Art Ventures

Who we Are?

Art Ventures promotes the visual arts in Northwest Arkansas by actively collaborating with the community, supporting artists working to the highest standards, encouraging education and public engagement in the arts, and providing accessibility to under-represented communities. 

What we do?

Art Education -- Art Ventures takes a defining step to introduce the exhibition phase and socially conscious aspects of art creation to youth and young children.  Our K-12 Gallery Initiative provides school aged youth with the opportunity to participate in a 6 week creative learning course, create artwork and participate in a gallery exhibition to display their artwork in the Art Ventures art gallery.  All donors receive an invitation to the opening reception for the K-12 Gallery Initiative Exhibition.   

$1600 Gift provides a 6 week creative learning course and participation in a gallery exhibition with opening reception moon for an entire classroom of 20 students

$80 Gift provides a 6 week creative learning course and participation in a gallery exhibition with opening reception for one child

$25 Gift provides 1 hour of creative learning instruction

Art Business Practice -- We engage students in the curatorial process from concept to reality. University students get practical work experience in the arts, including accounting and other disciplines related to successful business practice. Artists can learn concepts to develop reality-based and tested business practices. We introduce investors to artists who represent a significant possible return on investment through art purchases.

Fine Art Galleries -- We provide a venue for high-quality and innovative art. Until Art Ventures set the stage in 2009 as Fayetteville Underground, most artists would vie for places on the walls of coffee shops and farmers’ market stands in Northwest Arkansas. These opportunities still exist and provide much-needed exposure, but we provide artists a dedicated and reliable space to exhibit their work and for the community to come together. 

Serving Micro-Communities -- We focus on representing artists from diverse backgrounds and art that tells the story of diverse cultural experiences. 

Arts Incubator & Collaborator -- Art Ventures identifies promising artists to help them advance their arts education and practice through workshops, artist talks, mentoring, and direct contemporary educational written and oral materials, and time. Our work with potential artist exhibitors has positively affected the strength of their own understanding about why they do what they do, their ability to discuss the focus of their work, and their ability to build an exhibition that is deliberate and profound.