Robin Bruce
Robin Bruce is a poet, singer-songwriter, and visual artist from Schertz, Texas. Her first writing forms were inspired by East Coast MC’s and expressed through local hip-hop crews in San Antonio, TX. Currently, her writing is influenced by the Eastern Wisdom Traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and Yoga studies; where she interrogates the intersection of eastern spirituality in America and racial construction through the lens of ultimate and relative truth. This is reflected in cross-genre texts weaving together poetry, non-fiction, fiction, essay, and images. Her art installations are visual-audio-sensory and invite the emergence of wisdom and intellect through movement and spatial arrangement.
Instagram: @robindbruce1
www.robindbruce.com
owen buffington
Owen is a multimedia artist whose work explores the intersections of geography, history and landscape. Owen earned an MFA, with an emphasis in drawing, from the University of Arkansas in 2017, and has taught at universities, community art non-profits, and public schools. He finished a two-year artist residency at the Lux Center for the Arts in Nebraska in 2019, and for the last two years, worked in Chicago as an art instructor at Misericordia – a facility that provides support for people with developmental disabilities. Owen currently lives in Fayetteville, AR.
Visit www.owenbuffington.com
Katie Bentley
Katie Bentley is a multidisciplinary visual artist working in watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media. As a visual artist she primarily focuses on commissioned watercolor house/architecture portraits, vibrant dopamine decor, and otherwise sentimental art. With a knack for homemade items + a love of the ancient Magnolia flower; Magnolia Made Art by Katie Bentley blossomed after almost 20 years of freelance painting. She is an Arkansas native that attended the UofA and has been residing in Fayetteville since 2008. She loves opportunities to collaborate with other local creatives and businesses that help support & bring our community together.
instagram: Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/magnoliamadeart/)
website: Magnolia-Made Art by Katie Bentley (www.magnoliamadeart.com)
Joy caffrey
Joy Caffrey has had the diverse background as artist, arts educator, yoga teacher, healer, workshop facilitator, and public speaker. Joy holds a fine arts degree from Rhode Island School of Design and is a graduate of Living Lessons, an energy medicine training program. She has exhibited her work in collective and solo shows.
“Drawing teaches me to see and understand the physical world: earth and matter, light and shadow.” - Joy Caffrey
Visit her website at JoyfulHealingCenter.com on Instagram or Facebook
Elsa Carenbauer
No Bones Left (Elsa Carenbauer) is an interdisciplinary artist. Her background in communication design is an important part of her self-expression. Ironically, the name No Bones Left was coined from a lost-in-translation moment with her Chinese mother. Her work explores human connection, incorporating themes of identity and heritage from the perspective of a bi-racial Asian American.
You can view her work and experience at https://www.nobonesleft.com/
Angela Carpenter
Angela combines the use of digital technology with traditional architectural building methods, shaping her approach and strategies for material experimentation. With a background in design-build and additive manufacturing, she explores multi-scale investigations in material manipulation and construction advancements. Angela holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Arkansas in 2006 and a Master of Architecture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2012. Currently, she is the Fabrication Lab Manager of the Build Lab at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design.
Natalie conway
Natalie Conway (b. 1989) is a painter and public school teacher in Fayetteville, Arkansas, her original hometown. After receiving her degree in Psychology and Philosophy, she returned to the University of Arkansas to study Painting from 2013 to 2015. Additionally, she attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art (2015) and Mount Gretna School of Art in Pennsylvania (summers 2014 and 2015). For Conway, creating and teaching are inseparable components of a practice focused on healing, both inward and outward. In fact, she draws no clear boundaries between the wide-ranging aspects of her daily life, which include yoga, tutoring math, studying history, and therapy work.
Camille delaune
Camille Delaune is fashion, brand, and wedding photographer based in Arkansas & available for travel.
Loves sunrises, analog film, her family, and a strong cup of coffee, all of which you can check out at
@camilledelaune on Instagram.
www.Camilledelaune.com
Juliana Duque
Juliana Duque is a Colombian-born, U.S.-based artist whose work explores cultural identity, the human experience, and the reclamation of voice through art. Rooted in her upbringing in Santa Marta, Colombia, her practice engages themes of trauma, resilience, and healing while also making space for joy, imagination, and possibility. Grounded in painting and expanding toward more immersive experiences, Duque’s work weaves memory, mysticism, and emotional truth, inviting connection, reflection, and collective healing.
Juliana relocated to the United States in 2008 and became an active part of Miami’s Wynwood art community, exhibiting in local galleries and collaborating with various studios. She later moved to Arkansas, where she currently works from her studio in Mount Sequoyah.
Shelby Lynne fleming
Shelby Fleming holds a BFA in Studio Art from Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville and is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Arkansas School of Art. Fleming’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and international at the CICA Museum, Gyenoggi-do, South Korea, the International Sculpture Conference, the Kansas City Art Institute, Art Center of the Ozarks, Arsagas at the Depot, The Apothecary Gallery, The Saint Louis Artists’ Guild, Art Saint Louis, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, and Buchanan Center for the Arts.
Visit Shelby Fleming Studio Art |Contemporary art | United States (shelbylynnefleming.com) - instagram @shelbylynnefleming
Gina Gallina
Crochet Artist Extraordinaire! Her approach to creating art stems from a lifelong love of innovation and experimentation, employing traditional skills in her own unique style. Leaving home she continued to crochet and sew, with a keen eye for vintage lines and curves, in both fashion and furniture. Along the way, she amassed an Alice in Wonderland style tool kit full of faerie totems large and small. To make ends meet, Gallina crocheted hats and gloves with colorful motifs of daisy flowers, lucky cherries, and her signature fried egg and bacon wooly scarf! During the pandemic, she sewed and embroidered thousands of beautiful face coverings friends sent all across country, and crocheted colorful pot holders raising hundreds of dollars for local charities.
visit www.ginagallina.com
Fred Goss
Fred Goss is an American TV actor, director, writer, producer, artist, and comedian. Goss began writing and staging his own plays in his twenties. He wrote sketch comedy during his thirties, primarily at the Los Angeles-based, ACME Comedy Theater. More recently, Fred wrote many of the episodes of his ABC comedy Sons & Daughters. He's written pilot scripts for ABC, NBC, and FOX. In 2014, he developed a half-hour comedy for ABC called The FunHouse. In 2013, he developed a half-hour comedy for USA Network called, HR. He currently has a deal with Paramount Digital for a comedy series called FOCUS.
Diana Michelle Hausam
Diana Michelle Hausam holds a BA in Photography and a BS in Biology. A photographer and documentary filmmaker, Diana’s work has been featured in galleries and film festivals regionally. She is currently working on a feature length documentary about the artist Tim West, as well as a book documenting the experience of off - grid Arkansas life and tintype photography.
You can view her work at www.dianamichellefineart.com
Shay Holloway
Creativity has been a silent partner in Shay Holloway’s life since a young age. Over time, she has developed a deep resonance with the freedom of expression found through making art. As a self-taught artist, her work is shaped by collected observations and personal interpretations of how she experiences life.
Shay has collaborated with institutions such as the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art serving as a teaching artist and the Walton Arts Center, and has facilitated workshops for both children and adults throughout the Northwest Arkansas community. Her work has been shown in Europe, multiple group exhibitions, and international art fairs such as Red Dot Miami and Art Santa Fe.
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Dale Heath
I appreciate the tender and the terrifying and I seek to merge these elements in my work. The images come about in the process of making marks and the effort to divest myself of what I know. Both occur if and when I let go of my own idea and the limits of my vision, and follow the work where it needs to go. I like the fluidity of house paints and big brushes, especially when combined with the tentative and fragile nature of cardboard.
Dale Heath studied art at Pratt Institute in New York City in the 1960s and with William Christenberry at the Corcoran School of Arts & Design in Washington, DC in the 1990s. She lives in Fayetteville, AR with her daughter, her son-in-law, and her grandson.
Visit www.daleheath.art
The Idle Class
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Dana Idlet
Dana Louise is a singer-songwriter, painter, hider seeker based out of Northwest Arkansas.
Over the past two years, Dana toured the U.S., Canada, and parts of Europe as Dana Louise and the Glorious Birds to support that band’s self-titled album. Currently, Dana is recording a series of previously unreleased songs and developing her sound with the help of a rotating cast of musical friends and collaborators.
As she explores the elastic capacities of language, sense, and song, Dana Louise continues to offer audiences what has been most important to her from the beginning: genuine human connection.
Amber imrie
Amber Imrie graduated with honors from UC Berkeley with a BA in Studio Art and Excellence in Sculpture award. Imrie received her MFA from Stanford University and was awarded the Anita Squires Fowler Award in Photography. Imrie founded Venison Magazine, an online contemporary art magazine, and Camp Venison, an art micro-residency.
Imrie has been an artist in residence and exhibited work nationally and internationally. Imrie was awarded the Murphy Cadogan award in 2017 to foster further exploration of her artistic potential in hybrid practice. They were a finalist for both the Summer SOMA residency and the Headlands Graduate Fellowship Award in 2018. Amber currently resides in the Åland Islands, Finland and is a founding member of The Alternative Art School.
Website : www.amberimrie.com
Rachel Jermain
Hi, I'm RJ!
Rachel Jermain is a mixed-media artist who works primarily in the realm of 2-D, physical art. A mastery of various mediums is a therapeutic balm, lending her a sense of peace and control in a world that feels so often frighteningly chaotic. She enjoys bending her talents to the creation of fantastic and often silly art, which serves as an allegory that life is what you make of it, and a reminder that there is refuge to be found in beauty and imagination.!
Visit RJ’s website at www.lunarspelunker.com
Emma Johnson
Emma Johnson is an artist whose work in painting and sculpture navigates the visual balance between comfort and discomfort, nostalgia and the unknown. Her practice is driven by a deep fascination with perception and the ways in which individual experiences shape varied understandings of reality. Johnson’s art aims to momentarily disrupt the viewer’s routine, inviting them to engage with unfamiliar emotions and perspectives. Through the interplay of form, color, and material, she delves into themes of femininity, dissociation, and the introspective journey of redefining her own identity.
Born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Emma Johnson received her BFA in Studio Painting and Sculpture at the University of Arkansas. Her work integrates these disciplines to illuminate the complexities of life and the gratitude that can be found within it."
Website: https://www.emmajohnson47.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_art_emma.johnson?igsh=MWcwd3psYnQ4dWZ3eA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr#
Jason jones
Jason Jones has been a working muralist for over 20 years. His whimsical art can be seen in many public and private spaces throughout the Ozark region.
In addition to his murals, Jones has gained recognition by painting on top of discarded art. One day in the studio he decided to paint a robot on an old damaged print that he had picked up at a thrift store. His original intention was only use the frame, but that day he decided to salvage the print, too. Ever since that first painting, Jones has been creating Altered Thrift Store Art. Whether a vintage print or an oil original painting, Jones alters each one by hand-painting on the piece, matching the color palette and the style, while adding his own twist to the discarded artwork.
Currently, Jones lives and maintains a studio in Fayetteville, Arkansas where he does sketches for commissioned murals and creates his altered thrift store art. Visit www.artistjasonjones.com
Maryevelyn Jones
I currently work with recycling, reusing, refurbishing, and repurposing electronic waste. There’s a tremendous resource of art supplies from computer components and other electronic items. E-waste can be a resource instead of just more landfill material.
I’m inspired to try new media like assemblage art and metalworking. I’ve made jewelry from circuit boards in resin. I encourage other artists to use electronic components to make art. I’ve been creating digital designs on refurbished computers that I can send to a Silhouette cutting machine and generate a physical representation of some digital work. I’m exploring art methods with polymer clay to add to my assemblage, metal and wire, and mixed media forms.
Rescuing an unwanted professional photo printer is allowing me to make new prints out of my old art. I create art pieces using traditional handmade techniques as well as contemporary digital forms of making art. Mt Sequoyah Creative Spaces is where I can refurbish and repurpose my creative self.
Acadia Kandora
Acadia Kandora is a printmaker, rock collector and nature enthusiast. She holds a MFA in Printmaking from the University of Arkansas and a BFA with concentrations in Graphic Design and Sculpture from Shepherd University. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally in cities such as Baltimore, Indianapolis, Bentonville, and Korpo, Finland. Her work revolves around her relationship to nature, the natural, landscape, and the intersection between the imaginary and the concrete.
Instagram: @acadiakprints
Email: acadia.kandora@gmail.com
Sam king
Sam King works at the intersection of painting’s material thresholds and the viewer’s instinct for interpretation to produce visually and sometimes physically disrupted continuities. King has collaborated with other artists and musicians on a number of occasions, most recently with Brooklyn-based experimental rock quartet JOBS, for the exhibition/release 'Similar Canvas / Different Properties'. In recent years he has exhibited at The Painting Center, NYC; Unrequited Leisure, Nashville; The Provincial, Kaleva, MI; DRAWL Southern Contemporary Art, Little Rock; Laconia Gallery, Boston, among others. In 2019, he curated 'Shelters, Monuments', featuring the work of artists Whiting Tennis and Sarah Norsworthy, for The Provincial. He was a 2007 recipient of the Arkansas Arts Council’s Individual Artist Fellowship. With Christopher Lowrance, he co-founded MW Capacity, a website devoted primarily to painting in the Midwest. With Stephanie Pierce, he co-founded Lalaland, a DIY community projects space in Fayetteville, AR, active 2011-2019. His work is held in a number of public and private collections. King attended the University of Tulsa (BFA, 2003) and Indiana University (MFA, 2005).
Visit www. sam-king.com
helen Kwiatkowski
I attended graduate school at A&M University in Commerce, Texas and received my MFA in 1983. After graduate school I lived in California where I did freelance work in San Diego, and taught art at Mira Costa College in San Marcos. In 1991 I began teaching art at Mary Hardin-Baylor University in Belton, Texas where I taught Design, Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, Digital Photography and Book Arts.
In 2019 I retired from full time teaching and moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas where I make art, teach workshops and play the ukulele. In 2021 I joined the Creative Arts Community at Mount Sequoyah where I currently maintain a studio.
Visit www.helenkwiatkowski.com
Kellie LEhr
Kellie Lehr is an artist living in Fayetteville, AR. Lehr holds a BS in International Economics and spent 2013–2018 studying in the Drawing and Painting program at the University of Arkansas. In 2019, she was selected for Art File by The Painting Center in New York and for the National Museum of Women in the Arts juried registry by it's Arkansas committee. Exhibitions include 21C Museum Hotel in Bentonville, AR and the 59th Annual Delta Exhibition at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, Tapped at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnatti and in 2020 New Optics at The Painting Center in NYC. Her work is in private collections throughout Arkansas, California, Texas, Florida, Wisconsin, New Jersey and New York. Lehr will begin her MFA in Visual Art at Lesley Art and Design (Boston, MA) in June, 2020.
Lehr is the Gallery Director for 211 South (formerly The Gallery at Midtown), a contemporary art gallery located within Engel & Volkers NWA at 211 South Main St. in Bentonville, AR.
Visit www.kellielehr.com
Taylor Loftin
Taylor Loftin is an artist from Jackson, Mississippi. He received his BFA from Memphis College of Art in 2015 and his MFA from the University of Arkansas in 2021. Primarily a painter, Loftin approaches art making as an opportunity to re-examine his relationships to love, labor, familial and cultural histories, masculinity, religion, and art. He is a 2019 alum of the Skowhegan School of Painting & Drawing and has been a resident at the Wassaic Project in New York and at Stove Works in Chattanooga. His work is currently on view at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson.
Visit Taylor’s website here https://www.taylorloftin.com/
Sarah loucks
Sarah Loucks is a playwright and theatre maker. She produces her plays under the name MouthRadio in Austin, TX and is currently an MFA candidate in playwriting at The University of Arkansas. Most recently, Sarah produced a performance festival dedicated to Dolly Parton called DOLLY FEST 2019 in Austin, TX. Her work has been presented or developed in Austin, TX and New York City at Hyde Park Theater, The VORTEX, Jimmie’s .43, The Museum of Human Achievement, MastroGeorge Theatre, and ATM Gallery. She is a winner of the Three New American Plays Award from Forward Flux Productions.
All the design work I create starts in my sketchbook with a pencil and paper and an eye towards creating a unique piece of Graphic Art that serves your brand.
For over 27 years I’ve created apparel, flat stock and unique graphics for hundreds of clients helping them tell their brand’s story. I value my work and the special relationship with my clients that allows me to serve their needs.
For behind the scenes videos, interviews and more go to my YouTube channel HERE!
Grace McCraw
BIO - Grace McCraw is an inter-dispensary artist with an emphasis on ceramics. She is fascinated with the idea of joy and the labor that is necessary for every moment of pleasure throughout the day. She has shown work locally and nationally from Fayetteville, AR to Dallas, tx to new york city, NY. When she is not working in the studio she is working at Presley paige to help create event installations, new products, and digital designs.
John McGowan
Born in Fayetteville, AR and growing up in Springdale, he was tutored as a young artist by Kathy Thompson of Fayetteville. As a teenager John attended Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, MI for two summers to continue developing his abilities. He attended the University of Tulsa where he studied under artist Binod Shrestha and where he received a degree in political science and a minor in fine arts with a focus in painting. John also holds a Masters in Teaching from the University of Central Arkansas.
John’s current artistic focus is on interior spaces, human-environment interactions and human movement. His family background as Irish-American deeply informs his connection to the world and nature. He hopes that his artwork can evoke curiosity and contemplation for all.
He can be contacted at john.thomas.mcgowan@gmail.com
Shelley Mouber
Shelley, a self taught artist who holds a B.A. in sociology has been making art objects since early childhood. Her use of non-traditional materials, vibrant color and allegory to construct content continues to influence her art process.
Shelley’s use of repurposed materials informs her mosaic-like figurative collages to explore and celebrate the interconnectedness of humanity.
Her artwork has been included in group and solo exhibitions and private collections throughout the world.
Donna Mulhollan
I am one half of the folk duo Still on the Hill. I make my living as a musician but my side-passion is currently needle felting.
I choose to call myself a ‘craftivist’ as most of the collages and images I create are auctioned off for various causes.
I began needle felting during the onset of Covid and created a felted bird every day. I auctioned them off and gave whatever amount they brought in to 7 Hills Homeless Shelter. I went on to create thirty endangered birds to raise scholarships for students to attend the Halberg Audubon Ecology Camp. I felted all fifteen Crane species and sent them flying around the globe to support of the International Crane Foundation.
For years a small sliver on our kitchen table served as a space for creating art but 2 years ago I got a bona fide studio up on Mt. Sequoyah and I am up there at the crack o dawn most every day playing my banjo and viola before anyone else is awake and poke poke poking with my felting needle to create whatever speaks to me on that day. Learn more at: www.stillonthehill.com
L.a. noRman
BIO
L.A. Norman works in mediums across the disciplines: poetry, short fiction and visual art (watercolor, pastel on wood, ink brush painting and currently creative fine art photography). She has a long history of being active in the arts and humanities as past project director for the Arkansas Humanities Council for seven years; organizer of a women’s coffee house series featuring writers and performing artists in Little Rock, Arkansas; and a writer-presenter at the first Writers Conference and Workshop in Honor of Rachel Carson, Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Norman holds a master’s and doctoral degree in literature. She credits her interest in creative photography to the late Joseph Phillips who taught in the Art Department at University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Ava Obert
Ava Obert was raised in Mountain Home, Arkansas but coming this Fall she will be living in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Obert started professionally painting at age nine. Since then she’s grown to love all painting mediums and enjoys Plein Air painting. This year she’ll be attending the University of Arkansas, pursuing a Studio Fine Arts Degree. Her earliest art mentors were Duane Hada, John Lasater, and Jason Sacran. Obert has been lucky enough to study in Civita Casetellena, Italy with Israel Hershburg at the JSS School of Art, in 2017. Obert attends Plein Air events every summer and spends most of her days in the studio or painting outdoors.
Open MOuth
The Open Mouth Reading Series was founded in 2015 to foster contact between professional poets and our local Northwest Arkansas community poets outside an academic setting. Our founders saw that many institutional barriers limited access to the literary poetry community and believed that poetry should be available to anyone.
Elizabeth Quinn (she/her) lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She studied photography at Sewanee, the University of the South, and has shown work at Kentuck Art Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and at the University Gallery in Sewanee, Tennessee.
Quinn studied creative writing at the University of Arkansas and Virginia Commonwealth University, where she earned an MFA in fiction writing. She writes short stories about people, most of which focus on the unusual internal lives of seemingly ordinary people and on the complexity of even the simplest human interaction.
Visit her website here.
Ziba rajabi
Ziba Rajabi (b.1988, Tehran, Iran) received her MFA from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and her BFA from the Sooreh University, Tehran. She is the recipient of the student artist grant for the Artist 360 Grant, a program sponsored by Mid-America Arts Alliance. Her work has been included in a number of exhibitions, nationally and internationally, such as Masur Museum, LA; CICA Museum, South Korea; Aran Gallery, Iran; Art Fileds, SC; Pensacola Museum, Florida; Site:Brooklyn, NY; Amos Eno Gallery, NY; Millersville University, Indiana University, and Mim Gallery, Los Angeles.
As an Iranian female artist based in Arkansas, my work revolves around the desire to reconcile my relationship with two distinctive spaces: Tehran (my native land) and Arkansas (where I reside now). In my paintings and installations, I re-create intimate moments culled from my home and neighborhood in Iran. Due to a situation where I am far away from my homeland, I can feel my memories of home fading away. By utilizing memories from my past, I take aspects of images that are no longer recognizable and, therefore, are abstracted into shapes that allude to elements found in my homeland.
Suzannah Schreckhise
Suzannah Schreckhise is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She earned a Bachelor of Art at the University of the Ozarks. She is a 2018 Art Inc Fellow. She has participated in and won awards at numerous state and national exhibitions, including shows at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, Topanga Gallery in Los Angeles as well as exhibited at the Ceres Gallery in New York City. She received 1st place at the NEA Big Read Recycled Art Exhibition at the Windgate Gallery at UofA Fort Smith. As well as the Best Sculpture Award for her piece “Falling to Pieces” in the 2018 Artists of Northwest Arkansas Exhibition. She has participated in group exhibits including “Our Front Porch '' sponsored in part by the Mid-America Arts Alliance. Her art has been featured in several publications, including the international juried magazine Studio Visit. In 2021, her work will tour the state as part of Arkansas state Women to Watch exhibition Paper Routes, curated by Allison Glen for the Arkansas National Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts; she was juried onto the committee's artist registry in 2019. She most won 1st Place at the RAM 2019 Annual Invitational that was awarded this 2020 solo show and a cash award. Suzannah was awarded the Artist 360 grant in 2020.
Kathy P Thompson
Kathy Thompson was born in El Dorado, AR and graduated from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA after attending college in Fayetteville and Little Rock, AR. In 1976 she and her son returned to Fayetteville and from that year to present she has worked as a visual artist.
Visit Kathy’s website at kathypthompson.com
jody travis thompson
Jody Travis Thompson was born in 1972 in Sulphur, Louisiana. He began his formal artistic education in 1982 in his hometown, through private classes with Jane Ludwig-Johnson. This education would instruct Thompson on the mechanics of manipulating the medium of oil paint in Renaissance tradition. “I was being trained to see the world as paint” Thompson states. The system this forced him to concentrate on a painting being first and foremost about the process of paint, instead of being about the subject matter. Thompson adds, “…by training my brain to see the world in paint rather than seeing a photograph, therefore the life of the painting is free in the action of making it instead of being confined by the thought of what it should or shouldn’t be”.
Jody completed his Masters of Fine Arts from the university of Arkansas in 2019.
Tommy Tropical
Tommy Tropical is a local artist specializing in public art and creative advertisement. He has painted several locations around Fayetteville such as Nomads, Doomsday Coffee, The Kava Bar, Starlight Skatium, West End and Free Geek. There are more murals scattered across Arkansas, and he enjoys traveling to paint temporary installations at events and festivals. He enjoys using bright, contrasting funky colors and detailed scenes to grab your attention and have the public's imagination step into immersive worlds. If you are looking to reinvent spaces and create a new atmosphere he is someone to ask!
Mary trulock
I interpret my world through movement. I’ve been a ballet dancer for over 45 years dancing, teaching and choreographing. I’m now choreographing storybook Ballets for Rhythm and Shoes. Using music, costumes and choreography I create my own version of the stories.
I taught art and G.T. In the public schools for 26 years. I love children’s art, it’s natural approach to color and form. After two trips to China in 2006 and 2008 I was deeply influenced by the Chinese paintings produced with bamboo brushes and ink as well as their many styles of calligraphy. I approach my watercolors contemplating each stroke, it’s movement, and the way I hold my brush. Each painting hoping to infuse light and shadows. I paint on the floor so I can move around, hold my paper at all angles, let color fall off the paper, do a pirouette…
At this point my studio is filled with paintings of my ballets, animal portraits, and costumes in the works.
Rosalind Waiwaiole
Rosalind Waiwaiole
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a visual artist and I work in oils, charcoal and mixed media. I am drawn to the natural environment and architectural structures.
Jana Whatley
ARTIST STATEMENT
Jana Whatley is a multi-disciplinary artist and art facilitator. Her primary foci are liberatory art education, performance art, sculpture, and lo-fi media-based art.
“We can live many lives through art. My practice is deeply rooted in this. I make little allegories that dig around in wispy, elusive territories. I examine the artist's role in the dynamic facilitation of shared reality. I am chasing the fuzzy little threads that tie the experience of the individual to the experience of the collective whole.” -Jana Whatley
Visit Jana’s website at www.janawhatley.com
Kat Wilson
I am a photographic artist based in Northwest Arkansas where I earned my MFA and co-founded the nonprofit gallery Bottle Rocket. I also directed CACHE Studios, a 25,000 square foot warehouse that hosted twelve artist residencies.
I first gained national attention with my Habitats series, portraits staged in personal spaces that merge people and environments to reveal identity and culture. Building on this work, I created #SelfieThrone, an immersive installation where participants become part of the art. Featured at Elsewhere Festival, Format Festival, and in venues across the region, #SelfieThrone also inspired me to found Party Art, a platform that creates connection and community through shared celebration.
My work has been published in Communication Arts, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post, exhibited at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, projected at the Louvre, and shown in many other venues. Alongside my art practice, I work as a commercial photographer, proud to move fluidly between art and technical expertise. I also build websites, run major corporate social media accounts, and enjoy public speaking where I share stories about my work and the human side of creativity.
links: katwilsonartist.com selfie-throne.com katwilsonphoto.com