View of Fine Arts Center taken from the northwest of the Centers Sculpture court. The Fine Arts Center was designed by world famous architect (and Fayetteville native) Edward Durell Stone. (PC1103 in the Picture Collection, also available in the Shared History Digital Project.)
Mark Wilcken, a producer at the Arkansas Educational Television Network in Little Rock, is releasing a 55-minute documentary, Clean Lines, Open Spaces: A View of Mid-Century Modern Architecture, that explores Arkansas architecture by presenting the best examples of modernism from around the state. Special collections had the opportunity to assist Wilcken and his fellow researchers as they assembled material for the project.
Buildings featured in the film include those designed by prominent Arkansas architects whose papers are housed in special collections. The papers of Fay Jones, Edward Durell Stone, and Warren Segraves were consulted for the project, as well as other resources available in special collections, such as university records and Razorback yearbooks.
The film has already been shown at the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library in Jonesboro and the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock.
Northwest Arkansas residents will have two opportunities to view the film before the AETN television premiere on November 14 at 9 p.m. The film will be screened at the University of Arkansas Global Campus in Fayetteville on October 9 from 2 to 4 p.m., and at the Fort Smith Public Library in Fort Smith on October 23 from 2 to 4 p.m. Wilcken will attend all of the screenings. For more information on the film, read the Newswire article.
For more information on the architectural resources available in special collections, please contact Architectural Records Archivist Catherine Wallack, cwallack@uark.edu, or visit the department in Mullins Library.