Arts, Culture & History
2 N. B St.
479-783-8888
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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 seven "row houses" that lined Fort Smith's Old West red light district, Miss Laura's is the only ho…
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.…
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…
4999 Morgans Way
479-784-2368
Added to the Arkansas Register of Historic Places on November 7, 2001, Massard Prairie was a popular grazing grassland for Union troops and locals during the Civil War. On July 27, 1864, Confederate troops led a surprise attack against the Union sold…
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…
15 North 2 Street
The skilled faculty and students worked together to transform this vintage bus located inside the gates of the unique pocket park known as The Park at West End during The Unexpected project in 2017.
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…
522 S 6th St
479-783-5345
Fort Smith National Cemetery, located in Fort Smith, Arkansas, was established as a national cemetery in 1867. The cemetery grew around a small post cemetery that dates to about 1819. Fort Smith National Cemetery traces its beginning to the foundin…
1319 North G Street
Okuda San Miguel added this colorful mural to the unassuming facade of an old home in downtown Fort Smith, Arkansas, as part of The Unexpected project of 2019.
Spanish artist Okuda San Miguel graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Madri…
309 Garrison Avenue
Bordalo Segundo was born in Lisbon, Greece, in 1987. The artist creates his signature pieces with end-of-life materials to promote sustainability and increase social awareness among his generation of consumers, which he describes as wasteful.
His Opo…