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: 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
Beauty Blog: Part One
By Carey Voss, Curator of Exhibits, and Victoria Chandler, Arkansas Made Researcher Experiences of beauty provoke emotional and physical responses that allow us to escape uncomfortable fee ... Read More
Beauty Blog
By Carey Voss, Curator of Exhibits, and Victoria Chandler, Arkansas Made Researcher For those of us at Historic Arkansas Museum, this week marks one month of cancelled events, telecommuting, an ... Read More
La Salle’s Impact on North American Maps (or How one man’s blunders influenced early maps of North America)
By Kathryn Bryles Prior to La Salle’s voyage down the Mississippi River and into Texas, the interior of North America was a vast blank space on European-made maps. Cartographers used ... Read More
Colonial Foodways Dinner Supported by Research by Morris S. “Buzz” Arnold
Colonial Foodways Dinner Supported by Research by Morris S. “Buzz” Arnold Tonight, HAM will host the second dinner in the “History is Served: Arkansas Foodways Dinner Series,” ... Read More
2nd Friday Heart Night: 3 Reasons why 2FAN is a Great Date
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, February's 2nd Friday Art Night will have an especially romantic feel to it. As of late, conversation at HAM has been about how great museum dates ... Read More
Arkansas artists David Carpenter & Neal Harrington
David Carpenter Sculptor David Carpenter’s desire to find comfort in chaos drives him to work through several iterations. Carpenter explains, “My attempt is not to map what is u ... Read More
2nd Friday Art Night, August 14, 5 - 8 pm
Join us for the opening reception of two new exhibits and live music by John Willis and the Late Romantics (https://www.facebook.com/pages/John-Willis-Music/274991735863887), described by th ... Read More
Suggin Territory: The Marvelous World of Folklorist Josephine Graham
Arkansas Made Gallery Josephine Graham (1915-1999) a.k.a. “Josus,” was a celebrated artist and folklorist of Arkansas’s White River culture. Her “Suggin” folk paintings depict the Depression ... Read More
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