University of Arkansas
The Fine Arts Center was designed by Fayetteville native Edward Durell Stone, who also designed Radio City Music Hall and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The buildings are indicative of Stone's idiosyncratic modern style which included patterns of ornament. Stone also designed a fraternity house, now used for academic purposes, and an apartment complex named Carlson Terrace on campus, which has since been demolished.
Rodney Mims Cook Jr.
Cook was involved in the creation of the Carnegie-Cook Center for the Arts (formally called Plum Orchard Center for the Arts) to be located on Cumberland Island, Georgia with his friend John F. Kennedy Jr. The premature death of JFK Jr., a fellow board member, ended this project. Cook spoke at his funeral in July 1999.