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.

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,

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
Spam enthusiast, U.S. Air Force veteran, and photo-collage artist the Right Reverend Sternodox wages holy war on inter-dimensional reptiles,

Come hear the story of Raye Montague, Little Rock’s own “hidden figure” credited with creating the first computer-generated rough draft of a U.S. naval ship. She was the first female program manager of ships in the U.S. Navy and paved the way for Black women in STEM. After the story, we’ll dream about everything we can be, too! A copy of The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague by Julia Finley Mosca will be given away in a drawing at the end of the program to three lucky attendees.

Community outreach archivist Danielle Afsordeh will give an overview of Little Rock’s historically Black communities and their enduring significance, while highlighting related materials from the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas and the collections of the CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. 

Book – South to America by Imani Perry

Register to Attend Virtually

WHAT?

This six-month book club will explore issues around the history of race relations and our collective memory of the South in partnership with the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site.

WHEN?

Each session, on the second Thursday of the month, will include a brief presentation by a local scholar followed by a discussion of the book.

Featured artist: Soyoon Ahn, a potter from Russellville. More about her here: https://cals.org/galleries/soyoon-ahn/

Featured Author: Janis F. Kearney, who will have several of her books for sale, including her most recent book, Only on Sundays: Mahalia Jackson’s Long Journey. More about Kearney here: https://www.janisfkearney.com/

Featured Music: Kami Renee (R&B and pop keyboards and bass)

OPENING EXHIBITION

Sulac and SLUGKNIVES: Super Crush
Loft Gallery,

Come learn about the activism of rural Black women in Arkansas that centered around Home Demonstration Clubs in the early twentieth century. Community Outreach Archivist Danielle Afsordeh will give the historical overview, and Adult Programmer Fabio Delgado will give an introduction to water bath canning.   

Learn about the history of women and embroidery in Arkansas from community outreach archivist Danielle Afsordeh, and create a beginner embroidery piece in celebration of Women’s History Month.

Please register at the Nixon Library check-out desk or by phone at 501-457-5038.

Danielle Afsordeh, Community Outreach Archivist at the CALS Roberts Library/Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, and Opal Mitchell, Assistant Manager and Adult Programmer at CALS Nixon Library, will conduct this program at the Nixon Library.

Book – The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

Register to Attend Virtually

WHAT?

This six-month book club will explore issues around the history of race relations and our collective memory of the South in partnership with the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site.

WHEN?

Each session, on the second Thursday of the month,

Learn about how Arkansas women assisted on the home front and abroad during World War I and World War II from community outreach archivist Danielle Afsordeh while we eat a packed lunch for National Pack Your Lunch Day.

Danielle Afsordeh, Community Outreach Archivist at the CALS Roberts Library/Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, will conduct this program at the Milam Library.

Featured artist: Alaysia Brianna, will be doing a digital drawing demonstration and will have prints and coloring books for sale.

Featured Music: Blues Boy Jag (delta blues guitar, harmonica, and vocals)

OPENING EXHIBITION

Rohwer and Jerome: Japanese American WWII Incarceration Camps in Arkansas
Friday, March 10, through Saturday, June 24
Underground Gallery

Between 1942 and 1945, over 16,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at Rohwer and Jerome,

Learn about the fight for women’s suffrage in Arkansas from community outreach archivist Danielle Afsordeh, and create reproductions of suffrage pennants in celebration of Women’s History Month.

Registration is required and is limited to 25 attendees. Please register at the Terry Library check-out desk or by phone at 501-228-0129.

Danielle Afsordeh, Community Outreach Archivist at the CALS Roberts Library/Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, and Fabio Delgado, Adult Programmer at CALS Terry Library,