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Summer El-Shahawy
Summer El-Shahawy hails from Texas though she called Fayetteville, Arkansas her home while attending university. She is a graduate from the University of Arkansas with degrees in Anthropology and Arabic. In addition to her role as a contributing writer with The Idle Class, she also works as a content director with The Wezmore Project, a nonprofit focused on social and emotional learning for young people.
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A LIFE IN PIXELS: Artist Casey Bourke built her career with glitch-style paintings until a cancer diagnosis nearly derailed her. Now she’s rebuilding, one piece at a time.

WORDS / SUMMER EL-SHAHAWY PHOTOS / MEREDITH MASHBURN For Casey Bourke, also known as Printgurl, creating art is more than a hobby. She has ...
  • bySummer El-Shahawy
  • Jul 28, 2022
Writing

Writers’ Colony Fellowship awarded to Jami Nakamura Lin

Jami Nakamura Lin achieved a prestigious mental health fellowship through the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow. The fellowship is titled, �...
  • bySummer El-Shahawy
  • Oct 17, 2020
Art

“Ansel Adams in Our Time” comes to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Ansel Adams in Our Time, a photography exhibition, is now showing at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. In his 50-year career, Adams ca...
  • bySummer El-Shahawy
  • Oct 17, 2020
Events

ROCKIN’ for the Ribbon

Rockin’ for the Ribbon, a fundraiser for breast cancer awareness month, is scheduled from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18 at Moonbroch i...
  • bySummer El-Shahawy
  • Oct 17, 2020
Poetry

Greg Zeck’s First Published Poetry Collection

Greg Zeck’s release of Transitions, Early Poems, 1979-1989 marks his first published collection of poetry. The publication through Dead Wh...
  • bySummer El-Shahawy
  • Oct 12, 2020
Art

Q&A with Shelley Mouber, Board Member with Fenix Art Collective

How did you come to be a part of the gallery’s board? “I’d wanted to be involved with Fenix for a long time, but felt like I was lacki...
  • bySummer El-Shahawy
  • Sep 28, 2020
Art

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR

By now, we know Olivia Trimble as our artist in shining armor, here to save the day from hateful vandalism in Fayetteville. She is the brill...
  • bySummer El-Shahawy
  • Sep 25, 2020
Music

The Wendy Love Edge Show with Topher Kogen premieres fourth season with entertainment, education

Puff, pass and welcome to the Wendy Love Edge Show with Topher Kogen, Season 4 Episode 1, featuring Dr. Brian Nichol, Tonya Sanders, Hannah ...
  • bySummer El-Shahawy
  • Jul 21, 2020
Art

In the room where it happens: Dr. Austen Barron Bailly is appointed Chief Curator of Crystal Bridges

Officials at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art appointed Austen Barron Bailly as the chief curator of the museum. Beginning on July...
  • bySummer El-Shahawy
  • May 4, 2019
Art

Artist-in-Residence program opens at The Momentary

In an expansion of the visiting artist program at Crystal Bridges, The Momentary, a planned satellite for the museum, is launching an Artist...
  • bySummer El-Shahawy
  • Apr 17, 2019
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