Katy Kane's Creative Exchange Fund project, "Art with a Cause," combines painting, collage and origami with interviews of immigrant women in Northwest Arkansas who've experienced deportation trauma.

Jennifer Ross and Kurt Owens of Walton Arts Center preview a 10-show season featuring "The Outsiders," "Buena Vista Social Club," "Operation Mincemeat" and more.

Kyle Kellams, Sophia Nourani and Wai-Kay Karrenbauer round up the week's live music and events across Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley, including St. Patrick's Day celebrations at Crysis, Some Like It Hot on Broadway at the Walton Arts Center, Houndmouth at Ozark Music Hall and more.

Today's Sound Perimeter features excerpts from "Nightscape" and "No-Man’s-Land Lullaby", both written by Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga, works that linger at the edge of place and memory, where atmosphere gives way to deeper histories carried quietly in sound.

Crystal Bridges Museum opens America 250: Common Threads, weaving quilts, civic art and 250 years of U.S. history. Free family event Saturday, March 14.

University of Arkansas MFA students debut "Bookends," a devised play inspired by Dickson Street Bookshop, at TheatreSquared on Friday and Sunday.

Producers Katherine Fitzwilson and Annalise Robins are bringing 14 models and 7 designers together for an inclusive fashion show at the Medium in Springdale on March 21.

The University of Arkansas hosts its annual Day of Percussion on Saturday, featuring six hours of performances and a spotlight on the vibraphone with guest artist Brian Graiser.

MacArthur and Guggenheim fellow Liz Lerman visits the University of Arkansas to discuss creativity, uncertainty and her forthcoming book, "Shape and Momentum," on Thursday at 6 p.m.

Northwest Arkansas Audio Theater presents a live audio production of "Captain Blood" — the swashbuckling tale starring Errol Flynn in 1935 — at five venues across the region this week.