AMFA Unveils Plans for the 2024 Delta Triennial Exhibition

The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) announces the first Delta Triennial will be on view from June 14, 2024, through August 25, 2024, in the Harriet and Warren Stephens Family Gallery.

In 2024, the Delta Triennial will debut at the reimagined AMFA, bringing new art and artists to the historic exhibition every three years. The exhibition will be juried, with online submissions opening in January of 2024. Artists recommended by partner institutions will also be invited to participate in the Delta Triennial.

"There are artists all across this region who are essential figures in the national conversation on contemporary art, and we want to ensure the Delta Triennial represents a diverse range of their stories and perspectives,” said AMFA Curator Theresa Bembnister.

Additional details regarding the Delta Triennial submission process will be released in the coming months.

For more than 60 years, the Delta exhibition has heightened the visibility of artists living or working in Arkansas and its surrounding states: Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas.

Founded as a juried exhibition, the Delta is named after the fertile floodplains surrounding the Mississippi River and seeks to amplify artistic voices in the Mid-South as they reflect complex histories and shifts in the cultural landscape.

In recent years, the Delta exhibition has evolved from its original form as an annual juried exhibition into a collaborative series, Delta Voices: Artists of the Mid-South—made in partnership with museums across the region.

AMFA will continue to host annual Delta programming in the years between the Delta Triennial to support and advance the mission of the exhibition.

On July 13, 2023, Delta Voices will take place at the AMFA Performing Arts Theater from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. This year’s edition is a free event featuring curators from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Philbrook Museum of Art, and AMFA in conversation with captivating artists from the Mid-South region.

Participating artists include Anthony Sonnenberg (based in Fayetteville, Arkansas), selected by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts; Keli Mashburn (based in Fairfax, Oklahoma), selected by the Philbrook Museum of Art; Francisco Moreno (based in Dallas, Texas), selected by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art; and Zeke Peña (based in El Paso, Texas), selected by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Participating curators include Theresa Bembnister, from the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts; Kalyn Fay Barnoski, from the Philbrook Museum of Art; Maggie Adler, from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art; and Dr. Xuxa Rodríguez, from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Tickets to Delta Voices can be reserved on AMFA’s website.

Delta Voices is supported by Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP and the Andre Simon Memorial Trust Fund in memory of everyone who has died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).