AMFA's Restaurant Prepares to Open with the Museum Next Spring
Victoria Ramirez, executive director of the museum, gave details on the new restaurant inside the redesigned AMFA. read more >
Victoria Ramirez, executive director of the museum, gave details on the new restaurant inside the redesigned AMFA. read more >
The museum also announced it had surpassed its latest capital fundraising goal and set a final target of $155 million. read more >
Executive Director Victoria Ramirez said supply chain delays have contributed to the opening being pushed back. read more >
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the $142 million renovation of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts remains on schedule, and the museum will open in May 2022, officials said Thursday. read more >
The Arkansas Arts Center, undergoing a $100 million renovation and expansion, is getting a new name, too. read more >
David L. Jones, a partner at Wright Lindsey Jennings in Little Rock, has been selected as the 2020 recipient of the Defense Research Institute Davis Carr Outstanding Committee Chair Award. read more >
Little Rock attorney Michael Mayton was recognized with the Arkansas Arts Center’s Winthrop Rockefeller Memorial Award at the center’s annual meeting on Sept. 21. read more >
The $100 million transformation of the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock will result in what looks to be a stunning architectural gem. read more >
The Arkansas Arts Center gets a $203,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to support stewardship of the center's 14,000 works of international art. read more >
The Arkansas Arts Center is spending around $4.5 million per month on its $100 million renovation, and the museum's executive director says the project remains on course for a 2022 grand opening, despite challenges posed by COVID-19. read more >
The Arkansas Arts Center says Lisa Jones Black had been named director of development and Katie Campbell had been named director of its children's theater and performing Arts. read more >
The Arkansas Arts Center of Little Rock says it will furlough 36% of its full-time staff through at least May 18. read more >
The Arkansas Arts Center’s reimagined MacArthur Park building was named winner of the 2019 The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards in the Unbuilt–Cultural category. read more >
Before joining the Arkansas Arts Center, Victoria Ramirez was the director of the El Paso Museum of Art, where she increased the endowment, broadened the scope of exhibitions and renovated galleries and public spaces. read more >
Nonprofit executives in Arkansas and beyond can’t say for sure if changes to the federal tax code in 2017 caused a drop in giving in 2018. But they didn’t help. read more >
Prominent museum supporters, including Harriet and Warren Stephens and Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr., celebrated the groundbreaking of the near-$100 million renovation and expansion of the Arkansas Arts Center in downtown Little Rock’s MacArthur Park. read more >
Mangan Holcomb Partners/Team SI of Little Rock was a top winner at the recent ARCom Awards for public relations excellence, with finalist entries in 35 of 41 categories and 32 total prizes. read more >
The Arkansas Arts Center announces Victoria Ramirez, director of the El Paso Museum of Art, as its new executive director. read more >
Charity Myers has joined Oaklawn in Hot Springs as its new assistant director of marketing. read more >
Jeanne Gang, the Chicago architect designing the almost $99 million makeover of the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, says her Midwestern upbringing keeps her rooted. read more >
