Past Events

2009

11/18/2009 "We Surely Owe a Debt to these Long Downtrodden People"
11/18/2009 GIS Day Open House 2009
10/29/2009 Celebrating the Arkansas Experience: Archives Month Open House 2009
9/11/2009 John Bell, Jr. Reception
4/29/2009 Life and Death of the Oldest Newspaper West of the Mississippi
3/29/2009 Mandala: A Spiritual Experience of Tibet
3/26/2009 Office of Scientific and Technical Information Databases Training
2/26/2009 Suffering Doesn't End Once the Killing Has Stopped
2/25/2009 Jim Crow in the Natural State: A Look at White Supremacy in Arkansas History

2008

12/4/2008 Zome Day 2008
11/19/2008 GIS Day Open House 2008
10/29/2008 Mysteries, Mistresses & Murder: 3 Arkansas Authors
9/16/2008 Mullins Library 40th Anniversary
5/19/2008 George Dombek Donates Painting
2/8/2008 Walkin' Talkin' Gallery Tour

2007

11/30/2007 Zome Day 2007
11/14/2007 GIS Day 2007
11/13/2007 A Giant Step: 1960 Little Rock Film
11/6/2007 Native American Symposium Kickoff 2007
10/25/2007 Special Collections 40th Anniversary
9/15/2007 Before Little Rock: Successful Arkansas School Integration
4/27/2007 Pryor Center Reception
3/2/2007 The Architecture and Landscapes of Arkansas: A Heritage of Distinction
2/21/2007 The Photographic Mission of Ralph Armstrong

2006

11/15/2006 GIS Day Open House 2006
10/23/2006 Archives Week Open House
10/12/2006 Face to Face: The Borchard Collection of British Self-Portraits in the 20th Century Reception
10/12/2006 All That Remains: Forensic Anthropology & the Medicolegal Investigation of Death
2/22/2006 The Universe Provides, a talk by Evelyn C. White

10/12/2006

On exhibition for the first time in the U. S., "Face to Face" featured more than 100 self-portraits collected by the late Ruth Borchard of London, who never paid more than 21 guineas for any one picture. Borchard's concept was to collect those works that captured the artist's introspection beyond the canvas, providing an insightful view into the artistic genre of self-identity.

"Face to Face" was displayed in the Joy Pratt Markham Gallery and the Cynthia H. Coughlin Gallery at the Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas from August 21 to November 25, 2006. The University Libraries sponsored a reception for Katherine Hallgarten, whose mother Ruth Borchard collected the works, and Katherine's daughter Ruth on Thursday, October 5, 2006 from 5 to 7 p.m. At the reception, remarks were given by Mary Ann Greenwood, U of A Provost Bob Smith, University Libraries' dean Carolyn Allen and Katherine Hallgarten.