Arts, Culture & History
414 Towson Avenue
Scottish-born, London-based poet, artist and sculptor, Robert Montgomery, added this poetic contribution to Downtown Fort Smith as part of The Unexpected urban and contemporary art project of 2019 in downtown Fort Smith, Arkansas.
The LED-lighted scu…
709 North B Street
In 2015, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith (UAFS) faculty and students installed this colorful artwork as part of The Unexpected urban contemporary art project, which brings renowned international artists to the streets of historic downtown Fort S…
812 Garrison Avenue
Belgium artist ROA is known for painting monochrome animals, typically painting rodents native to the area he is painting. His second and final peace, ROA installed "The Otter" in his trademark black and white style during The Unexpected's inaugural…
22 North 13th Street
479-783-7963
The founding and initial growth of our Parish coincides with the exodus of Catholics from Ireland during the 1840s and 1850¹s. The first Irish Catholic in Fort Smith was Michael Manning, who came here to work on the construction of the fort in 1840.…
700 B Street
Australian artist Guido Van Helten has created art in Australia, London, Iceland, Scotland...and now in Fort Smith, Arkansas! He paints nostalgic art – similar to watercolor paintings – using culturally authentic photographs for inspiration.
He grew…
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…
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…
15 South 9th St
Franco Fasoli, aka Jaz, is one of Argentina’s best known and most talented street artists. Jaz studied scenography at the Instituto del Teatro Colón and studied painting, drawing and ceramics at Instituto Universitario Naciónal de Arte (IUNA) which h…
8300 Wells Lake Road
479-452-3993
The Janet Huckabee Arkansas River Valley Nature Center sits on 170 acres of land in Fort Smith that were previously part of Fort Chaffee. The building overlooks Wells Lake, a popular local fishing and picnicking destination!
Built in the fertile Arka…