CONWAY, Ark. (September 15, 2014) – Hendrix
College art professor Maxine Payne, a photographic installation artist, will be
honored by the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts
at a reception this Saturday evening from 5 – 7 p.m. at The Patio Café at 1152 Front Street, south of campus. The casual event is free. The public is
invited.
Payne will share insights from her recent collaboration
on an international art project, the vision behind her book, Making
Pictures: Three for a Dime, and her current project of making 10-cent pictures
in her homemade photo-trailer.
The Arkansas Committee selected Payne as the 2013
Scholar Awardee for her project “Rural Women and Globalization.” The
project documented rural women’s lives using oral history and photography in
five sites: San Luis, Costa Rica; Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora on
the United States-Mexico border; Bagamoyo, Tanzaia; Vinh Linh, Vietnam; and in
rural Arkansas.
Project portraits and interviews will be exhibited at
the Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, October 29 –
December 02, 2014. The program includes information about the Arkansas
Committee and its educational programs for Arkansas women artists.
Payne earned a bachelor's degree in art at the University of
Central Arkansas and her master’s and M.F.A. degrees in photography at the
University of Iowa. She currently serves as the Judy and Randy
Wilbourn Odyssey Professor of Art at Hendrix College. Payne has shown
work in numerous solo and group exhibitions and her work is featured in
permanent and private collections. Her work can be seen at www.MaxinePayne.com.
The Arkansas Committee of NMWA was founded in 1989 to
ensure that female artists in Arkansas have the opportunity to present their
work to audiences and to help them find mutual support through the Committee
and other female artists. The Arkansas Committee has since been
responsible for over 15 exhibitions featuring the work of Arkansas women
artists and has awarded 13 scholarships and eight internships to emerging female
artists and art students. The Arkansas Committee has sponsored Arkansas
artist exhibits at the national museum in Washington, D.C. For more information
about the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts
visit acnmwa.org.
Founded in
1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences
education. This year, Hendrix was named the country’s #1 “Up and Coming”
liberal arts colleges by U.S. News and
World Report. Hendrix is featured in
the 2015 Fiske Guide to Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of
America's Top Colleges, the
2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378
Colleges, and the latest edition of Colleges That
Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the
United Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.