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Putting The Unity In Community: Crystal Bridges focuses on making art accessible
Crystal Bridges focuses on making art accessible
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Becca Martin-Brown
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“We the People” by Nari Ward welcomes visitors to the Early American Art Galleries at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. “Ward asks us to reconsider the phrase. Has its meaning changed? Who are ‘the people’? How do these words apply to our society today?” the art label states.
(Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville)
Marissa Reyes, who was born in Manila in the Philippines, says inclusion efforts at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art start with families and move through traditional channels like school groups to more inventive outreach with social service agencies that help bring art to the people instead of people to the art. And while cultural outreach has been part of the museum s mission since its founding in 2011, museum staff learned a great d
An artist from Oklahoma is in the spotlight at the Museum of Native American History with a new mural that commemorates the Trail of Tears. As an artist, I m kind of a records keeper and a storyteller. I m telling these people s stories through my art, artist Johnnie Diacon said.Diacon s three-panel mural was recently unveiled and tells the story of the Trail of Tears. I usually don t do those because of the subject matter, such as a sensitive subject matter, he said.Diacon did the mural as a tribute. I think it s important that Native artists represent ourselves because our stories and our images have been put out there by people other than us for so many years. Representation is very important, he said.The mural is located on the south wall of the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville, Arkansas. It s on the Trail of Tears route. As a native artist, I have this responsibility to do these and do them in an honest and accurate way, Diacon said. To me, it goes a l
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The Arkansas Native Seed Program established by the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission has partnered with a dozen agencies and nonprofits, including Audubon Arkansas, to seek out and work with farmers willing to grow wildflowers and grasses to produce large quantities of locally sourced native seed for use in wildlife restoration projects throughout the state.
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On today’s show, property owners who fail to submit information to Fayetteville’s Landlord s Representative Registry by Friday will be subject to fines. Plus, nearly 40 percent of U.S. Veterans have declined being vaccinated for COVID-19. We report on why and how Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks key medical providers are responding. Also, we attend a ground breaking for an indigenous medicine garden at the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville and much more.