This Week in the Visual and Performing Arts: April 5-12

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences will hold several events in the coming week including concerts, art exhibitions and plays. Students, faculty, staff and guests are encouraged to attend these performances in the visual and performing arts.

Elliot Green will give a trombone recital at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 6, Amy Mayes will give a clarinet recital at 4 p.m. and professor Joseph Rulli will give a saxophone recital at 8 p.m. All three performances will be in the Fine Arts Center’s Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

The African and African American studies program presents its annual spring play, Waiting to be Invited by S.M. Shephard-Massat, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 7, in the Arkansas Union Theater.

John Brilhart will give a French horn recital at 1 p.m. Sunday, April 7, Judd Burns will give a voice recital at 3:30 p.m. and Kelby Ferguson and Michael Fletcher will give a percussion recital at 7 p.m., all in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Moon-Sook Park, professor of voice, will give a recital at 8 p.m. Monday, April 8, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. 

Ceramics student Nichole Howard will present an exhibition entitled Cycle from Monday, April 8, until Friday, April 12 in the Fine Arts Center Gallery.

Brice Smith will give a violin recital at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, and Peter Hamby will give a French horn recital at 7:30 p.m., both in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Clay Johnson will give a bass recital at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

The UA Tuba and Euphonium Ensemble will give a concert at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 11, and Manchusa Loungsangroong will give a clarinet recital at 8 p.m., both in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Ongoing events include Toile, Alms Matara, A Doll’s House, Jewish Studies Beyond the Holocaust and Crafted Identities. 

Toile, a painting exhibition by Dilenia Garcia will run until Friday, April 5, in the Fine Arts Center Gallery.

A sculpture exhibition by guest artists Reilly and Kelly Dickens-Hoffman titled Alms Matara remains on display in the Arkansas Union’s Anne Kittrell Gallery until Tuesday, April 16.

The department of drama will continue its run of A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen until Sunday, April 7, with 7:30 p.m. performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and a 2 p.m. show on Sundays. Performances will be in Studio Theater 404, room 404 in Kimpel Hall.

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.

Hosted by sUgAR Projects: Student Pop-Up Gallery, Crafted Identities: Honors thesis work by Emily Chase, Melissa Love and Jeanne Vockroth remains on display until Thursday, April 25, in the East Square Plaza, formerly the Bank of America building, on the Fayetteville square.

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.