Baum Gallery’s Mission Statement
The Baum Gallery is an educational art museum for UCA students, faculty and staff, and the central Arkansas community. The Director and Faculty Exhibitions Committee select national and international touring exhibitions, sponsor juried student shows, and cooperate across disciplines to curate original exhibits distinctly suited to an academic environment. The gallery develops exhibitions and events that invite interaction and encourage dialogue about visual art: the creators, studio process, history, criticism, curation, and cultural contexts.
Exhibits and events are under the aegis of the UCA Department of Art and Design, College of Fine Arts and Communication. The Baum Gallery maintains institutional memberships in the Arkansas Museums Association, the Association of College and University Museums and Galleries, and the American Association of Museums.
Past Exhibitions:
Opening January 25th the Arkansas Faculty Invitational featuring artists around the state who inspire our students. Reception, Thursday, Jan. 25th, 4pm-7pm.
Arkansas Women to Watch: New Worlds
Closed October 13, 2023
Hours are Monday – Friday, 10am to 5pm and Thursday until 7pm. The Baum is closed on Saturday and Sunday.
Waters of the Abyss: An Intersection of Spirit and Freedom, May 11 – May 31, 2023
Source of Light: The Hearne Collection
January 26 – February 24, 2023
The Baum Gallery will host a new exhibition Source of Light: The Hearne Collection, January 26 – February 24, 2023. This exhibition is curated together by Garbo Hearne, director and co-owner of Hearne Fine Art; Archie Hearne, M.D., co-owner of Hearne Fine Art; and Brian Young, director, Baum Gallery.
Source of Light has three components. In the entry gallery, visitors will view 16 works by four historic African-American painters. They are Robert Scott Duncanson (1821-1872), Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901), Charles Ethan Porter (1847/49-1923) and Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937). The Baum Gallery must acknowledge the generosity of the collector Juan Rodriguez, New York, NY, for generously facilitating this loan through the Hearnes.
In the Baum’s largest gallery, Source of Light: The Hearne Collection continues with the contemporary work derived from the Hearne’s private collection. It should also be noted that many of the artists in their collection have also been represented by Hearne Fine Art, a Little Rock-based institution that has celebrated African-American art and culture since 1988. The Hearnes embraced the idea that their relationship with art extended to personal relationships with artists, the need to educate the public, and their desire to create a premier cultural hub for African American art in Arkansas. Works in this gallery include printmaking, bronze, clay, alabaster, photography, fiber art, oils, pastels, watercolors, acrylics, artists’ books and others. The source of this work is nearly as varied. The Hearnes have a deep familiarity with components of visual arts, the literary arts, and the vast art market including relationships with a wide-reaching network of artists, other dealers and collectors, curators, academics, related art fairs, markets, historic material, auction houses, and the internet.
In the Baum’s third and more intimate gallery, Source of Light finishes with is a modest selection of powerful works by Louise Mandumbwa, UCA, BFA ’20 and Yale University, MFA expected ’24. This current work is based on her computer-figural work. Mandumbwa has also been mentored and represented by Hearne Fine Art since 2017. Mandumbwa has also enjoyed time at the Chautauqua School of Art Residency in upstate New York and the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Residency in Berlin New York.
A reception will be held on January 26, 2023 at the Baum Gallery from 4 pm – 7 pm.
BA / BFA Art Exhibition
April 6 – April 28, 2023
2023 Annual Student Art Competitive
Exhibition Dates: March 9 – 22, 2023
Baum Gallery with juror Theresa Bembnister
This is exhibition is sponsored by Blick art materials
www.dickblick.com
The University of Central Arkansas’s Baum Gallery will host a new exhibition Cig Harvey: From Red to Violet, running August 25 – October 13, 2022. This exhibition is curated by Brian Young, director, Baum Gallery with assistance from Donna Pinckley, professor of photography in the department of Art & Design, UCA.
Cig Harvey (b.1973) is a British-born artist and writer living in Maine and working in large-format color photography and poetry. Rich in implied narrative, saturated in color, and deeply rooted in the natural world, her work is devoted to the topic of what it is to feel.
Harvey has published five sold-out books: Blue Violet (Monacelli/Phaidon, 2021), Reveal (with Debbie Fleming Caffrey and Andrea Modica; Yoffy Press, 2020); You an Orchestra You a Bomb (Schilt Publishing, 2017); Gardening at Night (Schilt Publishing, 2015); and You Look at Me Like an Emergency (Schilt Publishing, 2012).
Outdoor Photographic Projections by Cig Harvey: September 28 and 29, at the UCA football stadium scoreboard; they will then be projected again on October 11 and 12. Time: 8-10pm.
Public Gallery Talk by Cig Harvey: October 11, 1:40-2:30pm at the Baum Gallery
Public Lecture by Cig Harvey, October 12, 6:30pm.
Painting
January 27 – February 17, 2022
(Image: Matt Klos, Treasure Chest, oil on panel)
“‘Painting’ is an exhibition meant to show all the possibilities through this most traditional medium,” said Young. “In this show, there are artists who work purely abstract and those who work realistically with the figure. By selecting a range of painters, students will understand the breadth of contemporary painting. Our audience will see irony, experiences and contemporary issues through the lenses of abstraction, portraits, landscapes and works in between.”
2020-2021
August 26-October 15, 2020
BA/BFA Juried Senior Art Exhibition
October 19- December 4, 2020
SPRING SEASON OF EVENTS
Say Something: Art as Protest
January 21- February 19, 2021
Annual Student Art Competitive
March 2- March 12, 2021
BA/BFA Juried Senior Art Exhibition
April 8 – April 30 , 2021
Summer Student Invitational
June 1 – August 13, 2021 (by appointment only)
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2019-2020
FALL SEASON OF EVENTS
Cultural Ties: Sonya Clark, Joyce J. Scott and Helen Zughaib
August 29-October 11, 2019
BA/BFA Juried Senior Art Exhibition
November 1- December 16, 2019
SPRING SEASON OF EVENTS
Fired Up in the Natural State: Contemporary Ceramics
January 23- February 14, 2020
Annual Student Art Competitive 2020
March 3- March 13, 2020
BA/BFA Juried Senior Art Exhibition
April 7 – April 24 , 2020 Online only
2018-2019
FALL SEASON OF EVENTS
August 30-October 11, 2018
Peter Pincus: Color and Form
Art Process: Drawings and More
BA/BFA Juried Senior Art Exhibition
November 1- December 6, 2018
SPRING SEASON OF EVENTS
January 24- February 15, 2019
UCA Faculty Invitational
From It To Thou: Being Consious of the Sacred in Nature
Annual Student Art Competitive 2019
March 4- March 15, 2019
BA/BFA Juried Senior Art Exhibition
April 4 – April 26 , 2019
SUMMER SEASON OF EVENTS
23 Skidoo Soup
April 29-May 10, 2019
Future/Former: A Juried Student Review
May 30-August 16, 2019
2017-2018
FALL SEASON OF EVENTS
September 1-October 19, 2017
Ben Butler: Vertebrates
Equivocal Exposures: Alternative Photographic Processes
BA/BFA Juried Senior Art Exhibition
November 2- December 7
SPRING SEASON OF EVENTS
January 25-February 16, 2018
Pathways: An Exhibition of Large Format & Experimental Printmaking
Annual Student Art Competitive 2018
March 5-March 16, 2018
BA/BFA Juried Senior Art Exhibition
April 5-April 27, 2018
2016-2017
FALL SEASON OF EVENTS
September 8-October 20, 2016
Curious Devotion: Art Installations by Dawn Holder, Langdon Graves, and Danielle Riede.
September 23-October 7, 2016
Pluralism, Social Lens #33, Direct Action: Outdoor Public Art Installation by David Graeve
September 23-September 24, 2016
Roots: Video Projection Installation by Adam Hogan
BA/BFA Juried Senior Art Exhibition
November 3-December 1, 2016
SPRING SEASON OF EVENTS
January 26-February 22, 2017
Tripletta: A Show of Miniature Works by 64 Artists
Magdalena Solé: Mississippi Delta Series
Holly Laws: Bellwether
Annual Student Art Competitive 2017
March 2-16, 2017
BA/BFA Juried Senior Art Exhibition
April 6-27, 2017
2015-2016
FALL SEASON OF EVENTS
September 10-October 23, 2015
Dan Steinhilber: Primary Developments
Dark Matter: Outdoor Installation by Dan Steinhilber
BA/BFA Juried Senior Art Exhibition
November 5-December 3, 2015
SPRING SEASON OF EVENTS
January 21-February 18, 2016
Finding Shelter: An Exhibition of Contemporary Fiber Art
Maggie Steber: Madje Has Dementia and Rite of Passage
Mike Jabbur: Point/Counterpoint
Annual Student Art Competitive 2016
March 3-17, 2016
BA/BFA Juried Senior Art Exhibition
April 7-21, 2016
2014-2015
FALL SEASON OF EVENTS
September 4- October 24, 2014
Fay Ku: Throwing Voices
Theresa Pfarr: By Proxy
Kathleen Robbins: Into the Flatland
Installation of The Big Naturals by Patrick Dougherty
September 2, 2014- September 20, 2014
Community-Collaborative Outdoor Sculpture created during ArtsFest
BA/BFA Juried Senior Exhibition
November 6 – December 4, 2014
SPRING SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
January 22 – February 22, 2015
Practice What You Preach: The Baum 20th Anniversary Exhibition of Art Faculty
Annual Student Competitive 2015
March 5, 2015- Thursday, March 19, 2015
BA/BFA Juried Senior Exhibition
April 9, 2015- April 24, 2015
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2013-2014
FALL SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
September 5-October 27, 2013
Maysey Craddock: Angle of Repose
Jennifer Shaw: Nature/Nurture
Artistic Eye: Works from the Personal Collections of the Art Faculty
Jen Lewin: The Pool and The Chandelier Harp
October 3-October 5, 2013
Interactive outdoor public art installations, presented during Conway’s Annual ArtsFest
BA/BFA Juried Senior Exhibition
November 7-December 5, 2013
SPRING SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
January 16 – February 19, 2014
Deb Schwedhelm: Whispers from the Sea
Kirsten Kindler: Paper Construction
Drawing Blood and Guts: The Best of Contemporary Medical Illustration, Curated by Alexandra Baker
Annual Student Competitive Exhibition
March 2 – March 16, 2014
BA/BFA Juried Senior Exhibition
April 3-April 24, 2014
2012-2013
FALL SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
September 6-October 25, 2012
So Tiny: An Exhibition of Small Works in 3-D
Juried Bodies of Work: The Baum MFA Biennial 2012
Small Talk: New Works on Paper by Heather Gordon
MIRAZOZO LUMINARIUM
September 27-29, 2012
A building-sized inflatable sculpture by English designers, Architects of Air
STUDIO FOUNDATIONS COURSE COMPETITIVE
November 1-5, 2012
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
November 15-December 7, 2012
SPRING SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
January 17-February 24, 2013
Swishbone: New Paintings by Julie Evans
Under the Influence: New Ceramic Work by Curt LaCross
Alternating Currents: A Mixed Media Installation by Mario Marzan
Before and After: An Exploration of the Art Conservation Process
2013 ANNUAL STUDENT COMPETITIVE
March 4-March 28, 2013
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
April 4-April 29, 2013
2011-2012
PRE-SEASON EXHIBIT: FOUNDATION CLASS COMPETITIVE
August 18- September 1, 2011
FALL SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
September 15 -October 27, 2011
Connections: The Fifteenth Year – Anniversary exhibition featuring work in all UCA studio content areas by 27 selected UCA and Arkansas artists
More Than a Mold: Contemporary Slip Cast Ceramics
cloud control: the devastation of an anchor- A multi-media installation by Carrie A. Dyer, UCA Department of Art Faculty Member
ANNUAL ALUMNI EXHIBITION
October 6 – October 29, 2011
Keith Melton: New Projects
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
November 10 -December 8, 2011
SPRING SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
January 19 – February 26, 2012
Environments: Interrogating Space –Site-specific, multimedia installations by Annie Strader, Matthew Weedman, Ryan Mulligan and Anna Vaughan. Exhibition curated by Kristin Beal DeGrandmont.
New Work: Color Portraits –Photography by UCA Department of Art Professor Donna Pinckley
2012 ANNUAL STUDENT COMPETITIVE
March 7 – March 28, 2012
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
April 5 -April 28, 2012
2010-2011
PRE-SEASON EXHIBIT: FOUNDATION CLASS COMPETITIVE
August 22- 31, 2010
FALL SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS September 16-October 28, 2010
Baum MFA Biennial Exhibition: Paintings
Fantastic Realities: Photography by Julie Blackmon
Aqua Bomb: An Installation
ANNUAL ALUMNI EXHIBITION October 7-October 30, 2010
Exuberant Color: Paintings and Ceramics by Allie Maxwell Nottingham (BFA Painting ’07)
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION November 11-December 2, 2010
SPRING SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS January 13-February 24, 2011
Improvised Intaglio: Jiří Anderle Prints from the Baruch Foundation
Habitats: Portraiture by Kat Wilson
Earth: Fragile Planet, Organized by the Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
Intersecting the Book: When Artists, Writers & Graphic Designers Create 2D Worlds. Curator: Ray Ogar, Asst. Professor, Graphics, UCA
Axis Mundi: Levittown, A Multi-Media Exhibition by Holly Laws
2011 ANNUAL STUDENT COMPETITIVE
March 10-March 31, 2011
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
April 14-April 28, 2011
2009-2010
FALL SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
September 10-October 29, 2009
Cardinal Points/Puntos Cardinales: A Survey of Contemporary Latino and Latin American Art
Pre-Columbian Artifacts: UCA’s Riddick Collection, an “open storage” exhibit of historic vessels, masks and figures
Function PLUS: Contemporary Teapots
ANNUAL ALUMNI EXHIBITION
October 1-October 29, 2009
On Location: Watercolor Paintings by William “Bill” Branch
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
November 12-December 3, 2009
SPRING SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
January 21-February 25, 2010
Tagged, Stamped and Stenciled: Guerrilla Art “Goes Gallery”-Mark Bode
Polarized Dispersions: A Multi-Media Installation by Michael Wyshock
2010 ANNUAL STUDENT COMPETITIVE
March 11-April 4, 2010
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
April 15-April 29, 2010
FOUNDATION CLASS COMPETITIVE
May 3-May 7, 2010
2008-2009
FALL SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite
New Territories: Ceramics by Justin Novak
Baum MFA Biennial Exhibition: 3D
ANNUAL ALUMNI EXHIBITION
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
SPRING SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
January 22-February 29, 2009
Six Degress of Transmutation: Emerging Artists
AVOCATION: Department of Art Faculty Show
2009 ANNUAL STUDENT COMPETITIVE
March 5-March 19, 2009
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
April 16-April 30, 2009
2007-2008
FALL SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
The Architect’s Brother: Photography by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison
ANNUAL ALUMNI EXHIBITION
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
SPRING SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
Return of the Yellow Peril: A Survey of the Work of Roger Shimomura, 1990-2004
Views from Both Sides of the Barbed Wire Fence
Inside/Outside: Student Drawings from the Rohwer Camp
2008 ANNUAL STUDENT COMPETITIVE
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
2006-2007
FALL SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist-Citizen: Posters for a Better World
STAND2006 – student designed posters that address current social, political, environmental, and global issues
Baum MFA Biennial Exhibition
ANNUAL ALUMNI EXHIBITION
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
SPRING SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
2007 ANNUAL STUDENT COMPETITIVE
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
2005-2006
FALL SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
A Glimpse into Echizen Ceramics
View from Here: Contemporary Russian and American Screenprints
ANNUAL ALUMNI EXHIBITION
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
SPRING SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
2006 ANNUAL STUDENT COMPETITIVE
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
2004-2005
FALL SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
ANNUAL ALUMNI EXHIBITION
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
SPRING SEASON OF EXHIBITIONS
Out of this World: A Sandy Skoglund Installation
2005 ANNUAL STUDENT COMPETITIVE
BA/BFA JURIED SENIOR EXHIBITION
Acquisitions
Stiebel Gift
Julia Margaret Cameron, King Arthur (from Idylis of the King), 1874-1875, Albumen print from wet collodion glass negative
In 2019, the Baum Gallery received a generous donation from the Stiebel family who gifted the gallery a valuable collection of photography. The collection comprises of 11 American and European artists. These works are on display at the Baum Gallery: Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday – Closed, Sunday 1pm – 5pm. On behalf of the University of Central Arkansas, we would like to express our sincere gratitude for Gerald and Penelope Stiebel’s generous gift. Click the link above to read the full article and learn about the artistic background of the Stiebel family.
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Gallery Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m.- 7 p.m.
Gallery Location
McCastlain Hall (West Wing) – View Map
201 Donaghey Avenue, Conway, AR 72035
For more information about the Baum Gallery, contact Director Biran Young at (501) 450-5793.
The Baum Gallery Exhibit Year
Closed during Fall/Spring Break, national Holidays, and Summer Sessions I & II.
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Please send electronic images, a CV or artist resume, and contact info to bkyoung@uca.edu.
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Director: Brian Young
Phone: (501) 450-5793
Email: bkyoung@uca.edu
Address: McCastlain Hall, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway, AR, 72035
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