For Thea Foundation's partnership with the Arkansas Arts Center for its virtual 62nd Annual Delta Exhibition, we've decided to focus on selected artists who also work as educators. It’s often we find that working artists also support their livelihood by sharing their knowledge and talent pedagogically. With arts education at the core of Thea Foundation’s mission, we're proud to highlight artist Brian Bundren, who also works as an art professor at Freed-Hardeman University (FH

Beginning in 2014, Thea Foundation initiated partnerships with cultural institutions and arts organizations to amplify existing arts programming in schools. Currently, Arts Reconstruction is our focused effort to help teachers receive professional development. By providing training in new visual arts mediums, Thea Foundation helps enhance lesson planning and subsequently, gives students further exposure to ways in which they can create. In conjunction with the professional de

For the first time ever, we hosted Thea’s Visual Arts Scholarship Competition completely online. Due to the pandemic, the deadline was also extended, but we’ve officially selected ten winners from the 170 Arkansas high school seniors who submitted their art for consideration. This year’s theme is “Brilliant, radiant, overcoming the senses” and our judges had a difficult time narrowing down their selections because of all of the strong submissions we received. We are happy to