ART & EXHIBITS
‘Crimson Moon’
“Crimson Moon,” pieces from the jewelry collection of Leesa Renshaw, goes on display Tuesday at ESSE Museum and Store, 1510 Main St., Little Rock. Renshaw’s acquisitions span several centuries and the world, sorted into 13 themes, “each design rooted in the style of its time and culture of its origin,” according to a news release. The exhibition will be up through June 1. Hours are 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. Tickets are $8 for students, senior citizens and military, free for children under 6. Call (501) 916-9022 or visit essepursemuseum.com.
This Zuni necklace with 10 strands of hand-carved stone animal charms (fetishes), attributed to artist Johnny Shika, is part of the “Crimson Moon” exhibition opening this week at ESSE Museum and Store on Main Street in Little Rock. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Nancy Nolan)
‘Wood Works’
“Wood Works: Assembled from the Permanent Collection,” artwork made from wood from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s permanent collection, goes on display Monday in the Ann Maners and Alex Pappas Gallery in the Windgate Center of Art + Design at UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. The exhibition is up through May 16. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. Email [email protected].
MUSIC
‘Sense’-ible jazz
Jazz quartet The Goat Band — Steve Hudelson, guitar; Pat Lindsey, drums; Barry McVinney, saxophone and other woodwinds; and Brian Wolverton, bass — performs for St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s Festival of the Senses Mardi Gras Party, 6 p.m. Tuesday in the parish hall of the church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock. Admission is free and includes food and drink “and a dance floor for the choreographically inclined,” according to a news release. Call (501) 753-3578 or email [email protected].
Jazz quartet The Goat Band — (from left) Steve Hudelson, guitar; Brian Wolverton, bass; Patrick Lindsey, drums; and Barry McVinney, woodwinds — performs Tuesday at North Little Rock’s Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
THEATER
‘Relative’ musical
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Theatre Arts program, within the School of Literary and Performing Arts, stages the musical “The Theory of Relativity” (music and lyrics by Neil Bartram, book by Brian Hill), 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. March 9 in Haislip Theatre, Center for Performing Arts, on the south side of the campus, 2801 S. University Ave. Admission is free but it’s necessary to reserve seats in advance — visit tix.com/ticket-sales/ualrtheatre/5517. For more information, call (501) 916-3291 or email [email protected].
‘Sound of Music’
Arts One Presents offers a “unique semi-staged production” of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music” with a full 25-piece orchestra on stage, 7 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday at The Medium, 214 S. Main St., Springdale. Tickets are $25-$45, $15-$35 for youth 18 and younger, senior citizens 65-plus and veterans. Visit artsonepresents.org/the-sound-of-music-tickets.
ON THE PODIUM
Historic evening
University of Arkansas at Little Rock faculty members Kris McAbee (English department), Charles Romney (history department) and Larry Smith (theater arts department) will explore the intersection of history, storytelling and modern-day theater in an “Evenings with History” series talk titled “Playing with History: Community and the Contemporary Stage,” 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Ottenheimer Auditorium at Little Rock’s Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St. Admission is free. Visit ualr.edu/history/history-institute or email [email protected].
ETC.
STEAM donation
Summit Utilities has donated $20,000 to the Museum of Discovery to expand its STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) education programs for Arkansas Title I schools, in which at least 40% of students come from low-income families. A smaller, $5,000 donation from the utility company helped the museum reach more than 700 Title I students, according to a news release. Arkansas has more than 900 Title I schools.
A rhinestone-encrusted necklace and earring novelty set with parrots and flowers is part of the “Crimson Moon” exhibition opening this week at ESSE Museum and Store on Main Street in Little Rock. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Nancy Nolan)