Highlighting Established, Up-And-Coming Mid South Artists
The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas is home to the Irene Rosenzweig Biennial Juried Exhibition.
The prestigious show — funded by an endowment by the notable Pine Bluff resident — is an opportunity for established and up-and-coming artists to gain recognition and earn prizes, and for ASC to grow its Permanent Collection.
The exhibition is open to artists 18 and older in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. Artwork in the following forms are accepted: Paintings, drawings, original prints, fiber art, ceramics, sculpture, and photography.
The following prizes are awarded:
The exhibition is supported in part by The Arts & Science Center Endowment Fund and the Irene Rosenzweig Endowment Fund
For questions about the Irene Rosenzweig Juried Exhibition, please contact Visitor Relations Coordinator Matthew Howard at mhoward@artx3.org.
Irene Rosenzweig was born in Pine Bluff on July 26, 1903, to Pauline Sarason-Rosenzweig and William M. Rosenzweig. Her father — an immigrant from Lithuania — opened the Good Luck Store (later Rosenzweig’s Department Store) in Pine Bluff. It was the city’s largest mercantile and farm supply store.
Her family home, a Queen Anne Victorian-style at 717 W. Second Ave—now known as the Roth-Rosenzweig-Lambert House—was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Rosenzweig, who graduated from high school first in her class in 1920, earned an undergraduate degree in classical studies from Washington University in St. Louis.
She earned a doctoral degree from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. The American Academy in Rome awarded Rosenzweig the 1930 Prix de Rome Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology. During her time as a fellow in Rome, she advanced research for her dissertation—published in 1937 as Ritual and Cults of Pre-Roman Iguvium: With an Appendix Giving the Text of Iguvine Tablets.
Afterward, Rosenzweig tutored President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s family members during their time in the White House. Rosenzweig also taught Latin at the Madeira school, a private preparatory school for girls, in Virginia.
She was fluent in French, German, Spanish, Latin, and Greek.
The Rosenzweig juried show has a long history with The Arts & Science Center, beginning with a gift from the Irene Rosenzweig Foundation in 1992. Rosenzweig died at age 94 on October 8, 1997, in Pine Bluff. She left a gift to ASC, The Irene Rosenzweig Endowment Fund, which supports the exhibition in her name and includes purchase awards for the center’s Permanent Collection.
