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.
Becca reminds us about the 'Hog Wild' exhibit at Rogers Historical Museum.
While about a dozen students of KIPP Delta Public Schools, an open-enrollment charter school network in Blytheville and Helena visited the UA Fayetteville campus yesterday, university officials formally announced a partnership with the public charter school that aims to increase college attainment for students in underserved communities.
"Gold" by Chet Faker
On Saturday, the Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality and P.R.I.D.E.--People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality at the University of Arkansas held a statewide LGBT summit on the UofA campus. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, transgenderism was a key issue.
"Airwaves" by Ray LaMontagne
In our monthly spaces series, we tour Arvest Ballpark in Springdale.
at end of show: "Shake" by The Head and the Heart
The rainy weather has caused a delay in planting for some farmers, while late freezes are causing concern for others with winter wheat crops. The state Republican party gets permission to intervene in a lawsuit regarding rules for absentee voters as part of the state's Voter ID law. And Fort Smith directors consider a set of rules regarding how city employees interact with city residents.
"Now and Always" by Rockpile
