Department of Art Hosts Exhibitions, Guest Artists Throughout March

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Department of Art will feature exhibitions and lectures in the coming month.

Gray Zone, an exhibit by guest artist Marat Paransky, will close Saturday, March 1, at the Bottle Rocket Gallery in Fayetteville.

Faith and the Devil, an installation by Lesley Dill, McIlroy Family Visiting Professor in the Visual and Performing Arts, will open Monday, March 3, in the Fine Arts Center Gallery. It will close Friday, April 4. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Dill will give a lecture at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 4, in the Fine Arts Center’s Stella Boyle Concert Hall and a reception will precede lecture at 5 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Gallery.

A reception honoring Dill will begin at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 6, at the Walton Arts Center in conjunction with her exhibition Divide Light: The Operatic Performance Costumes of Lesley Dill Exhibition. A screening of the opera Divide Light will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Starr Theater.

Visiting artist Jason Yi will give a lecture at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 6 in room 203 of the Fine Arts Center.

Works by students of Mike Peven, professor of photography, will be shown from Monday, March 24, until Friday, April 11, in the Gallery Exhibition Cases.

Divide Light continues until Sunday, April 13, in the Joy Pratt Markham Gallery at the Walton Arts Center. The gallery is open 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.

A display of work by visiting artist Carson Fox and examples of printmaking by students as well as works by students of Stephanie Pierce, assistant professor of painting, and Kristin Musgnug, associate professor of painting, continues in the Fine Arts Center hallway exhibition cases. The exhibits will close Friday, March 14.