ARCHIVES

BAM ARCHIVES ( 2015 -  )

EXPLORING THE BAM COLLECTION

June 27th - August 28, 2024

The exhibition Exploring the BAM Collection is a tribute to the late Evan Lindquist and Cheryl Wall Trimarchi. Lindquist is a central figure in the history of art at Arkansas State University, where he taught from 1963 until his retirement in 2003. In 1996, Lindquist launched the Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, which has been held annually ever since. Curt and Chucki Bradbury honor Lindquist annually by giving prints from the DNSPE exhibitions, several of which are in this exhibition. The late Cheryl Wall Trimarchi was an artist who lived in Jonesboro and contributed funds to add numerous outstanding prints from Delta National Small Print Exhibitions to the BAM collection. 

Lindquist’s engravings are beautiful examples of this medium he championed when it was rarely practiced. In 1969, he began a series of elegant engravings examining such abstract concepts as Identity, Tension, and Consciousness, through graceful images of twisted strings or threads. Lindquist continued to make prints until his passing in 2023. His gifts to the BAM collection demonstrate that Lindquist was also a knowledgeable and sensitive print collector with strong connections to his fellow art professors.