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The showcase artist for November and December is a collaborative from the Arkansas Craft Guild. The exhibit includes photography, wood turnings, fused glass, stoneware pottery, watercolor paintings and even duck calls. Our following artists are:
Please visit the Arkansas Craft Guild: www.arkansascraftguild.org/
For more information about our artist please contact the Arkansas Art Guild or contact the State Treasurer’s Office.
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October Arkansas Artist Exhibit
Patricia Holifield
Patricia Holifield grew up and was educated in Arkansas (B. S. in Math at UAF) but moved away to pursue her interest in Information Technology. However, finding that Arkansas is the only place that feels like home, she moved back for the last time in 1978. While Patricia enjoyed her career, in 1999 she joyfully took early retirement in order to play full time. By then she had traveled a bit in the world and figured it was time to expand her mind so she began to study philosophy at UALR, earning a B. A. in that subject.
However, Patricia still felt that there might be some other thing she was supposed to do. And, it seems that she may have found her true calling when, in the fall of 2001, a friend put a small lump of clay into her hands and told her to make something. In an instant, Patricia formed both a tiny figure and a full awareness that she needed to be working in clay. So, she started studying pottery at the Arkansas Arts Center where she continues to take class today.
Patricia has hand-built most of her pottery but this year took up wheel-throwing as well. So far, the wheel is winning -- but, for Patricia, the process is the thing, so she's happy just to be pushing mud around. Oh, and she also dabbles in glass fusing and lampwork, knits up a storm (and sometimes a sweater), and revels in the love of her family and dear friends.
Contact Patricia via email at pjhpots@swbell.net
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August/September Arkansas Artist Exhibit
Mark Cothren
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The Treasurer's Office is featuring three mediums of art: turned wood, oil paintings, and hand blown glass. |
Mark Cothren started turning wood 2 years ago as a hobby. Nearly all of the wood he has salvaged from Arkansas trees has been destroyed by storms or construction. Mark is a native of Greers Ferry and has lived in Conway since 1984. For more information on Mark, please visit: http://www.flyingcurls.com
James Hayes
James Hayes owns and operates the James Hayes Art Glass Company in Pine Bluff. James has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. Some of his honors include an invitation from the White House to design a Christmas tree ornament; featured on High Profile in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette in addition to KHTV Channel 11's Everyone has a Story. He has been on the cover of At Home In Arkansas magazine and featured in Southern Living Magazine. For more information on James, please visit: http://www.hayesartglass.com/
Brandon and Laura Norman
The Treasurer’s office is proud to showcase Arkansas’ young artists this month. Brandon Norman, 14, and his sister Laura, 8, were born in Texarkana, Texas. Brandon attends Arkansas Senior High School. Laura attends College Hill Elementary International Magnet School. The young artists have been featured at numerous art shows and both attend the Artist Hideaway Art School.
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June/July Arkansas Artist Exhibit
Jane Hankins
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Jane Hankin's pottery sculpture entitled, "Look Whos Here" from her "Little Old People" collection |
Born in Jonesboro, Jane F. Hankins has enjoyed a strong presence in the community of Arkansas artists for over two decades. A visual artist, specializing in sculpture in porcelain and stoneware as well as drawing and painting, she is a designer for nationally-marketed sculpture reproductions. Jane studied at the Memphis Art Academy, Arkansas State University, and the Arkansas Arts Center.
She has had numerous exhibitions and annual shows and was one of 10 artists chosen to exhibit in the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. In addition, she has shown at the Arkansas Arts Center in the Delta Show, Toys by Artists and Prints, Drawings and Crafts. She has also served on the Fine Arts Club Board.
Her work shows us that art does not have to be serious to be important. Jane says, "I like art that is approachable, and I believe that there is room for all kinds of art."
For more information about Jane, please visit: http://www.janefhankins.com/
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April/May Arkansas Artist Exhibit
L.E.C. CLAY
L.E.C. CLAY was founded by Lyn Elizabeth Clinton (L.E.C.) in New Orleans in 2003. After losing her entire studio during Hurricane Katrina, Lyn moved L.E.C. CLAY to Seattle, where she currently works on the line with her husband, Zack Paal. Lyn and Zack are both native Arkansans. The two artists sell their made to order L.E.C. CLAY in fine retail stores throughout the United States and Mexico.
As an undergraduate at Bard College in New York and a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Lyn focused on anthropology and did field work in various parts of the globe. Her designs are directly inspired by her work in Central America, South America and Africa. Her art is drawn not only from vivid images of the colorful markets, carnivals and turbulent tropical storms, but also from less visual, more ethereal and tactile sources inspiring the array of textures and designs that embody L.E.C.
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Native Arkansas artist, Lyn Clinton, poses with a piece of her pottery |
Barry Thomas
Impressionist artist, Barry Thomas, floods his canvases with light, vibrant energy and vivid color. His broad, heavy brush strokes create tender, moving scenes of mothers and children and larger than life still lifes. At well over six feet tall and broad shouldered he looks like he would be more at home on the football field than holding a paintbrush—and he was when he played for the famed Lou Holtz at the University of Arkansas. With the encouragement of Coach Holtz Barry decided to "follow his dream" of becoming an artist and studied at the Art Center College of Design in California. |
Arkansas artist, Barry Thomas, painting an oil landscape outdoors |
| Barry's vivid palette and evocative subject matter have made him a widely collected and sought after artist. His wife, Piper, and their three children are the main focus of his life and the subject of many of his canvases. |
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February/March Arkansas Artist Exhibit
Becki & David Dahlstedt
Becki and David Dahlstedt have been making pottery together since 1984 when Becki joined David as a crafts interpreter at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Ark. David studied pottery at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Ark. Before coming to the Folk Center in 1978. Becki had a studio at the Berkeley Potter’s Guild in California before finding her way to Mountain View.
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Martha Shoffner and Becki Dahlstedt |
While demonstrating pottery at the Folk Center, they developed an extensive line of decorative functional stoneware pottery which they continue to produce and market locally and throughout the state. In 1990, they began building a studio adjacent to their home with assistance from an Individual Artist’s Fellowship which David received from the Arkansas Arts Council. Since 1996, David & Becki have worked exclusively in their home studio.
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The Treasurer’s office rotates local artist exhibits throughout the year.
Come view the art exhibit in the Treasurer’s office.
For exhibit information, contact Bailey Newcomb at bnewcomb@artreasury.state.ar.us.
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