Contemporary Arkansas: A Question of How We Got Here Sometimes, if you look deeply into the context of an artwork or object, the invisible stories of an entire people or region will emerge. I ... Read More
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Arkansawyers Blog Series: Part Four
Where We’re From Based on dialect, anthropologists and linguists divided Arkansas into two broad regions. In the hilly Ozark highlands, most folks spoke a version of what is called Midland ... Read More
Arkansawyers Blog Series – Part Three
Just for the love of the work... Makers Arley Payne, Arthur Arlington Castera, and “the elusive Ex-Confederate" certainly fit Ethel C. Simpson’s summarization of early settlers of the state as ... Read More
Arkansawyers Blog Series: Part Two
When British Naturalist Thomas Nuttall arrived at the Arkansas Post, he commented that a particular Arkansan“did not appear to have had much acquaintance with the civilized world.” This perhaps al ... Read More
Arkansawyers Blog Series: Part One
What makes Arkansas, Arkansas? One of the traditional cornerstones of Arkansas folk culture is the futility of trying to classify the inhabitants of this state as any one “type” -- Ark ... Read More
Arkansawyers Blog Series: Introduction
What makes Arkansas, Arkansas? As part of the Arkansas Arts Center’s 62nd Annual Delta Exhibition, Brian Lang, Chief Curator of the AAC, asked Historic Arkansas Museum to create a themed g ... Read More
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