October-November Art Exhibit: Robyn Hazard and Charles Peer
October 1 - November 30 2019
9 a.m. - 6 p.m. daily through Nov. 22
5 p.m. - 9 p.m. Nov. 23-30
Magnolia Room
Robin Hazard-
Born in Freeport, Texas, Robin Hazard has always been inspired by color as evident in her strong and vibrant paintings. A graduate of Southern Methodist University, her fine art degree focused on painting, drawing and printmaking.
She has exhibited throughout the U.S. and has been included in many corporate and private collections including the American Bank in Houston and the Cancer Treatment Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. Recently, several pieces of the historic Whittington Valley were selected for permanent collection at Camp Aldersgate, Little Rock, Arkansas. Her drawings were featured at the Kimbell Museum’s Creative Process - Drawing Symposium in 1983. She has also been included in the 500 Exposition in Dallas, the Dallas Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Dallas Life Magazine, and in many gallery exhibits. Her vibrant pastels have been featured in solo and group exhibits at the Baum Gallery of Fine Art at the University of Arkansas in Conway, St. Vincent Center for Women and Children, Garvan Woodland Gardens’ Plein Air Exhibitions, and Arts in the Air, at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, University of Arkansas, Morrilton, Arkansas. In the fall of 2008, she joined 16 artists currently exhibiting in Hot Springs for an exceptional exhibit in Shanghai, China, sponsored by the Chinese Government. Her work is currently represented by Boswell Mourot Fine Art in Little Rock, Arkansas, Boswell Mourot Fine Art in Miami, Gallery Central, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Cerulean Galler in Amarillos, Texas, Latitudes, Rockport, Texas and Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, Texas.
Charles Peer-
After receiving his MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arkansas in 1979, Charles Peer opened his studio on the historic Main Street of his hometown, Van Buren, Arkansas. In 1990, he and his family moved to Siloam Springs, Arkansas, where he assumed a teaching position in the Department of Visual Arts at John Brown University, a position which he still holds. In addition to serving as professor he is also the university’s Fine Arts Gallery director.
Peer is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America and the Ozark Pastel Society. He has served as a guest artist for many arts organizations, the juror for regional competitions and the leader of pastel workshops.
He was recently included in the October/November 2016 issue of Pratique des Arts, a beautiful art magazine published in France, in an article titled “To Be Discovered” and in the December 2015 issue of Pastel Journal Magazine in an article titled “Artists to Watch”. His work was included in numerous juried exhibitions sponsored by the Pastel Society of America and the International Association of Pastel Societies, as well as receiving awards in the Richeson 75 exhibits for Small Works and for Landscapes, shows held by the Northwest Pastel Society, the Pastel Society of the Southwest, the Arkansas Pastel Society, The Heart of America Artists Association, the Ozark Pastel Society and the Artists of Northwest Arkansas. Peer was recognized with the Purchase Award at the Rockefeller Institute Professional Artist Invitational in 2010 and selected for the 2015 “Oklahoma Impressionism Exhibition” at Tulsa, OK’s Zarrow Center for Art and Education. In 2010 he was also selected as the summer Artists-in-Residence for the Buffalo National River.
Art Exhibits in the Magnolia Room are free and open to the public during regular operating hours.
