We’d just returned from a three-hour haul back from Mountain Home when I had to break the news to our photographer, Arshia, that this month’s hometown destination—Hardy—was essentially the exact direction from whence we came. And she was going to need to drive there. Like, tomorrow.
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She came to Hot Springs in 1901 to find healing. Instead, artist Inez Harrington Whitfield found what would become her life’s work: preserving Arkansas’ native flora on paper, one petal at a time.
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The say April showers bring May flowers. But all that rain also tends to bring out the best in some of Arkansas’ most beautiful natural features—our waterfalls. Lovely though they may be, it takes a certain kind of person to hit the trail during a downpour or to bushwhack through underbrush to find the falls flowing at full strength. But if you ask someone who does so on the regular—someone like nature photographer Jeff Rose—the ends more than justify the means.
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An inside look at how, after four years in the making, the Arkansas Arts Center’s “Becoming John Marin” became the exhibition it is today.
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What did it mean to be a black artist working during this period, from 1963—the first breath of the civil rights movement—to 1983? Was your responsibility to the self, or to the community? To the movement? Who are you making art for?
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