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

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences will host art exhibits, film screenings and recitals this week. Students, faculty, staff and guests are encouraged to attend these events in the visual and performing arts.

The Department of Art will present student artwork from the Painting I classes during September in the hallway display cases of the Fine Arts Center.

Navigating Nevelson, an art exhibition created by architecture students, will be shown at sUgAR, the student art gallery, Sept. 4-26. The gallery is located at 1 East Square Plaza in Fayetteville and is open Monday and Wednesday 3:30-6:30 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Stationary Realms, exhibit featuring multiple artists, will begin Monday, Sept. 8, and continue until Friday, Oct. 24, in the Fine Arts Center Gallery.

Justin Hunter with the Department of Music will teach a class on Journey the World of Music: North America and the Caribbean at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. The class is from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, in the University of Arkansas Global Campus Building on the Fayetteville Square. The class is $39 for OLLI members and $54 for non-members. Registration is not required.

Nadi Cinema, the Middle East Film Club, will screen the film Omar (Hany Abu-Assad, Belgium 2013) at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, at the Agriculture, Food and Life Sciences building, room 107E.

Also on Wednesday, faculty members in the Department of Music will perform a Faculty Chamber Recital at 7:30 p.m. at the Fine Arts Center’s Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Guest artist José Galvez will present Shine at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, in Old Main’s Giffels Auditorium. The uses spoken word and images to trace the personal story of Galvez, from his childhood to becoming an award-winning documentarian of Latino life in the U.S.

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.