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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.

NWA Book Fest is a free literary festival featuring local, regional, and national authors, sharing stories and celebrating the literary community in NWA. The Big Bookish Market features over 50 vendors, and we’ll end the night with an Open Mic Night from 6:00pm-7:30pm hosted by NWA Poetry Connection - bring your poetry, prose, song, or story!

Explore contemporary embroidery in this four-week workshop with Claire Pongonis, focusing on building layered textile landscapes through hand stitch techniques. Participants will experiment with composition, texture, and color using thread as a drawing material to create abstracted and expressive views of natural forms. The course emphasizes modern approaches to embroidery, encouraging personal interpretation and process-driven making. Suitable for all skill levels, this workshop offers time to develop both technical skills and an individual visual language through stitching.

Tickets are $225 ($188/members). Reserve your spot online or with Guest Experience at (479) 657-2335 today.

Class runs Saturdays, September 26 - October 17. All materials included.

Be an Early Bird: $10 off if you register before September 10th.

As people face mental health challenges, whether because of the economic events or events in the newspaper, they may find solace in self-help mental health resources in a book titled "Navigating the Web: Curated Website Reviews for LIS Professionals and the Public". To order your copy now, please contact Eliva Press at info@elivapress.com

Join us for a fun afternoon of wild creativity with designer John Ford as we create one of a kind wall mounted art incorporating natural foraged materials such as mosses, lichen, driftwood, seed pods, dried mushrooms, dried flowers and grasses..

All materials and instruction included and you'll take home your own one of a kind botanical creation.

Join us for the 2026 Secular Speaker Series #3 with Sam McGuire, Director of Grassroots Organizing & Advocacy of American Atheists. This event explores current church‑state issues and what effective advocacy for non-religious rights looks like today.

Hosted by the Ozarks Chapter of FFRF, this conversation supports our work to keep government neutral on religion and to build a visible, confident secular community.

"Sean Harrison is a well-traveled, critically acclaimed singer/songwriter from Fayetteville, Arkansas. His 2020 debut album “Halfway From Nashville” cemented his reputation as a witty, insightful Southern songwriter whose quirky, self-mocking songs explore the average guy’s stumbles and struggles through American life. His style crisscrosses boundaries of Americana, combining influences from Folk, Country, Rock and Blues.

Harrison’s second full-length album – “Ghastly Love (And Other Dubious Tales)” -- explores deeper connections into the root-sounds and modern expressions of the Americana genre. With guest artists including Gurf Morlix and Earl Cate, the album released in April 2025.

Songs Sean wrote and produced for Milton Patton in 2015 climbed several Billboard Charts including a high mark of #50 on the Top 200 Country Album chart, and #6 on Heatseekers South Central regional chart for independent artists; music videos from that album gained more than 10 million views, that year; one song was featured in the film ADDicted (2015).

Sean came by his writing and storytelling style naturally. He was born in Nashville and raised mostly in Arkansas, where he grew up in the literary home of the late novelist/screenwriter William Harrison, probably best known for writing the cult-classic movie “Rollerball.” The elder Harrison taught creative writing at the University of Arkansas, which put Sean in frequent company of numerous talented writing students and visiting writers. It also connected him to a lively college campus during the turbulent cultural renaissance of the late 1960s. Sean lived some years in Europe, then Texas, with a lot of traveling and finally back home to Fayetteville. “I have busked in London, Bath, Paris, Florence and Venice, southern Spain and other parts of Europe, New York City, Dallas/Ft. Worth,” Sean said. “It’s only looking back that I can appreciate where I’ve been.”

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Ozark Rape Crisis Center in Clarksville hosting a 5k Glow run/Walk fundraiser. The money raised helps survivors of sexual, domestic abuse and trafficking.