Art News

ACNMWA Announces the 2023 Artist Award Winner: Shelby Fleming
The Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts announces Shelby Fleming as the Artist Award winner for 2023. The annual Artist Award may be used for research, travel, training, studio time, or equipment and supplies. The purpose of the award is to...

National Museum of Women in the Arts to reopen in October following $67.5m renovation
More than two years after it closed the doors to its Classic Revival building near the White House in order to undergo a $67.5m renovation, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, DC revealed on February 15 that it will reopen on October 21....

Catalyze awarding $10,000 grants to 25 artists in Central Arkansas
With support from the Windgate Foundation, the Mid-America Arts Alliance has launched Catalyze, an initiative that will allocate an astonishing amount of grant funding to artists in Central Arkansas. The program, which also provides mentoring and professional...

Lookout: Katharina Cibulka Extended to April 30
The National Museum of Women in the Arts celebrates its mission with a statement from Austrian artist Katharina Cibulka, cross-stitched at monumental scale on our construction scaffolding. Visitors and passersby in Washington, D.C., are invited to enjoy Lookout:...

Clinton Presidential Center Presents: “Women’s Voices: Activism in Art”
Conversation with the Artists Thursday, February 9 at Noon Great Hall at the Clinton Presidential Center The Clinton Presidential Center Presents “Women’s Voices: Activism in Art,” a dynamic conversation with three world-renowned fiber artists whose art quilts are on...

AAS Artist Interview: Elizabeth Weber
Here is an excerpt from an Arkansas Art Scene Blog interview artist Elizabeth Weber, a recipient of ACNMWA's Artist Award and a featured artist in the ACNMWA Artist Registry. AAS: Elizabeth, I believe you are originally from upstate New York? What brought you to...

UA-Fort Smith hosts Arkansas Women to Watch 2023: New Worlds
The University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Gallery of Art and Design will host the Arkansas Women to Watch 2023: New Worlds exhibition from January 17 though March 3, 2023. The opening reception will be held on Friday, January 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Gallery of Art and...
Arkansas Women to Watch 2023: New Worlds
Arkansas Women to Watch 2023: New Worlds Exhibition Schedule Guest curator: Chaney Jewell, Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas Artists: Anaïs Dassé Hannah McBroom Aimée Papazian Heidi Carlsen-Rogers January 17 - March 4 Gallery of Art & Design,...

Virtual Studio Tour Resources
The excitement of an artist's studio visit is unique. Seeing the materials, the tools and tables, peeping at bulletin boards and to-do lists…that inside look with the artist as tour guide makes the finished work more impressive and intriguing. The pandemic inspired...

VIDEO – Women to Watch: Paper Routes State Tour
Take a virtual tour of the state Women to Watch 2021: Paper Routes exhibition and learn more about the Arkansas women artists and their works.Tour dates and locations: June 24 - Aug, 15: Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff Aug. 24 - Sept. 22:...

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