Community Calendar

Wishing Spring’s May 2025 Arts & Crafts Festival
May 2 & 3, 2025, Fri & Sat, 9 am to 5 pm each day
Location: Wishing Spring Gallery, 8862 W McNelly Rd, Bella Vista-Bentonville, Ar 72712
Razorback Greenway Bike Trail Mile Marker #39
Currently seeking vendors – application deadline is April 20, 2025
Go to the website to apply!
https://www.wishingspringgallery.net/festivals

Come join us at the Wishing Spring’s Arts & Crafts Festival. Family fun! Features juried original handcrafted items by talented artisan vendors. Food trucks, music, live art demos, and children’s activities make for a fun family day! Bring your lawn chair to stay awhile!

The Artisan Alliance hosts 2 annual festivals every year, in May and October, in support of art education within the community, and for scholarships that are awarded annually to regional HS students. Venues of Alliance are the Wishing Spring Gallery & The Clay Studio.

Since the late 1990s, KAWS has been creating a cast of iconic characters steeped in the American zeitgeist that populate his work. Each with their own distinct personality pulled in part from their creator, these characters have been a constant throughline in the artist’s career. The exhibition takes its title and thematic jumping-off point from the sculpture titled FAMILY (2021), which brings together four of KAWS’ characters posed in the style of a family portrait. As witnessed throughout the show, the relationships between the figures can be complex, familiar, and astonishingly heartfelt entryways into human emotions.

Historic Attire Welcome.
Historic Re-enactments, Live Music, Ice Cream and Cake to celebrate the second ever all-female government in the United States!

Join the University of Arkansas School of Art's second annual Spring Art Market at the Studio + Design Center. Support and purchase art from our @uarkart students, faculty, and staff!
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The market will be open on Saturday, May 3 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Free parking is available in the lot behind our Sculpture Building at 744 Hill Ave.
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Artsaga’s will be open that day so you can sip and shop!

Join us at Heartland Whole Health Institute Thursday, May 1-Saturday, May 3 for enriching and inspiring programs that integrate art, nature, architecture, and wellness offerings. Explore stunning architecture and The Art of Whole Health exhibition through guided drop-in tours. Create nature-inspired sunprints, and take home a personalized, block-printed meditation journal. Enjoy live outdoor music and rejuvenate with wellness sessions including Tai Chi, sound bowl meditations, and yoga. Don’t miss these unique opportunities to connect with art, wellness, and community!

Free parking is available at the Campus Parking deck adjacent to the Scott Family Amazeum. Bike racks are also available to park and lock bikes.

Thursday, May 1 | 12-6 p.m.
Friday, May 2 | 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday, May 3 | 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Swing by Dombek Studio & Gallery this spring! See new paintings, take a walk through the grounds, and relax with some refreshments. We’d love to see you!

"Through mixed media, yet divergent styles, Amber and Sandra take the viewer on an exploration of the power of nature to ignite, to inspire, to nurture, to calm the human spirit. Sandra Spotts is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas and a current resident of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. She cultivated a love for art at a very early age which led to earning a degree in Art from the University of Arkansas with a minor in English.
Sandra spent many years teaching elementary and junior high art as well as working as a professional artist and designer. In addition to painting, usually in an abstract expressionist style, she has worked and exhibited as a weaver, paper maker and creator of sculptural contemporary basketry, winning several awards. One of her works is a part of the permanent collection of the Art Museum of Arkansas.
Her love of writing and storytelling influences her mixed media painting style in which she often incorporates fragments of letters, books and other found objects and original prose. Her themes are often highly personal and emotional responses to life events, observation of nature or global events. Sandra is co-producer and performer on the live storytelling show, “Homegrown Tales.”
She currently exhibits regionally and nationally. Amber Leibee, a watercolorist and amateur naturalist. My artistic intention is to record the profound peace inherent to silent moments of solitary study and observation of the natural world. My works are small, meant for an audience of one, an intimate exchange between artist and viewer. I am influenced by Muriel Foster, Alexander von Humboldt, and Clare Walker Leslie. All paints used in my palette are hand mulled using water from a local spring, this process helps me understand how my pigments will mix and behave together on paper. The majority of my work is done en plein air, rendered first in graphite, then watercolor, and on occasion finished with pen and ink details. Amber Leibee is a watercolorist and amateur naturalist. Her artistic intention is to record the profound peace inherent to silent moments of solitary study and observation of the natural world. Her works are small, meant for an audience of one, an intimate exchange between artist and viewer. She is influenced by Muriel Foster, Alexander von Humboldt, and Clare Walker Leslie. All paints used in her palette are hand mulled using water from a local spring, this process helps her understand how my pigments will mix and behave together on paper. The majority of her work is done en plein air, rendered first in graphite, then watercolor, and on occasion finished with pen and ink details. "

Join us for the 3rd annual Foolish Derby Day running of the stick horses (registration required to race), parade of hats, followed by The Mountain Alices., an Ozark country string band based out of Northwest Arkansas

BYOP ~ Bring Your Own Poem
Hosted By ~ Derelicts Digest
Free
All Ages
Your Words
Your People
Your Place

A battle of wills ignites between a dogmatic nun and a priest suspected of sexual misconduct in “Doubt, A Parable,” John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about power, faith, and the cost of moral certitude. Featuring Kate Capdeville, Tim Gilster, Mary Maxwell, and Terry Vaughan. Directed by Juliette Robinson. Tickets are FREE (donations accepted at the door/cash or check). All donations received at the Thursday, May 1 performance benefit Magdalene Serenity House. NO RESERVED SEATING/SMALL VENUE. First come, first served. Doors open 1 hour before each performance. Wine, chips, and cookies are available for sale before the show (cash only).