Here are some of the rules I followed: Use the same color pallet as the current flag… Below is a picture of all fifty state flags. Plaque reads: "Miss Willie Kavanaugh Hocker of Wabbaseka was the designer of the Arkansas state flag. These are great, but you should've used PNG to export.10/10, simple design - lots of symbolism - change from the normal tricolour (or dastardly blue background with text and picture). The colors red, white, and blue signified that Arkansas was one of the United States. So the legislature voted to add another star, and above on the left is the 1923 redesign.

The ladies approached the Arkansas Secretary of State and asked him what was the official design of the state flag. Though simple in appearance, the flag was rich in symbolism. The requisite written explanation was not on the microfilm at the History Commission. Another alternative design is blue and features the famous 'Liberty bell' inside the shape of a keystone reflecting the state's nickname. And what is the purpose of the arrow?The current Arkansas flag color scheme, with it's predominance of red, is a callback to the Confederate Battle Flags.New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castA subreddit for those who enjoy flags, the history behind them, and their design characteristics.Press J to jump to the feed. Given that the flag dates from the 1920s and Jim Crow, this is not a good way to go. "But Blake told CNN he didn't think changing the meaning of a star on the flag amounted to erasing history. At first there were two stars above the name and two below, but legislation in 1924 positioned a Confederate star above the state's name and the original three below it.The Arkansas History Commission has the original designs submitted in the state flag contest, including the winning entry, the first complete State Flag made by Miss Hocker, and a framed portrait of Miss Hocker.Copyright © 2017 Arkansas Secretary of State. The yellow colour … NJI Media, a D.C.-based creative agency, decided to redesign all 50 state flags in honor of flag day tomorrow.Our current state flags are already unique (and …

The Pine Bluff Chapter immediately launched a movement to obtain one. "We can respect our history and be mindful of our present. A redesign of all 50 state flags messes with Texas. It would have been expensive to make.It wasn't an all-out cat fight between the DAR and the AFWC, but there was a tight-jawed public politeness on the subject and it seemed as if the AFWC opined that they had gotten there first, that the whole idea of a state flag had already been dibsed by them and the DAR had usurped the initiative.
Suddenly at the opening of the twentieth century states were adopting flags left and right.At the turn of the century American long term naval planning was changing. Her flag was officially adopted as the flag of Arkansas on February 18, 1913. In 1911 the Pine Bluff Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution decided to make a patriotic gesture by presenting a stand of colors consisting of an American Flag, an Arkansas Flag and a Naval Battalion Flag to the brand new battleship USS Arkansas. Also parts of the citations were handwritten and hard to read. They all gave me the same answer. Before 1900 a flag representing your state was no more of a necessity than one representing your city or county. The final element is a Greenland style diamond.For a personal project, I dediced to try to improve the state flags of USA. That meant scrapping the tookie little monitors and constructing big-ass battleships instead, and those battleships were being named after states.

For seventy-five years from 1836 to 1911, Arkansas had no state flag.This struck me as odd and so I contacted a handful of college history professors and I visited the History Commission in Little Rock.

The band of 25 stars around the diamond signified that Arkansas is the 25th state, and the two parallel stars at the bottom of that band represent Arkansas and Michigan, the two states that entered the Union simultaneously. Beautiful though it is, it's very complex. Our State Flag: A Brief History Early in 1912 the Pine Bluff Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), decided to present a "stand of colors" to the U.S.S. New battleship or not, Colorado needs a new flag because Arizona just got one. Change is uncomfortable. Adopting a flag is a low-cost, high-profile non-controversial activity for a state legislature, so a lot of local politicians were wondering why they hadn't thought of this before.Arkansas Secretary of State Hodges set up a commission including the wives of two important politicians, the presidents of two important women's clubs, the publishers of two important newspapers and a couple of judges and art professors. They're at the Arkansas History Commission in the clipping files under "Flag" if you want to track them down. A United States Flag, a naval battalion flag and an Arkansas Flag were to be included.Secretary of State Earle W. Hodges informed the committee appointed by the DAR group that Arkansas had no state flag. If a half dozen states suddenly adopt flags to put on their new namesake battleships, that motivates the neighboring states. "I think we're better than that.
Maybe it was a depiction of Prometheus.There were a few obviously professional designs, one an impressive art moderne rendition of the state coat of arms on a blue flag, but the Hodges committee settled on the design below by Ms. Willie Hocker of Pine Bluff. "Where the Confederate battle flag is still seen (2015) Where the Confederate battle flag is still seen (2015) One depicted a nude man carrying a torch up a staircase toward a rising sun. But what about the Mexican War? Sharing the stage with the Queen of the Fair and her 500 attendants, Willie Hocker cristened the flagpole with a bottle of Hot Springs mineral water. Twenty-four of them are plain blue flags with state seals stuck on them, just like the design of the 1910 AFWC flag.

The topic that seems to be on the today list of all vexillologists and vexillographers is the redesign of the state flags of the United States. The diamond reminded viewers that Arkansas had the nation's only diamond mine.