This Week in the Visual and Performing Arts: April 15-19

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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.

There will be a tuba and euphonium recital at 6 p.m. Monday, April 15, in the Fine Arts Center’s Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. At 8 p.m., Baron Lyle will perform a violin recital at the same location.

Also on Monday, master of fine arts student Samantha Dixon’s exhibit, Tethered, will open in the Fine Arts Center Gallery and will be on display until Friday, April 19, with a closing reception at 6 p.m. Friday.

The Aux Arcs Saxophone Quartet will perform at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. At 8 p.m., another saxophone quartet featuring music students Joseph Rulli, Crystal Skahan, Will Bram and Jeff Payne will also perform.

A reception for guest artists Reilly and Kelly Dickens-Hoffman will also be held Tuesday, April 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Anne Kittrell Art Gallery in the Arkansas Union aligned with the closing of the artists’ sculpture exhibit, Alms Matara. The artists will present a lecture at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in room 213 of the Fine Arts Center.

Conducting student Michael Moon will conduct a recital at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Michael Burner will present a student trombone recital at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Also on Thursday, the UA Percussion Ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Walton Arts Center. Admission is $1 for students and $5 for the public.  

The UA Saxophone Ensemble will also perform Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

The music department will host an opera workshop at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 19, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. Also on Friday, the UA Jazz Ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the Arkansas Union Theater.

The drama department’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony-award winning musical Company will open at 8 p.m. Friday, April 19, in the University Theatre. Tickets are available in the Fine Arts Center box office and are $3 for UA students, $14 for UA faculty and staff, $16 for adults, $14 for seniors, and $7 for children and non-UA students. Tickets may also be purchased online at http://drama.uark.edu  The show will conclude April 28.

Continuing events include Jewish Studies Beyond the Holocaust and Crafted Identies.

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.