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april
sat16marAll Daymon29julExquisite Creaturesat Crystal Bridges
Event Details
Exquisite Creatures is a dialogue with art, nature, and science that asks the question: what is
Event Details
Exquisite Creatures is a dialogue with art, nature, and science that asks the question: what is it about the natural world that calls to us? Throughout the exhibition, artist and naturalist Christopher Marley reflects on humanity’s intimate relationship with nature, revealing its intricate beauty and diversity through three-dimensional works comprised of animal, mineral, and plant specimens arranged in precise, geometric compositions. Shown together, the works create an immersive environment which inspires wonder and fosters a desire to preserve the natural world.
Crystal Bridges welcomes guests to experience the connection between art, nature, and science, emotionally and aesthetically, throughout the exhibition. The museum will activate the show’s themes through nature and science-based programming and activities both inside the museum and outdoors across its trails and grounds.
Time
March 16 (Saturday) - July 29 (Monday)
Location
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
sun14aprAll Daymon27mayA Soldier’s Journeyat Crystal Bridges
Event Details
A Soldier’s Journey is a study for a monumental bronze by Sabin Howard. In 2024, the finished piece measuring 58 feet
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A Soldier’s Journey is a study for a monumental bronze by Sabin Howard. In 2024, the finished piece measuring 58 feet wide will be the centerpiece, completing the new World War I Monument in Washington, DC.
University of Arkansas graduate Joe Weishaar won the World War I Monument design competition when he was just 25 years old. His concept, “The Weight of Sacrifice,” incorporates two sculptures, landscape elements, and a reflecting pool.
See a preview of the new World War I memorial!
Many American artists documented their experience of World War I, participating as soldiers, relief workers, and official war artists. More than 100 years later, Howard uses art to convey the courage and sacrifice of American soldiers and the horrors of war.
Free, no ticket required.
Time
April 14 (Sunday) - May 27 (Monday)
Location
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
Event Details
Event Details
Danielle Hatch’s video meditates on heritage and collective care, documenting the ongoing collaboration between the presented women artists as part of a visual legacy of feminist art making practices. Its innovative use of a drone video camera to document the ritual observation of the fall equinox creates a metaphor for humans’ relationships with nature, especially culturally specific relationships with seasonal astronomical events.
The work presents a breadth of environmental details that define the Utah landscape’s high desert, prairie, mountain ranges, and salt flats to expand our environmental understanding of how diverse the US South is as a region broader than the southeast.
Based in Northwest Arkansas, Danielle Hatch is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the female body’s relationship to the built environment, notions of artificiality, and power structures. She creates site-specific installations, sculptures, and performances. Hatch has a BA in architecture from Wellesley College and an MFA in Spatial Studies from UC-Santa Barbara.
Time
April 14 (Sunday) - June 24 (Monday)
Location
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
may
sat16marAll Daymon29julExquisite Creaturesat Crystal Bridges
Event Details
Exquisite Creatures is a dialogue with art, nature, and science that asks the question: what is
Event Details
Exquisite Creatures is a dialogue with art, nature, and science that asks the question: what is it about the natural world that calls to us? Throughout the exhibition, artist and naturalist Christopher Marley reflects on humanity’s intimate relationship with nature, revealing its intricate beauty and diversity through three-dimensional works comprised of animal, mineral, and plant specimens arranged in precise, geometric compositions. Shown together, the works create an immersive environment which inspires wonder and fosters a desire to preserve the natural world.
Crystal Bridges welcomes guests to experience the connection between art, nature, and science, emotionally and aesthetically, throughout the exhibition. The museum will activate the show’s themes through nature and science-based programming and activities both inside the museum and outdoors across its trails and grounds.
Time
March 16 (Saturday) - July 29 (Monday)
Location
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
sun14aprAll Daymon27mayA Soldier’s Journeyat Crystal Bridges
Event Details
A Soldier’s Journey is a study for a monumental bronze by Sabin Howard. In 2024, the finished piece measuring 58 feet
Event Details
A Soldier’s Journey is a study for a monumental bronze by Sabin Howard. In 2024, the finished piece measuring 58 feet wide will be the centerpiece, completing the new World War I Monument in Washington, DC.
University of Arkansas graduate Joe Weishaar won the World War I Monument design competition when he was just 25 years old. His concept, “The Weight of Sacrifice,” incorporates two sculptures, landscape elements, and a reflecting pool.
See a preview of the new World War I memorial!
Many American artists documented their experience of World War I, participating as soldiers, relief workers, and official war artists. More than 100 years later, Howard uses art to convey the courage and sacrifice of American soldiers and the horrors of war.
Free, no ticket required.
Time
April 14 (Sunday) - May 27 (Monday)
Location
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
Event Details
Event Details
Danielle Hatch’s video meditates on heritage and collective care, documenting the ongoing collaboration between the presented women artists as part of a visual legacy of feminist art making practices. Its innovative use of a drone video camera to document the ritual observation of the fall equinox creates a metaphor for humans’ relationships with nature, especially culturally specific relationships with seasonal astronomical events.
The work presents a breadth of environmental details that define the Utah landscape’s high desert, prairie, mountain ranges, and salt flats to expand our environmental understanding of how diverse the US South is as a region broader than the southeast.
Based in Northwest Arkansas, Danielle Hatch is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the female body’s relationship to the built environment, notions of artificiality, and power structures. She creates site-specific installations, sculptures, and performances. Hatch has a BA in architecture from Wellesley College and an MFA in Spatial Studies from UC-Santa Barbara.
Time
April 14 (Sunday) - June 24 (Monday)
Location
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
thu02may5:30 pmWellness Festivalat Crystal Bridges
Event Details
Join us for four days of events that uplift art, nature, food, and community in a celebration of well-being!
Event Details
Join us for four days of events that uplift art, nature, food, and community in a celebration of well-being!
Set during the opening of The Portal: An Art Experience by Jewel and featuring a variety of free and ticketed talks, workshops, culinary experiences, and family-friendly engagements by community partners and leaders in the fields of art and wellness, the festival showcases the profound connections between creative expression and personal health.
Come meet regional health and wellness providers, hear from leading voices in health advocacy, take part in wellness-boosting gallery activities, enjoy farm-to-table food demos, and more—all hosted across the campuses of Crystal Bridges and the Momentary.
Check out the full festival lineup below, and we’ll see you there!
Time
(Thursday) 5:30 pm
Location
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
sat04may1:00 pmStudio Demo: Mythical Creatures with Vicki Hardcastleat Crystal Bridges- The Studio
Event Details
Meet artisan Vicki Hardcastle in the Studio for a unique showing connected to our Exquisite Creatures exhibition!
Event Details
Meet artisan Vicki Hardcastle in the Studio for a unique showing connected to our Exquisite Creatures exhibition!
Vicki will be bringing a few finished needle-felted characters as well as actively working on a piece. Guests are encouraged to stop and chat with Vicki about her work and journey as an artist. This is not a formal class but rather a tabling of an artist in the Studio. Take advantage of this enlightening opportunity and see a craft artist in action!
Free, no tickets required.
It has been over 40 years since Vicki Hardcastle made her artisan debut in southeastern Oklahoma. In the early 1990s, after relocating to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, she continued her craft production and overall exposure to the area as the sole proprietor of Hardcastle Folk Art. Working arts and crafts shows throughout a multi-state region, she easily made a name for herself through designs that characterized life in the mountains. Vicki’s unique vision allowed her to create uncommon designs, attracting customers who appreciated items born of both local culture and materials. Over time she found that her most enjoyable form of art involved working with wool, specifically with the 19th-century craft of rug hooking.
In the last few years, Vicki has found a love for the odd and funky, fueling her fascination with needle felting. Mixing her two favorite art forms of rug hooking and needle felting has opened up a whole new world of creative projects.
Today, from the Hardcastle Folk Art shop in Berryville, Arkansas, Vicki continues to be an inspiration for those interested in these rare and almost lost arts. She has hosted rug hooking camps with teachers from around the world, and she had the honor of being voted into the Arkansas Craft Guild last year.
By exposing her work to so many who otherwise may never have heard of these underappreciated crafts, Vicki continues to create new generations of fiber art aficionados throughout the region and the world.
Spanning hand-died wools, vintage embellishments, hooking, needle felting classes, and more, Vicki’s influences and contributions to the artisan world are many, and they all originate right here, in the heart of the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas.
Time
(Saturday) 1:00 pm
Location
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
sun12may2:00 pmStephanie Smittleat Crystal Bridges
Event Details
2 pm, Sunday, May 12 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | We’re thrilled to host autoharp angelic
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2 pm, Sunday, May 12 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | We’re thrilled to host autoharp angelic vocalist Stephanie Smittle to kick off this year’s series in the galleries of Crystal Bridges that will take place the 2nd Sunday of each month from May through October! Smittle’s self-titled debut solo album is a collection of ten songs for voice and electric autoharp, which the Arkansas Democrat Gazette called “stunning” and “incandescent … a skilled and observant lyricist unafraid to express vulnerability and wonder and rage.” A native of Cave Springs, Arkansas, Smittle’s history of engagements includes howling in front of roaring amplifiers as a member of southern sludge rock group Iron Tongue, taking the stage as a guest vocalist with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, singing ancient chant as a cantor in a 200-year-old Episcopal church, and slinking around the set in an avant-garde Kurt Weill opera. {{ FREE open to the public }}
Time
(Sunday) 2:00 pm
Location
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
wed15may7:00 pmDover Quartetat Crystal Bridges
Event Details
Dover Quartet 7
Event Details
Dover Quartet
7 pm | Saturday, May 11 | Crystal Bridges
Tickets: $15
Walton Arts
Center is proud to
announce the return of Artosphere: Arkansas’ Arts Nature Festival May 2-23,
with events and performances at locations across Northwest
Arkansas.
Artosphere celebrates art, music and nature with exciting performances, activities and events for the whole family.
Each year, Artosphere spotlights artists and performers from around the world who are inspired by nature and provides a creative framework for the community to discuss issues of sustainability and environmental awareness.
The multi-week festival features a mix of free and low-cost events, including outdoor performances, large orchestral concerts and several chamber music performances in special spaces throughout
our region. Several Artosphere favorites are back this year including Trail Mix, art workshops with Shannon Green and performances by the signature Artosphere Festival Orchestra in their finale season.
New this year, Taking Flight: Restorative Mindfulness String Quartet & Bird Watching emphasizes meaningful observation, beginning with guided bird watching provided by NWA Land Trust.
Afterward, musicians Miho Sakon, Andrew Chu, Grace Clark and Mickael Puryear will perform Haydn’s String quartet in C major Opus 33 No. 3 “The Bird” on the beautiful Wilson Springs Preserve Trail. You have two chances to experience this one-of-a-kind event on Saturday, May 4 at 10 am and 5 pm.
Tunes on the Trail returns, bringing classical music outdoors! Throughout May when you enjoy the trails at Lake Fayetteville, Mount Kessler, Mount Sequoyah, Cato Springs, Frisco Trail &
The Lower Ramble, Wilson Springs Preserve and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, enjoy a curated playlist featuring some of the Artosphere Festival Orchestra’s most beloved performances from the past 11 seasons. Find the Artopshere signage and scan the QR code to see how music, nature and movement collide!
Except where noted below, tickets or
reservations for these events are available now. Purchase or reserve tickets to all events at artospherefestival.org, by calling 479.443.5600 weekdays 10 am-5 pm or in person at the Walton Arts Center Box Office weekdays 10 am-2 pm.
Time
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm
Location
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
wed22may7:00 pmArtosphere Festival Orchestra: Mozart in the Museumat Crystal Bridges
Event Details
Artosphere Festival Orchestra Mozart in the Museum
Event Details
Artosphere Festival Orchestra
Mozart in the Museum
Corrado Rovaris, Musical Director
7 pm | Wednesday, May 22 | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Tickets: $54
Walton Arts
Center is proud to
announce the return of Artosphere: Arkansas’ Arts Nature Festival May 2-23,
with events and performances at locations across Northwest
Arkansas.
Artosphere celebrates art, music and nature with exciting performances, activities and events for the whole family.
Each year, Artosphere spotlights artists and performers from around the world who are inspired by nature and provides a creative framework for the community to discuss issues of sustainability and environmental awareness.
The multi-week festival features a mix of free and low-cost events, including outdoor performances, large orchestral concerts and several chamber music performances in special spaces throughout
our region. Several Artosphere favorites are back this year including Trail Mix, art workshops with Shannon Green and performances by the signature Artosphere Festival Orchestra in their finale season.
New this year, Taking Flight: Restorative Mindfulness String Quartet & Bird Watching emphasizes meaningful observation, beginning with guided bird watching provided by NWA Land Trust.
Afterward, musicians Miho Sakon, Andrew Chu, Grace Clark and Mickael Puryear will perform Haydn’s String quartet in C major Opus 33 No. 3 “The Bird” on the beautiful Wilson Springs Preserve Trail. You have two chances to experience this one-of-a-kind event on Saturday, May 4 at 10 am and 5 pm.
Tunes on the Trail returns, bringing classical music outdoors! Throughout May when you enjoy the trails at Lake Fayetteville, Mount Kessler, Mount Sequoyah, Cato Springs, Frisco Trail &
The Lower Ramble, Wilson Springs Preserve and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, enjoy a curated playlist featuring some of the Artosphere Festival Orchestra’s most beloved performances from the past 11 seasons. Find the Artopshere signage and scan the QR code to see how music, nature and movement collide!
Except where noted below, tickets or
reservations for these events are available now. Purchase or reserve tickets to all events at artospherefestival.org, by calling 479.443.5600 weekdays 10 am-5 pm or in person at the Walton Arts Center Box Office weekdays 10 am-2 pm.
Time
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm
Location
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
june
sat16marAll Daymon29julExquisite Creaturesat Crystal Bridges
Event Details
Exquisite Creatures is a dialogue with art, nature, and science that asks the question: what is
Event Details
Exquisite Creatures is a dialogue with art, nature, and science that asks the question: what is it about the natural world that calls to us? Throughout the exhibition, artist and naturalist Christopher Marley reflects on humanity’s intimate relationship with nature, revealing its intricate beauty and diversity through three-dimensional works comprised of animal, mineral, and plant specimens arranged in precise, geometric compositions. Shown together, the works create an immersive environment which inspires wonder and fosters a desire to preserve the natural world.
Crystal Bridges welcomes guests to experience the connection between art, nature, and science, emotionally and aesthetically, throughout the exhibition. The museum will activate the show’s themes through nature and science-based programming and activities both inside the museum and outdoors across its trails and grounds.
Time
March 16 (Saturday) - July 29 (Monday)
Location
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
Event Details
Event Details
Danielle Hatch’s video meditates on heritage and collective care, documenting the ongoing collaboration between the presented women artists as part of a visual legacy of feminist art making practices. Its innovative use of a drone video camera to document the ritual observation of the fall equinox creates a metaphor for humans’ relationships with nature, especially culturally specific relationships with seasonal astronomical events.
The work presents a breadth of environmental details that define the Utah landscape’s high desert, prairie, mountain ranges, and salt flats to expand our environmental understanding of how diverse the US South is as a region broader than the southeast.
Based in Northwest Arkansas, Danielle Hatch is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the female body’s relationship to the built environment, notions of artificiality, and power structures. She creates site-specific installations, sculptures, and performances. Hatch has a BA in architecture from Wellesley College and an MFA in Spatial Studies from UC-Santa Barbara.
Time
April 14 (Sunday) - June 24 (Monday)
Location
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
july
sat16marAll Daymon29julExquisite Creaturesat Crystal Bridges
Event Details
Exquisite Creatures is a dialogue with art, nature, and science that asks the question: what is
Event Details
Exquisite Creatures is a dialogue with art, nature, and science that asks the question: what is it about the natural world that calls to us? Throughout the exhibition, artist and naturalist Christopher Marley reflects on humanity’s intimate relationship with nature, revealing its intricate beauty and diversity through three-dimensional works comprised of animal, mineral, and plant specimens arranged in precise, geometric compositions. Shown together, the works create an immersive environment which inspires wonder and fosters a desire to preserve the natural world.
Crystal Bridges welcomes guests to experience the connection between art, nature, and science, emotionally and aesthetically, throughout the exhibition. The museum will activate the show’s themes through nature and science-based programming and activities both inside the museum and outdoors across its trails and grounds.
Time
March 16 (Saturday) - July 29 (Monday)
Location
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
sat13jul1:00 pmGallery Talk: Bugs throughout Historyat Crystal Bridges
Event Details
Event Details
Join museum educator Olivia Gutierrez for a deeper look into the depiction of insects throughout art history. She will begin in the 1500s and work her way up to the modern day to display how insects have been drawn, painted, and printed throughout time. We hope to see you there!
Free with purchase of exhibition ticket.
Exhibition tickets are $12 for adults (free for members, SNAP participants, veterans, and youth 18 and under). Reserve exhibition tickets online, with Guest Services in-person, or at (479) 657-2335.
Olivia Gutierrez is the museum educator of Adult Public Programs at Crystal Bridges and is in charge of in gallery programs. She holds a Master of Art in Art History in which she focused on the Visual Cultures of the Americas.
Time
(Saturday) 1:00 pm
Location
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way