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Emma Chambers, a junior Bachelor of Fine Arts major with a concentration in painting, has won the first student mural competition at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
“I was really excited that I won the mural contest,” Chambers said. “I hoped that I would get it because I believed in myself and my painting.”
The Student Government Association, in conjunction with the Faculty Senate Building and Grounds committee, created the mural contest open to all UA Little Rock students. Chambers received more than 750 votes for her design of swimming koi fish.
Chambers will paint the mural that will be placed on the west side of the Ottenheimer Library Lobby entrance. It will be eight feet wide and 16 feet long. She will receive $1,000 to complete the mural, including $150 for support materials, $650 for preparation, construction materials, and cleanup, as well as a $200 artist stipend.
In 1600, thirteen-year-old Thomas Clifton was kidnapped, snatched off the street on his way home from grammar school.
His kidnappers? Two prominent figures in the world of London entertainment: Nathaniel Giles, Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal, and Henry Evans, producer at the Blackfriars Theater. With the kidnapping, they intended to draft Thomas into the vibrant world of Elizabethan theater. They promptly handed the boy a script and threatened him with a beating if he didn’t learn his lines.
Giles and Evans didn’t bother to conceal their crime. When Thomas’ father found them, the kidnappers taunted him, claiming they were well within their rights to seize his son.