The Artosphere Festival celebrates art, music and nature with exciting performances, activities and events FOR the whole family TO enjoy.
Each year, Artosphere spotlights artists and performers from around the world who are inspired by nature, and provides a creative framework for the community to discuss issues of sustainability and environmental awareness.
Artosphere Festival Orchestra
Live from Crystal Bridges: Mozart in the Museum
Friday, June 15, 8 pm
The Great Hall of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville
From the Great Hall of the world-class Crystal Bridges museum in Bentonville, Maestro Rovaris leads the Artosphere Festival Orchestra in the 6th annual Mozart in the Museum performance. This exceptional program features Jonny Greenwood’s Water; Mozart’s Flute & Harp Concertofeaturing Marie Tachouet, Flute, and Cheryl Losey Feder, Harp; and Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 “Prague”. Presented in partnership with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the concert will be broadcast live on KUAF 91.3 FM Public Radio and aired live in the Walton Arts Center gardens during Trail Mix in Fayetteville at 8 pm on June 15.
Beethoven Masterworks, part of the 10x10 Arts Series
Tuesday, June 19, 7 pm
Baum Walker Hall at Walton Arts Center
The AFO performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, the Emperor Concerto, featuring Italian pianist Maurizio Baglini; and Symphony No. 6, the Pastoral Symphony, a musical tribute to nature and the country setting where the symphony was written. This performance will be illustrated and animated by French artist Grégoire Pont, whose visual imagery drawn live, will accent Beethoven’s work and delight audiences of all ages.
AFO: Off the Grid
FREE & Open to the Public!
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. Come see these musicians play everything from Bach to Beyoncé while at Dickson Street Entertainment District in Fayetteville on Thursday, or Downtown Springdale and Main Street Siloam Springs on Friday!
Fayetteville
Thursday, June 21, 7 pm
Dickson Street Entertainment District
Downtown Springdale and Main Street Siloam Springs
Friday, June 22, 7 pm
The American Spirit
Saturday, June 23, 8 pm
Baum Walker Hall at Walton Arts Center
A contemporary American sampler, this concert features the unique compositions of Leonard Bernstein, Jennifer Higdon and John Adams, and the incredible artistry of violist Roberto Díaz. Each piece brings a distinct perspective to a concert that exemplifies the best of American classical music.
Trail Mix
Trail Mix returns with two days of outdoor fun and entertainment along local trail systems!
Follow Walton Arts Center on Instagram to share in the Trail Mix Fayetteville experience and Grand Opening of Topo Map when Jennifer Wilson of our PR team takes over our Instagram account!
TRAIL MIX SCHEDULE:
Trail Mix: Fayetteville
Friday, June 15, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Fayetteville Arts District
Trail Mix comes to the entertainment district with artists and musicians performing adjacent to Fayetteville’s Frisco Trail and around our campus. Take part in arts and crafts hosted by The Spark Foundation and Community Creative Center in the arts center’s Rose Garden. Watch the gladiator water balloon show, Waterbombs! and celebrate the opening of Topo Map on School Avenue. Gather for a live radio broadcast and simulcast of the AFO’s Live from Crystal Bridges: Mozart in the Museum concert.
Trail Mix Fayetteville artists include: The Crumbs, Melody Pond, Rozenbridge, Still on the Hill, Block Street Hot Club, Mobile Aquarium, Water Bombs and more!
Trail Mix: Bentonville
Saturday, June 16, 11 am to 1 pm
Downtown Square to Crystal Bridges Museum
On Saturday, Trail Mix comes to Bentonville with artists and musicians performing at trail locations between Compton Gardens and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Get started at Compton Gardens, and then move north along the Crystal Bridges Trail to a hillside entertainment stop at the museum’s James Turrell Skyspace art installation, The Way of Color.
Trail Mix Bentonville artists include: The Crumbs, Melody Pond, Rozenbridge, Water Bombs and more.
Kick off Trail Mix with the 4th Annual Crystal Bridges Garden Party on Saturday, June 16, 11 am to 4pm at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville (admission is FREE!).
Chapel Music
Still on the Hill: Water Music
Sunday, June 10, 6:30 pm at The Chapel Ruins at Sassafras Springs Vineyard in Springdale
Monday, June 11, 6:30 pm at Mildred B. Memorial Chapel in Bella Vista
Described as “Ambassadors of the Ozarks” for the work they do to preserve a rich culture that is quickly disappearing, Kelly and Donna of Still on the Hill are award-winning, story-telling songwriters. Different from most singer-songwriters, this dynamic duo embellishes their songs with a host of unique instruments from the hills they call home.
Dover Quartet
Tuesday, June 12, 7 pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Artosphere’s resident quartet and founding principal strings for the Artosphere Festival Orchestra, the Dover Quartet will continue its multi-year residency in 2018. Recently named the Cleveland Quartet Award winner, and awarded the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, the quartet has become one of the most in-demand ensembles in the world.
arx duo: Percussion Re-imagined
Wednesday, June 13, 7 pm at Hunt Chapel
Aspiring to expand the genre of percussion chamber music through performing and creative collaboration, Arx Duo has been blazing a trail in the realm of contemporary music since its inception at the Yale School of Music in 2014. Since then, the duo has performed and given educational clinics across three continents. Serving as members of the Artosphere Festival Orchestra, Arx Duo and will also lead a variety of community engagement performances throughout the Northwest Arkansas region.
An Evening of Music with Roberto Díaz and Friends
Wednesday, June 20, 7 pm at The Great Hall at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Roberto Díaz, violist and President/CEO of Curtis Institute of Music, will be joined in this performance by the current Curtis Quartet in Residence, Zorá String Quartet, and the former and founding Curtis Quartet in Residence, Dover Quartet. This will be a once-in-a-lifetime concert set amidst the inspiring architecture of Crystal Bridges' Great Hall and surrounded by the natural beauty of the Ozarks. The evening’s program features Scott Slapin’s Capricious Viola Trio, Antonin Dvořák’s String Quintet in E-flat major “American” and Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet. The concert will be recorded by KUAF.
Film
The Buffalo Flows
Thursday, June 14, 7 pm at Walton Arts Center
The Buffalo Flows is a one-hour documentary written and produced by two-time Emmy Award® winner Larry Foley, professor of journalism at the University of Arkansas. Academy Award® winner Ray McKinnon narrates. Internationally known as an outstanding canoe stream, this 135-mile river, free of dams, is so much more, and the film captures what is protected. The story is about the bluffs and the trees, the flowers and the birds, and the giant elk. It’s about hiking and floating and camping and fishing, and it’s also about the people who make their homes in Buffalo River country year-round, and have for generations.
*Join us for a screening of The Buffalo Flows and a pre-film conversation with its creative team!
Song of the Sea
Sunday, June 17, 11 am at Walton Arts Center
From the creators of the Academy Award®-nominated The Secret of Kells comes a breathtakingly gorgeous, hand-drawn masterpiece. Based on the Irish legend of the Selkies, Song of the Sea tells the story of the last “seal child,” Saoirse, and her brother Ben, who go on an epic journey to save the world of magic and discover the secrets of their past.
Disneynature Oceans
Sunday, June 17, 11 am at Walton Arts Center
Journey to the depths of a wonderland filled with mystery, beauty and power. Oceans is a spectacular story, narrated by Pierce Brosnan, about remarkable creatures under the sea. It's an unprecedented look at the lives of these elusive deep-water creatures through their own eyes. Incredible state-of-the-art-underwater filmmaking will take your breath away as you migrate with whales, swim alongside a great white shark and race with dolphins at play.
Chasing Coral
Sunday, June 17, 11 am at Walton Arts Center
Chasing Coral taps into the collective will and wisdom of an ad man, a self-proclaimed coralnerd, top-notch camera designers, and renowned marine biologists as they invent the first timelapse camera to record bleaching events as they happen.
Visual Arts
Topo Map
On display throughout Artosphere Festival 2018
Topo Map for School Avenue (2018) is a temporary public art installation made of thermoplastic by artist Stacy Levy. City of Fayetteville and Walton Arts Center commissioned the artwork with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Its form is a life-scale topographic map of the terrain between Dickson and Mountain Streets and a visual reminder of the issues of water in Fayetteville’s hilly landscape.
The Bleak and the Burgeoning
June 19 - October 7, 2018 at the Joy Pratt Markham Gallery
The works in this exhibition, including large-scale installations, are physically curated in ways that reveal both an independent sense of personal geography, as well as a collective experience of fragile terrains. Featured artists: Amber Cowan, Maysey Craddock, Leonardo Drew, Lauren Fensterstock and Judy Pfaff.
