Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

We go on a tour of the Crystal Bridges museum's new expansion project still under construction.

On today's show, we learn about a nine-figure gift for the University of Arkansas. Also, 13 years after opening, Crystal Bridges continues to expand and explore. Plus, Becca Martin Brown returns for a new episode of "The Other Way".

Caleb and Luke sit down with Development Director at the NWA Center for Sexual Assault, Taylor Mckinney, to talk about the upcoming exhibition and award ceremony.

“The Portal: An Art Experience with Jewel” will open to the public next month. Imagined and curated by Jewel, the Grammy-nominated singer and author, the exhibit begins with a holographic image of Jewel welcoming patrons, a video conversation led by the singer at selected works in the contemporary art wing and a drone show over the pond at the museum. This week, Jewel talked about how she conceived “The Portal: An Art Experience with Jewel” while at Crystal Bridges.

On today's show, Jewel puts together a museum experience. Plus, a look into Drug Take Back Day 2024. We also learn more about the Old Friends Farm near Prairie Grove.

Contemporary art is popping up everywhere, even here in Northwest Arkansas with artists such as Christopher Marley, with an exhibit at Crystal Bridges, and Kristin Tordella-Williams, with one in the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum.

Jillian Speece and Nathaniel Paul Hoff are wife-and-husband, filmmakers, and the musical duo The Bergamot. They’re the protagonists and subjects of the documentary “State of the Unity,” which will screen at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art on April 11. The movie follows Nathaniel and Jillian as they drive across the county, searching for unity through music and art. Last week, Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams spoke with the artists about the film and what they learned during its creation.

The relationship between nature and art is as old as art itself. According to the Smithsonian, the oldest known extant cave drawing is of a babirusa, also called a deer-pig, native to Indonesia. Fast forward about 35,000 years to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville to the Exquisite Creatures exhibit.

Northwest Arkansas Black Heritage is working with the city of Fayetteville to develop a Black Histroric District in Fayetteville. The organization's director Sharon Killian and the project consultant Emma Wilson joined Ozarks at Large's Daniel Caruth to discuss the project and an event they are hosting tomorrow at Crystal Bridges.

The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine is currently under construction, and officials contracted Arkansas-based architecture firm Polk Stanley Wilcox to design a 2.5-acre green roof for the new campus, which will be the largest in the state. The school is also working with Fayetteville's Ozark Green Roofs to install the park-like ceiling. Ozarks at Large's Jack Travis sat down with architect Wesley Walls and Ozark Green Roof owner Lee Porter to learn more about green roofs and why they are sprouting up more frequently.