Community Calendar

A Celebration of Choctaw Art and Culture is a partnership between ACHE and Choctaw Nation Public Arts. The reception opening will be held Thursday, April 9th, 5-7pm, with the exhibition on display through May 22nd. Celebrate the voices, stories and artistry of Choctaw nation of Oklahoma in a vibrant exhibition featuring both traditional and contemporary works. This showcase honors Choctaw culture through pieces that reflect ancestral knowledge, lived experiences and modern expression. Experience powerful artwork, support Native American artists, and connect with the rich and enduring artistic legacy of the Choctaw Nation. Free. Open to the public. ACHE RIHWC 1000 Fianna Way, Fort Smith.

Make Wednesdays your new favorite night out at Community Nights at The Momentary. Each week, a different local group brings their community together in the space, inviting both members and newcomers to gather for a lively, welcoming evening of connection. Come meet the hosts, mix with new people, and learn more about the work and impact these groups are making in your local community. Whether you arrive with friends or show up solo, you’ll plug into something happening right here in your city.

Free, no tickets required, ages 21+ only.

Community Nights occur during RØDE House Happy Hours. Groups are welcome to gather in the RØDE House and Onyx Coffee Lab.

This event is part of our Community Nights series.

Hosted by Derelicts Digest, enjoy this free, all ages, event to share your work, meet your people and have a chance to perform your work.

Open to the public, If you're not ready to share or just want to enjoy, grab a Bev from our Happy Hour and enjoy the vibes and intimacy of Club 509 located in the Kava Bar.

TLDR; (a haiku)

bring a poem, please
read it, dear, with bravery
for us, you and me

In this class we will apply basic drawing principles to the study of Heads after past artists. Constructive drawing will be discussed in analyzing artists such as Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Raphael and more. Topics will include Structure, Shape, and Proportion. Artists will be discussed, short demo given, and exercises to work on. Personal 1-on-1 instruction offered throughout.

All levels welcome and supplies will be provided. Students are welcome to bring their own as well (drawing boards, tabletop easels, etc.)

Join Abby Burnett for a discussion on her latest book, Though Silent They Speak: Arkansas Gravestones and Graveyards in this Not Strictly History program. Following the talk there will be books for sale and a signing. Though Silent They Speak: Arkansas Gravestones and Graveyards is a fascinating and informative guidebook to the most unusual graves and graveyards in Arkansas. Within the pages, readers explore showy marble monuments in city cemeteries and haunting, primitive carvings and inscriptions discovered in isolated, rural graveyards, while telling the stories behind these burials. Examples include private tombs in public places, African American burial grounds, a graveyard on the grounds of a former Japanese internment camp, and two small graveyards that are now state parks.

This in-person event will also be available online via Zoom. To watch live online, fill out the form at the link below.
https://shilohmuseum.org/event/arkansas-gravestones-and-graveyards/

In this class we will explore the medium of watercolor. I’ll go over the standard materials and tools. We’ll learn fundamentals such as Wet-on Wet, Wet-on-Dry, Color Mixing and more. Each week we’ll draw and paint from life exploring various subject matter from the simplest shapes to florals to even past great artists of the medium.

Course Outline

Week 1: Overview Paints, Brushes, Palette setup, Basic Flat Washes

Week 2: Drawing Simple Volumes: Line and shape Value: Scales and Weight

Week 3: Basic Watercolor Techniques Graded Washes, Variegated Wash, Glazing/Layering Brushwork + Paper, Graphic Brushstrokes, Puddling, Wiping

Week 4: Color 1 Color Wheel: Value, Temperature, Intensity, Greys

Week 5: Color 2 Color Mixing, Perception and Illusion

Week 6: Long-Form Study from Life/Reference Applying our skills to a single study: Still-life, your own household object(s), or a GreatMaster copy

Suggested Reading

1) The Watercolor Book by David Dewey

2) Figure Drawing For Artists by Steve Huston

3) Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters & Master Class In Figure Drawing by Robert Beverly Hale

All supplies included. Ages 18+

Tee up for a great cause at “FORE All Abilities” Golf Tournament presented by Achieve Community Alliance, formerly United Cerebral Palsy of Arkansas. Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the nonprofit’s Family Support Fund, which provides grant funding to our Northwest Arkansas neighbors with developmental disabilities and their families for adaptive equipment, medical expenses, and more. Learn more at achievecommunity.org.

Embrace the journey of aging with confidence and vitality! Join Vicky Willis, a certified Yoga instructor and OLLI’s Yoga Guru, in this transformative program designed specifically for those looking to enhance their
well-being as they age. Through slow, precise movements rooted in Yoga, participants will systematically stretch and condition their muscles, providing essential support to aging joints. This
program focuses on four key areas: strength, flexibility, agility, and balance; fundamental elements for healthy living that can help eliminate morning stiffness and improve overall mobility.
Participants are encouraged to bring a blanket, blocks, a yoga strap, and a yoga mat, and to wear comfortable clothing that allows for ease of movement. Join us to foster a healthier, more active lifestyle as you embrace the changes that come with age! Activity Level: 1

The University of Arkansas
Museum traces its beginnings to an early geology teaching collection, which is documented
to 1873. From a modest beginning, the collections have since grown to include millions of
objects across the fields of archeology, ethnology, history, geology, and zoology.
Join Laurel Lamb, one of the museum’s curators, on a behind-the-scenes tour of the U of A
Collections Facility. Whether you are a museum
lover in general or like rocks, fossils, animals, or
history more specifically, there will be something for everyone to enjoy. We will start off
with a presentation about the Museum’s history
and present-day offerings.
After the presentation, the collections tour will
begin and last approximately one hour, depending on the group’s interests and questions.
Bring your walking shoes and get ready to explore! The group is to meet in the lobby area,
just inside the entrance. Activity Level: 1

In this two-hour presentation, Walter Schmidt, local singer/songwriter
and music teacher, will explore the history of the American Revolution through a unique
lens: the presentation and discussion of several
topical songs published and sung in the colonies and Great Britain between 1763 and 1783.
Listening to them now can provide a unique
insight into that seminal period of American
history.
Based on Oscar Brand’s 1972 collection Songs
of ’76: A Folksinger’s History of the Revolution,
this class will explore the music that captured
the spirit and struggles of the American Revolution. Participants will examine songs from three
distinct stages of the era—beginning with the
initial period of growing tension between the
colonies and Great Britain from 1763 to 1764,
continuing through the war years that began
in 1765, and concluding with the Treaty of
Paris in 1783 and its aftermath. Through these
songs, the class will trace how music reflected
and influenced the evolving emotions, politics,
and hopes of a nation on the brink of independence.
Walter Schmidt, singer/songwriter & music
teacher, will introduce two or three songs from
each period by providing a brief historical background and then singing each song, accompanied by guitar or banjo, and providing an opportunity for brief discussion after each son