May Festival of the Arts

Eureka Springs Outdoor Alliance invites you to bring your camera and spend a Saturday exploring the history and beauty of the unique springs locations. You can enjoy a great hike in the city limits of Eureka Springs – along a part of the East Mountain and Water Street areas that feature historic stonework and natural beauty. Bring your camera and share your vision!

Meet at the base of Jacob’s Ladder on Flint Street at 10:00 am and progress through each site completing your photo tour no later than 2:00. Locations include: Cave Spring, Cold Spring, Laundry Spring and Jacob’s Ladder.

All photographers are invited to submit an image from each location for possible inclusion in a photo exhibit at the Bank of Eureka Springs Historical Museum downtown on May 15th as a part of the May Festival of the Arts.

April 17, 2010 – 10am-2pm (April 24 rain date)
Sponsored by the Eureka Springs Outdoor Alliance

For more information contact Lorri Carter.

The Artisan’s At The Lake Art Show and sale will take place Saturday May 1st between 10am – 6pm at 324 Mundell Road (the Log Home Model in Grassy Knob community – follow the signs starting at 62 west and 187 junction).

This beautiful venue overlooking the lake will showcase the talented artisan’s that reside in the Grassy Knob/Beaver Lake area. These exceptional artists will showcase work in jewelry, pottery, oil/water color, woodwork, porcelain, photography and textiles.

For more information, please contact David Smith at (479) 253-1066 or Jana Jean (479) 253-7495

2007 Grammy Award-winner, Dan Zanes & Friends will perform in Basin Park on May 15th during the 3:00-5:00 Free Music in the Park for May Festival of the Arts.

Dan Zanes & Friends will perform in Basin Park on May 15th

Two things stand out about Zanes: he is making homemade family music and encouraging similar behaviors in friends and neighbors. Second, he is the guy who is always interested in singing along with people, people everywhere. In fact, Zanes has made a mission of introducing his musical friends to his neighborhood friends and then showing everybody not just that they, yes, can play together but that they can also feel pretty good while doing so. In this sense, Zanes is a twenty-first century version of the guy who in the old days used to conduct the town band from the gazebo, though in lieu of a gazebo he’s playing places like Carnegie Hall and the Melbourne International Arts Festival, where no matter how you say it good music is good. He is a ringmaster, introducing new songs and reconnecting people to songs that have always been there, and still are—it’s just that people forgot about them.

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A fine art limited edition print of the 2010 May Festival of the Arts poster will be available during the month of May at various locations in downtown Eureka Springs including the member galleries of the Eureka Springs Gallery Association.

Fine Art editions of the 2010 May Festival of the Arts poster will be available in May

The contest for this year’s poster was presented by the Eureka Springs Arts Council and the CAPC, with the theme of “Harmony’ for the 23rd Annual May Festival of the Arts.

Edward C. Robison III submitted the winning design in the poster design contest. Edward’s poster, based on an original photograph, was among ten entries submitted. See more of Robison’s work at his photography website.