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Providing access to art, ideas, stories, culture and creative talent is core to Fayetteville Public Library’s role as a community center. In support of this, rotating art exhibitions are displayed throughout the library. The Fayetteville Public Library Art Committee accepts exhibition proposals year-round.
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WHAT WE CARRY – A Visual Narrative of a People Displaced, In Search of Belonging
This exhibit is designed to connect you with the lives of a few members of Northwest Arkansas’ refugee and immigrant community. The still-life watercolor paintings in this collection are of objects that held special significance to the refugees and immigrants who carried them on their journey to America. You can hear the participants' stories in their own words here.
This exhibition considers the effects of textbooks on students, like artist Jay Youngdahl, who attended Little Rock Public Schools in the 1960s. Youngdahl features textbooks used in Little Rock public schools during the mid-Twentieth Century, and via photography, collage, and sculpture, considers ways that what we are taught in schools has a lasting effect on people in adulthood.
Fenix Arts enriches Northwest Arkansas through art, fostering creative connections, nurturing local artists, and builds bridges to navigate and understand the world.
In honor of Banned Books Week, artists submitted original art representing books or authors who have been challenged, censored or banned. Their submissions represent the ongoing struggle for intellectual freedom and the dangers of censorship.
Art from previous years' winners can be viewed in the Nonfiction Collection on the 4th floor.
Drew Gentle's work veers toward representational works of real and imagined people, meant to meant to shed light on the layers of human identity and reveal the hidden stories that exist behind our external veneers.
Fayetteville Public Library welcomes artists and makers to share their craft with the community through the Visiting Artist Program. During their residency, selected artists and makers are featured at the library, host public programs for all ages, have scheduled time for personal projects in library spaces, and receive a stipend.
Mixed media wall sculpture using found objects and placed in birch cradles. In Louise Nevelson fashion, we chose to paint it white, as we were coming out of the Covid pandemic and white represents a new beginning. Quoting Louise Nevelson: “white summoned the early morning and emotional promise.”
"We Are the Difference" is a mural made by Farmington Junior High ninth grade art club students. The students were mentored by their art educator Gretchen Wilkes and internationally known mural artist Octavio Logo.
"Voyage of Lost Keys" is a way to imagine a mass migration – a way to think about people who have lost their homes and their place in the world as still being somehow connected to each other.
"Undine" is a water spirit. This mixed media sculpture represents the power and mystery of water, as well as the myths and legends surrounding it.
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With generous support from our community and people like you, our community can enjoy a facility that goes well beyond books.
