Local notes: Shiloh Museum wins awards

Henry Freeman of Springdale is the winner of the Arkansas Museums Association’s Volunteer of the Year award for his work at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale.
(Courtesy Photo/Shiloh Museum)
Henry Freeman of Springdale is the winner of the Arkansas Museums Association’s Volunteer of the Year award for his work at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale. (Courtesy Photo/Shiloh Museum)

Hope Cancer

offers support

• Free Tobacco Cessation Program: Hope Cancer Resources' certified health education specialist is available to support members of the community who are looking to quit smoking with nicotine replacement therapy and counseling.

• Emotional Support Through Cancer Battle: Hope Cancer Resources' team of counselors and social workers are supporting cancer patients and their families every day with a focus on emotional health, no matter the circumstance.

• Virtual Wellness Classes For Cancer Patients and Caregivers: The Wellness Center for Hope at Hope Cancer Resources has created a yoga and fitness class schedule via Zoom and Facebook Live.

Information: (479) 361-5847.

Dairy Hollow

talks poetry

The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow will present "Poetry as Refuge in a Time of Disruption," a virtual workshop instructed by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, former Poet Laureate of Kansas and WCDH alumni. In this new, interactive workshop, participants will learn how to use the art of poetry as an outlet for innate creativity and an escape from the daily deluge of doom.

This three-day online workshop will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Dec. 4 and 10 a.m. to noon Dec. 5 and 6. All classes will be held via Zoom. The cost of the workshop is $225 per person. Class size is limited to 12 participants.

Information: (479) 253-7444 or writerscolony.org/events.

Red Cross

needs blood

The American Red Cross needs people of all races and ethnicities to give blood to help ensure a diverse blood supply.

For a small percentage of the population, finding someone else with the same blood type can be difficult. While the vast majority of people have types A, B, O or AB blood, some blood types are unique to certain racial and ethnic groups, so a diverse blood supply is important to meeting the medical needs of a diverse patient population. Patients who require frequent blood transfusions as part of their treatment, like those with sickle cell disease or other lifelong blood disorders, often need close blood type matches to prevent complications from their transfusion therapy.

All blood types are needed to ensure that the right blood product is available at the right time for all patients.

Upcoming blood drives include:

• Bentonville: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sept. 24, The Momentary, 507 S.E. E St.; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 28, Grace Point Church Student Center, 1201 McCollum Road; and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 29, Bentonville Plaza, 609 S.W. Eighth St.

• Rogers: 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 22, Country Club Plaza, 4204 S. Pinnacle Hills Parkway; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 25, St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church, 1416 W. Poplar St.; noon-4 p.m. Sept. 28, Center for Nonprofits, 1200 W. Walnut; and noon-5 p.m. Sept. 28, Walmart, 4208 Pleasant Crossing Boulevard.

Fayetteville: 1:30-6:30 p.m. Sept. 21, Fayetteville Athletic Club, 2920 E. Zion Road.

Information: (800) 733-2767 or redcrossblood.org.

Food Bank

gets donation

In honor of September's Hunger Action Month, Tiller & Hatch, a brand of nutritious, wholesome frozen meals, will be donating more than 50,000 meals to Northwest Arkansas Food Bank in Springdale next week as part of their Million Meal Donation Tour.

Along with co-founders Brad Paisley and Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Tiller & Hatch is on a mission to help those experiencing hunger and food insecurity in Springdale, and due to the pandemic, help is needed more than ever. Tiller & Hatch has pledged to donate 1 million meals across America in partnership with Feeding America member food banks.

Springdale residents can visit Northwest Arkansas Food Bank to learn more about local distributions.

Information: nwafoodbank.org.

AMA honors

Shiloh Museum

The Shiloh Museum has received two 2020 awards from the Arkansas Museums Association. The AMA annual awards competition recognizes excellence within Arkansas museums and celebrates the accomplishments of their work.

The Shiloh Museum's exhibit "Instruments of Faith" was selected for the AMA Award for Outstanding Exhibit Design (budget greater than $150,000). Curated by museum collections and education specialist Aaron Loehndorf, "Instruments of Faith" was an exploration of the life and work of folk-instrument maker Ed Stilley of Carroll County. Loehndorf worked closely with folk musicians Kelly and Donna Mulhollan of Fayetteville, who are friends of the Stilley family, to create the exhibit, which included more than 20 Ed Stilley instruments loaned by private individuals.

Ten-year-old Shiloh Museum volunteer Henry Freeman of Springdale was named the AMA's Volunteer of the Year. "Henry helps with our education programs for school children," said museum education manager Judy Costello. "He cheerfully shares history with students of all ages, learning and practicing our various education programs in advance. Henry always dresses in reproduction historic clothing appropriate to the topic he is presenting. School students seem to look up to the fact that he is allowed behind the scenes and is able to present accurate historic information and insights on their level," Costello continued.

The Shiloh Museum of Ozark History is located at 118 W. Johnson Ave. in downtown Springdale. The museum is open on a limited basis; covid-19 safety procedures are in place.

Information: (479) 750-8165 or shilohmuseum.org.

Artist shows

in Colorado

"In the Vernacular," a mixed media work of art by Northwest Arkansas artist Ruth Lawlor, is included in a unique exhibition featuring the experiences and perceptions of artists surrounding the global public health crisis. Lawlor's mixed media work was juried into "Holy Moly 2020! The Year 'Till Now" exhibition at the Niza Knoll Gallery in Denver. The exhibit is offered for in-person visits through Oct. 31 and is also available as a virtual tour.

"My goal is to represent with simple materials and images the complexity of experiences ranging from toilet paper shortages, our quest to fight boredom and the confusing emotional responses," Lawlor says. "The work on display in Denver is the first in a series of three large works. And, it will continue to evolve. The pandemic is not over."

Information: nizaknollgallery.com.

Cane Hill

seeks art

Historic Cane Hill Inc., in collaboration with the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and the University of Arkansas School of Art, will host the second annual High School Student Art Competition, open to all high school-age students living in Arkansas. The Grand Prize senior recipient will receive the Historic Cane Hill Young Artist Scholarship, a one-year tuition and fees scholarship to the University of Arkansas School of Art valued at $10,000 for the 2021-22 academic year. Over $2,000 in additional prizes will be awarded to sophomore, junior and senior artists in the exhibition as well. The competition is made possible thanks to the generous support of sponsors Ozarks Electric, PGTelco and WER Architects/Planners.

Student artists in public and private schools, as well as home-schooled, are eligible to submit artwork in any medium. The deadline to enter the competition is Nov. 1. There is no entry fee for this event. Entries may be submitted through the University of Arkansas SlideRoom at uarkart.slideroom.com/#/login/program/57034.

An exhibition of more than 50 selected pieces of student work will be held in The Museum Gallery at Historic Cane Hill, located 20 miles west of Fayetteville, beginning Dec. 5, remaining on view through Jan. 23, 2021. A distinguished panel of judges will select the artwork to be included in the exhibition as well as the award winners.

Information: (479) 824-5339 or email [email protected].

FSRAM calls

for artists

The Fort Smith Regional Art Museum has issued a call for artists for a mural proposal contest.

Deadline for proposals is Oct. 5, and a winner will be announced Oct. 15. The themes are "Where the Spirit of Art Unites Us" & "1948" -- the year the Regional Art Museum was founded.

Send contact information and a rendering of your proposed artwork and your artistic resume including prior public mural experience and references. This contest is open to everyone, no residency requirements, just mural experience. Send to [email protected] and on the subject line: Fort Smith Regional Art Museum Mural Proposal – Your Name.

Information: fsram.org.

Webinar

offered

The Arkansas Arts Council will host a new GetSmART! webinar at 10 a.m. Sept. 23 to help executive directors and board chairmen of nonprofit organizations learn to build and maintain an effective board.

Branda Mauldin, owner of Brenda Long Mauldin Grant Writing & Development Consulting, will lead the two-hour, online workshop, "Build an Effective Board for Your Organization." The webinar is free, but registration is required. Attendance is limited to 100 registrants.

Participants will learn how to develop a workable process to recruit new board members and to maintain a pipeline of strong, potential candidates for the future. Learn how to analyze and target what skills are needed for an effective board and how to incorporate diversity among board members. Nonprofit organizations can use these techniques to help fund and support their missions.

Information: (501) 324-9775 or arkansasarts.org.

Blood Center

seeks donors

Community Blood Center of the Ozarks, the exclusive provider of blood for patients at more than 40 area healthcare facilities, is expanding a critical appeal for blood to include all blood types. Reserves are alarmingly low, due to very high usage levels in area hospitals and a continued negative impact on donation rates due to the covid-19 pandemic. Eligible donors are urged to give immediately to avoid a future shortage that may impact the area healthcare community.

Area businesses, churches and other organizations are being asked to consider hosting a mobile blood drive or to direct their potential donors to a CBCO donor center as part of the Blood Boosters donation program.

Appointments are strongly encouraged but not required. Masks are required at every blood drive and donor center. A mask will be made available if you do not have one.

Information: (417) 227-5000 or cbco.org.

Council seeks

Living Treasure

The Arkansas Arts Council has announced it is accepting nominations for the next Arkansas Living Treasure through Nov. 16.

Every year since 2002, the Arkansas Arts Council has honored a traditional craft artist with its Arkansas Living Treasure Award. Nominees must be artists practicing traditional crafts that embody artistic excellence worthy of statewide recognition and must have demonstrated a commitment to their artistic community by promoting, preserving and teaching their crafts.

Guidelines:

• A nominee must be a current Arkansas resident who has lived in the state for at least one year at the time of nomination.

• Nominees should be deserving of statewide recognition for artistic excellence in their craft.

• Nominees may have exhibited their work at a local and/or national level.

• Nominees may have taught, lectured or written about their craft as their contributions in maintaining and advancing the art form.

• Nominees have participated in the community and demonstrated a dedication to the craft by promoting, preserving and teaching. They have shared their knowledge of the tradition to continue the craft's practice, exhibition and advancement.

The 2020 Arkansas Living Treasure Award recipient is Michael Warrick of Little Rock. Warrick has been creating sculptures for more than 30 years and teaches at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. A virtual reception honoring Warrick is planned for 5 p.m. Oct. 8 on Facebook and YouTube.

Information: (501) 324-9348, arkansasarts.org or email [email protected].

OLLI sets

new classes

The Osher Lifelong Institute at the University of Arkansas announces the following classes for the upcoming week:

• Sept. 21 – "Distributive Justice for a Living Wage" (online). The distributive justice argument strongly suggests that society owes each individual certain rights and protections, including laws protecting not only free speech and freedom of religion but also the basic goods and services, necessary to human survival and dignity. Len White, a retired U of A Economic professor will address the issues surrounding the validity and viability of the concept in its application. This class will be offered via Zoom. The link to join this session via Zoom will be sent after registration and as class nears. $35 members, $50 nonmembers.

• Sept. 21: "DIO: Black Apple Crossing," $29 members, $44 nonmembers; "Introduction to the Sonnet," $35 members, $50 nonmembers.

• Sept. 23: "Geology of I-49," $29 members, $44 nonmembers

• Sept. 25: "Hike Natural Falls State Park-Oklahoma," $25 Members/$40 nonmembers.

Information: (479) 575-4545 or olli.uark.edu.

Posing with instruments made by Ed Stilley, whose life and work were the focus of the Shiloh Museum’s "Instruments of Faith" exhibit, winner of the Arkansas Museums Association’s Exhibit of the Year award, are exhibit consultants Donna Mulhollan (from left) and Kelly Mulhollan of Fayetteville, Shiloh Museum collections and education specialist Aaron Loehndorf, and exhibits manager Curtis Morris.
(Courtesy Photo/Shiloh Museum)
Posing with instruments made by Ed Stilley, whose life and work were the focus of the Shiloh Museum’s "Instruments of Faith" exhibit, winner of the Arkansas Museums Association’s Exhibit of the Year award, are exhibit consultants Donna Mulhollan (from left) and Kelly Mulhollan of Fayetteville, Shiloh Museum collections and education specialist Aaron Loehndorf, and exhibits manager Curtis Morris. (Courtesy Photo/Shiloh Museum)

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