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Arkansas Arts Center

501 E. 9th St.
Little Rock, AR
Downtown
501-372-4000
www.arkarts.com

Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat.; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun.

Thirty years ago, the Arkansas Arts Center,the state's largest until the opening of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville in 2011, adopted a smart strategy for an institution with limited dollars: It began to build a collection of works on paper. The nationally recognized collection includes works by contemporary new world artists as well as European masters. The Arts Center carved out another high-profile niche with its recognition (and collecting) of contemporary crafts as one of the most exciting American art forms today. The Arts Center's Children's Theatre is hugely popular, selling out its seasons. If you want to learn how to blow glass, sign up for the museum school; the glassblowing program here was one of the first in the country. You can, of course, take classes in drawing, painting, pottery, photography or sign up for special workshops offered by artists brought to the Arts Center by the Friends of Contemporary Crafts group. The Arts Center also manages the Terry House community museum at 411 E. 7th St., two blocks north, where various exhibits are hung in an antebellum home once owned by one of the state's most prominent families.

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Museum Details

Galleries, theater and museum school in downtown Little Rock. The permanent collection of art focuses on Old Master and modern American and European master drawings and contemporary crafts.

Performing arts venues Details

The Arkansas Arts Center Children's Theatre seats 381.

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Upcoming Events

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"Paul Signac Watercolors and Drawings" (Galleries)
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Past Events

"The Adventures of Pinocchio"
- Fri., May 17, 7:30 p.m., Sat., May 18, 2 & 7:30 p.m. and Sun., May 19, 2 p.m. 2013
Arkansas Arts Center Children's Theatre: "James and the Giant Peach"
- Fridays, 7 p.m., Saturdays, 3 p.m. and Sundays, 2 p.m. Continues through May 12 2013
Art of Motion: Tango
- Second Thursday of every month, 7-10:30 p.m. Continues through May 9 2013