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Create bold abstract art using guided drip techniques. Beginner-friendly, all materials included. Leave with a finished piece.

Create something bold, without overthinking it.

Controlled Chaos is a guided drip painting workshop where you’ll learn modern techniques and create your own abstract artwork on wood panels. This class is designed for all skill levels, no experience needed.

You’ll start with a practice piece to explore the process, then move into creating a final artwork that will be ready to hang once dry.

What You’ll Do:
• Learn step-by-step drip and movement painting techniques
• Create one practice piece to explore the process
• Design a final abstract artwork on a wood panel
• Work in a relaxed, low-pressure environment

What It Feels Like:
Creative. Freeing. Unstructured in the best way.

What’s Included:
• All painting materials
• Two wood panels (one practice, one final)
• A contained workstation for a clean, controlled experience

What to Bring:
Wear clothes you don’t mind getting paint on

Important Notes:
• This is an adult workshop (18+)
• Artwork will remain on-site to dry
• Finished pieces will be available for pickup at a later date

Who It’s For:
Open to all skill levels. Perfect for beginners, creatives, and anyone looking to try something new without pressure.

In this class we will be sewing a simple apron and using Farmer’s market flowers and block printing ink to print on them. Basic use of a sewing machine highly recommended. Please bring your sewing machine, but all other supplies will be provided. Price $65. Pre-registration required.

Learn from author and mycologist Jay Justice about local wild summer mushrooms including Amanitas, Boletes, and Chanterelles. Our morning presentation will be followed by a bring-your-own brown bag lunch break and afternoon foray in the Ozark National Forest to observe and collect mushrooms/fungi in their natural habitat. Then we'll gather our finds, head back to Ozark Folkways for a hands on identification workshop followed by one of our ever popular tastings! Jay Justice is a retired epidemiologist who formerly worked at the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality. He is a co-founder and scientific advisor for the Arkansas Mycological Society (1982) and a scientific advisor to the Cumberland Mycological Society as well as a chief mycologist for the Missouri Mycological Society. As anyone who has attended one of Jay's workshops in the past knows, these informative and delicious events fill up quickly. Tickets are $65 per person and include tastings. Tickets are non refundable. Participants are encouraged to wear seasonally appropriate clothing, bring lunch, a walking stick if needed, sun screen, insect repellent, drinking water and a paper sack for collecting mushrooms.

Join us for a week of culinary creativity where food meets art!
In this hands-on camp, young chefs led by Lunch Bunch will explore flavors, techniques, and artistic inspiration drawn from art in our collection. Each day features a delicious dish paired with an art connection, blending taste and imagination.

Camp is designed for kids aged 8 – 10. Tickets are $225 ($180 for members). Reserve your spot online or with Guest Experience at (479) 657-2335 today.

Want to learn more about what to expect at camp? Read our Know Before You Go guide.

Daily Menu:
Monday: Balanced Bites
Tuesday: Cucumbers 3 Ways
Wednesday: Oven-Less Pizzas
Thursday: Horchata with Pico & Guacamole
Friday: Hotteok & Banana Milk

Campers will learn basic cooking skills, explore cultural connections, and meet new friends. No prior experience needed—just a love for food and fun!

Get your smocks and brushes ready; we’re painting up a storm!
In this weeklong painting camp led by Eileen Guillory, campers will learn how to look at the world with an artist’s eye through discovery and lots of messy, creative fun.

We’ll explore paintings in Crystal Bridges’ collection, then head back to the studio to turn acrylics and watercolor paints into portraits, landscapes, and abstract art. Young artists will have a blast creating, making friends, and putting paint on canvas!

Camp is designed for kids aged 11 – 13. Tickets are $200 ($160 for members). Reserve your spot online or with Guest Experience at (479) 657-2335 today.

Want to learn more about what to expect at camp? Read our Know Before You Go guide.

Death is certain, but how
we prepare for it makes all the difference. Join
Dr. Fidel Davila, a retired Pulmonary and Critical
Care physician, for a thoughtful, practical look
at end-of-life planning.
Through guided discussion and hands-on activities, participants will learn how to communicate their wishes clearly—both verbally and
through essential documents like Living Wills
and Medical Power of Attorney. You’ll discover
what these tools mean, when they’re used,
and how to ensure your values guide decisions
when you no longer can.
Working together in a supportive setting,
you’ll benefit from expert insight and shared
perspectives—making a difficult topic easier
to face and understand. Leave with the clarity, confidence, and resources to begin your own
plan and give peace of mind to yourself and
your loved ones.

Attention all aspiring builders, architects, and designers – let’s make something awesome!
In this weeklong summer camp led by Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, campers will get to flex their creative muscles and learn how to problem-solve by (literally) building solutions. Inspired by Crystal Bridges’ unique design, growing architects will develop valuable STEAM skills and learn to draw inspiration from their surroundings—all while having a blast building their own 3D models.

Camp is designed for kids aged 8 – 10. Tickets are $200 ($160 for members). Reserve your spot online or with Guest Experience at (479) 657-2335 today.

RD holds secular, science-based addiction recovery support groups every Monday. We are LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent led/friendly. Harm reduction approaches welcomed. Sober curious folks are welcomed. Anyone questioning their relationship to substances is welcomed. No student observers, please.

Using principles learned from the Fundamentals, Figure/Head, and Painting classes, we’ll apply our knowledge and skills to Great Master artworks. We’ll learn watercolor basics (wet on wet,wet on dry, color mixing). Each week we’ll look at various artists such as Rubens, Rembrandt, Winslow Homer and more. From each, we’ll cover the human figure, landscapes, and abstracts.

Course Outline

Week 1: Overview/ Review, Wet on Wet, Wet on Dry/Damp, Water Control Brushes, Strokes Pencils, paint, ink

Week 2: Simple Volumes, Visualizing simple masses Value

Week 3: Monochrome, Using Black and Earth-tones, Rubens and Rembrandt

Week 4: Warm and Cools

Week 5: Color, Working with Primaries, Color Mixing, Winslow Homer scenes, Georgia O’ Keefe abstracts, Sargent

Week 6: Long-Form Master Study, Applying our skills to a single study

Suggested Reading:

1) Figure Drawing For Artists by Steve Huston

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

All Supplies and Materials provided- Adults 18+

Using principles learned from the Fundamentals, Figure/Head, and Painting classes, we’ll apply our knowledge and skills to Great Master artworks. We’ll learn watercolor basics (wet on wet,wet on dry, color mixing). Each week we’ll look at various artists such as Rubens, Rembrandt, Winslow Homer and more. From each, we’ll cover the human figure, landscapes, and abstracts.

All levels welcome!

Course Outline

Week 1: Overview/Review, Wet on Wet, Wet on Dry/Damp, Water Control, Brushes

Week 2: Simple Volumes, Visualizing simple masses, Value

Week 3: Monochrome, Using Black and Earth-tones

Week 4: Warm and Cools

Week 5: Color, Working with Primaries, Color Mixing

Week 6: Long-Form Master Study, Applying our skills to a single study