The Central Arkansas Collective invites you to attend a free artist talk featuring accomplished artist Joli Levaudais during the first Friday Conway ArtWalk. She will be giving a presentation at the Arnold Innovation Center at 1201 Oak Street in Conway at 6 PM on June 7th, 2024.

She currently has work on display at The Central Arkansas Collective gallery at 1120 Oak Street in Conway, open Thur. & Fri. from 11-1 PM and Saturday from 10-4 PM.

The event is sponsored by Centennial Bank in collaboration with The Creative Institute of Central Arkansas and The Arkansas Conductor.

Visit www.CentralARCollective.com for more!

About the artist:

Joli Livaudais received her BA and MS in Experimental Psychology from the University of Texas at Arlington and her MFA from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana in 2013. She is currently an Associate Professor and head of the Photography program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her fine art photography explores both historical photographic processes and contemporary alternative methods, including gum bichromate printing, photo sculpture and installation, and incorporates her interest in both psychology and spirituality. Her artwork was exhibited in the “Paper Routes--Women to Watch 2020” exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, and she was featured as a historical process gum bichromate artist in Christina Anderson’s text on the process, Gum Printing: A Step-By-Step Manual, Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice, published in 2016.