Yard Art Celebration of Artist Natalie George

With Collaborators Megan Pobywajlo and Reilly Dickens-Hoffman

Saturday, May 11th
7 to 9pm
Live in America Residency House
506 Holcomb in Springdale
Free! All are welcome!

Growing up, I found myself continually drawn to a particular ceramic piece in my house— a clay figure with a hemp jump rope holding a sketched invitation to play. As a lighting designer I often find myself creating solo, feeling like this lone clay figure. Come Play with Me is a vibrant and energetic expression of my desire for collaboration. Working with a team of NWA creatives, we’ve built a structural overhead playground that invites the community to immerse themselves (and add to!) a world of color, light, and hundreds of jump ropes. Together, we reimagine the boundaries of art and community, inviting all to join in the joyful pursuit of creativity and play.

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Yard Art Celebration of Artist Helmar Anitok

All of my creations connect me to Marshallese traditions, history, people, and culture. My inspiration comes from the people.

Thanks to Ashlyn Gulbranson at PineAcre for these photos!

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Yard Art Celebration of Helmar Anitok

Celebrating the art of Helmar Anitok.
Saturday, March 9th.
2:30 to 6:30pm with an artist talk at 4:30pm.
506 Holcomb in Springdale.
Admission: Free!

I feel that art is my way of expressing my love for people and giving people the opportunity to also feel connected

Join us for a celebration of Helmar Anitok’s Yard Art Installation, History, People, and Culture: From the Marshall Islands to Arkansas, at the Live in America Residency House. We’ll welcome Helmar’s art into our Springdale neighborhood with a community event that features live music, art demonstrations, Marshallese dancing, food, and an artists talk.

From Anitok: All of my creations connect me to Marshallese traditions, history, people, and culture. My inspiration comes from the people. I feel that art is my way of expressing my love for people and giving people the opportunity to also feel connected. Watching people react and feel the beauty of my creative process brings me joy. I like helping my community through art or fellowship.

Created with support from Walmart Foundation.

Made possible by generous support from our sponsor.

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60 in 60

60 Artists with 60 Seconds to Perform Their Hearts’ Delights. They performed back-to-back-to-back. Performance chaos glory!

Thanks to photographer Cynthia Tran for capturing these images.

Made possible by generous support of our sponsor.

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Tyler Gunther/Greedy Peasant Workshop

A workshop exploring the origins of the Greedy Peasant and the glory of his holy costume kingdom

Have we got a queer-medieval-fever-dream workshop for you! Join Arkansas-native Tyler Gunther, otherwise known as the Greedy Peasant, for a workshop exploring the origins of the Greedy Peasant and the glory of his holy costume kingdom.

After we delve into the relationship between pageant design, reliquaries, tassels, and the mythical congregation of Our Lady of the Sacred Blood of the Most Holy Martyr (OLOTSBOTMHM), we’ll talk about our own costume memories and imaginings: designs from Halloween, school plays, dance recitals, and all the occasions that a costume has guided our own spiritual journeys.

The workshop is free, but space is limited.

Please register HERE. If registration is full, please join the waitlist.

DETAILS:

Saturday, January the 20th
1 to 3pm
Shiloh Museum
118 W Johnson Ave, Springdale, AR 72764

Visiting Artists

Tyler Gunther, the Greedy Peasant, Visiting Artist

Tyler Gunther explores the Queer Imagination in the Middle Ages through the social media character of the “Greedy Peasant.”

During this residency I am planning to focus on the research aspect of my creative process.

Tyler Gunther is a New York based artist and tassel archivist.

His work explores the Queer Imagination in the Middle Ages through the social media character of the “Greedy Peasant.” Medieval collaborations have included the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY, and Fusebox Festival in Austin, TX.

Tyler has worked with several artists and filmmakers, including as a designer & performer in Robin Frohardt’s “The Plastic Bag Store.” He has also assisted costume designers at Lincoln Center, The Santa Fe Opera, and the Liceu Opera in Barcelona. Before New York, he was a stressed altar server in Arkansas.

Tyler’s residency plan: During this residency I am planning to focus on the research aspect of my creative process. My artwork is heavily inspired by medieval history, especially the fashions and pageantry of that time period. But because of the rapid pace at which I have been working the past few years, I haven’t been able to pause and dig deeper into the history which originally inspired me. I know having this time to focus on research will be invaluable as I move forward with more ambitious creative projects and collaborations.

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60-in-60

60 Artists with 60 Seconds to Perform Their Hearts’ Delights

FOR FREE TICKETS REGISTER HERE

February 3rd at 7pm @ The Medium in Springdale

Singing, dancing, reading, balleting, acting, reciting, twirling, dog tricking, clowning, short-lecturing, pontificating, video projectioning, karaoke-madnessing, instrument playing, fashionizing, performative playdough performancing, ventriloquist delights, feats of strength, fantastical lights, sound landscaping, roller skating, etc. You get the idea. We welcome expansive notions of performance.

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David Thomson-Led Residency Workshop

The Basics of Self-Care, Your Finances, and Your Future

Registration Required (see below)
Saturday, November 18th
11am to 1pm
506 Holcomb in Springdale

Let’s look at the basics of self-care, your finances and the future.

We will cover the nuts & bolts of budgeting (personally and professionally), taxes, credit & debt, and legacy. Alongside this, we will discuss building a personal philosophy to help you define your own success. The materials and resources will be digitally shared and laptops are recommended for the workshop.

REGISTER HERE.

If registration is full, please join the wait list. On 11/15, we will finalize registration.

David Thomson

David Thomson is a Caribbean-American interdisciplinary artist whose practice centers on the interrogation of presence and absence in the performance of identity, using image, writing, performance, and installation as containers of inquiry. Thomson’s performance work has been presented and supported by The Kitchen, Danspace Project, Movement Research, Performance Space NY, The Invisible Dog, and The Lunder Institute of American Art. Awards and fellowships include US Artist, NYFA, Yaddo, MacDowell, Rauschenberg, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. He has had the pleasure of working and collaborating with Bebe Miller, Trisha Brown, Ralph Lemon, Tracie Morris, Sekou Sundiata, Marina Abramović, Kaneza Schaal, Deborah Hay, and Okwui Okpokwasili among many others. Recent projects include collaborating on Matthew Barney’s film installation, Secondary; a published essay in Yvonne Rainer’s Remembering a Dance: Parts of Some Sextets, 1965/2019 (Performa), and he is one of the contributing artists in Cane: A New Critical Edition (the3rdthing.press) for the 100th anniversary of Jean Toomer’s 1923 novel. In 2017, he initiated The Artist Sustainability Project to expand the practice and discourse of financial, artistic, and personal empowerment.

Visiting Artists

Hall, Meehan, Thomson Visiting Artists

This residency is in partnership with The Momentary. With this collaboration, LiA and the Mo are continuing to nurture the relationships they fostered during the 2022 Live in America Festival.

Based on a dream…

This residency is based on the impetus to exchange and engage in organic conversations between old friends with overlapping concerns and open-ended dreams. It is an opportunity to be with each other and to work independently and collaboratively. It’s about hanging together and seeing what catches our spirits.

Working together and separately, we’ll exchange recipes, laugh, play, and wander. Rest and travel excursions are embedded in our work ethic. Rhythms, questions, and contradictions will abound.

Sean Meehan

Residency Artist

Sean Meehan is a drummer whose work incorporates contemporary composition, improvisation, hybrids of these, and interdisciplinary collaboration. His work has been presented at a number of prestigious institutions including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York), INSTAL Festival (Scotland), Goethe House (Hanoi), and The Whitney Biennial, but he more frequently performs in artist-run venues and festivals.

Meehan has released a number of recordings as well as a series of objects intended to encourage meditation on sound. These include Audio, a boxed set of four cassette-like objects, and Field Recordings Vol. 3, a folio of printed matter that suggest and intone various sounds and sound events.

Trained as an urban planner Meehan also makes urbanist super 8 films in the tradition of planners such as William H. Whyte and Kevin Lynch who utilized that medium for their groundbreaking research. This work has informed a 20-year collaboration with Tamio Shiraishi on their annual summer concert series situated in a variety of marginal, heterotopic spaces throughout New York City. These were documented on two vinyl records (In the City (Fuestron), and Annual Summer Concerts (JD Stereo). The pair was invited by Scotland-based presenting organization ARIKA to, with the help of an embedded cartographer, develop a similarly motivated tour throughout the United Kingdom.

He is currently writing an analysis of New Deal architecture in the South Bronx, a long-form solo drum recording, a collaboration with cellist Theresa Wong, and a split 7” recording with Michelle Ellsworth.

Meehan is the grateful recipient of a 2020 artist award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

David Thomson

Residency Artist

Ben Hall

Residency Artist

Ben Hall is a writer and composer based in and from Detroit, Michigan. He was profiled in Fred Moten’s 2017 book, Black and Blur, and frequently works as a critic with a research focus on the visionary American composers Milford Graves and Bill Dixon. He formerly served as a senior research fellow at the Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College from 2018-2022. He is currently compiling material for the forthcoming Black Liberation Music Guide.

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Yard Art Celebration of Artist Danielle Hatch

More Delicious, More Lovely, More Beautiful invites viewers to consider softness and beauty as essential to our shared neighborhood landscape, and examines baking as a historical site of feminine power.

Thanks to photographer Ashlyn Gulbranson for capturing these images.