For this week's collaboration with ozarksunbound.com, Christopher Spencer and Kyle Kellams talk to Peter lane from Walton Arts Center.
More from our conversation can be heard here.
Ozarks At Large
Every month, Jacqueline Froelich takes a look into the drawers of the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History and pulls out a featured history. This time it's Al Witte, noted University of Arkansas Law professor, World War II veteran and former president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. For more details and more information visit pryorcenter.uark.edu.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large we learn about the National Energy Corps presence in Northwest Arkansas, preview a weekend forum about Islam, take a phone tour of artists' studios in the Ozarks and more.This weekend many artists around Mountain View will open their studios so we can see what's inside. In advance of the self-gudied tour, we conducted a phone tour of some of the studios.
Sunday afternoon a public discussion about Islam is scheduled at the Faytteville Public Library. We talk to three organizers about what questions they think the public attending might ask.
More about Sunday's forum can be heard by clicking here.
This edition of Ozarks at Large includes yesterday's announcements from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art about recent acquisitions, more from last week's debate between the major U. S. Senate candidates and a preview of tonight's concerts with Susan Werner.
Susan Werner can be a conduit for any number of musical styles. Tonight she'll have two concerts inside Starr Theatre at Walton Arts Center in downtown Fayetteville.
The King of Blues, the Reds' perfect game and more in our history capsule for September 16.
Another question asked at last week's major-party candidate debate for the U.S. Senate. The event was held in Little Rock.
Yesterday Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced three major acquisitions. Plus familiar talent from northwest Arkansas will also be involved in the museum's restaurant and gift store.
Click here for a slide show from Crystal Bridges.
Click here for a slide show from Crystal Bridges.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: remembering the Ozark Folk Fair from forty years ago. The headliners included some of the top names in blues, rock, folk and bluegrass, but the event is all but forgotten now. Plus northwest Arkansas ranchers rally to help out farmers in South Dakota who lost cattle because of bad weather and local non-profits embrace Giving Tuesday.
The price of gasoline is creeping back up, with Iraq oil supplies at risk due to increasing civil unrest. But more American gas stations are selling American-produced ethanol fuel for a growing fleet of flexible fuel vehicles. Jacqueline Froelich reports.
Another weekend, another wide range of activities.
Becca Martin Brown says we can hear a variety of languages this summer at Opera in the Ozarks.
Many area stages fall quiet over the summer months, yet some welcome young actors through summer camps.
Links:
UAFS Academy of the Arts
Arts Live Theatre
The two candidates for Arkansas governor propose different solutions for the overwhelming number of state inmates that are being held at county jails across Arkansas. The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport board recently approved a new master plan, while various interested parties in Bella Vista work to develop a master plan for recreational trails in the city.
