Arts, Culture & History
ArcBest Performing Arts Center
479-452-7575
Performances take place inside of the ArcBest Performing Arts Center at the Fort Smith Convention Center.
Founded in 1923, the Fort Smith Symphony is one of the most outstanding orchestras in the State of Arkansas and enjoys wide regional support an…
904 Garrison Avenue
British graffiti artist Pref merges and layers letters into his signature style, which features a distinct use of typography to create amalgamations of quippy sayings, often placing one word inside of another to give his artwork multiple readings and…
505 Rogers Avenue
Belgium artist ROA is known for painting monochrome animals, typically painting rodents native to the area he is painting. Roa installed “The Mole” in his trademark black and white style during the The Unexpected's inaugural mural festival in 2015.
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301 Parker Avenue
479-783-3961
At Fort Smith National Historic Site you can walk where Mexican War & Civil War soldiers drilled, pause along the Trail of Tears, and stand where justice was served to some of the most vile outlaws of The Wild West. The park includes:
Belle Point (Si…
501 Garrison Avenue
D*FACE is one of most prolific contemporary urban artists of his generation and was at the forefront of the urban art movement its rise into pop-culture. Known for his subversive images, which involve a family of dysfunctional characters whose roles…
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…
1001 Garrison Avenue
479-784-2368
William Orlando Darby was born in Fort Smith on February 8, 1911, to Percy and Nell Darby. Following graduation from Fort Smith High School in 1929, he received an appointment to the United States Military academy at West Point, New York.
After gradu…
70 South 7th Street
Hilda Palafox (aka Poni) hails from Mexico City and gives birth to art that searches for tranquility and stoicism, curved with the consistent delicacy of femininity.
During The Unexpected project of 2019, Hilda transformed the iconic silos located at…
801 North A Street
479-719-8931
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Now celebrating it’s 16th season, Artist Audience & Community Live! began as the 801 Concert Series, founded by locals Dick Renko and John McIntosh, in the same great space where we are today. Our mission is to prov…