Jayme Stone's Room of Wonders will be playing around Northwest Arkansas and helped us kick off Artosphere by stopping by the studio.Ozarks At Large
Jayme Stone's Room of Wonders will be playing around Northwest Arkansas and helped us kick off Artosphere by stopping by the studio.
Marla Steele, a doctoral student at the University of Arkansas, is one of just a few researchers studying a rare, Asian eagle.
To see the website devoted to Marla's work, both past and future, click here.Bucky Ball, a geometric, LED sculpture by artist Leo Villareal, is the first temporary outdoor installation for the museum. The work gets its name from Buckminster Fuller, an architect who designed geodesic domes. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas spoke with Villareal about this and other works.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Jayme Stone’s Room of Wonders inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio. And a new magazine is launched in Northwest Arkansas.
Jayme Stone's Room of Wonders will be playing about Northwest Arkansas and helped us kick off Artosphere by stopping by the studio.
Comic Book Stores and Libraries around the region will be participating in National Free Comic Book Day. 52 special editions are available this year. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas visited a participating venue and has this report.Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers gives us a list of entertainment options with the caveat that weather may preempt some of these events.
The Idle Class, a magazine about the arts in Arkansas, started as a Tumblr in 2011. Founding editor Kody Ford then launched it into a website and most recently as a print glossy distributed free throughout the state. The second print issue debuts tonight at The Stolen Glass in Fayetteville. Kody and Andrew McClain, managing editor, stopped by the studio recently to discuss both the challenges and rewards of running a magazine for the arts in Arkansas.
Michael Tilley from The City Wire talks about a rise in construction in Northwest Arkansas and possible plans for the Garrison Ave. bridge in Fort SmithLatest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, November 8, 2013
On this edition of Ozarks, the Stieglitz Collection is ready for its viewing at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Plus Michael Tilley from The City Wire on rising home sales in the region and the band A Good Fight sits inside the Firmin Garner Performance Studio to perform and give their last radio interview before they split up.
Jodi Beznoska from Walton Arts Center says the tickets to Glen Campbell’s “Goodbye” Tour went on sale today. Details about other events are also in order.
“Little Brown Jug” by Glenn Miller
The Arkansas Legislature is in session this week to discuss the budget version of the annual General Assembly.
“Songnumber3” by Mocean Worker
cycleWood Solutions, a start-up launched by University of Arkansas students, hopes to replace single-use plastic bags with a biodegradable bag called a XyloBag™. Ozarks at Large’s Antoinette Grajeda has the story.
After the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History received a trove of old Depression-era photographs of subsistence Ozarks farmers, University of Arkansas Journalism Professor Dr. Patsy Watkins traced the collection to Boone County resident Ernest Nicholson, a rural rehabilitation caseworker under the New Deal’s Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Her research appears in the fall issue of the “Arkansas Historical Quarterly.”
Photo Courtesy: Shiloh Museum of Ozark History / Katie McCoy Collection (S-95-181-5)
“Delta Skelta” by Garage A Trois
Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers says your time today might be best spent watching eagles at Hobbs State Park, getting to know the library at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, or auditioning for “No Sex Please, We’re British.”
