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Artwork featured: (left) Nicholas Lobo, Silhouette of a Friend, 2020. Glass reinforced pigment concrete. 50x120x27 in. (right) Edra Soto, Open 24 Hours, 2017. Found glass bottles of liquor, display cabinets, 8x2x2 ft each. Display cabinets co-designed by Navillus Woodworks.

Welcome to our blog! This is a great place to find interesting artist features, event reviews, interviews, inside scoops, and more about the arts that make up the Momentary. Search via category for specific posts, or scroll to uncover hidden treasures.

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Pick Your Coffee Order, Get a Momentary Song Recommendation

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Categories: Music

More Than Just Music: What to Expect at FreshGrass | Bentonville 2025

Set amongst the beauty of the Ozarks, FreshGrass | Bentonville is a two-day, all-ages festival with the best of today’s bluegrass and progressive roots music filling multiple outdoor stages, courtyards, and galleries at the Momentary.

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Highlighting Our Arkansas Hometown Heroes at FreshGrass | Bentonville 2025

Meet some of the Arkansas talent performing at this year’s FreshGrass | Bentonville music festival! From the FreshGrass Awards Band showcase to the locals stage on the Solar Roller, Arkansas artists will be all over this year’s festival.

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Categories: At The Momentary

Meet the Ride Leaders of Send It South 2025

Get to know the ride leaders for the 2025 mountain biking and music festival Send It South!

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Categories: Artists-in-Residence At The Momentary Performing Arts

What's Happening at KaniniFest in 2024?

In case you’re still on the fence about coming to KaniniFest (and you absolutely should), we’ve compiled a guide to the various performances, workshops, dance classes, and events taking place over the three days of the festival.

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Categories: At The Momentary

Context Shift: Behind the Scenes of the Momentary’s New Mural

Context Shift, the new mural at the Momentary, now the largest in Bentonville, continues to advance efforts to include art in everyday spaces in Northwest Arkansas. Context Shift is a composition by artist Carlos Rosales-Silva that highlights a core pillar of his work: how individuals interpret color as contextual. 

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Categories: Music

More Than Just Music: Your Guide to FreshGrass | Bentonville 2024

Set amongst the beauty of the Ozarks, FreshGrass | Bentonville is a two-day, all-ages festival with the best of today’s bluegrass and progressive roots music filling multiple outdoor stages, courtyards, and galleries at the Momentary.

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Artist Highlight: Aoife O'Donovan performing at FreshGrass | Bentonville

Read more about Aoife O’Donovan and how her musical performance explores women’s voting rights in “America, Come” at FreshGrass|Bentonville.

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Categories: Music

“Feels Like Home”: Why François K Is Anticipating His Return to the Momentary

Before returning to the Momentary for the Official Momentous Pre-Party on March 8, artist François K told Hip Hop Hello that the Momentary was a venue he was “chomping at the bit” to return to.

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Richard Mosse, Still from Broken Spectre VI, Llanganates Sangay Ecological Corridor, Equador, 2022. Digital C-print. Courtesy of the artist, Altman Siegal, San Francisco, and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Categories: Performing Arts

Bearing Witness: Imaging the Ineffable in Richard Mosse’s Broken Spectre

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Categories: Wellness

New Year, True You

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Categories: At The Momentary Exhibitions Visual Arts

FAQ: The Fishes in Lonely Loricariidae

Here’s the answers to some frequently asked questions about the fishes in David Brooks’s living sculpture featured in Enduring Amazon.

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What to Do at the Momentary This Memorial Day Weekend

Planning to spend the long weekend in Northwest Arkansas this Memorial Day? Here’s a roundup of fun things to do at the Momentary while you’re here.

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Your 2023 Spring Guide to the Momentary

To help you make the most of your visit—and the season—we’ve assembled some highlights and recommendations for what to do, see, and experience at the Momentary this spring.

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Private: The Winter Guide to the Momentary 2022-23

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Categories: Performing Arts

Approaching Performance Art: Marilyn Arsem’s Bodies in the Land

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