Apr 27 Saturday
Art Springs, the free 2-day outdoor festival, takes place the first weekend of Arts & The Park at Hill Wheatley Plaza in the heart of historic Hot Springs. Art Springs is an annual juried festival filled with talented artists, artisans, and fine crafts. Food trucks, beverages for purchase, a children’s area with a book giveaway, the Renaissance Fair, and storytelling make it an annual favorite for the entire family. Also included in the Art Springs festivities:
Chalk Walk: A Sidewalk Chalk Event Under Pressure a steamroller block printing eventChildren’s Book Giveaway presented in partnership with the Hot Springs Community Foundation. Glover Awards for Songwriting Excellence – The fourth annual contest, paid homage to local music legend singer/songwriter, Henry Glover and the final round will take place on the Art Springs Stage, Saturday afternoon, April 27.
Arts & The Park: Celebrate Imagination will be held from April 26 through May 5, 2024 with indoor, outdoor, in-person, and virtual offerings. The theme for the festival, “Celebrate Imagination”, will focus on on cleverness, originality, ingenuity, and the limitlessness of the mind. Celebrate Imagination hopes to highlight how the imagination supports and benefits not just the artistic process, but other areas of life such as technology.
The printed program for Arts & The Park will be published in the April issue of The Springs Magazine. Click here if you would like to see it after April 1.
Arts & The Park is hosted each year by the Hot Springs Area Cultural Alliance as part of the organization’s mission to celebrate the arts and culture of the Hot Springs area. Arts & The Park 2024 will include live performances, workshops, children’s events, and art exhibitions.
All Arts & The Park events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. All events are “family friendly.”
The ARTx3 Campus hosts Game on Main, a monthly program providing space for youths in grades 5-12 to play games and socialize. It is held on the fourth Saturday of the month from 1-3 p.m. at The ARTSpace on Main, 623 S. Main St. in Pine Bluff.
Participants can enjoy classic board games like Uno and chess and get into STEAM activities in the computer lab.
This is a free event facilitated by ARTx3 staff. No registration is required. For more information, contact Bethany Gere at bgere@artx3.org.
ASC will host an opening reception for the photography exhibition “Field Notes” by Gary Cawood, 5-7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19. This exhibition is in the Loft Gallery at The ARTSpace on Main, 623 S. Main St.
Cawood is drawn to sites where the natural contours of the landscape have been disturbed or disrupted, such as abandoned quarries or excavations for new construction projects. As the landscape goes through a transformation via human persuasion, nature inevitably asserts its own transformations and converts the shiny and new to the tarnished and worn. His work in this series of 33 images emphasizes scale as an element of visual composition, exploring various ways the measuring scale can be integrated into the scene, sometimes titling the effect to be more ambiguous than factual.
The exhibition will be on view through Wednesday, April 24. It is sponsored by Relyance Bank.
Artwork: “Former Address”
The ARTx3 Campus will host an opening reception for “Quotidian Moments: Different Lenses” an exhibition by Rhaelene Lowther and Anna Zusman, from 5-7 p.m. Friday, March 22. The exhibition will be in the Ben J. Altheimer Gallery at The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, 701 S. Main St.
This collaborative exhibition was born from the scenic walks the two Magnolia-based artists took together during the pandemic. They discovered that they responded most to transformation and directed to subject matter related to seasons, lighting, weather, and lifecycles. These became the catalysts for concepts that emerged into a series of paintings. These paintings provide a glimpse into how observation and creativity, the willingness to explore them, can lead to important discoveries about oneself and those surrounding them.
The exhibition will be on view through Saturday, June 29. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. It is sponsored by Relyance Bank.
For more information, contact Kevin Haynie, curator of collections and exhibitions, at khanyie@artx3.org or call 870-536-3375. Visit artx3.org/exhibitions for a list of current and upcoming exhibitions.
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