Nationally Acclaimed Photographers Headline Fall Exhibitions at UA Little Rock – News

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Windgate Center of Art + Design (WCAD) will launch its fall 2026 season with a collection of photography-focused exhibitions, headlined by the internationally acclaimed artist Todd Hido. Showing from August by November, these reveals will characteristic famend photographers and discover the evolving course of latest image-making.

The season’s lead exhibition, Todd Hido’s A Series of Small Decisions, can be on view within the Brad Cushman Gallery. Hido, a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist, is internationally acknowledged for atmospheric pictures of suburban landscapes, houses, and interiors that discover reminiscence, isolation, and the emotional resonance of place. His work has appeared in publications together with The New York Times and Vanity Fair, and is held within the everlasting collections of main establishments together with the Guggenheim Museum, the Smithsonian, and the Whitney Museum of Art. The exhibit incorporates a collection of pictures that showcase his distinctive cinematic type and his means to remodel peculiar scenes into evocative visible narratives. 

Invictus: Photographs of Angela Strassheim may even be on view, featured within the Ann Maners and Alex Pappas Gallery. Strassheim is a recent photographer recognized for her psychologically charged portraits exploring household, reminiscence, and neighborhood. Drawing on her background in forensic images, she examines the traces individuals go away behind and the complicated tales inside on a regular basis environments. Invictus incorporates a collection of pictures that look at private histories and the intersection of identification, place, and expertise.

Intersection of Craft and Photography, a gaggle present within the North and South Galleries will characteristic artists who mix conventional craft strategies with photographic processes to create progressive works that blur the boundaries between mediums. The fall season may even host the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) South Central Chapter Conference on October 23 to 24 at WCAD. The SPE South Central Photography exhibition displayed within the Focus Gallery, is meant for his or her members and the UA Little Rock public to see the efforts of superior photographers. This exhibition will characteristic work from college students, educators, and impartial artists from Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. This exhibition can be juried by Brian Young, Gallery Director, UA Little Rock. As a part of the convention and exhibition actions, Hido will ship a public lecture at 3 p.m. on the 24 in Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall within the Fine Arts Building. The lecture is free and open to the general public. 

“For the fall of 2026, UA Little Rock aims to be the center of contemporary photography in the state and certainly among the leading venues in the Southeast,” mentioned Brian Young, WCAD gallery director. 

Featuring internationally acknowledged artists, rising voices, and interdisciplinary approaches, the UA Little Rock Fall 2026 exhibition presents a novel alternative to expertise a number of aspects of latest images. Together, the reveals foster a broader dialog in regards to the medium’s prospects. Across WCAD’s galleries, the autumn season showcases the vary of artistry shaping the medium at this time.