Community Calendar

ABOUT LAS FAYGAS: In 2026, we celebrate the 13th Annual Las Faygas event, featuring a thrilling Texas Hold'em Tournament and classic casino games like blackjack and roulette. Save the date for Friday, September 11th at the Walton Arts Center, starting at 6 PM. The event is open to sponsors and all who wish to join for a night of fun, delicious food and drinks, games, prizes, and, most importantly, giving back!
ABOUT C.A.R.E.: C.A.R.E. supports local children’s organizations in the NWA (such as the Children’s Safety Center and CASA). Since 2003, we have raised over $1 million and donated more than 3,000 volunteer hours in support of these area organizations. More info is attached as well. 

Sleep out under the stars with your family at Jones Center's third annual Community Campout. Your camping adventure will include campfire cooking, outdoor games, live music and more. Whether you love camping or haven’t ever tried it before, this event is for you!

The City of Lowell and the Lowell Fire Department invite the community to attend the 2026 Touch-A-Truck event on Saturday, September 12, 2026, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Ward Nail Park in Lowell, Arkansas. This free, family-friendly event gives children and families the opportunity to explore a variety of emergency vehicles, heavy equipment, and service trucks up close while meeting first responders and community partners.

From 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., the event will offer a special Sensory Hour with limited lights, sirens, and loud noises to provide a more comfortable environment for children and individuals with sensory sensitivities.

Attendees can enjoy hands-on learning experiences, interactive displays, and a fun day focused on community engagement and fire safety education.

Join GoodWorks, Volunteer Center for Northwest Arkansas, and 14 organizations across the area for a Day of Service as part of Welcoming Week NWA 2026. On Saturday, Sept. 12, residents will have the opportunity to pick a project and give a few hours of their time. Projects and additional details are available online at thejonescenter.org/goodworks/service.

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.

Join us for the 48th Annual Ozark Quilt Fair on Saturday, September 12th, from 10 am to 2 pm at the Shiloh Museum! Enjoy live music and free quilt-themed activities for families, plus a scavenger hunt. Don’t miss the Viewers’ Choice awards with cash prizes for new and antique quilts. Awards presented at 2 pm!

Explore life on the Missouri prairie when George Washington Carver was a child. This event features historic trades demonstrations (basket weaving, blacksmithing, spinning, Dutch-oven cooking, and more), live music, activities for kids, interactive exhibits, and more. Earn a Prairie Day Junior Ranger badge. The event is free of charge.

The Beaver Watershed Alliance is proud to be an event partner for GoodWorks inaugural Day of Service on September 12th! Please RSVP through the GoodWorks platform: https://thejonescenter.org/goodworks/service

Join us for an invasive plant and litter removal volunteer event at Walker Park in Fayetteville on September 12th from 10 am – 12 pm. We will be removing invasive plant species and litter from this important community park. Help us restore Spout Spring Branch and the urban forests around Walker Park!

All tools, equipment, training, water, and snacks will be provided. Recommended: wear long sleeves, pants, and sturdy shoes. Meet at the parking lot at the corner of W. 13th Street & S. Block Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72701 (Coordinates: 36.050675, -94.160520) All ages are invited to participate, but children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

The Spout Springs Project is in partnership with the US Forest Service, the Watershed Conservation Resource Center, the Northwest Arkansas Black Heritage Association, Arkansas Conservation Corps, the City of Fayetteville, and Beaver Water District.

Please RSVP through the GoodWorks platform: https://thejonescenter.org/goodworks/service
Email volunteer@beaverwatershedalliance.org or call 479-750-8007 with any questions.