Each year the Arkansas Arts Center organizes and hosts inspiring exhibitions that appeal to everyone. View our current exhibition schedule or mark your calendars!
July 20, 2018 — October 7, 2018
Living Treasure and Fabulous Follies celebrates the exquisitely crafted jewelry of Robert Baines, a master goldsmith and leading archaeometallurgist. By using ancient techniques in playful new ways, and combining precious metals with contemporary materials, Baines excavates the mythology of present-day culture and crafts objects that push the boundaries of what wearable art can be.
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August 7, 2018 — November 4, 2018
Delta Through the Decades Deux features works from the Arkansas Arts Center Collection from past Delta Exhibitions. The Annual Delta Exhibition was founded in 1958 to feature contemporary work by artists from Arkansas and bordering states. The Delta provides a unique snapshot of the artists from the Mississippi Delta region and a glimpse into the contemporary art scene, reflecting the region’s strong traditions of craftsmanship and observation, combined with innovative use of materials and an experimental approach to subject matter.
August 14, 2018 — October 28, 2018
Reveal/Conceal: Exploring Identity in Contemporary Art features works from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation collection. Collectively, the works in the exhibition illustrate the myriad ways by which contemporary artists reveal – or, in some instances, conceal – either their identities or those of their subjects.
September 28, 2018 — December 30, 2018
Independent Vision: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Martin Muller Collection features 89 works from San Francisco-based gallerist and collector Martin Muller’s personal collection, representing 77 artists he has championed throughout his career. Together, these works form a picture of Muller the collector, on a life-long journey for enlightenment through art and literature.
August 7, 2018 – November 11, 2018
Ongoing
The scintillating watercolors and drawings of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French artist Paul Signac are the focus of two intimate galleries at the Arkansas Arts Center that have recently been redesigned and reinstalled. These works come from America’s finest collection of Signac’s graphic art, one hundred and thirty-three works that were assembled by Arkansan industrialist James T. Dyke. Mr. Dyke presented this magnificent collection to the Arkansas Arts Center in 1999.
Throughout the year the Arkansas Arts Center displays works from its own collection. The galleries described below are filled with objects selected dating from over 600 years of Western art right up to the current day. The Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection specializes in drawings and contemporary craft, but there are also examples of paintings, sculpture, prints, photography, and decorative arts, among other media.