FAYETTEVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL WILL BE BEST YET!
Festival Set for First Two Weekends in September
Fayetteville, Ark – July 10, 2006 – The 2006 Fayetteville Arts Festival will span two weekends, September 1, 2, 3, 8 and 9. Special to this year’s festival is the first weekend’s new location. Traditionally held around the Walton Arts Center and West Avenue, September 1 through 3 will still focus on the visual arts and will be located at the Fayetteville Town Center. The second weekend focuses on the performing arts and will be held at the Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios and other Dickson Street locations.
This year’s Fayetteville Arts Festival will kick-off with the very first Open Space Art Party on Friday, September 1, beginning at 6:00 PM, at the Fayetteville Town Center. The party will feature the music of the nationally known Lyrique Quintet, and as the night progresses, party goers can dance to the awesome DJ’s from Dancenhance. Bordinos, Ella’s Restaurant and Emelia’s Mediterranean Kitchen will provide food, and beverages will be provided by Post Familie Vineyards, St. John Wines and Hog Haus Brewing Company. There will also be an auction for an original sculpture by local artist Steve Hoover. The Open Space Art Party is a ticketed event that allows attendees the first chance to purchase artwork before the festival goes full throttle on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $25, and proceeds benefit the Fayetteville Arts Festival.
The first weekend will feature artwork both inside and outside the Fayetteville Town Center. In addition to the 41 featured artists selling original work, the festival will have installation pieces by Leilani Law, Community Access Television and Art Amiss. The New Design School will host the Experiential Technology and Design Lab where festival-goers can create digital graffiti that will project inside the Town Center. Ceramic Cow Productions will perform Cow Paddies throughout the weekend, which are excerpts from the wildly popular and hysterical Dupont series. The FAF Main Stage will feature dance and poetry as well as other play and literary readings.
Public art installations are a major component to the 2006 Fayetteville Arts Festival. Local artist Leilani Law will install a grand walkway to the Fayetteville Town Center. Made of colored fabric, this piece will offer a dramatic entry point for the festival.
Community Access Television will create an installation featuring a giant CAT head, equipped with a video camera and microphone. Festival goers can sit in the head and make statements, performances…whatever they like. These video pieces will broadcast the following week on CAT.
An ongoing installation of the festival’s public art component is the currently running Gallery Without Walls, featuring sculptures by Hank Kaminsky. The Gallery Without Walls began on June 16 and will culminate on the festival’s first weekend with a speech by the artist. The Gallery Without Walls highlights five pieces of Kaminsky’s work located at the Fayetteville Town Center, the Arvest Bank Plaza on the Downtown Square, the entrance to the Fayetteville Public Library, Walton Arts Center’s West Avenue Garden and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church’s Meditation Garden. The organizers’ goal is to promote the importance and appreciation of public art while offering an opportunity for artists of large-scale artwork to exhibit and sell their work through this “gallery”. The gallery is a major piece to the public art component of this year’s festival. In addition to the festival’s art installations, current works of public art will be highlighted in the artist catalog, and festival goers will be encouraged to view these works, hopefully cultivating a public expectation and support for future public art pieces.
In addition to installing a public art piece, Art Amiss, a Fayetteville Arts Festival partner, will hold their fall event the evening of Saturday, September 2. Art Amiss is a local artists’ collective who utilizes semiannual events and their website (www.artamiss.org) to promote emerging artists living and working in or who are from Arkansas. Their events are extremely popular and feature artists from multiple genres, including 2D and 3D visual art, film, fashion and music.
Seven Hills Homeless Center, Flat Rock Clay Supplies and Gallery and George’s Majestic Lounge will also have their first “Bowl-A-Thon” at the Fayetteville Arts Festival on September 2 and 3 as part of their Empty Bowls Project 2006. Flat Rock Clay Supplies and Gallery will provide the materials, and the public will have the opportunity to make handcrafted bowls. Participants can glaze the bowls at Flat Rock on the following Saturdays, or Flat Rock will finish them by the first of November. The bowls will be donated to Seven Hills Homeless Center and used on November 14 as part of a benefit show at George’s Majestic Lounge, where local chefs will prepare and serve soup. Proceeds and donations from this event will benefit Seven Hills Homeless Center.
The Fayetteville Arts Festival will once again partner with the Fayetteville Farmers’ Market on September 2 at the Historic Downtown Square. The Fayetteville Farmers’ Market has become one of the most anticipated cultural events of the year. By moving the first weekend of the festival to the Town Center, organizers further strengthened this partnership between two cultural entities, creating one huge event for Northwest Arkansas.
The second weekend of the Fayetteville Arts Festival, September 8 and 9, will be a weekend of performance. Last year’s hugely successful 24-Hour Play Festival returns to the Walton Arts Center on September 9. Participating teams must create and perform an original short in just 24 hours, following the Very Important Meeting where certain guidelines are given to the teams. Due to last year’s sellout at the Starr Theatre, this year’s play festival will be in the larger Studio Theatre at the Nadine Baum Studios.
Due to the success of and interest in last year’s 24-Hour Play Festival, Fayetteville Arts Festival’s organizers created the first 40-Hour Youth Play Festival, which will also be held on September 9. Teams consisting of youth between the seventh and twelfth grades will follow very similar guidelines to the adult teams. However, each youth team will be partnered with professional theatre mentors through the play development and rehearsal, but the work and performance is entirely created by the young people. This is a unique opportunity for youth to work with a theatre professional and enrich their theatrical craft.
The second weekend will also highlight the birthday celebration of a Fayetteville Cultural Icon. George’s Majestic Lounge’s 79th Birthday Party. The party will feature music by Oreo Blue, Cate Brothers, Nace Brothers, Steve Pryor, Herring Rogers and Sipe, and more. Join the Fayetteville Arts Festival all weekend in celebrating this legendary venue for music and the performing arts.
The McCoy Gallery at the Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios will have a special exhibit during both weekends of the Fayetteville Arts Festival. It might be called a window on a community, a portrait of Northwest Arkansas – it is more; it is less. A Second Glance: Photography by Don House will be on display from August 28 through December 29. During the 2005 Fayetteville Arts Festival, Don House setup a temporary studio and recruited participants to have their photograph taken. Over 360 images were made of 291 humans and 9 dogs over a period of eight hours. A selection of that collection will appear in the McCoy Gallery.
More events and activities will be announced as the festival draws close. Be on the lookout! For more information, go to www.fayettevillearts.org or call (479) 571-3337.
The Fayetteville Arts Festival is produced by Fayetteville Downtown Partners and supports their mission to lead in the continual creation of the Fayetteville Downtown Experience. Fayetteville Downtown Partners believes that the arts are at the heart of Fayetteville’s identity as one of the most livable communities in the United States and vital to a dynamic, diverse and sustainable downtown.
Fayetteville, Ark – July 10, 2006 – The 2006 Fayetteville Arts Festival will span two weekends, September 1, 2, 3, 8 and 9. Special to this year’s festival is the first weekend’s new location. Traditionally held around the Walton Arts Center and West Avenue, September 1 through 3 will still focus on the visual arts and will be located at the Fayetteville Town Center. The second weekend focuses on the performing arts and will be held at the Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios and other Dickson Street locations.
This year’s Fayetteville Arts Festival will kick-off with the very first Open Space Art Party on Friday, September 1, beginning at 6:00 PM, at the Fayetteville Town Center. The party will feature the music of the nationally known Lyrique Quintet, and as the night progresses, party goers can dance to the awesome DJ’s from Dancenhance. Bordinos, Ella’s Restaurant and Emelia’s Mediterranean Kitchen will provide food, and beverages will be provided by Post Familie Vineyards, St. John Wines and Hog Haus Brewing Company. There will also be an auction for an original sculpture by local artist Steve Hoover. The Open Space Art Party is a ticketed event that allows attendees the first chance to purchase artwork before the festival goes full throttle on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $25, and proceeds benefit the Fayetteville Arts Festival.
The first weekend will feature artwork both inside and outside the Fayetteville Town Center. In addition to the 41 featured artists selling original work, the festival will have installation pieces by Leilani Law, Community Access Television and Art Amiss. The New Design School will host the Experiential Technology and Design Lab where festival-goers can create digital graffiti that will project inside the Town Center. Ceramic Cow Productions will perform Cow Paddies throughout the weekend, which are excerpts from the wildly popular and hysterical Dupont series. The FAF Main Stage will feature dance and poetry as well as other play and literary readings.
Public art installations are a major component to the 2006 Fayetteville Arts Festival. Local artist Leilani Law will install a grand walkway to the Fayetteville Town Center. Made of colored fabric, this piece will offer a dramatic entry point for the festival.
Community Access Television will create an installation featuring a giant CAT head, equipped with a video camera and microphone. Festival goers can sit in the head and make statements, performances…whatever they like. These video pieces will broadcast the following week on CAT.
An ongoing installation of the festival’s public art component is the currently running Gallery Without Walls, featuring sculptures by Hank Kaminsky. The Gallery Without Walls began on June 16 and will culminate on the festival’s first weekend with a speech by the artist. The Gallery Without Walls highlights five pieces of Kaminsky’s work located at the Fayetteville Town Center, the Arvest Bank Plaza on the Downtown Square, the entrance to the Fayetteville Public Library, Walton Arts Center’s West Avenue Garden and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church’s Meditation Garden. The organizers’ goal is to promote the importance and appreciation of public art while offering an opportunity for artists of large-scale artwork to exhibit and sell their work through this “gallery”. The gallery is a major piece to the public art component of this year’s festival. In addition to the festival’s art installations, current works of public art will be highlighted in the artist catalog, and festival goers will be encouraged to view these works, hopefully cultivating a public expectation and support for future public art pieces.
In addition to installing a public art piece, Art Amiss, a Fayetteville Arts Festival partner, will hold their fall event the evening of Saturday, September 2. Art Amiss is a local artists’ collective who utilizes semiannual events and their website (www.artamiss.org) to promote emerging artists living and working in or who are from Arkansas. Their events are extremely popular and feature artists from multiple genres, including 2D and 3D visual art, film, fashion and music.
Seven Hills Homeless Center, Flat Rock Clay Supplies and Gallery and George’s Majestic Lounge will also have their first “Bowl-A-Thon” at the Fayetteville Arts Festival on September 2 and 3 as part of their Empty Bowls Project 2006. Flat Rock Clay Supplies and Gallery will provide the materials, and the public will have the opportunity to make handcrafted bowls. Participants can glaze the bowls at Flat Rock on the following Saturdays, or Flat Rock will finish them by the first of November. The bowls will be donated to Seven Hills Homeless Center and used on November 14 as part of a benefit show at George’s Majestic Lounge, where local chefs will prepare and serve soup. Proceeds and donations from this event will benefit Seven Hills Homeless Center.
The Fayetteville Arts Festival will once again partner with the Fayetteville Farmers’ Market on September 2 at the Historic Downtown Square. The Fayetteville Farmers’ Market has become one of the most anticipated cultural events of the year. By moving the first weekend of the festival to the Town Center, organizers further strengthened this partnership between two cultural entities, creating one huge event for Northwest Arkansas.
The second weekend of the Fayetteville Arts Festival, September 8 and 9, will be a weekend of performance. Last year’s hugely successful 24-Hour Play Festival returns to the Walton Arts Center on September 9. Participating teams must create and perform an original short in just 24 hours, following the Very Important Meeting where certain guidelines are given to the teams. Due to last year’s sellout at the Starr Theatre, this year’s play festival will be in the larger Studio Theatre at the Nadine Baum Studios.
Due to the success of and interest in last year’s 24-Hour Play Festival, Fayetteville Arts Festival’s organizers created the first 40-Hour Youth Play Festival, which will also be held on September 9. Teams consisting of youth between the seventh and twelfth grades will follow very similar guidelines to the adult teams. However, each youth team will be partnered with professional theatre mentors through the play development and rehearsal, but the work and performance is entirely created by the young people. This is a unique opportunity for youth to work with a theatre professional and enrich their theatrical craft.
The second weekend will also highlight the birthday celebration of a Fayetteville Cultural Icon. George’s Majestic Lounge’s 79th Birthday Party. The party will feature music by Oreo Blue, Cate Brothers, Nace Brothers, Steve Pryor, Herring Rogers and Sipe, and more. Join the Fayetteville Arts Festival all weekend in celebrating this legendary venue for music and the performing arts.
The McCoy Gallery at the Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios will have a special exhibit during both weekends of the Fayetteville Arts Festival. It might be called a window on a community, a portrait of Northwest Arkansas – it is more; it is less. A Second Glance: Photography by Don House will be on display from August 28 through December 29. During the 2005 Fayetteville Arts Festival, Don House setup a temporary studio and recruited participants to have their photograph taken. Over 360 images were made of 291 humans and 9 dogs over a period of eight hours. A selection of that collection will appear in the McCoy Gallery.
More events and activities will be announced as the festival draws close. Be on the lookout! For more information, go to www.fayettevillearts.org or call (479) 571-3337.
The Fayetteville Arts Festival is produced by Fayetteville Downtown Partners and supports their mission to lead in the continual creation of the Fayetteville Downtown Experience. Fayetteville Downtown Partners believes that the arts are at the heart of Fayetteville’s identity as one of the most livable communities in the United States and vital to a dynamic, diverse and sustainable downtown.
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