The Conway League of Artists Spring Member Show is up and on display at the Library!
You're invited to the Conway League of Artists Spring Art Show Opening Reception! The show theme is Poetry in honor of National Poetry Month for April.
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From 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm - enjoy refreshments while you browse the Spring Show exhibition and chat with the artists. Starting at 6:00 pm we will have local authors read selections of poetry from their works. Please feel free to stay after the readings and continue to browse the art, enjoy the available refreshments, and chat with the poets and artists.
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Featured local poets:
Acie Clark - Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University of Central Arkansas
Sandy Longhorn - Associate Chair, Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Creative Writing Program Coordinator at University of Central Arkansas; For more information about Sandy's works, please visit: https://sandylonghorn.com/
Kathleen Armstrong - Outstanding student poet at University of Central Arkansas and the associate editor of Vortex.
Michelle Stoll - Director of Communications for the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics, a privately-funded research and education center housed in the College of Business at the University of Central Arkansas; For a bit more information about Michelle, read her Opinion piece in the AR Democrat-Gazette: https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jun/10/home-again/
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This event is in partnership with Conway League of Artists. For more information about their organization, please visit https://conwayleagueofartists.com/
Thank you to Michael Blanchard, Adjunct Instructor of English & Editor of SLANT with University of Central Arkansas, for fielding our poets for this event!
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The Conway library serves as the headquarters library for the county sytem of six libraries as well as the Faulkner County–Van Buren County Regional Library.