QUOTE OF THE DAY “So all the housing trends point to urban housing.You see that happening in Fayetteville already with the multifamily housing coming up in downtown.”
Stephen Luoni, director of the University of Arkansas’
Community Design Center, on an urban-design plan
for an arts district in downtown Fayetteville that would include artists’ housing and work spaces Article, 1BToday’s meetingsFayetteville City Council agenda session, 4:30 p.m.
Bentonville Planning Commission Technical Review, 5 p.m. Fayetteville Equipment Committee, 5:15 p.m.
Benton County Public Safety Committee, 5:30 p.m.
Fayetteville Street Committee, 6:15 p.m.
Fayetteville Ordinance Review Committee, 7:30 p.m.
Today’s happenings
Rock of Ages, 7:30 p.m., Arkansas Best Corp. Performing Arts Center, Fort Smith Convention Center
University of Arkansas Symphony and Collegiate Chorale present Affirmation of Life: Mendelssohn and Mahler, 7:30 p.m., Walton Arts Center, FayettevilleLooking ahead
Little Sprouts Garden Time opening day, 9:30 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, Botanical Garden of the Ozarks, Fayetteville
Spin-a-round meeting, 10 a.m.-noon Wednesday, Prairie Grove Battlefi eld State Park
Discover Downtown: A Ladies’ Luncheon, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Victory Theater, Rogers
Artist talk: Leo Villareal, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville
Drop-in drawing, 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville
National Geographic reporter Scott Wallace presents Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon: The Noose Tightens, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Rogers Conference Center, University of the Ozarks, ClarksvilleCreative Center announces summer camps
The Community Creative Center at Nadine Baum Studios in Fayetteville has announced its summer camp schedule for 2013. Registration begins Wednesday.
Classes for June 3-7 include Crazy for Art, Art and Nature, and Youth Wheel. From June 10-14, children can learn about mosaics, puppetry or sculpture and wheel.
Classes for June 17-21 focus on clay, fiber arts and painting, while June 24-28 classes include Art Around the World, Surface Fabric Design and Playmakers.
Students can spend three days from July 1-3 learning about mixed media or sculpture. July 8-12 sessions focus on drawing fundamentals, Asian art and youth wheel.
Students can learn about indoor and outdoor painting, cave art, watercolor or upscale art July 15-19 or spend July 22-26 working with 3-D art or clay. The final sessions - set for July 29-Aug. 2 - will focus on acrylic painting, clay, upscale art, and sun catchers and mosaics.
Cost to attend is $85, with the exception of the July 1-3 session, which costs $60. Students can pay an extra $25 to take lunch and stay between sessions.
More information is available by calling (479) 443-5600 or online at communitycreativecenter.org.
- ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTEChamber ensembles to perform
Chamber ensembles from the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith music department will perform at UA Fort Smith at Second Street on Wednesday. The brass, woodwinds, percussion and flute groups will take the stage at 7:30 p.m.
A clarinet duet will perform Felix Mendelssohn’s “Concert Piece No. 2” with piano accompaniment, while the brass band will perform as quintets made up of trumpet, trombone, tuba and euphonium players. The brass performance will feature a classic repertoire including Bach and Stravinsky.
A flute quartet will play Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 2” and Claude Debussy’s “Arabesque I.” A six-piece percussion ensemble will perform Susan Powell’s “Carpe Diem,” Blake Tyson’s “Vertical River” and Bob Becker’s “Mudra.”
The concert is free and open to the public. More information is available by calling (479) 788-7558.
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Northwest Arkansas, Pages 9 on 04/30/2013