For this week's collaboration with ozarksunbound.com, Christopher Spencer and Kyle Kellams talk to Peter lane from Walton Arts Center.
More from our conversation can be heard here.
Ozarks At Large
Every month, Jacqueline Froelich takes a look into the drawers of the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History and pulls out a featured history. This time it's Al Witte, noted University of Arkansas Law professor, World War II veteran and former president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. For more details and more information visit pryorcenter.uark.edu.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large we learn about the National Energy Corps presence in Northwest Arkansas, preview a weekend forum about Islam, take a phone tour of artists' studios in the Ozarks and more.This weekend many artists around Mountain View will open their studios so we can see what's inside. In advance of the self-gudied tour, we conducted a phone tour of some of the studios.
Sunday afternoon a public discussion about Islam is scheduled at the Faytteville Public Library. We talk to three organizers about what questions they think the public attending might ask.
More about Sunday's forum can be heard by clicking here.
This edition of Ozarks at Large includes yesterday's announcements from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art about recent acquisitions, more from last week's debate between the major U. S. Senate candidates and a preview of tonight's concerts with Susan Werner.
Susan Werner can be a conduit for any number of musical styles. Tonight she'll have two concerts inside Starr Theatre at Walton Arts Center in downtown Fayetteville.
The King of Blues, the Reds' perfect game and more in our history capsule for September 16.
Another question asked at last week's major-party candidate debate for the U.S. Senate. The event was held in Little Rock.
Yesterday Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced three major acquisitions. Plus familiar talent from northwest Arkansas will also be involved in the museum's restaurant and gift store.
Click here for a slide show from Crystal Bridges.
Click here for a slide show from Crystal Bridges.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: remembering the Ozark Folk Fair from forty years ago. The headliners included some of the top names in blues, rock, folk and bluegrass, but the event is all but forgotten now. Plus northwest Arkansas ranchers rally to help out farmers in South Dakota who lost cattle because of bad weather and local non-profits embrace Giving Tuesday.
The first in a series of meetings looking at overhauling workforce development education in the state is held. Freidns of one Fayetteville park organize in order to potentially grow the large public amenity, and a series of meetings in coming weeks will show what's being done to mitigate the impairment of one local waterway.
Arkansas looks to change licensing requirements for child care facilities throughout the state. We look at the potential changes and the effects they could have on providers in the area.
Every year a select group of Arkansas elders obtain their GED, or general equivalency diploma. This spring, a Madison County minnow farmer was among the graduating class. Jacqueline Froelich takes us to meet him.
Christina Marinotti’s upcoming show at ACO looks to the old and the new.
The 28th Annual National Veteran’s Golden Age Games will take place this weekend and into next week across NWA. We talk with a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who hopes to sweep the track, rifle, bicycle and swimming competitions.
