Uark U-Haul is a one-day mobile art exhibition bringing art from the University of Arkansas’s ceramic seminar class to our local community in a safe and accessible manner.  Each U-Haul features a solo or collaborative effort from the School of Art’s current graduate and post-baccalaureate students. Offering unique interpretations of mobile art spaces, every U-Haul creates a new experience for the viewer. Please feel free to enjoy every U-Haul at your own pace and as much as your personal safety allows. For your consideration, we are asking for a limit of one viewer in a U-Haul at a time ..read more

The Windgate Foundation has just provided vital support to help bolster our local craft community, and further develop ESSA’s programming well into the future. Thank you again to the Windgate Foundation for recognizing the importance of the crafts and fostering a dynamic arts community in Northwest Arkansas! https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2020/12/01/windgate-foundation-gives-10-million-to-eureka-springs-school-of-the-arts ..read more

The University of Arkansas School of Art is pleased to announce the exhibition, VOICES FOR CHANGE: The Color Network. The exhibition will run from October 30 – December 4, 2020. There will be a panel discussion via ZOOM on Thursday, December 3rd from 5:30-7pm. The event is free and open to the public. VOICES FOR CHANGE brings together 8 artists from The Color Network and their responses to the violent murder of George Floyd and the calls for anti-racist social reform. The Color Network, an organization of BIPOC artists with the mission to aid and advance people of color in the ceramics field ..read more

Check out faculty Linda Lopez in the group show “Booth B4” at David B.Smith Gallery in Denver, CO. Artists include: Laura Ball, Leon Benn, Justin Favela, Linda Lopez, Liz Nielsen Show is up October 9 - Nov 7, 2020 ? https://davidbsmithgallery.com ..read more

From UA Newswire: Oct. 19, 2020 The University of Arkansas School of Art hosted a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday, Oct. 13, for its new Windgate Studio and Design Center building at the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Hill Avenue. The ceremony kicked off the construction on the building, expanding the footprint of the planned Windgate Art and Design District in the heart of south Fayetteville. In 2017, the School of Art received a transformational $40 million gift from the Windgate Charitable Foundation to create the new art and design district that will serve students ..read more

Faculty Linda Lopez receives Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship Congrats to ceramics faculty Linda Lopez for receiving a Sculpture and Installation Art Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council. Info below: “Each year, we honor up to nine talented and outstanding Arkansas artists in three different categories,” said Patrick Ralston, director of the Arkansas Arts Council. “These grants help artists pursue their independent projects and endeavors and help perpetuate and build access to the arts statewide.” Individual Artist fellowships are unconditional, non-matching awards made directly to indivi ..read more

“Collecting can come very close to what is involved in the making of art. The assemblage of disparate elements into a totality evokes the satisfying metaphors of wholeness and unity, and the containment or display of what is valuable involves the very same questions of form and function that any artist must ask.” —William Davies King, Collections of Nothing Tick-tock, tick-tock… Losing all sense of time, lost in the minutiae, sorting and classifying, discovering new details, our eyes become blurry as another hour passes. One could call this a compulsion, but we instead call it a collection. It ..read more

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If you are passing through Denver, check out faculty Linda Lopez’s solo exhibition ‘Stranger’ at David B. Smith Gallery. The exhibition runs August 16 - September 14, 2019 ..read more