This Week in the Visual and Performing Arts: March 29-April 5

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

Guest artist Ratko Delorko will perform a piano recital at 8 p.m. Friday, March 29, in the Fine Arts Center’s Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. Delorko is an internationally acclaimed pianist and a professor at Frankfurt Music University in Frankfurt, Germany.

Tim Clifford and Nick Rhodes will present a student percussion recital at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 30, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

The Fulbright Trio + One will host An Evening of Piano Quartets at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 31, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. The concert will feature works by Bridge, Mozart and Dohanyi. The Fulbright Trio consists of Stephen Gates on cello, Er-Gene Kahng on violin and Tomoko Kashiwagi on piano. For this concert, violist Paulo Eskitch will join the Trio.

Also on Sunday, the UA Jazz Combos will perform a concert at 6 p.m. and Andrew Chu will present a student violin recital at 8 p.m., both in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Professor Eddie Jones will present a faculty voice studio recital at 6 p.m. Monday, April 1. The same evening, senior Allison Dean will perform a student voice recital at 8:30 p.m. Both performances will be held in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Boston Mountain Brassworks will perform in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 2. This will be the last performance for Brassworks quintet members professor Gerald Sloan and graduate assistant Jennifer Fox.

A sculpture exhibition by guest artists Reilly and Kelly Dickens-Hoffman will open on Wednesday, April 3 in the Arkansas Union’s Anne Kittrell Gallery. The artists will give a lecture and workshop later this month, and he exhibit will run until Tuesday, April 16.

The department of drama will present A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, from Thursday, April 4, until Sunday, April 7, with 8 p.m. performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and a 2 p.m. show on Sunday. Kholoud Sawaf, a first-year master of fine arts directing candidate, will direct a cast of graduate and undergraduate drama students. Performances will be in Studio Theater 404, room 404 in Kimpel Hall.

An opening reception for Crafted Identities: Honors thesis work by Emily Chase, Melissa Love and Jeanne Vockroth will begin at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 4, at the former Bank of America at 1 E. Center Street. The exhibition, hosted by sUgAR Projects: Student Pop-Up Gallery, will be on display until Thursday, April 25.

Guest scholar Leslie King-Hammond, founding director of the Center for Race and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, will present a lecture at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 4, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. This lecture is a rescheduled event from the university’s programming honoring Black History Month.

Also on Thursday, the UA Inspirational Chorale will present their Spring Concert on at 7:30 p.m. at the Walton Arts Center.

The UA Trumpet Ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 5, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Ongoing art exhibitions include Submerged and Jewish Studies Beyond the Holocaust.

Submerged, a solo photography exhibition by Kenda North of UT Arlington, is on display in the Fine Arts Center Gallery through Friday, March 29.

As part of the Beyond the Holocaust series, an exhibit titled Jewish Studies Beyond the Holocaust: Arkansas, History and the World remains 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.