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CONWAY, Ark. (September 15, 2014) – ���ϲ����� College art professor Maxine Payne, a photographic installation artist, will be honored by the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts at a reception this Saturday evening from 5 – 7 p.m. at The Patio Café at 1152 Front Street, south of campus. The casual event is free. The public is invited.  

Payne will share insights from her recent collaboration on an international art project, the vision behind her book, Making Pictures: Three for a Dime, and her current project of making 10-cent pictures in her homemade photo-trailer.

The Arkansas Committee selected Payne as the 2013 Scholar Awardee for her project “Rural Women and Globalization.” The project documented rural women’s lives using oral history and photography in five sites: San Luis, Costa Rica; Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora on the United States-Mexico border; Bagamoyo, Tanzaia; Vinh Linh, Vietnam; and in rural Arkansas.  

Project portraits and interviews will be exhibited at the Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, October 29 – December 02, 2014. The program includes information about the Arkansas Committee and its educational programs for Arkansas women artists.

Payne earned a bachelor's degree in art at the University of Central Arkansas and her master’s and M.F.A. degrees in photography at the University of Iowa. She currently serves as the Judy and Randy Wilbourn Odyssey Professor of Art at ���ϲ�����. Payne has shown work in numerous solo and group exhibitions and her work is featured in permanent and private collections.  Her work can be seen at .

The Arkansas Committee of NMWA was founded in 1989 to ensure that female artists in Arkansas have the opportunity to present their work to audiences and to help them find mutual support through the Committee and other female artists. The Arkansas Committee has since been responsible for over 15 exhibitions featuring the work of Arkansas women artists and has awarded 13 scholarships and eight internships to emerging female artists and art students. The Arkansas Committee has sponsored Arkansas artist exhibits at the national museum in Washington, D.C. For more information about the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts visit acnmwa.org.

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