Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Crystal Bridges and the Momentary are committed to addressing the urgent issues of our time. As we look for a path forward, we want to provide a space for civil discourse, offer historical perspectives, lift up marginalized voices, and carry forth the work of promoting equality.
“In Real Time” is a series of live, virtual programs formed in response to current events affecting our community at large.
On February 22, 2021, this community circle featured local leaders reflecting on the question “Where do we go from here?” after the Capitol Hill insurrection led by hate groups on January 6, 2021. The group discusses how they’ve seen our region impacted and why education matters in informing and empowering people while also preventing dangerous ideologies in Northwest Arkansas. How can art in the community play a role in education and truth telling? How can access to education lead to dismantling racism, white supremacy, and power inequities locally and at the state level?
This community circle features: artist and educator Zora J Murff, Northwest Arkansas NAACP President/Archer Learning Center principal Dr. Coby Davis, and Diana Dominguez, Community Liaison for the Fayetteville Public Library, and facilitator Anthony DiNicola, Inclusion Liaison, University of Arkansas’s Chancellor Office on Diversity and Inclusion matters.
Click here to watch more “In Real Time” events: bit.ly/CBMO-InRealTime
Visit our website to learn more: CrystalBridges.org/In-Real-Time
ABOUT DR. COBY DAVIS
Dr. Coby Davis serves as the President of the Northwest Arkansas NAACP chapter. He has spent eight years in the Springdale School District, including three as a math teacher at Sonora Middle School before becoming an instructional facilitator for a year, then assistant principal and now principal at the Archer Learning Center. Davis is a graduate of Freed-Hardeman University. He earned his master’s degree from Tennessee State and his doctorate from Trevecca Nazarene. He taught for five years in the Williamson County (Tennessee) school system before teaching for nine years in the education department at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee.
ABOUT DIANA DOMINGUEZ
Diana Dominguez (She/Her/Ella) is the Multicultural Community Liaison under the department of Community Engagement at the Fayetteville Public Library. Outside of the library, her community involvement extends to immigrant advocacy and workers’ rights. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Secondary English Education at Missouri State University.
ABOUT ZORA J MURFF
Zora J Murff is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas. He received his MFA from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln and holds a BS in Psychology from Iowa State University. Merging his educational experiences, Murff uses his practice to highlight intersections between various social systems and art. He has published books with Aint-Bad Editions (PULLED FROM PUBLISHER) and Kris Graves Projects. His most recent monograph, At No Point In Between (Dais Books), was selected as the winner of the Independently Published category of the Lucie Foundation Photo Book Awards. Murff is also a Co-Curator of Strange Fire Collective, a group of interdisciplinary artists, writers, and curators working to construct and promote an archive of artwork created by diverse makers. Visit his website here: zora-murff.com
ABOUT ANTHONY DINICOLA
Anthony DiNicola is an experienced diversity and inclusion educator who currently serves at the University of Arkansas inclusion liaison for the Chancellor’s Office on matters of diversity and inclusion. DiNicola has served as the senior educator and marketing coordinator at Catharsis Productions since 2012, where he led comprehensive trainings in corporate, military and university settings, including trainings on protected class bias, cultivating inclusive workplaces and other diversity and inclusion topics. Additionally, he delivered sexual assault prevention programming to students at universities such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Texas A&M and Tulane University. DiNicola earned a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College in Maine.
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Crystal Bridges and the Momentary are committed to addressing the urgent issues of our time. As we look for a path forward, we want to provide a space for civil discourse, offer historical perspectives, lift up marginalized voices, and carry forth the work of promoting equality.
“In Real Time” is a series of live, virtual programs formed in response to current events affecting our community at large.
On February 22, 2021, this community circle featured local leaders reflecting on the question “Where do we go from here?” after the Capitol Hill insurrection led by hate groups on January 6, 2021. The group discusses how they’ve seen our region impacted and why education matters in informing and empowering people while also preventing dangerous ideologies in Northwest Arkansas. How can art in the community play a role in education and truth telling? How can access to education lead to dismantling racism, white supremacy, and power inequities locally and at the state level?
This community circle features: artist and educator Zora J Murff, Northwest Arkansas NAACP President/Archer Learning Center principal Dr. Coby Davis, and Diana Dominguez, Community Liaison for the Fayetteville Public Library, and facilitator Anthony DiNicola, Inclusion Liaison, University of Arkansas’s Chancellor Office on Diversity and Inclusion matters.
Click here to watch more “In Real Time” events: bit.ly/CBMO-InRealTime
Visit our website to learn more: CrystalBridges.org/In-Real-Time
ABOUT DR. COBY DAVIS
Dr. Coby Davis serves as the President of the Northwest Arkansas NAACP chapter. He has spent eight years in the Springdale School District, including three as a math teacher at Sonora Middle School before becoming an instructional facilitator for a year, then assistant principal and now principal at the Archer Learning Center. Davis is a graduate of Freed-Hardeman University. He earned his master’s degree from Tennessee State and his doctorate from Trevecca Nazarene. He taught for five years in the Williamson County (Tennessee) school system before teaching for nine years in the education department at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee.
ABOUT DIANA DOMINGUEZ
Diana Dominguez (She/Her/Ella) is the Multicultural Community Liaison under the department of Community Engagement at the Fayetteville Public Library. Outside of the library, her community involvement extends to immigrant advocacy and workers’ rights. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Secondary English Education at Missouri State University.
ABOUT ZORA J MURFF
Zora J Murff is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas. He received his MFA from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln and holds a BS in Psychology from Iowa State University. Merging his educational experiences, Murff uses his practice to highlight intersections between various social systems and art. He has published books with Aint-Bad Editions (PULLED FROM PUBLISHER) and Kris Graves Projects. His most recent monograph, At No Point In Between (Dais Books), was selected as the winner of the Independently Published category of the Lucie Foundation Photo Book Awards. Murff is also a Co-Curator of Strange Fire Collective, a group of interdisciplinary artists, writers, and curators working to construct and promote an archive of artwork created by diverse makers. Visit his website here: zora-murff.com
ABOUT ANTHONY DINICOLA
Anthony DiNicola is an experienced diversity and inclusion educator who currently serves at the University of Arkansas inclusion liaison for the Chancellor’s Office on matters of diversity and inclusion. DiNicola has served as the senior educator and marketing coordinator at Catharsis Productions since 2012, where he led comprehensive trainings in corporate, military and university settings, including trainings on protected class bias, cultivating inclusive workplaces and other diversity and inclusion topics. Additionally, he delivered sexual assault prevention programming to students at universities such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Texas A&M and Tulane University. DiNicola earned a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College in Maine.
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