Museums need to supply “social space,” says famed architect Jeanne Gang. If they are to survive, they need to be places where people want to be. And that is what her design seeks to do for the expanded, renovated Arkansas Arts Center, a $98.8 million project: provide a “cultural living room.”
Simply getting a seat at the corporate table remains a barrier for women in the workforce, a panel of women business leaders said Thursday during the first Soirée Women's Leadership Symposium at the DoubleTree Hotel in Little Rock.
Nelson Peacock is hopeful that the arrival of a global innovation company will help spur northwest Arkansas' business ecosystem and solve some nagging logistical problems.
Gerry Snyder, dean of the School of Art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, has been named executive director of the University of Arkansas' School of Art, effective July 1. read more >
It's up to the public to demonstrate its continued support for the Arkansas Arts Center by helping pay for an expanded and improved Arts Center. read more >
Tracy Matson has been named executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arkansas. read more >
Arkansas Children's Hospital Auxiliary donated $1.54 million to support ACH programs, and this is the largest gift made in the 52-year history of the auxiliary. read more >
Kappa Realty LLC, led by Chris Robertson, purchased the 17.6-acre home of the Riverdale Shopping Center at 2500-2610 Cantrell Road from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Little Rock. read more >
Details are emerging about a settlement offer floated by Mona Dixon, the longtime AETN Foundation COO who was dismissed by AETN Executive Director Courtney Pledger in February. read more >
Terry Teachout, drama critic for the Wall Street Journal, had kind words last week for Art Bridges, an organization founded by Alice Walton, and for the Terra Foundation for American Art. read more >
Some University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences employees saw red flags long before auditors discovered a deficit at the Myeloma Institute for Research & Therapy that was allowed to grow to $29 million over nine years. read more >
A deal to end a power struggle between the state's educational TV network and its nonprofit fundraising foundation is under negotiation. read more >
Bryan Achorn and Trent Daniels have been sworn in to the U.S. Attorney's Office. read more >
Gina Radke has been awarded the Women in Manufacturing STEP Ahead Award from the Manufacturing Institute in Washington, D.C. read more >
CARTI, the cancer-treatment provider, plans to announce Monday that it will open The Breast Center at CARTI inside its main Little Rock facility. read more >
The unemployment rate in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metropolitan statistical area remains near a historical low, 3.5% in February. read more >
Curtis Chase has been promoted to director of operations at IFB Solutions Little Rock, formerly Arkansas Lighthouse for the Blind. read more >
Margaret Sova McCabe, the new dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law, wants to help law students who want to help others. read more >
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has received a nearly $1 million grant to help pay for the state's newest nature center now under construction in northwest Arkansas. read more >
The Arkansas Delta Council, a nonprofit economic development organization still in formation, hopes to raise money and entice investors to a region that has been losing population, unevenly but inexorably, for half a century. read more >
His father's preventable stroke set the stage for Allan Nichols' career move into nonprofit health care and Mainline Health Systems Inc., which now boasts full-service clinics throughout the Arkansas Delta. read more >
A crucial deadline in the Arkansas Educational Telecommunications Network's standoff with its nonprofit fundraising foundation came and went this month with no resolution. read more >
Two-thirds of Arkansas' counties lost population between 2012 and 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. read more >
Christ Caldwell, the federal co-chairman of the Delta Regional Authority, touts the agency's return on investment in the area. read more >
The Little Rock Regional Chamber announces a new partnership with the local SCORE chapter of Little Rock. read more >
The Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame announces its fifth annual group of inductees — seven women and one organization — who will be honored at a ceremony on Aug. 29 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. read more >
Former Bank OZK COO Tyler Vance says he's beginning a new chapter in his life, becoming a pastor at Fellowship Bible Church's Cabot campus. read more >
David O'Neal will become Roadrunner Transportation Systems's vice president of safety, overseeing the safety programs of the company's 18 subsidiaries. read more >
Skylar Hatfield, the new director of safety services at the Arkansas Trucking Association, has an appreciation and love for trucking that comes naturally. read more >
Reanetta Hunt has been selected as the new chief development officer and CEO of the Baptist Health Foundation in Little Rock. read more >
Arkansas Business will once again honor the state's outstanding young professionals at a luncheon for its 40 Under 40 class. You can order tickets here. read more >
Ping-pong office deals in Little Rock and convenience store flips in North Little Rock join together in a foursome of million-dollar deals. read more >
Daniel Hintz knows about revitalizing a city's downtown area and believes a new federal tax program could be just the ticket for Springdale's budding efforts. read more >
