The Baker House will be alive with art and music! Friday, March 20th 5pm till 8pm, experience the art of  featured artist Pepper Pepper while listening to the blues of Ms Charolette Taylor.

Vocalist and songwriter, Charlotte Taylor originally from Heber Springs, now Little Rock, Arkansas put together her first band,  Project Blue in 1993.  Taylor recorded a CD in West Memphis entitled "Taylor and Martinez" released in 2000 on Hi Records.  With great original songs that range from soul ballads to shuffling blues, a live show that includes funk and jazz, Charlotte and her band have performed at the International Blues Challenge, King Biscuit Blues Festival, Blues In the Natural State, The Riverwalk Bluesfest, Spa City Blues Festival, Blues Eureka, and were runners up in the Arkansas Times Musician's Showcase 2005. CTGR have performed at many clubs in the midsouth including on Beale St. at B.B. King's, The Rum Boogie Cafe, Blues Hall, King's Palace, and in Little Rock at Sticky Fingerz, Juanita's, the Underground Pub, and are regulars in NLR at Cornerstone and Parrot Beach Cafe. The group has opened for blues greats like The Holmes Brothers, Michael Burks, Guitar Shorty, John Lee Hooker Jr, Omar and the Howlers, Malford Milligan, Duwayne Burnside, Buckwheat Zydeco and more!

Pepper is celebrated for his romantic botanicals and brooding landscapes, Pepper Pepper's images echo pure beauty. His images of people, places, and things are far from ordinary.  Sometimes provocative, sometimes emotional, but always overflowing with drama!  His style has matured into a synthesis of photorealism and impressionism.  Images of a glowing fire inside a Romanesque church or the withered foliage of an aging prize rose are re-imagined through the kaleidoscopic layers in his work.  Stone and water, petal and silk invite the viewer to explore the relationship between light and shadow, space and composition.  Pepper Pepper's images are open doors that invite the viewer to pass through; a colorful and exciting journey always awaits.

The Arkansas Arts Council is inviting Arkansas artists to apply for FY 10 Individual Artist Fellowships.  Arkansas Arts Council artist fellowships are unconditional awards that recognize individual artistic ability. The three categories for this year are contemporary and traditional crafts, short stories and film and video.

Hank Kaminsky, Bethany Springer, and Michael Anderson were recipients  in 2008.

The Arts Council will award up to nine $4,000 fellowships in FY 10. The deadline for receiving applications is Friday, May 8, 2009.

To be eligible for fellowship awards, an artist must be at least 25 years of age and must have been an Arkansas resident for at least one year at the time of application. Previous fellowship recipients are not eligible to apply.

Historically, artists who have received fellowships demonstrate a career commitment to the art discipline for which they apply and have created a substantial body of work.

Fellowship applications are available online at

www.arkansasarts.org and directly from the Arts Council. For more information, contact Sally A. Williams, artist services manager, at (501) 324-9348, or via email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

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(LITTLE ROCK, AR) – Children ages 6-9 will discover the “World of Tomorrow” at the Arkansas Arts Center Museum School’s Junior Arts Academy.  Junior Arts Academy will be held June 8- 19, 2009, Monday- Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

This annual two- week summer camp combines fun theatre instruction with creative art projects.  Children will exercise their imaginations by making collages, working with clay, wood working, mask making, painting and more.  They will also learn basic theatre concepts including pantomime, improvisation and movement.