This work will be part of "Art
in the Time of Chaos" a three person exhibition: Stephen
Driver, Louise Halsey & Dominique Simmons. On view at
the Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock AR from June 14-Sept.15,
2024
200 E 3rd St, Little Rock, AR 72201
A tapestry “Ozark Switchbacks,”
a wedge weave diptych, was commissioned for The Ledger Building
https://ledgerbentonville.com/
in Bentonville AR This boardroom "The Halsey" is available
to rent.
Louise Halsey had her piece "What
Lies Beneath" accepted in the Fort Smith Annual Invitational,
"Odyssey", on view 1601 Rogers Avenue, Ft Smith AR,, April
29-July 30, 2023
American Tapestry Biennial
13, Highfield Hall & Gardens, Falmouth MA January-March
2021 & San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San
Jose CA July-October 2021
The Historic Arkansas Museum
200 E 3rd St, Little Rock, AR 72201 purchased "Crackhouse
II" for their permanent collection.
Work by Louise Halsey is featured
in each of these two books out now and both are available
on Amazon.
A large rya fabric strip wall hanging inspired by a painting
by my mother, Corrie McCallum, is currently on view at the
South Carolina State Museum. The painting that was my inspiration
is also in the exhibition and both
works are part of the SC State Museum's permanent collection.
A doll "Luisa Centavo" by Louise
Halsey is now in the permanent collection of the Fort Smith
Regional Art Museum in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, given by Penny
Packard.
A woven wall hanging by Louise Halsey of cotton
and mixed fibers in a rya technique, "Four Seasons"
is now in the permanent collection of the South Carolina
State Museum, Columbia, SC.
Look in the October/November of American Craft
in the Wide World of Craft to read about crafts in Arkansas.
Louise Halsey and her husband, Steve Driver are mentioned
in the section about the Ozarks. craftcouncil.org/magazine/article/arkansas
