Not only does Doug Waterfield serve as chair of the Department of Art and Design and assistant professor of art at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, he is also an artist and filmmaker.
During the last few months Waterfield has been the guest artist at several regional and state-wide art galleries and has had a film screened at a variety of film festivals in and out-of-state.
Waterfield was the featured artist for the month of March at the Cox Creative Gallery in Little Rock. He recently offered a painting demonstration and presentation during the opening reception of his show at the Gallery.
A screening of his film “Arkansas Portraits: A Look at Art Made by Arkansans,” will be offered at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 2, in celebration of Arkansas Heritage Month. The screening will be held in the lecture room of the Brinson Fine Arts Building on the University campus. A brief question and answer session with Waterfield will follow the screening.
His film will also be screened in the Indie Showcase of the Ozark Foothills Film Fest. It will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 8, in Independence Hall at the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville.
Waterfield will then hold a question and answer session immediately following the film.
This film premiered in Heber Springs last October and was featured in the Magnolia Film Festival in Starkville, Miss., in February 2006. The film, Waterfield’s second documentary, examines the lives and art of artists who are both from Arkansas and who worked primarily in the Natural State.
Included are segments on Carroll Cloar, Louis and Elsie Freund, Leon Niehues (declared an Arkansas Living Treasure in 2005), and Paul Maxwell.
This documentary film was made possible by a research grant from SAU and was distributed to every county library in the state.
