Community Calendar

Keith Haring in 3D is the first exhibition to highlight Keith Haring’s work in three dimensions, inviting visitors to move through, around, and within his art like never before. In the course of his short life, Keith Haring transmitted across a dizzying range of creative channels: painting, sculpture, installation, video, murals, performance, printmaking, early digital art, and more. While Haring helped define the look and mood of the 1980s, he also saw clearly a future that has become our present.

Haring is typically thought of as primarily a two-dimensional artist, but Keith Haring in 3D focuses on a lesser-known and highly compelling aspect of Haring’s practice as a sculptor. He created hundreds of three-dimensional artworks, beginning with painting objects he found in the street. Eventually, Haring made monumental sculptures in wood and metal, and even a whole store for his art.

Haring was, above all, a master of line, with an instinctive ability to compose on multiple scales. Haring’s work in three dimensions has never been the focus of a major exhibition and has rarely been shown. Keith Haring in 3D will fill this gap in public understanding by showcasing a wide range of Haring’s works, including sculpture, totems and masks, skateboards, clothing, boomboxes, paintings, drawings, and even a 1963 Buick Special. The exhibition will be accompanied by a major book published by Phaidon/Monacelli.

British artist Lucy Sparrow is internationally renowned for her unique and immersive installations filled with thousands of items, all meticulously handcrafted from felt. Through her work, Sparrow transforms everyday retail environments into playful, nostalgic, and tactile worlds that are both familiar and entirely new. Lucy Sparrow: The Beginning of Convenience, Sparrow’s first museum exhibition in the United States, will take visitors back in time through an immersive “time capsule” installation of a 1980s-90s Walmart-inspired supermarket.

Expanding on her extensive archival research practice, The Beginning of Convenience includes more than 20,000 individually hand-crafted and exquisitely detailed felt replicas of supermarket products, ranging from food and beverage items to beauty products and household goods typical of a not-so-distant past. Throughout the exhibition, Sparrow will explore a particular moment in history that she refers to as the “beginning of convenience,” a time when the rise of dual-income households in the 1980s necessitated consumer goods that prioritized speed and convenience over effort and taste. Changing roles within the household led to the development and proliferation of quick and easy consumer goods, such as microwave dinners, frozen foods, and out-of-the-box meals.

In addition to the supermarket experience, The Beginning of Convenience will feature a built replica of Sparrow’s studio – known as the Felt Cave – and a new self-made documentary that follows Sparrow’s work in the months leading up to the exhibition at the Momentary.

Free, no tickets required.

Chuck Ramirez (1962-2010) was a San Antonio-based artist with a reverence for material culture. For many years, his day job was as a graphic designer and art director for the Texas grocery chain H-E-B. In his commercial work, he helped sell products that lined store shelves and filled home pantries. Ramirez’s photographs will prompt viewers to consider that the goods people buy, consume, discard, or treasure are more than just things; they are evidence of life. In the photographs, the artist positioned material culture as reflections of humanity, community, memory, and loss.

In his artwork, Ramirez often recast commercial products as windows onto the people who consumed them. Ramirez’s affinity for everyday “stuff” was a continuous thread throughout his practice. The artist’s ability to find wonder in the ordinary takes center stage in this exhibition.

Free, no tickets required.

NWA Book Fest is a free literary festival featuring local, regional, and national authors, sharing stories and celebrating the literary community in NWA. The Big Bookish Market features over 50 vendors, and we’ll end the night with an Open Mic Night from 6:00pm-7:30pm hosted by NWA Poetry Connection - bring your poetry, prose, song, or story!

The local section of MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, meets on the fourth Saturday of each month. We meet at "Explore Scientific," which is located at 1010 S. 48th Street in Springdale.

Meetings run from 10 AM to noon.

The group is dedicated to the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and is made up of people of all levels of interest, from saucer buffs to experiencers. All are welcome.

For information, contact Norman Walker (State Director) at 479-422-9586

Explore contemporary embroidery in this four-week workshop with Claire Pongonis, focusing on building layered textile landscapes through hand stitch techniques. Participants will experiment with composition, texture, and color using thread as a drawing material to create abstracted and expressive views of natural forms. The course emphasizes modern approaches to embroidery, encouraging personal interpretation and process-driven making. Suitable for all skill levels, this workshop offers time to develop both technical skills and an individual visual language through stitching.

Tickets are $225 ($188/members). Reserve your spot online or with Guest Experience at (479) 657-2335 today.

Class runs Saturdays, September 26 - October 17. All materials included.

Be an Early Bird: $10 off if you register before September 10th.

Join us for a fun afternoon of wild creativity with designer John Ford as we create one of a kind wall mounted art incorporating natural foraged materials such as mosses, lichen, driftwood, seed pods, dried mushrooms, dried flowers and grasses..

All materials and instruction included and you'll take home your own one of a kind botanical creation.

Join us for the 2026 Secular Speaker Series #3 with Sam McGuire, Director of Grassroots Organizing & Advocacy of American Atheists. This event explores current church‑state issues and what effective advocacy for non-religious rights looks like today.

Hosted by the Ozarks Chapter of FFRF, this conversation supports our work to keep government neutral on religion and to build a visible, confident secular community.