Schedule of Events:

May 12, 2023

5:30pm: Trail Mix at The Lower Ramble in Fayetteville

Artosphere's signature event features live art, music and activities for kids and families! This year, we're taking Trail Mix to the Lower Ramble, exploring the convergence of art and nature in the new forest canopy and pathways through Tanglewood Creek and Fay Jones Woods.

Trail Mix performers include The Crumbs, StoneLion Puppet Theatre, Backyard Bugs, Violin Duo - Miho Sakon and Andrew Chu, and Harpist Devanee Williams with Cellist Michael Puryear. The Community Creative Center will lead a fun family craft! Humongous Fungus artist, Gina Gallina, will also teach how to crochet flowers!

Cost: Free

8 pm: Indie Films Artosphere Curated by Fayetteville Film Fest at Walton Arts Center

Pili Ka Mo'o (13:58)?
- Director: Justyn Ah Chong
- While much of O'ahu has become urbanized, Hakipu'u remains a k?puka (oasis) of traditional knowledge where great chiefs once resided and their bones still remain.

To the Bone (5:36)
- Director: Andy Sarjahani
- An Ozarks naturalists and bowhunter reflects on a recent animal harvest as he ponders the cycle of life.

Diiyeghan (5:58)?
- Director: Princess Daazhraii Johnson
- A grandfather teaches his granddaughter, a young Gwich'in mother named Alisha, how reciprocity is embedded in all aspects of life. The norther lights warm the caribou; the caribou helps feed and sustain the community; the community honors the connections.  

The Sprayer (8:45)?
- Director: Farnoosh Abedi
- In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grown any kind of plants either in private or public.  

The Misanthrope (14:45)?
- Director: Andy Kastelic
- After a deadly sickness descends, a heartbroken gravedigger imposes a grievous new law.  

Rain (6:34)?
- Director: Mahdi Barqzadegan
- Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Heal the RIver (21:31)
- Director: Paulina Sobczak
- Hydropower dams, built decades ago, have dramatically altered river systems across Alabama. Downstream of the Harris Dam on the Tallapossa River, families and landowners who have lost property and use of the river have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to ask for changes to the operation of the dam through the relicensing process. Their hope is that changes can improve downstream conditions and begin to heal the river.  

Psychogeography of Mourning (8:30)
- Director: Shayna Connelly
- Psychogeography of Mourning uses static imagery and unpredictable sound to reconcile the contradictory interior and exterior experiences grief elicits.

Flyover (10:58)
- Director: Brian White
- A day in the life of a modern Midwestern community as a farmhand hunts for the cow he scared away.

Avoesis? (9:24)
- Director: Mykhailo Bogdanov
- A thought-provoking exploration of natural silence and human existence within it.

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May 13, 2023

2pm and 7pm: Fashion Machine at Yvonne Richardson Community Center

Featuring Artosphere Festival Orchestra musicians
12pm - 4pm: Crystal Bridges' Garden Party at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Art and nature collide when Artosphere Festival Orchestra ensembles perform outdoors on the beautiful Crystal Bridges trails. Families can view the exhibitions along the trails, participate in art making, nature and art talks, enjoy tasty refreshments, local food trucks and more!

May 16, 2023

2pm and 7pm: Fashion Machine at Yvonne Richardson Community Center

Featuring Artosphere Festival Orchestra musicians
12pm - 4pm: Crystal Bridges' Garden Party at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Art and nature collide when Artosphere Festival Orchestra ensembles perform outdoors on the beautiful Crystal Bridges trails. Families can view the exhibitions along the trails, participate in art making, nature and art talks, enjoy tasty refreshments, local food trucks and more!

May 17, 2023

6:30pm: Smokey and the Mirror at The Chapel Ruins at Sassafras Springs Vineyard and Winery

Fayetteville-based husband and wife duo Bryan and Bernice Hembree have worked tirelessly for years to help foster a vibrant music ecosystem in Northwest Arkansas. The two founders and co-creators of the Fayetteville Roots Fest are currently taking a break to pursue other music ventures, including another passion project, Smokey & The Mirror. The pair have toured nationally/internationally over the past decade with artists such as The Wood Brothers, I'm With Her, Elephant Revival, John Fullbright and more. The interplay of their two unique voices coupled with their provoking and engaging songs form the foundation of Smokey & The Mirror. Join us to hear them perform at Northwest Arkansas architectural marvels in the beloved Artosphere Chapel Music Series.
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7pm: Dover Quartet at  Starr Theater at Walton Arts Center

An Evening of Haydn, Walker and Dvorak
Program:
Franz Joseph Haydn, Quartet in E-flat major, Hob.III:38, Op. 33, No. 2 "The Joke"
- Allegro moderato
- Scherzando. Allegro - Trio
- Largo sostenuto
- Finale.

Presto George Walker, String Quartet No. 1
- Allegro
- Molto adagio
- Allegro con fuoco
Intermission

Antonin Leopold Dvorak, Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, Op. 51
- Allegro ma non troppo
- Dumka (Elegia). Andante con moto - Vivace
- Romanza. Andante con moto
- Finale. Allegro assai
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8:30pm: Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds at Prairie Street Live

Artosphere Film Screening
Join us for a special, spooky outdoor film screening of the classic 1963 Alfred Hitchcock horror film, The Birds. As beautiful blonde Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), she is inexplicably attacked by a seagull. Suddenly thousands of birds are flocking into town, preying on schoolchildren and residents in a terrifying series of attacks. Soon Mitch and Melanie are fighting for their lives against a deadly force that can't be explained and can't be stopped in one of Hollywood's most horrific films of nature gone berserk.
Cost: Free

May 18, 2023

6:30pm: Smokey and the Mirror at Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel
Fayetteville-based husband and wife duo Bryan and Bernice Hembree have worked tirelessly for years to help foster a vibrant music ecosystem in Northwest Arkansas. The two founders and co-creators of the Fayetteville Roots Fest are currently taking a break to pursue other music ventures, including another passion project, Smokey & The Mirror. The pair have toured nationally/internationally over the past decade with artists such as The Wood Brothers, I'm With Her, Elephant Revival, John Fullbright and more. The interplay of their two unique voices coupled with their provoking and engaging songs form the foundation of Smokey & The Mirror. Join us to hear them perform at Northwest Arkansas architectural marvels in the beloved Artosphere Chapel Music Series.
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7pm: AFO: Off the Grid at Fayetteville Downtown Entertainment District
Musicians from the Artosphere Festival Orchestra go "off the grid," leaving the concert hall to perform their favorite music in bars, coffee houses and restaurants throughout the downtown Fayetteville and Rogers entertainment districts. Come see these musicians play everything from Bach to Beyonce. Download the Artosphere app for up-to-date announcements on pop-up times and locations.
Cost: Free

7pm: The Herbie Hancock Institute National Peer-to-Peer Jazz Sextet
With special guests from the Northwest Arkansas Jazz All-Stars Featuring saxophonist Don Braden and vocalist Lisa Henry
Cost: Free

May 19, 2023

7pm: The Artist & The Astronaut at Starr Theater at Walton Arts Center

Artosphere Film Screening
Walton Arts Center will be screening the Arkansas Premier of the award-winning film The Artist & the Astronaut. See the unlikely love story between the artist Pat Musick, a civil rights activist, and the Apollo astronaut Jerry Carr unfold, as they participate in some of the most historic events in human history. The film is filled with never-before-seen footage of the early space pioneers and features interviews with key figures from that era. It chronicles Pat and Jerry's vastly different paths as they traverse uncertain times, eventually coming together to render some of America's most enduring art. The Artist & the Astronaut is an uplifting love story proving that curiosity, perseverance and empathy for others can be powerful agents of change.
The story of the making of this documentary is as unlikely as the story depicted in the film. At the urging of his wife, Bill Muench, a full-time teacher and basketball coach, decides to make a documentary on a local Vermont couple. He embarked on this journey with no plan or budget. In the next six years, he traveled to nine states and two continents to interview numerous Apollo astronauts, their wives, award-winning authors, artists, art historians and even NASA directors of mission control. Eventually teaming with music legend, Todd Hobin, they produced a story that otherwise would have never been told.
Writer and director Bill Muench and music composer Todd Hobin will be answering questions after the screening.
Cost: Free

6:30pm: Jazz on the Mountain: Dillon Brouse Quartet at Mount Sequoyah's Cottage Circle

Northwest Arkansas native and alumni of the Northwest Arkansas Jazz All-Stars, up-and-coming drummer, Dillon Brouse leads an exciting four-piece band comprised of regional jazz veterans and young lions. Together they deliver a mix of jazz styles with an ear to tradition and eye towards the shape of jazz to come. Brouse's innovation shines through with a passion to immerse the audience in the many ways jazz makes its impact on the musical landscape today, informing diverse genres and styles with the depth of possibilities inherent in improvised music. His experience includes tenures with an 18-piece jazz orchestra, octets, sextets and trios. The Dillon Brouse Quartet comes to us with a "fresh out of the showroom," new car aroma – and plenty of horsepower!
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May 20, 2023

Join us in Walton Arts Center's bright and beautiful Walker Atrium for a yoga class for all skill levels that combines movement and music, led by instructor Becky DeClerk with live accompaniment by guitarist, Jim Goza.

Location: Walker Atrium at Walton Arts Center

May 21, 2023

Join us in Walton Arts Center's bright and beautiful Walker Atrium for a yoga class for all skill levels that combines movement and music, led by instructor Becky DeClerk with live accompaniment by guitarist, Jim Goza.

Location: Walker Atrium at Walton Arts Center

Date: May 12-13 & 16-21, 2023

Locations: Various Towns in Arkansas, 72701

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