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Experience the best in American and global roots music and folk traditions—right in the heart of Bentonville.

Set in the beautiful Ozark Mountains of Northwest Arkansas, FreshGrass | Bentonville is a two-day, all-ages festival packed with award-winning artists, world premieres of special commissions, artist talks, instrument workshops, band competitions, square dancing, and more across three stages.

Presented by the Momentary, FreshGrass | Bentonville delivers a festival experience unlike any other.

See you there.

FreshGrass | Bentonville is held rain or shine.

Local artist, John Ford, will be leading this informal outdoor workshop we will create Spring centerpieces with predominantly foraged and locally grown natural fresh materials with an emphasis on rich texture, mechanics and utilizing materials readily found in nature. You will create and take home your own one-of-a-kind botanical masterpiece with readily available material such as bark, lichen, mushrooms, spring flowers, ferns, spring vegetables, twigs, logs, succulents, and air plants. All materials are provided. Attendees are encouraged to bring soft gardening gloves, garden clippers and any botanical materials from your yard that inspire you, flowers and branches blooming or otherwise. Please register to reserve a spot.

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.

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Ozark Folkways and the Wool and Wheel Spinners Guild will host a free open-house fiber play day. Anyone interested in fiber arts, regardless of skill level, is invited. You may join to spin, knit, embroider, converse, or watch others enjoy the possibilities of fiber.

Seven Fort Smith residents, including two River Valley Master Gardeners and the legendary plant specialist and landscaper, Frank Sharum, are opening their home gardens. Visitors will be inspired and learn more about landscape design, vegetable and herb gardening, growing ornamental flowers, trees and shrubs and more as they take the self-guided tour of each of the seven properties. All proceeds enable The Learning Fields to provide gardening education to all in the River Valley.

"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. "

Experience the best in American and global roots music and folk traditions—right in the heart of Bentonville.

Set in the beautiful Ozark Mountains of Northwest Arkansas, FreshGrass | Bentonville is a two-day, all-ages festival packed with award-winning artists, world premieres of special commissions, artist talks, instrument workshops, band competitions, square dancing, and more across three stages.

Presented by the Momentary, FreshGrass | Bentonville delivers a festival experience unlike any other.

See you there.

FreshGrass | Bentonville is held rain or shine.

An extraordinary night with your dog! A beautiful pool designed just for dogs, music, food, goody bags, door prizes and a raffle. Attendees must be 21 and over.