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Upcoming Events
February 8 - May 25
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Made in America: Vintage Film Posters from the Ron Robinson Collection
On view in The Loft Gallery
The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, a department of the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS), holds an extensive collection of Arkansas-related and other movie posters. The late Ron Robinson of Little Rock, an avid collector who was the president of Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods (CJRW) and also served as a U.S. Air Force officer in Vietnam, generously donated these film posters, which are mostly related to Arkansas history,
February 8 - April 27
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Paintings by Charles Henry James: Back to the Garden
On view in Concordia Hall
Artist and musician Charles Henry James, who has split his time between Little Rock and his native New York for nearly thirty years, takes a humorous, free-wheeling approach to socio/political engagement, filtered through the lens of pop culture tropes, op art, surrealism, and psychedelia.
Poet and author Kenneth Goldsmith said of James, “Melding folk art with the digital age, Charles Henry James is at once dystopian and utopian.
March 8 - June 29
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Part to Whole: The Making of Art, the Artist, and the Artist Group
On view in The West Gallery
With artists Mia Hall, Robyn Horn, Dolores Justus, Barbara Satterfield, Sandra Sell, and Elizabeth Weber
There can be a great divide between the viewer who stands before a work on exhibition and the artist who creates that work in solitude, dedicated to the making of it, often for years before the art is shown. Without knowing the process (the how), or the concept (the why),
April 12 - July 27
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EMBRAID—Three Northwest Arkansas Strands
Three Northwest Arkansas artists come together in exhibition highlighting color, pattern, and texture.
April 20 @ 10:00 am - May 4 @ 6:00 pm
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Bike Drive
Recycle Bikes for Kids is a non-profit organization that repairs used bikes and gives them away to children 16 and under. Their mission is for every kid in central Arkansas to have the opportunity to ride a bike. So, help us make their mission possible by clearing out your garage and bringing us your broken or disused bikes.
We will be accepting donations up to and including Saturday May 4th during normal library open hours.
April 22 @ 5:00 pm - May 22 @ 6:00 pm
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Art Club special guest artist & exhibit
Equilla Walker – Visions from the Lens of My Soul
Exhibit Dates: April 22, 2019 – May 22, 2019
Artist talk and workshop: April 22, 2019 5:00 p.m.
The work of Equilla Walker will be showcased at the Dee Brown Library during April 22 – May 22, 2019. Her exhibit Visions from the Lens of My Soul is a retrospective look at her work that spans 20 years behind the lens.
April 24 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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Family LEGO® Time
Kids let their imaginations run wild as they build and create with LEGO® blocks in this free play.
Parents are urged to attend with their children.
April 24 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 4:00pm on Wednesday, repeating until May 15, 2019
Destination Exploration
Come have fun and explore our world through experiments, arts and crafts, and investigations.
April 24 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 4:00pm on Wednesday, repeating until April 24, 2019
Crafternoon K-12
What kind of mess are we going to make today? You’ll have to come to find out! There’s always a chance that we could be making slime…
