Previous Exhibitions

September 19 - December 18, 2022

Protecting Our Peace invites you to consider the places you feel most peaceful and at ease. Is it in the mountains? Near water? Or trees? Often these quiet natural spaces allow our busy minds to at last rest, and provide us a greater perspective on life. Spending time in nature has been proven in numerous studies to help with mental health. However, despite the invaluable resources, both external and internal, that nature provides us, many of our natural spaces are in danger from erosion, deforestation, pollution, and other human-created crises.

Carol Hart, Karolyn Farrell, Doug Randall

May 4 - June 26, 2022

Throughout modern times, women’s participation and impact on life on all levels have been marginalized. Values generally exhibited in women–compassion, kindness, thinking critically, not wanting to kill and colonize–are seen as ineffective in human progress, and from the heart.

Amy Eichler ▪ Ana Buitrago ▪ Bia Furtado ▪ Carol Hart ▪ Cheri Bohn ▪ Cheryl Buell ▪ Cheryl Kellar ▪ Denice Nicholson ▪ Diana Michelle ▪ Eloa Jane ▪ Karolyn Farrell ▪ Kathleen Siegfried ▪ Kathy Minhsin Liao ▪ Lee Ann Dodson ▪ Lourdes Valverde ▪ Mim Wynne ▪ Princess Justice Janêe Henderson ▪ Rebecca LaTourette ▪ Soeun Park

March 4 - May 4, 2022

Critical Black Theory is a treatise on the multifaceted and resilient spirit of the Black body and Black humanity, their passionate expression of pain, conflict, and of joy.

There is everything to be said about cultural survival and the nuanced battles required to protect the core of oneself from annihilation. Like the drumbeat, art informs us of individual battles won and lost, telling us that we are still here, still connected, still creating pathways to cultural survival and growth. This exhibition is one such drumbeat in the vast cultural context of Blackness in the diaspora, and its plan to thrive.

Oluwatobi Adewumi ▪ Donavon Brutus ▪ Tay Butler ▪ Candace Dolls ▪ Wade Hampton ▪ Carl Karni-Bain ▪ Charles Krampah ▪ Vincent Frimpong ▪ DeShun Peoples ▪ Joëlle Storet ▪ Markeith Woods ▪ Sharon Killian ▪ Eric Andre ▪ Art Ventures Collection: Morgan Bame, Delita Martin, Najee Dorsey

February 25 - March 20, 2021

Thursday and Friday (5 - 7pm) & Saturday (12 - 6pm)

Caged Bird and The Blue Room explores Ziba Rajabi's experience of physical and psychological spaces caused by displacement.

August 21 – October 23, 2020

Our world is centered by the diversity of organisms that populate it; those that fit together by attributes that complement like yin and yang, hard and soft, short and tall, red and green.

The Shape of Our World presents a diverse and complementary group of artists who create connections that ultimately center and balance it.

Apr 20 - May 29, 2020

Moh’d Bilbeisi (Jordan), D’Zart (Algeria), and Behnaz Sohrabian (Iran) represent three distinct approaches to contemporary art steeped in cultural experience across the Middle Eastern diaspora.

January 31 - March 6, 2020

Art Ventures NWA is proud to celebrate Black History month by presenting Frame of Mind, showing January 30 through March 6 at Art Ventures@Faulkner Performing Arts Center Gallery in Fayetteville.

This exhibition of African/African-American art showcases some of the best accomplished and rising Black artists from around the country.

There is everything to be said about cultural survival and the nuanced battles required to protect the core of oneself from annihilation. Like the drumbeat, art informs us of individual battles won and lost, telling us that we are still here, still connected, still creating pathways to cultural survival and growth. This exhibition, Frame of Mind, is one such drumbeat in the vast cultural context of Blackness in the diaspora, and its plan to thrive.