The Arkansas Arts Center, the state’s leader in international, visual and performing arts, presents the 57th Annual Delta Exhibition, on view July 10 through September 20, 2015 in the Jeannette Edris Rockefeller and Townsend Wolfe Galleries.
“This highly anticipated exhibition brings an excitement to the Arkansas Arts Center each year and allows us to celebrate the works of fellow Arkansans as well as our neighboring artists from the Delta,” said Arkansas Arts Center executive director Todd Herman. “Patrons will have an opportunity to experience the region’s strong traditions of craftsmanship and observation, combined with innovative use of materials and an experimental approach to subject matter.”
Local artists featured in the 57th Annual Delta Exhibition include:
· David Blow of Hickory Creek, Texas
· Andrew Martin of Lubbock, Texas
· Brian Row of San Marcos, Texas
· Kendall Stallings of Dallas, Texas
The Delta Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture was founded in 1956 to feature contemporary work by artists from Arkansas and bordering states. Today, the 57th Annual Delta Exhibition has grown to encompass works in all media and is a showcase for the dynamic vision of the artists of the Mississippi Delta region.
George Dombek will serve as juror for the 57th Annual Delta Exhibition. George Dombek is an internationally acclaimed watercolorist and previous annual Delta Exhibition exhibitor and award winner. His watercolors have appeared at the Arkansas Arts Center, Birmingham Museum of Art, Butler Institute of American Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, and have garnered more than 80 awards including recognition by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Dombek selected the artworks to be exhibited and will assign the $2,500 Grand Award and two $750 Delta Awards. Additionally, a $250 Contemporaries Delta Award will be selected by the Contemporaries, an auxiliary membership group of the Arkansas Arts Center.
The exhibition is sponsored by Mrs. Lisenne Rockefeller, Bourbon & Boots, The Brown Foundation Inc., of Houston, Dianne and Bobby Tucker, Janet and Sam Alley and the Capitol Hotel. The Grand Award is supported by The John William Linn Endowment Fund. The exhibition is supported by the Andre Simon Memorial Trust in memory of everyone who has died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
