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Upcoming Events
October 14 @ 10:00 am - December 31 @ 5:00 pm
NOW ON VIEW ~ Friday, October 14–Saturday, December 31, 2022, regular Gallery hours
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Our Community Through My Lens
NOW ON VIEW ~ Friday, October 14–Saturday, December 31, 2022, regular Gallery hours
Landing Gallery, Galleries & Bookstore at Library Square, CALS Roberts Library
Photography—a medium full of potential. To speak when words simply fail. To empower, providing the chance to take control of a story. To connect us to a perspective outside of our own.
Join us for this unique exhibition, curated from artists currently unsheltered or living in transitional sheltering throughout Pulaski County.
October 14, 2022 @ 10:00 am - January 28, 2023 @ 5:00 pm
On View ~ October 14, 2022–January 28, 2023, regular Gallery hours
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Illustrated Arkansas: The Art of Comics
On View ~ October 14, 2022–January 28, 2023, regular Gallery hours
Underground Gallery, Galleries & Bookstore at Library Square, CALS Roberts Library
The Illustrated Arkansas exhibition features artists living and working in the state who have created or contributed to print or digital comics and graphic novels. The exhibition will represent a wide range of illustration styles and media of the comics art form.
CALS is excited to display the artwork of graphic artists and spotlight their efforts in the creation of comics and graphic novels in all their forms.
December 6 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
ON VIEW Friday, November 11, 2022–Saturday, January 28, 2023
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|Recurring Event (See all)
An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until January 28, 2023
Natural Connections: Paintings by Emily Moll Wood and Laura Brainard Raborn
ON VIEW Friday, November 11, 2022–Saturday, January 28, 2023
Loft Gallery, CALS Galleries & Bookstore at Library Square, Roberts Library
This exciting collection of paintings by Emily Moll Wood and Laura Brainard Raborn explores a visual dialogue with the natural world and nature’s deep connections to their own family histories.
Artist Statement:
Emily Moll Wood paints a lot of portraits,
December 7 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Randy Duncan: “The Power of the Comics Art Form”
CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Presents LEGACIES & LUNCH
Speaker: Randy Duncan
Randy Duncan uses images from the Illustrated Arkansas: The Art of Comics exhibition (on view in the CALS Roberts Library’s Underground Gallery through January 28) to explore how cartoonists make use of artistic style, color, panel juxtaposition, page layout, and other techniques to convey ideas and evoke emotions.
Randy Duncan is the Ellis College Distinguished Professor of Communication and director of the Center for Comics Studies at Henderson State University.
December 9 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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2nd Friday Art Night (December 2022)
Ric and Marlene Gremillion will once again be Santa and Mrs. Claus.
Featured Artists: Laura Raborn (painting) and Ed Pennebaker (blown glass)
Learn more about Laura Raborn and Ed Pennebaker
Featured Author: Brian Kinder, author of the children’s bookBuck and Ollie: A Christmas Time Story.
Featured Music: DJ Holla Daze (non-stop diverse holiday music)
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Natural Connections: Paintings by Emily Moll Wood and Laura Brainard Raborn
Loft Gallery
This exciting collection of paintings by Emily Moll Wood and Laura Brainard Raborn explores a visual dialogue with the natural world and nature’s deep connections to their own family histories.
December 12 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Finding Family Facts (December 12)
The Butler Center offers a beginner’s genealogy class the second Monday of every month, taught by Rhonda Stewart, the Butler Center’s local history and genealogy expert. Participants will learn how to use online databases and city directories, as well as how to archive family documents. Jump-start your genealogy research with this fun and creative way to learn about the past.
December 12 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Cooking Up History: Holiday Edition
Learn about the origins of many of Arkansas’s holiday traditions and cook a historic holiday recipe from the CALS Butler Center’s collection.
Danielle Afsordeh, Community Outreach Archivist at the CALS Roberts Library/Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, and Justin Vess, Kitchen and Adult Programmer at Dee Brown Library, will conduct this program at the Dee Brown Library programming kitchen.
December 15 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Personal Archiving and Prepping to Digitize Your Personal Papers, Photos, and Other Stuff (December 15)
Learn how to organize your personal papers, photos, scrapbooks, and other items to digitize and store them for future generations. And find out more about CALS DIY Memory Lab and how to use it to preserve your family history.
January 4, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Black Homesteaders of the South
CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Presents LEGACIES & LUNCH
Speaker: Bernice Alexander Bennett, with Lyle Gibson, Jessica Trotter, and Angela Walton-Raji
Author of Black Homesteaders of the South Bernice Alexander Bennett will provide an overview of the Homestead Act of 1862, the application process it took to acquire up to 160 acres of public land, and what is available to researchers in land entry case files. She will be joined by scholars and researchers Lyle Gibson,
January 9, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Finding Family Facts (January 9)
The Butler Center offers a beginner’s genealogy class the second Monday of every month, taught by Rhonda Stewart, the Butler Center’s local history and genealogy expert. Participants will learn how to use online databases and city directories, as well as how to archive family documents. Jump-start your genealogy research with this fun and creative way to learn about the past.
January 13, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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2nd Friday Art Night (January 2023)
Featured Artists: Anncha Briggs (felted jewelry)
Learn more about Anncha Briggs.
Featured Author: Michael Hibblen, author of Rock Island Railroad
Featured Music: Gavin Le’nard (jazz, pop, and soul guitar and vocals)
OPENING EXHIBITION
AnarchoAnachro by Sternodox Keckhaver
Landing Gallery
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Natural Connections: Paintings by Emily Moll Wood and Laura Brainard Raborn
Loft Gallery
This exciting collection of paintings by Emily Moll Wood and Laura Brainard Raborn explores a visual dialogue with the natural world and nature’s deep connections to their own family histories.
January 19, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Personal Archiving and Prepping to Digitize Your Personal Papers, Photos, and Other Stuff (January 19)
Learn how to organize your personal papers, photos, scrapbooks, and other items to digitize and store them for future generations. And find out more about CALS DIY Memory Lab and how to use it to preserve your family history.
February 13, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Finding Family Facts (February 13)
The Butler Center offers a beginner’s genealogy class the second Monday of every month, taught by Rhonda Stewart, the Butler Center’s local history and genealogy expert. Participants will learn how to use online databases and city directories, as well as how to archive family documents. Jump-start your genealogy research with this fun and creative way to learn about the past.
February 16, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Personal Archiving and Prepping to Digitize Your Personal Papers, Photos, and Other Stuff (February 16)
Learn how to organize your personal papers, photos, scrapbooks, and other items to digitize and store them for future generations. And find out more about CALS DIY Memory Lab and how to use it to preserve your family history.
