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Artspace Projects to come to LR (with correction)

Artspace Projects Inc., a nonprofit that develops affordable spaces for artists and has already met with creatives in four Northwest Arkansas cities, will hold a public meeting in Little Rock to evaluate the needs here.
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"Perfectly Purple Pie" takes the prize at Mosaic Templars

Celebrity judges at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center’s sixth annual “Say It Ain’t Say’s” sweet potato pie contest on Sunday awarded first place to Kelli Marks of Cathead’s Diner for her “Perfectly Purple Pie,” and second place to Anne Woods of Honey Pies for her “Bubba’s Sweet Potato Meringue Pie.”
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Say, it's sweet potato pie contest time again!

An ingredient that shaped Little Rock's culture for years was Robert "Say" McIntosh's famous sweet potato pies. The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center pays homage to Say and his pies with its annual "Say It Ain't Say's" sweet potato pie baking contest, now in its fifth year.

'Treasured Memories': Check them out at Mosaic Templars

Aj Smith's portrait of Dr. Joycelyn Elders is just one of several great works of art you can see now at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center at Ninth and Broadway. The museum uses Natural & Cultural Resources Council grants to build a collection of work by African American artists, most (if not all) of whom have an Arkansas connection.
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Black Lives Matter T-shirts no longer for sale at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. Will they be restocked?

Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen alerted me yesterday that Black Lives Matter T-shirts, once banished and then returned to the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, are no longer for sale at the state's museum of the African-American experience.

Another departure from Heritage Department; Stacy Hurst fires Delta Cultural Center leader

Several sources have informed the Arkansas Times that Department of Arkansas Heritage Director Stacy Hurst traveled to Helena yesterday to fire Katie Harrington, the director and long-time employee of the Delta Cultural Center.
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Elliott slows Heritage budget over building

Sen. Joyce Elliott of Little Rock put a hold yesterday on the budget of the state Heritage Department because of questions about the fate of the historic building next door to the state's Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, a museum of the black experience Arkansas.

The Kinsey Collection coming Friday to Mosaic Templars

The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, Ninth and Broadway, opens “African American Treasures from the Kinsey Collection,” art, artifacts and documents amassed by Bernard and Shirley Kinsey, on Friday, April 8. There will be a reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. that evening with music by the Rodney Block Collective.
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Judge Griffen: Why black lives matter

Another few words from Judge Wendell Griffen growing from the controversy over the sale of Black Lives Matter T-shirts at the state black history museum — removed by the administration and restored after protests from Griffen and others stirred by a story in the Arkansas Times:

Black Lives DO Matter: T-shirts return to Little Rock museum

The Department of Arkansas Heritage has decided to return Black Lives Matter T-shirts to the store of the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in Little Rock.
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Black Lives Matter. Though maybe not so much in Little Rock

A few footnotes on David Koon's report last night that the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, a tribute to the African-American experience in the state, had been directed by a state department bureaucrat appointed in the Hutchinson administration to remove a Black Lives Matter T-shirt from the museum gift lineup.

Delita Martin to speak at Mosaic Templars

Delita Martin, who combines printmaking with sewn fabric to create larger-than-life iconic portraits, will give a talk Friday, March 11, at the  Mosaic Templars Cultural Center about her exhibit there.
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