Community Calendar

Explore the foundations of handbuilt ceramics through pinch, coil, and slab techniques in a supportive studio environment where curiosity leads the way and process matters as much as product.

25 pounds of clay included
Access to studio glazes

Leave with a collection of fired works that reflect your creative journey

Each session includes demonstrations, hands-on studio time, and space for individual projects.
Classes meet Thursdays, 6:00 to 8:00 PM:
August 6
August 13
August 20
August 27
September 3
September 10

Clay Studio | Creative Spaces NWA at Mount Sequoyah

Beginners welcome. Space is limited.

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

The Bella Vista Historical Museum is hosting the Bella Vista Animal Shelter's 21st annual charity sale as a fundraiser for the Animal Shelter. Merchandise is added to the selection every day so repeat visits are encouraged. Donations of merchandise are welcome by calling Anita at 479-366-2265.

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.

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Terrific Tuesday Nights is a family-friendly, educational, summer series hosted at the Garden on select Tuesday evenings throughout the summer. Each session is from 5-7:30pm.

Shiloh is hosting the Smithsonian presentation, More than “Not Urban”: Serving People and Place in Rural Arkansas, at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, August 18, in the meeting room.

Andy Mink, Smithsonian Institution Director of Rural Initiatives, will lead a community conversation where attendees can learn about how the Smithsonian Institution is deepening its work with rural and tribal communities.

This discussion looks at how rural America often defies definition. Traditional metrics like distance, population, and access shift in unpredictable ways. Small towns maintain a fierce independence and resilience which can mask the unique qualities and assets they possess.

Guided by the results of a nationwide Rural Needs Sensing Report, the Smithsonian’s Rural Initiative aims to support these important communities by addressing the cultural, educational, and economic priorities of both the people and the place. More than big cities unrealized, Rural America embodies a spirit of innovation, creativity, and civic engagement that is essential to meeting these priorities.

This session will share insights from the research and describe meaningful community collaborations between the Smithsonian and local partners from all sectors to benefit the community health they serve.

A reception will take place from 5:30 p.m. with the presentation beginning at 6 p.m.