Thursday
brings conversation with guest curator Sims; Dream Land
screening on Friday
CONWAY, Ark. (September
29, 2020) — Public programming as part of the Let Us March On exhibition
at the Windgate Museum of Art at Hendrix College continues this week with a conversation
with the guest curator on Thursday and the film series’ second screening on
Friday.
On Thursday,
October 1 at 7 p.m., WMA Director Mary Kennedy will host a conversation with Let
Us March On guest curator Stephanie Sims. Kennedy and Sims will discuss the
vision for the exhibition and share how Sims and the exhibition planning team moved
from concept to installation. Let Us March
On, an exhibition on the Black Lives
Matter movement in Arkansas, includes a rich mix of
documentary photographs, artwork, artifacts, interactives, and narrative text
and is on display through
January 22, 2021 at the Windgate Museum of Art’s Window Gallery, which is
visible at all times from the exterior of the museum. Thursday’s conversation
will stream via a Hendrix College community events channel on Microsoft Teams; it
will be accessible to the public by advance e-mail to windgatemuseum@hendrix.edu. Emails received by 5 p.m. CDT Thursday will
receive a response with a
link to join the livestream. Questions from the audience will be invited.
On Friday, October 2 at 7 p.m., the Arkansas
PBS documentary Dream Land: Little Rock’s West 9th Street will
screen via livestream. The film will be followed by a panel conversation
featuring City of Little Rock chief education
officer and retired Hendrix professor Dr. Jay Barth, Little Rock writer
Stephanie Harp, and Mosaic Templars Cultural Center director Christina Shutt. Dream Land
is the second film in the inaugural film series of the WMA, Black Representation Matters: In Film and
Beyond, which is curated by JaZmyn Shambley and Sophia Stolkey, Hendrix students
and WMA Museum Associates in Film. Reservations for the film screening and
panel discussion are free and available at https://watch.eventive.org/brmathendrix.
For more information
about the Let Us March On exhibition and associated programming, follow @windgatemuseum on Instagram and @WMAatHDX on Facebook. For
more information, contact Amanda Cheatham at 501-328-2383 or cheatham@hendrix.edu.
About the Windgate Museum of Art
The Windgate Museum of Art is the new art museum located on the campus of Hendrix College. With a
vision to be the premier teaching art museum in Arkansas, the WMA presents outstanding art exhibitions,
compelling educational programs, and invigorating social activities for students,
faculty, staff, and visitors to campus. Free and open to all, the museum uses
hands-on experiences to train students in all facets of museum work, including
curatorial research, collection management, educational and social programming,
marketing and communications, as well as all aspects of exhibition research,
planning, installation, and evaluation. The Windgate Museum of Art is made
possible with the generous support of the Windgate Foundation and the Alice L. Walton
Foundation.