This Week in the Visual and Performing Arts: Jan. 31-Feb. 7

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The end of January and beginning of February bring many events from the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences that feature the visual and performing arts. Exhibitions, workshops, recitals and performances are in store this week, and students, faculty, staff and guests are invited to attend.

The Black Music Symposium will perform at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, in the Fine Arts Center’s Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. Admission is $25 for adults and free for University of Arkansas students with a current student I.D.

The Black Music Symposium honor choir will feature guest conductor Carl Hayward for a concert at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

The University of Arkansas Lyrique Quintette will give a concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Trumpet and Friends, featuring associate professor Richard Rulli on trumpet and visiting instructor Tomoko Kashiwagi on piano, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Nadi Cinema will host a screening of No One Knows About Persian Cats (dir. Bahman Ghobadi, Iran, 2009) at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5, in Mullins Library, room 104.

Also on Wednesday, the Classical Guitar Ensemble will perform at 8 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Divide Light: The Operatic Performance Costumes of Lesley Dill Exhibition will debut at 9 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, in the Joy Pratt Markham Gallery at the Walton Arts Center. The exhibition will run until Sunday, April 13. Gallery hours are 9 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, and one hour prior to most Walton Arts Center performances.

Also on Thursday, guest artist Peter Kruty will give a letterpress printing workshop at 11 a.m. in the printmaking studio of the Fine Arts Center and a lecture at 6 p.m. in room 213 of the Fine Arts Center.

Thursday evening, sUgAR, the University of Arkansas student gallery, will host an opening reception for an exhibition by V.L. Cox at 5 p.m. sUgAR is located on the basement level of One East Square Plaza in Fayetteville and is open 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday. For more information check the sUgAR Facebook page.

Later that evening, assistant professor Cory Mixdorf and instructor Johan Botes will give a trombone and piano recital at 6:30 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

The department of drama presents Undergraduate Project: Bachelorette by Leslye Headland beginning February 6. The play will run through Sunday, Feb. 9, with nightly performances at 7:30 p.m.in Kimpel Hall’s Studio 404. The production is recommended for mature audiences only. Tickets are $5 for the general public and $3 for University of Arkansas students with a current student I.D.  Advance ticket purchase is recommended due to limited seating.

Guest artist Cole Burger will perform at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Guest artist, Susan Nigro, will give a bassoon and contrabassoon recital, accompanied by visiting instructor Tomoko Kashiwagi on piano, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.              

New Faculty Exhibition: Stephanie Pierce and Cynthia Nourse Thompson continues until Sunday, Feb. 23, in the Fine Arts Center Gallery. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Floating Lines, an interdisciplinary student art exhibition, continues until Friday, Feb. 14, in the Anne Kittrell Art Gallery in the Arkansas Union. The exhibit is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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