This Week in the Visual and Performing Arts: March 8-15

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Several concerts, art exhibitions and lectures in the fine arts will be held March 8-15.  Students, faculty, staff and guests are encouraged to attend these on-campus and off-campus performances in the visual and performing arts in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

The University of Arkansas Schola Cantorum will present an encore of their Flowers in Springtime concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 8, at the First United Methodist Church in Bentonville and at 3 p.m Sunday, March 10, at the Cathedral of St. Andrew in Little Rock. The choral ensemble will perform works by Finzi, Willan, Lauridsen, Whitacre, Wilbye and Caldwell.

Music honor society Sigma Alpha Iota will host a concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 9, in the Fine Arts Center’s Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. The public is invited to attend and admission is $3. Proceeds will fund the organization’s activities.

Andrew Jones will give a student tuba recital at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 10, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Also on Sunday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, student composers will present a concert at 4 p.m.

David Brooks, an internationally-known sculptor based in New York City, will present a guest lecture at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, in room 213 of the Fine Arts Center. He will also give two workshops for art students during his visit.

The Fulbright Trio + One will present an evening of piano quartets at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. The Fulbright Trio is made up of Stephen Gates, Er-Gene Kahng and Tomoko Kashiwagi, and for this concert violist Paulo Eskitch will join the Trio. The performance will feature works by Frank Bridge, Mozart and Erno Dohanyi.

Brian Locke, assistant professor of music history at Western Illinois University, will present "Golem" at the liberated theater: Czechs, Jews, and Jazz in 1930s Prague. The lecture is at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 14, in Giffels Auditorium and is hosted by the department of music.

Stephen J. Byars will give a student tuba recital at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 14, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Ongoing art exhibitions include Holy Bananas!, Submerged and Jewish Studies Beyond the Holocaust.

Holy Bananas!, an art exhibit by Master of Fine Arts student Dilenia Garcia is on display in the Anne Kittrell Art Gallery until Friday, March 8. The collection includes paintings created using a variety of techniques that employ paradox, irony and humor to expose themes of identity, stereotypes, sexism and exoticism. The exhibition is sponsored by University Programs Art Gallery Committee.

Submerged, a solo photography exhibition by Kendra North will be on display in the Fine Arts Center Gallery until Thursday, March 28. North is a professor and head of the department of photography at the University of Texas at Arlington. This exhibit features photography that studies light and color beneath the water’s surface and the experience of being submerged.

As part of the Beyond the Holocaust series, an exhibit titled Jewish Studies Beyond the Holocaust: Arkansas, History and the World will be on display in the Helen Robson Walton Reading Room in Mullins Library until 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.