Call for Submissions: 2026 Art from the Heart | Center for Faculty Excellence UAMS

Creative Works by Team UAMS

All team members of UAMS and their immediate family members are invited to submit their creative work for display at the annual 2026 Art from the Heart Event. All types creative works are welcome: drawings, poems, photography, sculptures, paintings, embroidery, woodworking, or ceramics.

UAMS staff, faculty, students, employees (from LR + NWA campuses), and their immediate family members are invited to participate.

Submission Guidelines
The deadline to submit for the Little Rock event has passed.

The deadline to submit for the NWA Campus event has been extended to Friday, March 13, 2026 at 5:00 pm
Use the form below to submit your work(s)
Limit 3 submissions per person
Submit works one at a time (one artwork per form submission)
NWA artists will be notified of their acceptance by March 20, 2026

Award Categories:

Best Use of Color
Most Inventive
Overall Strongest
People’s Choice

There will be an Art from the Heart reception at the NWA Campus and the Little Rock Campus!
Event Details:

Little Rock Campus
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2026
Drop off art: anytime between 12:00-2:00 PM
Event: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: UAMS Jack T. Stephens Spine Institute, 12th Floor

NWA Campus
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2026
Drop off art: anytime between 12:00-2:00 PM
Event: 4:00-6:00 PM
Location: UAMS Northwest Regional Campus – Lobby

Submit Your Work for Art from the Heart 2026

Complete this form to submit your work for the NWA Campus 2026 Art from the Heart event by Friday, March 13, 2026 at 5:00 pm The deadline to submit art for the Little Rock event has passed.

Name(Required)

First Last

Email(Required)

Enter Email Confirm Email

What is your role at UAMS?(Required)

Employee/Staff

Faculty

Student

Immediate Family Member

If you chose "Immediate Family Member" above, please enter the name of the UAMS staff/ student/ faculty here:(Required)

Check this box if you are participating with the NWA campus event

* NWA Campus submissions must be submitted by Friday, March 13. Submissions for the Little Rock event are no longer accepted.*

I am located in NWA

Project Type(Required)

Example: painting, drawing, photography, mosaic, poetry, woodworking, sculpture

Size(Required)

Please use inches (example: 8″ x 10″)

By checking the boxes below, artists acknowledge that:(Required)

Wall space for display is NOT available at this venue

Participants must provide their own easels

Display Requirement(Required)

If you chose "other" for Display Requirement, please explain here:

Submit an image of your art:

Or email to Samantha at snsmith2@uams.edu

Accepted file types: jpg, png, pdf, docx, Max. file size: 7 MB.

Artist Name(Required)

For display card

Title (of artwork)(Required)

Date Created(Required)

Examples: “2020” or “September 1987”

Location

Example: Little Rock, Arkansas

Medium(Required)

What materials were used? (examples: pastels, an iPhone camera, watercolors, acrylic, etc.)

LR Campus Only: I would like to donate my work to the GSA fundraiser

If you choose “yes,” event attendees will have the option to purchase your work at the price you choose, and the proceeds will go to the UAMS Graduate Student Association. Please send questions about this GSA Fundraiser to: LKAkana@uams.edu

Yes

Please set the price for your work here, all fundraising proceeds will go to the GSA:

Contact:
Samantha Smith
Center for Faculty Excellence, UAMS Academic Affairs
Art from the Heart Planning Committee
Email: snsmith2@uams.edu