confirmation of your reservation. Please join us for an entertaining afternoon and a good cause!
The Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts was awarded a $6,000 grant from the Plum Creek Foundation to support the _Arkansas Champion Trees_ traveling exhibition.
Artists and educator Mary Ann Stafford of Maumelle has been awarded the 2012 Polly Wood Crews Scholarship from the Arkansas Committee of NMWA. Stafford's proposal is to draw 25 structures that are listed on the National Historic Register in the Argenta district of North Little Rock. The drawings will record the most important buildings architecturally and historically speaking and will highlight the North Little Rock Argenta renaissance.
With fewer travel restrictions to Cuba, more than 1,300 Americans — collectors, curators, dealers and others — have registered to attend this year’s Havana Biennial, close to the high reached in 2000.
Financed partly by income from wind turbines, an addition is helping the rural Maryhill Museum of Art in Washington State attract new visitors — and survive.
Ms. D’Arcy was an interior decorator whose eclectic sense of style helped change Americans’ taste in home furnishings in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, when she worked at Bloomingdale’s.
