What's Up - Your guide to what's happening in Fayetteville, AR this week!
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DECEMBER 16-22, 2018 WHAT'S UP! 9 FYI Heartwood Gallery Facing Change Change, says Anita Hejtmanek, is coming to Heartwood Gallery in south Fayetteville. After 17 years, this might be the last Christmas for the artists' cooperative. "The gallery is doing great," she says, "but the neighbor- hood is so different since the Walmart Market opened." Heartwood has epitomized the model of a successful co-op. Each artist works one day a month, pays a small amount of rent that covers utilities and other costs to run the building and gets to keep 100 percent of all sales. "We opened when the Arkansas Craft Guild gallery closed, because people wanted a place to get local art," Hejtmanek says. "And we've been that place ever since." Among the artists showing at the gallery are Margery Shore, Susan Bell, Trent Tally, Linda Flores, Judy Goodwin, Hank Barnes, Janet Greeson, Susan Idlet, Janelle Redlaczyk and Teresa Chard. Categories represented include basketry, pottery, painting, jewelry, photogra- phy and stained glass. WHEN — 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily (except Christmas) through Dec. 31 WHERE — 428 S. Government Ave. in Fayetteville INFO — 444-0888 Eureka Puts 'Fine' In Art The Eureka Fine Art Gallery was founded six years ago on Main Street, then moved to its Pine Street location four years ago. As they do in other artists' cooperatives, the eight member artists "share the duties and respon- sibilities of owning and operating the gallery," says member and spokesman John Rankine. "We all have to work one day in the gallery, but members can opt out of their day by paying someone to cover for them, allowing artists to spend more time in the studio," he adds. "Every- one pays dues to cover the operating costs, and each artist receives 90 percent of any sales with 10 percent going back into the co-op." Members are painters Larry Mansker, Drew Gentle, John Willer, Diana Harvey and Cynthia Re´Robbins; Ernie Kilman, landscape painter; Teresa Pelliccio Devito, painter and mixed media collage artist; and Rankine, who is a photographer and assemblage artist. WHEN — 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily; closed Christmas Day WHERE — 2 Pine St., next to Brews, in Eureka Springs INFO — Email johnrankine69@gmail.com Fenix Offers 'Buy And Take' A large selection of original artworks by Fenix Fayetteville artists are being presented for holiday gift ideas in a "buy and take" show — meaning any artwork purchased may be picked up at the time of purchase. The holi- day show is the fourth exhibition since April to be shown at Fenix Fayette- ville's permanent location on the north side of the historic Fayetteville square. A self-governing group of emerging and estab- lished visual artists working in all disciplines, Fenix Fayetteville was founded in 2016 and is "committed to a culture of mutual support, community and collaboration." "Members add their own vibrant voices to the creative culture growing in Northwest Arkansas, contribute to the active arts scene, and serve the community through their creative and educational work," says gallery spokeswoman Jeanne Parham. Among Fenix Fayetteville artists are Don House, Eugene Sargent, Hank Kaminsky, Cindy Arsaga, Jaquita Ball, Karla Walden Caraway, Matt Miller, Sabine Schmidt and Susan Idlet. WHEN — 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday; 10 a.m.- 8 p.m. Thursday & Friday; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday; and 1-4 p.m. Dec. 23 WHERE — 16 W. Center St. in Fayetteville INFO — Email fenixfayettevilleart@gmail.com More To Love Three other artists' cooperatives are keeping busy this holiday season: NWA Democrat-Gazette/BECCA MARTIN-BROWN Ruth Klotz paints birds on anything she can, including magnolia leaves. NWA Democrat-Gazette/BECCA MARTIN-BROWN Mary Sinkus makes unique wool "pots" for faux plants, but her best sellers at Wishing Spring are wool balls she says speed the drying time for clothes in the dryer. NWA Democrat-Gazette/BECCA MARTIN-BROWN Nancy Veach's "hotties" make holding soup easier and safer.