Make your plans to attend a tour in the near future. It will be the first Sunday of each month at 2 PM. Thinking that “once I have visited, I do not need to do so again” is misleading as the display of art in the museum changes regularly. 

What you see today may be different in two months. 

Come and enjoy often!

The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) is collaborating with the UA Little Rock Interpreter Education Program (IEP) to provide communication access for guided tours. The first Sunday of each month at 2 PM, docents provide an interpreted tour of the AMFA at no cost. The IEP schedules the certified interpreters for the tours and invites students of the program to join the Deaf Community and observe and participate in the process and interaction of the Deaf Community throughout the tour.

The residents of Little Rock, Arkansas voted in 2016 to sponsor a hotel tax where portions of the funds were ear-marked for the renovations of the Arkansas Arts Center, a collection of eight buildings that seemed to be unrelated and disconnected. 

In 2021 the temporary closure of the Arkansas Arts Center allowed for the redesign led by Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Studio Gang created a design to join all the buildings together in a very open concept, with natural lighting enhancing the structure, inside and out. When the museum reopened its doors late Summer 2023, it did so with a name change to the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts.

Chris Revelle, Director of Community Engagement, reached out to the IEP to see how AMFA may become a regular place to visit by individuals of the Deaf Community. This challenge was accepted by the IEP and coordination of interpreters to be available monthly and allow students to observe and interpret began in September. 

The initial interpreted tour was well attended by approximately 15 members of the Deaf Community and approximately ten students from the program. October proved to be a smaller crowd but well attended and allowed for more interaction between the Deaf Community and the docent guiding the tour.