BNTNVLSubscribe
Galleries, stages & studios

Do

How NWA fills an afternoon off or a night out — galleries to wander, studios you can walk into, stages worth the drive. Narrow by discipline, or by town.

18
places · 4 towns
18 places
Library · Rogers

Rogers Public Library

The book club that meets at the brewery, not the branch. No card required.

→
Library

Bentonville Public Library

Your library card covers laser cutters too, free after one short orientation.

→
Makerspace · Fayetteville

Fayetteville Public Library — Center for Innovation

Pro fabrication labs, A/V studios, and flight and heavy-equipment simulators, free to anyone, inside the Fayetteville library.

→
Shop · Bentonville

Yarn Alchemy

The fiber-arts shop and studio NWA's makers didn't have, built by someone who kept hitting the gap herself.

→
Farm

Cobblestone Farms

The nonprofit farm behind a twelve-week harvest share and a two-county food pantry.

nonprofit
→
Restaurant · Bentonville

Bentoville Food Theater

Ticketed chef residencies downtown, where the kitchen is the act you watch.

→
Performing arts · Fayetteville

Walton Arts Center

Fayetteville's Procter & Gamble Broadway Series, plus an arts-education program reaching 35,000 a year.

→
Arts organization · Fayetteville

Community Creative Center

Arkansas' only community printmaking studio, plus a working clay floor and kiln yard, in Fayetteville.

→
Performing arts · FayettevilleWorth the trip

TheatreSquared

The Equity company in downtown Fayetteville that commissions its own plays, from Qui Nguyen to Lisa D'Amour. Ten-time NEA grantee.

→
Museum · Bentonville

The Momentary

A 1947 cheese factory turned Crystal Bridges' living half, where Tavares Strachan's neon 'You Belong Here' lights the Green at dusk.

→
Performing arts · Springdale

The Medium

Artist-run arts building in downtown Springdale: 25,000 square feet of black-box theater, galleries and open studios put in the hands of the region's makers.

→
Studio · Fayetteville

Terra Studios

The Ozark studio behind the Bluebird of Happiness, fronting six wild acres of trolls, a labyrinth and a castle built by 200-plus artists.

→
Studio · Bentonville

Hillfolk

Pressroom's Bea Apple and Shindig Paperie's Trisha Logan spent careers launching rooms. Their textile studio in Bentonville's 8th Street Market is built to produce makers.

→
Performing arts · Fayetteville

George's Majestic Lounge

Live music on Dickson Street since 1927, by the railroad tracks, most nights of the week.

→
Studio · Bentonville

Fifth Street Studio

A Bentonville pottery studio built around access — beginner to advanced, memberships, open studio, and shelves of clay and glaze for the makers it grows.

→
School · Bentonville

Brightwater: A Center for the Study of Food

Where NWACC trains the region's cooks, bakers and butchers, and where a community class hands you the teaching kitchen without a transcript.

→
Museum · Bentonville

21c Museum Hotel Bentonville

Rotating contemporary art, free 365 days a year, with a flock of green penguins loose in the building.

→
Museum · Bentonville

Crystal Bridges

A Turrell at dawn, a Wright house on the trail, five centuries of American art — and the door never charges.

→