JULY 1
Architecture Speaker Series – “Pedro Guerrero, Photographer for Frank Lloyd Wright” with Emily Bills, managing director of the Julius Shulman Institute of Architecture Photography, 7 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. $10 nonmembers. Register at crystalbridges.org or 657-2335.
JULY 4
Arts and crafts — Children and parents are invited to make a patriotic craft and enjoy refreshments, 1-3 p.m., Fort Smith Museum of History. 783-7841.
Featured Artisan – Susan Tinker, weaver, seamstress, quilter and painter, will be demonstrating her silk-painting technique from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum Store. Free. No registration required.
JULY 8
Keynote Lecture – Bass Pro Shops Founder John Morris shares his love of fishing and the evolution of this leisure sport, inspired by the exhibition “Fish Stories: Early Images of American Game Fish,” 7 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. $10; $8 for members. Register at crystalbridges.org or 657-2335.
JULY 9
Buckyball Talk – Poetry Lift Off! With Houston Hughes and invited poets, 7:30 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. Register at crystalbridges.org or 657-2335.
JULY 14
Artists’ Reception — For Melissa Garrison and Matt Miller, 6-8 p.m., Arts Center of the Ozarks in Springdale. Exhibit through July 31. Free. 751-5441.
JULY 15
Boundless Book Club – “The Sea” by John Banville, 6 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. Register at crystalbridges.org or 657-2335.
Wednesday Over Water — “Warhol’s Nature” with Crystal Bridges Culinary Director Case Dighero, along with Crystal Bridges curators, 6 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. $30, $24 for members; open to guests ages 21 and older. Register at crystalbridges.org or 657-2335.
JULY 22
“Ozarkumentaries” – Seedling Film Association presents its third annual Ozarkumentaries series, short films made by Arkansas filmmakers about the Ozark region, 8:30 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. Register at crystalbridges.org or 657-2335.
JULY 24
Keynote Lecture – With artist Jamie Wyeth and Elliot Davis, curator of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which organized the “Jamie Wyeth” traveling exhibition, 7-8 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. $10, $8 for members. Register at crystalbridges.org or 657-2335.
JULY 25
Art Talk — “Warhol and Wyeth” with curator Chad Alligood, 1 p.m. Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. No registration required. (Exhibition fee waived.)
JULY 30
Opening Reception — Annual RAM Invitational “Man vs. Machine: The Art of Expression and the Wired World,” 5-7 p.m., Fort Smith Regional Art Museum. Free for members, $5 for nonmembers, through Nov. 1. 784-2787.
ALL MONTH
“Motorcycle Memories” — Features vintage motorcycles and photographs exploring the “art of the motorcycle” from the 1940s through present day, through Aug. 30, Fort Smith Museum of History. $5 adults, $2 children. 783-7841.
“Summer” — A variety of artists’ paintings, photography and mixed media, through September, White Lotus in Fayetteville. 582-4806.
Solo Exhibition — Nick Shoulders’ work functions as a seam between the past and present, presenting decomposed sculptural offerings to embody characteristics of things both eerie and unseen, through Aug. 6, University of Arkansas Student Art Gallery in Fayetteville. 575-5202
Artist of the Month — Carol Hart, acrylic figurative painter who explores the relationship of colors and shapes in everyday settings, through July 31, Heartwood Gallery in Fayetteville. 444-0888.
“Through the Eyes of a Child” — Works from the Montessori School of Fort Smith, through Aug. 31, Fort Smith Regional Art Museum. Free. 784-2787.
“American Encounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life” — Shown as part of a collaboration among the High Museum, the Terra Foundation for American Art & the Musee du Louvre, through Sept. 14, Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. crystalbridges.org.
“Selections From the Permanent Collection” – Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, through Sept. 6. $5 for nonmembers. 784-2787.
“Fish Stories: Early Images of American Game Fish” – 20 color plates based on watercolor paintings by Samuel Kilbourne, on show through Sept. 21, Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. crystalbridges.org.
Student Exhibition — Showcasing each area within the University of Arkansas art department, through July 31, Fine Arts Center Gallery on campus. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday & 2-5 p.m. Sunday. Free. 575-7987.
“Explore Arkansas” – The ArkMoPhs (Arkansas Mobile Phoneographers) second annual exhibit, through Aug. 31, Smith-Pendergraft Campus Center at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith and features photos taken and edited with smartphones. Hours are 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Thursday & 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Friday. Free. 788-7300.
“Warhol’s Nature” – Drawn primarily from the extensive collections of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the exhibit explores the artist’s surprising lifelong engagement with nature as subject matter, July 4-Oct. 5, Crystal Bridges Museum. $4 for nonmembers. crystalbridges.org.
“The Queer South: Alternative Expressions in the Bible Belt” – A group show focusing on southern artists that identify as LGBTQ+, July 2-Aug. 2, Fayetteville Underground. Opening reception 5-9 p.m. July 2.
Steven Schneider – Large format paintings from his new “Repurposed Classics,” a series of iconic autos discovered in a local salvage yard, through Aug. 3, Bank of Fayetteville on the downtown square. schneiderarts.com.
“Jamie Wyeth” – Examining the artist’s distinctive approach to realism over the course of six decades, July 25-Oct. 5, Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. crystalbridges.org.
If you wish to submit an art event for August’s Art OverView calendar, email it to Jocelyn Murphy at [email protected] no later than July 15. Any submitted art images need to be in high resolution, please.