Arts, Culture & History
2 N. B St.
479-783-8888
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ATTN: Miss Laura's Visitor Center in Fort Smith, Arkansas, is temporarily closed to the public.
Our Visitor Center, "Miss Laura's Social Club," is located inside of Fort Smith's historic downtown area and sits alongside the Arkansas River.
Out of se…
815 North B Street
Through her work, South African artist, Faith47, attempts to disarm the strategies of global realpolitik, in order to advance the expression of personal truth. In this way, her work is both an internal and spiritual release that speaks to the complex…
418 Towson Avenue
Alexis Diaz is a Puerto Rican painter and urban muralist, known for his chimerical and dreamlike depictions of animals in a state of metamorphosis. Díaz has been drawing from a very young age but street art always spoke to his sensibilities above oth…
470288 Highway 101
918-775-2413
Sequoyah built this one-room log cabin in 1829 shortly after moving to Oklahoma; he was originally from Tennessee and born around 1778. Despite having a bad leg, he became known as a skilled blacksmith, silversmith and artist.
In 1809 he began exper…
222 North 3rd Street
479-262-6020
John Drennen was one of the founders of Van Buren, Arkansas, which neighbors Fort Smith. Drennen played an important role as an Indian agent of the western frontier and oversaw the eligibility process for settlement payments for Cherokees who were re…
301 Parker Avenue
479-783-3961
Though it originated from a need to keep the peace between the area's feuding tribes in 1817, the fort would be abandoned in 1824 and repurposed 14 years later for the Federal policy that relocated Native Americans to new territory. That policy would…
800 Garrison Avenue
Hailing from Puerto Rico, Ana Maria Ortiz (Ana Marietta) started painting on old wood pieces with tempera paint as a little girl in her dad’s wood shop in Barranquitas. Getting into the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, she studied art and graduate…
Ross Pendergraft Park
The Arkansas River Valley's most unique urban, open-air artisan market can be experienced every 1st Tuesday and 3rd Saturday of the month (April-November 2019) from 5 PM-9 PM at downtown Ross Pendergraft Park!
Rivervalley Artisan Market is dedicated…
311 General Darby Street
479-782-3388
General William O. Darby – founder of the famed Darby's Rangers that fought in Italy during WWII and evolved into the modern day Army Rangers – grew up in this modest home. The home now serves as a heritage museum that contains personal military memo…