ABOUT

The mission of Bradbury Art Museum is to holistically support the arts and art education our community by hosting rotating exhibitions from both local and national contemporary artists alongside accessible arts programming.


Bradbury Art Museum (BAM) is a contemporary art space on the campus of Arkansas State University. As the only art museum in northeast Arkansas, we believe in supporting the arts and art education in our region through a “whole body” approach. This means:

  • Exhibiting art from renowned contemporary artists whose work would otherwise be inaccessible to many community members and providing exhibition opportunities to the artists living and working in our community

  • Providing accessible programming free of charge within the museum walls and taking art programming out of the museum into community spaces

  • Organizing cross-campus collaborations for Arkansas State University students to enrich their educational experience and creating professional opportunities for art students after they graduate

  • Listening when our community tells us what they want to see and getting to share contemporary artistic innovations they never expected to see 

In addition to our five gallery spaces, Bradbury Art Museum is home to BAM Studio, an arts education space where year-round workshops are offered for visitors and community members.

Additionally, Bradbury Art Museum is the site at which the annual Delta National Small Prints Exhibition (DNSPE) is held. DNSPE is a renowned juried exhibition of contemporary printmaking founded in 1996 by master engraver Evan Lindquist. Each year, artists from across the country and around the world apply. Purchase award winners are added to the museum’s permanent collection of small prints, which spans the three decades of the exhibition’s history. 

Bradbury Art Museum is located in Fowler Center at 201 Olympic Drive. Our hours are 12-5pm Tuesday through Saturday. We are closed between exhibitions and when campus is closed.

See you soon.

HISTORY

Formerly known as Bradbury Gallery, the museum was established in January of 2001 by Curt Bradbury, who provided an endowment in honor of his wife, Charlotte – an alumna of A-State and a former member of the University's Board of Trustees. In August of 2015, the gallery was reestablished as a museum to better reflect its scope and purpose of teaching, presenting and collecting. Along with the name change, the space expanded from a one room gallery to a five-gallery exhibition space.