Print and Stitch: Collective Works
Friday, October 8, 2021–Saturday, January 29, 2022
CALS Roberts Library of Arkansas History & Art
Loft Gallery, CALS Galleries & Bookstore at Library Square
This exhibition featuring artists Mallory Darwin,
Most people seem to believe that history is, broadly speaking, “the study of what happened.” But this is wrong.
More than anything else, history is the critical interpretation of surviving sources of information detailing what happened in the past. Some of those sources are literary: newspapers, official documents, engravings, memoirs, court records, and more.
In 2009, colorful banners were placed atop the new/renovated building now known as the CALS Bobby L. Roberts Library of Arkansas History & Art (known at that time as the Arkansas Studies Institute) in CALS Library Square in downtown Little Rock.
The images on these banners, ranging from an advertisement for Fletcher’s Rose Bud Coffee to a postcard promoting Arkansas as a tourist destination,
Did you know that the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the CALS Roberts Library has a large collection of school yearbooks (or annuals as they were called when I was in school)? The collection holds over 900 individual yearbooks from Arkansas colleges, universities, and vocational-technical schools, as well as those from public and private schools in the Little Rock area.
The Butler Banner archives between 1999-2018 are available in PDF format only. The Butler Banner was our print newsletter.
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