This Week in the Visual and Performing Arts: February 15-22

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences will hold many events in the coming week including a play, concerts, art exhibitions and guest lectures. Students, faculty, staff and guests are encouraged to attend these on-campus and off-campus programs in the visual and performing arts.

Students of Janice Yoes, voice, and Theresa Delaplain, oboe, will perform in the “Bees for Bach” concert, a fundraiser for Heifer International, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, at Good Shepard Lutheran Church in Fayetteville.

Internationally acclaimed artist Michael Ray Charles will present a lecture as part of the university’s programming to honor African American History Month at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18, in the Fine Arts Center’s Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Also on Monday, there will be a gallery reception for the Employing Voice, Embracing Agency exhibit at 5 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Gallery.

Stan Morris, associate chair of the department of music, will give a faculty saxophone recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Benjamin Pierce, associate professor of tuba and euphonium, will give a faculty euphonium recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Corey Divine will give a student trumpet recital at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Also on Friday, the University Theatre will begin its run of A Streetcar Named Desire at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre.

Ongoing events include the Employing Voice, Embracing Agency: Celebrating Contemporary African American Artists, Amos Kennedy Prints! and Jewish Studies Beyond the Holocaust: Arkansas, History and the World art exhibitions.

Employing Voice, Embracing Agency: Celebrating Contemporary African American Artists is on display in the Fine Arts Gallery until Thursday, Feb. 28. The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays.

Amos Kennedy Prints! is on view in the exhibition cases of the Fine Arts Center until Thursday, Feb. 28. The exhibition will be accompanied by a lecture and letterpress-printing workshop by Kennedy in late February.

As part of the Beyond the Holocaust series, an exhibit titled Jewish Studies Beyond the Holocaust: Arkansas, History and the World is on display in the Helen Robson Walton Reading Room in Mullins Library. The display will run through Saturday, April 20.

This is not a comprehensive list. Please refer to the University of Arkansas events calendar for more information. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.