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MARCH 6-12, 2022 WHAT'S UP! 9 FYI Momentary Music April 2 — Anna Mere- dith, an artist who was here to perform the day the lockdown began, will return to finally perform for a live audience April 6 — Dave Liebman with University of Arkansas student performers April 30 — Bentonville Jazz Festival, an all-day event with 20-30 different bands May 20-21 — Fresh Grass, a two-day bluegrass and progressive roots music festival with headliners Emmylou Harris and the Red Dirt Boys Summer music series are still in development, but guests can expect a few things for certain: • The Courtyard Sessions, an opportunity to see local bands perform outside on the museum grounds on Sunday afternoons while eating or drinking, will resume. • Live on the Green Concert Series, a free live music experience on the greens, will take place 7:30-9 p.m. on Fridays from July 2 to Sept. 24. Bring your lawn chair. • Approximately seven or eight larger scale concerts with big name acts will take place in the summer. The Momentary will make an official announce- ment of those details in the coming week. You can find more informa- tion on its website. • Momentous, an elec- tronic music festival, is planned for October and will feature artists from nine countries, with both bigger- and smaller-name acts. Argeo Ascania, programmer of music and festivals for the Momentary, calls it a meaningful intersec- tion between art and technology. See more detail at themomentary.org. April 23 through Sept. 25. Cabeza de Baca's works challenge traditional landscapes through enormous pieces: multi-panel landscape paintings that are six and seven feet tall, a bronze living sculpture and things among the trails and museum grounds as well as the lobby gallery and north entrance. Garcia-Maestas says when Cabeza de Baca came for a site visit, he was inspired by the architecture and the nature surrounding the Momentary and how both could exist in the same space. She says it made him wonder, "What would it look like if we cease to exist? How would nature come back from that and conquer the space?" This summer will mark the first time that the Momentary will integrate works from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art's collection, including three iconic historical paintings. In the fall, Chicago artist Yvette Mayorga will bring her signature touch to the Momentary galleries. Garcia-Maestas says she has a unique way of mixing paint so that it actually looks like frosting (yes, the confectionery kind). Mayorga will frost the galleries of the Momentary through sculptures and paintings and hopefully a workshop as well. It's a great example of their mission this year of "how to have exhibitions not feel like a traditional museum experience, where you walk in and see a beginning and end to a show," Garcia-Maestas says. "To (instead) activate the space and make the community feel as if they're stewards of what's happening inside." Another exhibition, borrowed from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, will include the largest sculpture one artist has ever made, a massive work that was never intended to be moved. The monumental sculpture has sound elements as you walk through the chambers, with some of those being people talking about experience through water, water as a migratory space, a poetic but huge installation. Bringing performance artists to the Momentary has been a challenge during the pandemic, of course, as many were postponed or canceled altogether, but 2022 is bringing much of that back. Cynthia Post Hunt, programmer of theater and dance at the Momentary, says the museum prioritized finding ways to continue supporting those performers in the meantime. Right now one of those measures is that they are in the process of creating an artist-in- residence program. Mika Djordevich is among those artists coming to stay this year. Her performance art "Core" with six dancers "interrogates the movements we're used to," Hunt says. "It begins with militaristic or marching band-like repetitive movements and unravels it. In the piece, there's intense demand from the performers, and we see them as they no longer" are able to keep it together. By hosting Djordevich as a resident, Hunt hopes it will allow the creation of a zine for viewers to get an additional layer of information about her work. James Monaco and Shawn Duan, theater makers who incorporate video and sounds "In Some Form or Fashion" is open now through March 27. Above is an installation shot of the exhibit with works from Simphiwe Ndzube. (Courtesy Photo/Ironside Photography, Stephen Ironside) See Momentary Page 39