LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) \u2014 A new art exhibit honoring iconic Arkansas musicians is coming to the Argenta Plaza.<\/p>\n
The City of North Little Rock unveiled new plans today for the ATG pavilion.<\/p>\n
It’ll be a public, outdoor exhibit housing 21 large-scale bronze sculptures of famous Arkansas musicians…Including Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Al Green, and Glen Campbell.<\/p>\n
Project organizers say it’s all about celebrating Arkansas’s historic influence on American music, and strengthening regional identity.<\/p>\n
“The state of Arkansas I think pound for pound, I don’t know if another state can touch it as far as the breadth of genres that this state has produced world class musicians that have influenced the world,” says Kevin Kreese, a sculptor who worked on each display included in the exhibit.<\/p>\n
“From blues gospel, ragtime, classical music, country, it goes on and on.”<\/p>\n
The central sculpture will be of music legend and Kingsland native Johnny Cash, identical to the one recently installed in the national statuary hall of the U.S. capitol.<\/p>\n
Organizers are expected to break ground on the project next spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) \u2014 A new art exhibit honoring iconic Arkansas musicians is coming to the Argenta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[6386,6382,365,362,363,364,6384,366,18,117,6387,19,17,6389,6383,6388,6385],"class_list":{"0":"post-6263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-al-green","9":"tag-arkansas-musicians","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-artsdesign","14":"tag-bronze-sculptures","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-eire","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-glen-campbell","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-johnny-cash","22":"tag-public-art-exhibit","23":"tag-regional-identity","24":"tag-sister-rosetta-tharpe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}