Finding Family Facts

The Butler Center offers a beginner's genealogy class the second Monday of every month, taught by Rhonda Stewart, the Butler Center's local history and genealogy expert. Participants will learn how to use online databases and city directories, as well as how to archive family documents. Jump-start your genealogy research with this fun and creative way to learn about the past. For more information, contact the Butler Center at 501-320-5700.

Arkansas Studies Institute Galleries, Room 204
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Leon Niehues: 21st Century Basketmaker

Arkansas Studies Institute, Mezzanine Gallery

Ark in the Dark: An Exhibition of Vintage Movies Posters about Arkansas

The Butler Center and Ron Robinson are co-hosting an exhibition of vintage Arkansas-related movie posters to be shown in Concordia Hall of the Arkansas Studies Institute. The show features 35 posters from films covering the years 1926 to 2009.

Arkansas Studies Institute Building, Concordia Hall Gallery

Arkansas Women to Watch

The exhibition, sponsored by the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, includes the work of artists who were selected for consideration for the National Museum of Women in the Arts' (NMWA) "Body of Work" exhibit as part of the NMWA's biennial Women to Watch series. NMWA's Women to Watch exhibition series features emerging or under-represented artists from the states and countries in which the museum has outreach committees. Artist and curator Les Christensen of the Bradbury Gallery at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas, selected the nominees Catherine Brimberry, Emily Wood, Endia Gomez, Janet Frankovic, Nikki Hemphill, Ruth Pasquine, Thu Nguyen, and Deborah Warren for submission to the national exhibit.

Arkansas Studies Institute Building, Butler Center Main Gallery

Legacies & Lunch

Dr. Jeannie Whayne will discuss her latest book, Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South.

Legacies & Lunch is sponsored in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Clinton School of Public Service. Bring a sack lunch; drinks and dessert are provided. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (501) 320-5717.

Darragh Center, Main Library
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Connecting Threads

A Studio Art Quilts Associates regional exhibition of contemporary art quilts

Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. (SAQA) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the art quilt through education, exhibitions, professional development, and documentation.

Founded in 1989 by an initial group of 50 artists, SAQA now has more than 2,700 members.

SAQA defines an art quilt as "a contemporary artwork exploring and expressing aesthetic concerns common to the whole range of visual arts: painting, printmaking, photography, graphic design, assemblage and sculpture, which retains, through materials or technique, a clear relationship to the folk art quilt from which it descends."

Arkansas Studies Institute Building, Butler Center Atrium Gallery

2nd Friday Art Night

An exhibition from the Studio Art Quilt Associates will open in the Butler Center's Main Gallery during 2nd Friday Art Night.

On the second Friday of each month, the Butler Center Galleries participate in 2nd Friday Art Night, when galleries, museums, and businesses in downtown Little Rock are open from 5 to 8 p.m. for an after-hours gallery walk.

Butler Center Galleries
5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Marking a Place: Jewish Experience in Arkansas

Arkansas Studies Institute Building, Concordia Hall

Arkansas Arts Educators 2012

Arkansas Studies Institute Building, Butler Center Main Gallery

Small Town: Portraits of a Disappearing America

Arkansas Studies Institute Building, Butler Center Atrium Gallery