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Good Weather Gallery
Art Gallery
The Good Weather Gallery is an alternative contemporary art gallery that resides in the single-car garage of a lakeside property in the residential Lakewood neighbourhood in North Little Rock. Established in 2012, the gallery is the brainchild of designer and sculptor Haynes Riley who, after receiving his MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, decided to re-invent his brother’s garage as an art space as part of an exploration into alternative uses of the American suburban garage. Good Weather shows around nine month-long exhibitions a year from artists based across the US and Canada, and has exhibited the works of Los Angeles based artistic duo Lauren Cherry and Max Springer, painter Ezra Tessler from Brooklyn and Rhode Island born artist Katie Wynne, who assembles sculptures from found objects and materials.
Fort Smith Regional Art Museum
Museum
The Fort Smith Regional Art Museum dates back to the late 1940s but was officially incorporated in 1968 as the Fort Smith Art Centre. In these early years the centre resided in a Victorian house before moving to its current state-of-the-art premises in the heart of historic Fort Smith. The new museum opened in early 2013 in a former mid-century bank building that was re-designed by Little Rock based architects Polk Stanley Wilcox, who also designed the William J Clinton Presidential Centre, and won the 2013 Excellence in Preservation through Rehabilitation award from the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas. The museum’s permanent collection includes works by American artists Alexander Calder and Noel Rockmore and the Catalan painter and sculptor Joan Miró, and the museum has exhibited the work of site-specific installation artist Dayton Castleman.
Walton Arts Centre
Established in 1992, the Walton Arts Centre is a unique, multi-purpose space that aims to bring artists and performers from across the globe to Northwest Arkansas to engage its residents and visitors in the arts. Located in picturesque Fayetteville, the Walton Arts Centre features several gallery spaces including the Joy Pratt Markham Gallery – a visual arts space dedicated to showcasing the works of contemporary up and coming and internationally recognised artists. The centre has exhibited the work of contemporary Oklahoma-based Native-American artists Anita Fields, who works with ceramics, Tony Tiger, who blends photography and tribal designs in his canvasses, and sculptural artist Tasha Lewis whose last exhibition at the centre, The Herd and The Swarm, featured 17 sculptures of gazelles, antelopes and impalas.
Gallery 26
Gallery 26 was established in 1995 and for nearly 20 years has been dedicated to bringing the most exciting and cutting edge art from artists based in Central Arkansas to its visitors. The deceptively large gallery is located within the historic Ice House Centre on Little Rock’s winding, boutique and restaurant lined Kavanaugh Boulevard in the historic Hillcrest neighbourhood. With an open-minded ethos, Gallery 26 accepts contributions from artists working across a number of mediums including painting, photography, sculpture and glass-based art. Exhibitions at Gallery 26 have included works by Little Rock based photojournalist Benjamin Krain, portrait photographer Jennifer Heimbaugh, and painters Jason Smith, Logan Hunter and Holly Moore Reding, whose work responds critically to the idea of mass culture.
M2 Gallery
Art Gallery
M2 Gallery was established in 2007 by two couples – Mac and Ashley Murphy and John and Kim McGee – who wished to combine their years of experience in the art world by creating an exciting and sophisticated contemporary art gallery. The owners certainly achieved their goal and were recognised for three consecutive years as the best art gallery in the Best of Arkansas awards. M2 Gallery brings the best contemporary art from local, regional, national and international artists to Little Rock and exhibits works in a variety of artistic styles and mediums including painting, ceramics, photography and sculpture. The gallery has shown works by documentary-style photographer Diana Michelle Hausam and sculptor Joe Barnett among other notable names.
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