4th Quarter Preservation Conversations

Join the QQA for these FREE and open to the public lectures every second Thursday of the month.

October 10, 2019: Historic Hardware with Mike Smith

Mike Smith, Secretary of the Antique Doorknob Collectors of America,shares the history of the study and collection of antique ornamental hardware, especially doorknobs, as well as artifacts from his collection.

Event Info: 

When: October 10, 2019
Where: Mixing Room at the Old Paint Factory in the East Village,1306 East 6th Street, 72202
What Time: 5:30 pm (reception); 6:00 pm (lecture)
RSVP: The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please RSVP .
Parking: There is parking directly in front of the doors that are marked “live”, “print”, “meet." If those spots are taken. park in the parking lot to the right. There is also street parking in front of the building.
Entrance: Enter the event space through the door facing 6th Street marked "Meet."
Questions? Call 501-371-0075 ext. 3 or email qqa@quapaw.com

November14: Weatherizing Your Historic Building

A discussion on effective measures to weatherize historic buildings. Weatherization means implementing cost-effective measuresto make a building's envelope more energy efficient. Weatherizing a historic building requires undertaking
those measuresinwaysthat have minimal impact on the historic buildings design and materials.

Event Info:  

When: November 10, 2019
Where: Mixing Room at the Old Paint Factory in the East Village,1306 East 6th Street, 72202
What Time: 5:30 pm (reception); 6:00 pm (lecture)
RSVP: The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please RSVP .
Parking: There is parking directly in front of the doors that are marked “live”, “print”, “meet." If those spots are taken. park in the parking lot to the right. There is also street parking in front of the building.
Entrance: Enter the event space through the door facing 6th Street marked "Meet."
Questions? Call 501-371-0075 ext. 3 or email qqa@quapaw.com

December12: Race and Housing: How Urban Renewal Changed the Landscapes of Little Rock by John Kirk, PhD.

Dr. John Kirk, George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor ofHistory and director of the Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, shares findings of his research on the impact of
Urban Renewal policies on Little Rock's built environment.

John Kirk, PhD Bio: 

Dr. John A. Kirk is the George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His research focuses primarily on the history of the civil rights movement. He has published eight books and his ninth, an edited and annotated collection of primary documents titled The Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary Reader (New York: Wiley) will be published in early 2020. Kirk has also published in a wide variety of journals, edited book collections, newspapers, and magazines, and he has held a number of grants and fellowships in both Europe and the United States, including at the Roosevelt Study Centre (Middleburg, The Netherlands), the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library (Boston), and the Rockefeller Archive Center (New York).

Event Info: 

When: December 12, 2019
Where: Mixing Room at the Old Paint Factory in the East Village,1306 East 6th Street, 72202
What Time: 5:30 pm (reception); 6:00 pm (lecture)
RSVP: The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please RSVP .
Parking: There is parking directly in front of the doors that are marked “live”, “print”, “meet." If those spots are taken. park in the parking lot to the right. There is also street parking in front of the building.
Entrance: Enter the event space through the door facing 6th Street marked "Meet."
Questions? Call 501-371-0075 ext. 3 or email qqa@quapaw.com