This Week in the Visual and Performing Arts: Feb. 11-15

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences will hold many events during the first weeks of February, including a concert, a lecture, a film screening and several art exhibitions. Students, faculty, staff and friends are encouraged to attend these programs in the visual and performing arts.

The department of music will present a tuba and euphonium studio recital at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 12, in the Fine Arts Center's Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

The department of art will host a lecture by visiting ceramic artist Tyler Beard at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 13, in room 213 of the Fine Arts Center.

Also on Feb. 13, Nadi Cinema, part of the King Fahd Middle East Studies Program, will hold a screening of Umut at 7 p.m. in room 104 of Mullins Library.

Ongoing events include the Employing Voice, Embracing Agency: Celebrating Contemporary African American Artists, Amos Kennedy Prints! and Jewish Studies Beyond the Holocaust: Arkansas, History and the World art exhibitions.

Employing Voice, Embracing Agency: Celebrating Contemporary African American Artists is on display in the Fine Arts Gallery until Thursday, Feb. 28. The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays.

Amos Kennedy Prints! is on view in the exhibition cases of the Fine Arts Center until Thursday, Feb. 28. The exhibition will be accompanied by a lecture and letterpress-printing workshop by Kennedy in late February.

As part of the Beyond the Holocaust series, an exhibit titled Jewish Studies Beyond the Holocaust: Arkansas, History and the World is on display in the Helen Robson Walton Reading Room in Mullins Library. The display will run through Saturday, April 20.

This is not a comprehensive list. Please refer to the University of Arkansas events calendar for more information. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.