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The June session will be the last virtual Art School mini quarter before the new Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts opens in May 2022. The Art School will continue to offer programming, demos, and workshops on an ongoing basis.

The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts launched AMFA Amplified, a mobile application designed to create deeper connections with artists, the Museum’s art collection, and programs.

Studio Gang’s award-winning designed Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts will open to the public in May 2022 The north entrance to the new Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts under construction in March 2021. Photo by Timothy Hursley. The new Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, currently under construction in Little Rock’s…

In abstract works – like her 1969 gouache Earth #1 – Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner made strong visual statements about the elements and life of our planet. But it was not easy for her art to get noticed.

Capital Campaign supporting the Little Rock museum’s new building and endowment surpasses $135 million, establishes new goal of $142 million The Arkansas Arts Center officially became the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts on January 25, 2021. While unveiling the museum’s new brand, AMFA leaders announced that the capital campaign supporting…

While the new Museum of Fine Arts is under construction, works from the AMFA Foundation Collection are undergoing a transformation of their own. George Romney’s Lady Willoughby de Broke before conservation began. George Romney, British (Beckside, Lancashire, England, 1734 – 1802, Kendal, Westmorland, England), Lady Willoughby de Broke,…

Winter-themed works from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection offer a journey to a winter wonderland. Andrew Wyeth, American (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 1917 – 2009, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania), Snowflakes, circa 1966, watercolor on paper, 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches, Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection: Purchase, Tabriz Fund and Museum…

Artist Patti Warashina’s ceramic career has been ever evolving – in both form and scale. Her output ranges from wheel-thrown functional vessels made during her graduate school years in the early 1960s, to the stark-white, slip-cast figural groups of the 1980s, to the monumental and boldly colorful ceramics of the 1990s.

The Arkansas Arts Center reached milestones in its building project while continuing to deliver vibrant and accessible programming in a year of historic transition and unexpected challenges, leaders announced at the September 21 virtual Annual Meeting.

Arkansas artist and 62nd Annual Delta Exhibition Grand Award winner Aaron Calvert’s ceramic figures are decorated with symbols of the things he can’t shake from his mind