Virtual Exhibitions
2023 Pine Bluff Art League Exhibition
The Arts & Science Center hosts a juried exhibition of works by members of the Pine Bluff Art League each year in the Pine Bluff Art League Annual Exhibition.
The Pine Bluff Art League members represented in this year’s show of 34 works are Melissa Abernathy, Julia Barrett, Vickie Coleman, Amanda Curry, Gerry DeLongchamp, Linda DeMint, Dell Gorman, Gail Greenstreet, Rhonda F. Holderfield, Jenny Holley, Paul Owens, Grey Reed, Kay Reed, Claudia Spainhour, and Margie Spharler.
This year’s juror is artist Yelena Petroukhina, who announced the winners during the opening reception on August 24.
Sponsored by Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Co.
2023 Irene Rosenzweig Biennial Juried Exhibition
The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas is home to the Irene Rosenzweig Biennial Juried Exhibition.
The prestigious show is funded by an endowment by the notable Pine Bluff resident, Irene Rosenzweig. It is an opportunity for established and up-and-coming artists to gain recognition and earn prizes, and for ASC to grow its Permanent Collection.
The exhibition is open to artists 18 and older in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. Artwork in the following forms are accepted: Paintings, drawings, original prints, fiber art, ceramics, sculpture, and photography.
Arkansas Women to Watch 2023: New Worlds
Arkansas Women to Watch 2023: New Worlds is the latest exhibit in the Women to Watch exhibition series, conceived by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA). The Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (ACNMWA) organizes the statewide tour of the art by the Arkansas nominees.
Guest curator Chaney Jewell nominated four Arkansas artists whose work embodies the New Worlds theme of Migration or Stagnation of an Individual, Environmental Changes, Physical or Emotional Growth of an Individual and Imaginary Worlds: Heidi Carlsen-Rogers, Anaïs Dassé, Hannah McBroom, and Aimée Papazian.
Organized by the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Sponsored by Relyance Bank.
Kim Kwee: A Simple Heart
A Simple Heart is a series of paintings, fabric works and assemblages representing a series of investigations into family, specifically mothers and daughters, and the shifting ontological status of dolls, decorative objects, and ephemera like the vintage paper dolls the artist used. Kwee’s work combines textiles and drawing media.
Sponsored by Simmons Bank.
SELF-AWARENESS:
AN INTRODUCTION
TO LABOR BY MATTHEW FIELDS
Artist and educator Matthew Fields explores labor and the Black experience in his first solo exhibition,
Self-Awareness: An Introduction to Labor. The exhibition consists of a series of paintings, and assemblages created from found objects and crafted materials.
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LEAH GRANT:
BECOMING ONCE MORE
Leah Grant’s work recontextualizes her experiences by revealing and concealing the vulnerable parts of her identity to create new ones through the use of various collage techniques and images taken from a personal archive.
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Spectrum Dynamic
Spectrum Dynamic comprises a series of dye-sublimation prints that presents visual interpretations of motor stereotypies, sometimes termed stimming.
Indiana University’s Caleb Weintraub and Dr. Dan Kennedy collaborated with staff and students at CIP Bloomington, Indiana — an agency that assists young people on the autism spectrum — to complete this series of artworks.
An Elegy to America in Black & White II: Artworks by Madai Taylor
Taylor’s artwork in conjunction with his poetry details the reason for the pain and suffering of Black folk brought by ship and sold into bondage, as it relates to Biblical prophecy, against the backdrop of American history, as exacted by the American spirit.
Taylor’s use of Iowa earth as his main medium is a unique and integral part of this exhibition.
The exhibition and scholarly research are supported in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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AN ARKANSAS MASTER: The Work of John Howard
John Miller Howard (1908-1980), and acclaimed artist and educator, established the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff's art department and settled in Arkansas for the last four decades of his life. Those Howard mentored have gone on to have enormous impacts in the arts community throughout the state, spreading his passion and vision of the arts as an inclusive community.
Throughout his career, John Howard boldly experimented with a variety of materials, methods, subjects, and styles, leaving behind a large and unique body of work. An Arkansas Master features a selection of Howard's paintings from UAPB's collection and the Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas' permanent collection.
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Sponsored by the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and the Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas Endowment Fund
Past
MIDST: ARTWORK BY NICK HOBBS
Nick Hobbs’ current work is defined by small, highly detailed graphite drawings that interweave the everyday and the sublime in curated juxtapositions.
Sponsored by the Kline Family Foundation.
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2022 Pine Bluff Art League
Juried Exhibition
The Arts & Science Center hosts the annual Pine Bluff Art League Juried Exhibition. Juried by artist Virmarie DePoyster, the show consists of selected works from members of the Pine Bluff Art League.
The exhibition is sponsored by Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Co. The reception is sponsored by MK Distributors and Art Krewe.
Linda DeMint, Bayou Bartholomew, acrylic on canvas, 2022
Color, Faces, People: Eliseo Casiano
Color, Faces, People, a collection of vibrant and captivating drawings and paintings by the artist, Eliseo Casiano, invites the viewer into a world beyond traditional portraiture. In his striking depictions of friends and family, Casiano uses overlays of saturated colors to explore his subjects’ moods and identities. This dramatic use of color abstracts the images, encouraging contemplation. Viewers may wonder: what are these people feeling or doing? As you experience Casiano’s work, consider how does his use of color affect our interpretations.
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Supported in part by the Arkansas Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas Endowment Fund.
IN BETWEEN
In Between combines Tammy Harrington’s sensibilities as a printmaker and the Chinese folk art of paper cut. As a Chinese-American woman, Harrington uses her figurative compositions to explore how this ratio of her cultural identity is perceived by others. Oftentimes, the still figure seems to exist in a state of chaos and commotion as if she is caught in turbulent waves or stormy winds. Patterns and imagery attach themselves to the figure and surround it at the same time. The red latticework is the stable entity, the geometric severity straining to contain the visual hodgepodge.
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Sponsored by Simmons Bank
WAS IT EVER REAL?
Was It Ever Real? features the collage work of North Little Rock artist, Meikel Church. Church’s collages feel like memories or dreams, set in an indeterminate time and place where characters often wander alone. Church repurposes images from vintage magazines to make his collages, recontextualizing them into imaginative scenes. The past as it exists within these surreal narratives is shaped by our interpretation, in the same way our version of the past is determined by our perception of it. The layered backgrounds bring to mind quilts assembled from scraps, the kind cobbled together and handed down in the same way histories are passed and shared.
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Sponsored by Relyance Bank
LIFE’S A CARD GAME
What We’re Dealt features mixed media portraits by Rashawn Penister. This body of work is inspired by the idiom “to play the cards you’re dealt,” meaning to make use of what is afforded or available. Made from playing cards that are cut into different shapes to form the subject, Penister creates a visual message within his portraits that we are metaphorically playing a card game by making life choices. His portraits feature both well-known figures, like Miles Davis and Kendrick Lamar, and anonymous subjects, situating the average person amongst the aspirational who have played their cards well.
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Sponsored by Simmons Bank
PAUSE: People, Places and Scenes
The exhibition title, PAUSE, reflects the status of the characters in the work. People living in their community, living their lives and in their spaces, as black Americans living in a PAUSED position, waiting. Waiting for the next headline or event to happen. Waiting for the next justified police shooting or the next unexplained act of violence. Waiting for the most recent statistical data about high unemployment or the next random report on unequal healthcare for black women. Waiting for the next apology for a recently discovered history of wrongdoing or waiting for gentrification, redlining, redistricting, or redevelopment to claim black neighborhoods.
The artwork acts as a collective group of people living in one community, but at the same time, these could be people anywhere. The work moves from simple day-to-day activities to sometimes intense and unpredictable situations, where people PAUSE for the outcome.
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Sponsored by Relyance Bank
BEYOND LABELS | MÁS ALLÁ DE LAS ETIQUETAS - VIRMARIE DEPOYSTER
Virmarie DePoyster is a bilingual, Puerto Rican artist interested in utilizing art to bring communities together. In this portrait exhibition, she explores how in today's world -- a melting pot -- the labels we assign each other have the power to either divide or connect us. Rather than focusing on the boundaries these labels can create, DePoyster's goal with these works is to inspire a sense of community as each subject's intrinsic beauty is illustrated. Her hope is to inspire an appreciation in our community for what makes each of us unique so we can learn to look beyond labels and truly see one another.
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Sponsored by Relyance Bank
TENSION AND PROTECTION: TEXTILE WORK BY SUZANNAH SCHRECKHISE
Breath, Schreckhise's ongoing series of masks, takes a mundane and ubiquitous object and transforms each into wearable, functional art. She plays with the masks' simplistic shape by overlaying them with delicately crocheted coverings in a variety of forms. The masks themselves are made from recycled fabrics that hold memories for Schreckhise. This repurposing imbues the masks with sentiment that speaks to how masks themselves have already absorbed our memories of this moment in history.
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This exhibition is supported in part by the Arkansas Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas Endowment Fund
DEEPLY ROOTED: A GLIMPSE INTO SOUTHERN LIFESTYLE
This exhibition, “Deeply Rooted: A glimpse into Southern Lifestyle,” is curated in the effort of showing Southern lifestyle from various viewpoints. These pieces help convey the narrative of southern culture and its traditions as it is commonly known for its slow lifestyle, nature/ landscapes, and community.
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Curated by Torri Richardson, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff graduate and ASC Curation and Education Intern 2021
2021 IRENE ROSENZWEIG JURIED EXHIBITION
The Rosenzweig juried show has a long history with The Arts & Science Center, beginning with a gift from the Irene Rosenzweig Foundation in 1992. The prestigious show is an opportunity for established and up-and-coming artists to gain recognition and earn prizes, and for ASC to grow its Permanent Collection. The exhibition is open to artists 18 and older in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. Artwork in the following forms are accepted: Paintings, drawings, original prints, fiber art, ceramics, sculpture, and photography.
More information at asc701.org/rosenzweig.
Sponsored by the Arkansas Arts Council.
2021 ANNUAL PINE BLUFF ART LEAGUE EXHIBITION
ASC is proud to host the 2021 Pine Bluff Art League Annual Exhibition. The exhibition opened Thursday, August 26, 2021, with a free opening reception. The independent Juror Bryan Massey, chair and professor of University of Central Arkansas’s Department of Art and Design, presented the awards for Best in Show, First, Second, and Third Place prizes, as well as Honorable Mention. The exhibition will remain on display through November 27, 2021.
Sponsored by Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel, Co.
1989-2021: A RETROSPECTIVE OF JERRY COLBURN
This exhibition is a retrospective of North Little Rock artist Jerry Colburn’s works from 1989-2021. Featuring Colburn’s inkblots, collages, and music, this exhibition is an immersive experience for all audiences.
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Sponsored by June & Edmond Freeman
DEFINING HOME: MIXED MEDIA AND CERAMICS OF
YELENA PETROUKHINA
Defining Home, through a collection of masterful and diverse mixed media, acrylic on canvas, and ceramic works by Yelena Petroukhina, allows visitors to reflect on the relationship they have with the space they occupy, in whatever form that takes. Many American’s spent the majority of 2020 in their homes. Was your home a shelter, a place for comfort, or a place of turmoil? What defines your home, space itself, or the emotions you carry into and allow to occupy the space?
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Sponsored by Simmons Bank
2021 ANNUAL PINE BLUFF
HIGH SCHOOL EXHIBITION
The Arts & Science Center is pleased to host the annual art exhibition of work by Pine Bluff High School students. Art teacher Shalisha Thomas has worked with the young artists. Former ASC Curator Dr. Lenore Shoults said, “the talent at PBHS is extraordinary and we look forward to sharing the student’s work with the public.”
Sponsored by Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel
WOMEN OF THE ARKANSAS DELTA
A photo exhibition and research project from the Arts & Science Center takes a look at a diverse selection of women from Southeast Arkansas. Women of the Arkansas Delta is a snapshot of these women and their lives in the Arkansas Delta in the 1970s, and what happened to them afterward.
The exhibition is now on view in ASC’s The ARTSpace on Main, 623 S. Main St., and is viewable from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays through May 29, 2021. It is made possible by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a sponsorship from Explore Pine Bluff.
FEELING THROUGH: EXAMINING EMOTION IN THE MIDST OF UNREST BY CATHERINE ELIZABETH PATTON
Catherine Elizabeth Patton is a self-taught concept and portrait photographer from Memphis, TN who started her practice in 2016. Feeling Through is a self-reflection of the artist’s emotions in the time of COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement. These works are Patton’s attempt to use photography to face some of those emotions and examine them as they understand them.
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Sponsored by Relyance Bank
THE FEMALE GAZE
This exhibition highlights artwork created by women artists, depicting female subjects, within the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas’s Permanent Collection; focusing on the reclamation of the female body and depictions of female narratives and perspectives.
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Sponsored by Explore Pine Bluff/Pine Bluff Advertising & Promotion Commission.
NEW TERRITORY: PAINTINGS BY MICHELLE FAIR
Michelle Fair’s solo exhibition surrounds the idea of figures and their interactions with spaces and the environment. Fair seeks to give the subjects of the paintings a home, reflecting a new stage of the artist’s life. The figures and the spaces are allowed to balance and feed each other or not, allowing disconnect.
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Sponsored by Simmons Bank
BALLOTS & LAUGHS: POLITICAL CARTOONS OF RAY WALTERS
View the Arts & Science Center’s collection of political cartoons by Ray Walters from the 1930s and 40s, the exhibition will include virtual public programming events.
This exhibition and accompanying public programming are made possible in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
BROTHERS BY ONE:
THE BLACK ATHLETE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE BY REX DELONEY
Rex DeLoney's solo exhibition Brothers by One: The Black Athlete and Social Justice highlights the many ways that black athletes used their celebrity status and media coverage to give attention to social justice issues; from boxer Muhammad Ali and his stance against the Vietnam War to San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem as a statement against police brutality.
Sponsored by Simmons Bank, Explore Pine Bluff, and UA-Little Rock Public Radio FM 89.1 KUAR / Classical 90.5 KLRE
2020 ANNUAL PINE BLUFF
HIGH SCHOOL ART EXHIBITION
The Arts & Science Center (ASC) is pleased to host the annual art exhibition of work by Pine Bluff High School students. Art teacher Shalisha Thomas has worked with the young artists and curator, Dr. Lenore Shoults, said, “the talent at PBHS is extraordinary and we look forward to sharing the student’s work with the public.”
Sponsored by Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel
One Million Strong:A Photographic Tribute of the Million Man March By Roderick Terry
One Million Strong celebrates black men from all over America who, on October 16,1995, came together at the Million Man March for a day of atonement and reconciliation. Roderick Terry, the photographer, captured moments of excitement, jubilance, thoughtfulness, seriousness, togetherness, and peacefulness during this massive demonstration.
Sponsored by Simmons Bank
Watch a video statement by Roderick Terry or read more about the exhibition.
2020 ANNUAL PINE BLUFF ART LEAGUE EXHIBITION
The long-running annual exhibition showcases Pine Bluff Art League artists with works in a variety of two-dimensional media. Each year, ASC hosts the exhibition and invites an independent juror, Tom Richard, to choose pieces for the show and determine the awards.
Sponsored by Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Co.
FROM THE VAULT: WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
From the Vault features recent acquisitions to The Arts & Science Center’s permanent collection. The exhibition demonstrates ASC's commitment to collecting the artwork of Arkansas artists, African American artists, and artists of the Delta.
Sponsored by the Kline Family Foundation
WHIMSY & FLIGHTS OF FANCY
Whimsy and Flights of Fancy is inspired by objects from the Arkansas Arts Center’s Playing Around: Toys Designed by Artists collection. These three-dimensional sculptures will be paired with two-dimensional visual art by Eric Freeman, Katherine Strause, and Sherry J. Williamson.
Sponsored by Simmons Bank
