Craft

Historian Jared Phillips traces the origins of the Prairie Grove Clothesline Fair, the Cane Hill Harvest Festival plus the War Eagle Craft Fair, all born of a postwar push to keep Ozark crafts alive.

Queer Craft Corner's founder and board members on launching the Springdale nonprofit, healing through art, and winning a 2026 Weave NWA award.

Nashville, Arkansas bladesmith Jerry Fisk, a National Living Treasure, shares stories behind his knives made from historic materials at the Arkansas Folklife Festival in North Little Rock.

Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts connects master artists and apprentices across the state, funding training in crafts from banjo playing to glass beadmaking.

Debbie Beck of the Eddie Mae Herron Center in Pocahontas showed festivalgoers quilt patterns once used to guide people escaping slavery north to freedom.