A world-class collection of American art, stunning architecture, and 120 acres of Ozark forest with five miles of trails. Admission to the museum is always free.
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Museum & Buildings
Trails and Grounds open daily sunrise to sunset.
Conexión de Negocios Latinos y Crystal Bridges te invitan a que nos acompañes a una tarde donde conoceremos historias de emprendedores, profesionales, y creadores de arte latino, donde tendremos oportunidad de crear nuevas conexiones y al mismo tiempo promover tu negocio. ¡No olvides tu tarjetas de presentación!
Gratis, no se requieren boletos.
Do you want to meet other entrepreneurs in your area, create business relationships, and grow your business? In partnership with Conexión de Negocios Latinos, we invite you to join us for an evening of stories from entrepreneurs, professionals, and creators of Latinx art and the opportunity to make new connections. Don’t forget your business cards!
Free, no tickets required.
CNL is a non-profit entrepreneurship support organization that seeks to promote, educate, and support Latinx entrepreneurs in Arkansas. CNL aims to help Latinx business owners in Arkansas thrive by cultivating healthy relationships between businesses, connecting them to resources and referrals, and giving them information that they can use to grow. Through leadership development, networking opportunities, services, and promotion of businesses, CNL empowers Latinx entrepreneurs to be involved politically, socially, and within their communities. Ultimately, CNL hopes to see prosperity among Latinx business owners in Arkansas, and in turn, prosperity for Arkansas as a whole.
Artista Isaac Helguera creció en una familia de artesanos, su papá fue pintor, quien le enseñó el arte de la pintura desde muy temprana edad ya que fue la forma de salir adelante. En el año 2018 tomo la decisión de moverse al estado de Arkansas en donde trabajo nuevamente en la industria de la construcción y debido a un accidente se vio en la necesidad de dejar de trabajar, esta situación lo orillo a solicitar ayuda de la cual surgieron oportunidades para conocer a personas quienes le brindaron este apoyo. Su primera exhibición se llevó a cabo en un café-bar seguido de la Argenta Art Gallery ubicada en North Little Rock.
Desde esa fecha hasta el presente ha exhibido sus obras dentro de museos y universidades tales como Henderson, en diferentes puntos del estado como Northwest Arkansas, Hot Springs, Arkansas Central, y otros estados como Illinois y California, donde a su vez a participado en eventos obteniendo un gran reconocimiento y de igual manera primeros lugares en arte. Estos esfuerzos han construido su gran sueño, el cual es abrir su propia galería de arte para exhibir sus obras y a su vez darle oportunidad a otros artistas para que puedan exhibir sus obras en el mismo lugar apoyando a nuevas generaciones de pintores hispanos y de otras razas.
Aura is originally from San Salvador, El Salvador. She has been performing since the age of three, and dancing professionally for the past 25 years. Aura moved to the United States in 2006, and she has been operating in Northwest Arkansas since then. She owns Dance with Me Studio by Aura in downtown Rogers and has been recognized as a premier dance instructor and performer in the area.
She has been professionally trained by world-renowned dance champions such as Louis Van Amstel from Dancing with The Stars and David Elkins. Aura dedicates most of her time to sharing her passion for dance through local performances and teaching social dancing.
Xuxa Rodríguez, PhD (she/her/ella) is Associate Curator, Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. A critical race and intersectional feminist art historian, Dr. Rodríguez’s practice is dedicated to modern and contemporary American art spanning the areas of Latinx and Latin American art, African diasporic art, feminist and queer art, time-based media, and transnational artists. She joined Crystal Bridges in spring of 2020.
For fall of 2023, Dr. Rodríguez is curating Lee Mingwei’s Sonic Blossom at Crystal Bridges, the museum’s first exhibition dedicated to a participatory performance installation. Her exhibition and installation projects include Beeple: HUMAN ONE (2021), Lorraine O’Grady’s Untitled (Mlle Bourgeoise Noire) (1980-1983/2009); Entre/Between, a multi-sited focus show dedicated to Latinx art and history in the permanent collection at Crystal Bridges with video and performances at the Momentary; and Loring Taoka ±, an artist installation for the museum’s contemporary artist project space. She was the curator-on-the-ground supporting Dr. Michelle Finamore’s Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour, Crystal Bridges’ first fashion exhibition which surveys US designers’ contributions to fashion’s global stage while underscoring how historically excluded designers and wearers have led in defining American fashion. Her recent publications include “Listening to Ana Mendieta,” a peer-reviewed article of new research on the artist in the Archives of American Art Journal’s fall 2021 issue; “Refashioning the World: Whiteness, Racial Plagiarism, and Diversifying the Future” in the exhibition catalog for Fashioning America; and “Telling Truths, Expanding Histories” in Views of Crystal Bridges, the museum’s 2022 collections guide. She has expanded both the Crystal Bridges and Art Bridges collections with works by Edouard Duval-Carrié, Alfred Conteh, Alfredo Jaar, Arthur Jafa, Maria De Los Angeles, Patrick Martinez, Ana Mendieta, Yvette Mayorga, Shirin Neshat, Wendy Red Star, Kenny Rivero, Shizu Saldamando, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles.
Dr. Rodríguez holds a PhD in art history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation, “Performing Exile: Cuban-American Women’s Performance Art, 1972–2014,” is the first to examine Ana Mendieta, Carmelita Tropicana, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Coco Fusco together, arguing their work embodies US-Cuba diplomatic relations of the late 20th century and reflecting on the effects of exile as seen in Tania Bruguera’s work in relationship to President Barack Obama’s 2014 announcement of normalizing relations between the two nations.
Her research and scholarship have been supported by fellowships from Luce / the American Council of Learned Societies, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the US Department of Education’s Foreign Language and Area Studies Program, and the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An alumna of the Center for Curatorial Leadership / Mellon Foundation Seminar and the Smithsonian Latino Center’s Museum Studies Program, she has held fellowships, internships, and positions at Figure One Exhibition Lab Space, Frost Art Museum, Krannert Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Spurlock Museum.
