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On November 8, JD Clayton will release his new EP, “Smoke Out the Fire” at Harry’s Downtown in Fort Smith. The EP can be pre-ordered through iTunes. Two songs are now streaming on Spotify. JD also received a recent feature about this debut release, supported by an Artists 360 grant, in the Southwest Times Record. ...

John Rankine’s “Men with Earrings”, a portrait series of people in the community of Eureka Springs, AR who identify as male wearing an assortment of clip-on earrings challenging perceived notions of gender and identity opens on Thursday, November 1 at BREWS in Eureka Springs. The exhibit can be viewed through December 16.  You can hear...

As part of the Artists 360 program, grant recipients convened October 12-14 at the 21c Museum Hotel in Bentonville, Arkansas for a weekend retreat focused on professional development and strategic planning for their awarded projects. They were joined by the Artists 360 facilitation team comprised of Mid-America Arts Alliance’s artist services staff (Lisa Cordes, Sarah...

Artists 360 is proud to announce the twenty artist recipients of its inaugural project and student awards. Twenty practicing and student artists will be granted a total of $114,000 to further their work in the flourishing Northwest Arkansas area arts community, representing the four counties of Benton, Carroll, Sebastian, and Washington. These artists represent a...