Arts Center’s drawing exhibition honors historic focus
The Arkansas Arts Center will open its “Drawing on History: National Drawing Invitational Retrospective” exhibition, 38 works from the Arts Center collection by past National Drawing Invitational artists, Tuesday at the Arts Center in MacArthur Park, East Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock.
The exhibition will remain on display through Sept. 24. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. Call (501) 372-4000 or visit the website, ArkansasArtsCenter.org.
Architecture lecture
Julie Snow, founding principal at Minneapolis-based Snow Kreilich Architects, will present a lecture titled “Expansion/Distilation” at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the lecture hall (south entrance), Arkansas Arts Center, part of the Architecture and Design Network’s June Freeman Lecture Series. A 5:30 reception will precede the lecture. Admission is free. Email jonathan@amr-architects.com.
Whale of a concert
The University of Arkansas at Monticello concert and symphonic bands will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Fine Arts Center, UAM, U.S. 425, Monticello.
The concert band will perform W. Francis McBeth’s Sailors and Whales, based on Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, with narration by Peggy Doss; Justin Anders conducts, with Kent Skinner, director of choral activities, on the podium for a movement that involves singers. The program for the symphonic band, under the baton of John Webb, will include arrangements of Franz von Suppe’s Poet and Peasant Overture and a portion of Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
Anders will host a pre-concert lecture on Melville’s novel by English department faculty member Kate Stewart at 6:30 in the Fine Arts Center’s Spencer Gallery.
Admission is free. Call (870) 460-1060.
Summer theater
The Youth Theatre of Central Arkansas will host its annual Summer Intensive Program for youngsters in grades 5-12, weekdays, June 5-July 15, Snow Fine Arts Center, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. Junior Theatre Intensive, 9 a.m.-noon, covers students in grades 5-8; the Senior Theatre Intensive, 1-4 p.m., is for students in grades 9-12. The session culminates in performances July 13-15. General registration fee is $375 with early-bird specials, multi-child discounts and grant opportunities. Registration and fees deadline is May 31. Call (501) 450-5092, email melissap@uca.edu or visit the website, uca.edu/theatre/ summer-intensive.