Pyramid Art Books & Custom Framing

Specialties

We can order ANY book in print! Check out our vast collection of fiction, black studies, children’s, and motivational books! Teachers, Pyramid is a registered LRSD, NLRSD, and PCCSD vendor. Let us help you enhance your classroom libraries!

History

Established in 1988.

In 1988, the Archie and Garbo Hearne combined their passion for African American culture and history with their entrepreneurial spirit to open Pyramid Gallery. In January 1989, Pyramid Gallery relocated from a 600 square foot storefront to a much larger venue in the Madison Guaranty Bank Building on Little Rock’s Main Street. Over the next eight years, Pyramid Gallery and Books served as a community space: hosting book signings, art exhibitions and demonstrations, and other cultural and community enrichment programs. In 1997, nine years after establishing Pyramid Gallery and Books as the première place for art by Americans of African descent in Arkansas, Archie and Garbo had the unique opportunity to design a completely new space within the Museum Center in the River Market District. In 2010, Hearne Family Practice and Hearne Fine Art opened its doors at 1001 Wright Avenue in the historic Dunbar neighborhood.

Meet the Business Owner

Garbo H.

Business Owner

Garbo Watson Hearne is the owner of Hearne Fine Art and Pyramid Art, Books & Custom Framingr in the historic Dunbar neighborhood. Hearne, a native of El Dorado, Arkansas, attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville where she was initiated into the Kappa Iota chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. In December 1983, she graduated from the UAMS with a B.S.N. in Nursing. Hearne worked as a pediatric intensive care nurse at Arkansas Children’s Hospital before opening Pyramid Gallery in June 1988. Hearne is on the board of directors of the Mid-​America Arts Alliance and is currently chair of the Arkansas Arts Council. She has also served on the board of the Arkansas Humanities Council (1993 – 1997). In June 2012, Garbo and Archie will celebrate their 25^th anniversary. They have four children, Ra Ambe, Auna, Archie IV, and Aja Nia and one grandson, Miles.