By 83 spring street
Join us here at 83 Spring Street Gallery as we once again welcome world famous duck decoy carver John Bundy!
John will be with us Friday, June 19th and Saturday, June 20th, 10am - 5pm, showing off his latest decoy creations as well as some very special wood carved items made just for us!
In addition, we will be doing an Open House for our Knightly Rental Luxury Suite. Many of our customers are unaware that we have luxury lodging available in the heart of downtown Eureka Springs. This open house will give us a chance to show it off and also showcase some of John’s work in a home setting! We hope to see you at the event!
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By 83 spring street
Hobbs State Park celebrated the opening of its $5 Million Visitor Center this past Wednesday, May 27th.
And thanks to the generosity of a Springdale couple, who wish to remain anonymous, Mark Hopkins’ Soaring will be on display in the Visitors Center for the enjoyment of generations to come!
Soaring by Mark Hopkins
The couple is quite familiar with Mark’s sculpture, and they have also done very significant volunteer work for the new Hobbs Visitor Center. Noting that the Center celebrated the diversity of wildlife in the State Park, but had no display to highlight its perhaps most regal resident, they felt Soaring had to represent the Park’s Bald Eagle population!
Hobbs State Park, at over 12,000 acres, is Arkansas’ largest State Park. It has a rich history, both natural and human. The park is a relatively new addition to the system, with land being principally acquired in 1987, and, until now, being relatively undeveloped. But all that is about to change, with the opening of the Visitor’s Center and ambitious plans for campgrounds, cabins, and additional facilities.
We encourage our friends to visit Hobbs while in the area and look for Soaring while they are there! Hobbs Visitor Center is located about 30 miles southwest of Eureka Springs and 15 miles east of Rogers on Arkansas Hwy. 12. For more information, see their web site here
Welcome To Hobbs State Park!
Brand New And Loaded With Interactive Displays!
Officially Open!
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By eurekathyme
Meet the Starbirds
at Eureka Thyme
May 22-24, 2009
Dear Friends,
This weekend we will celebrate the creativity of Ken Starbird and Sandy Wythawai Starbird. Join us on Saturday, May 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. to meet this fascinating duo and see some of the creations which have brought joy to so many. New works of the Starbirds’ will be on display from May 22 to the 24th. Their primal images and ceramics are always available at Eureka Thyme!
Sandy Wythawai Starbird
Strange Duo
“Sandy has been birthing Primal Images for over 22 years, first as Sandy Carlson and now as Sandy Wythawai Starbird. The fiber, fabric and found objects figures are the culmination of years of exploration and adventures in sewing, dyeing, weaving, crocheting, basketry, beading and hand building with clay and anything else that sounded like fun. ‘When working on these figures I feel a closeness with the image makers of the past who tried to create work worthy of spiritual presence and through which the answers to life’s mysteries could be found. The images speak of that which is hidden behind the mask. They speak of the connectedness of all things. They touch that Primal creative part of us which remembers that imagination and magic are closely related. When we were young we knew that we created the world anew each moment and with every sunrise. Sometime in childhood we stop trusting what feels right to us and begin accepting what we are told is true about this world. Creative work of any kind provides an opportunity for each willing person to tap into their own intuitive knowing and re-experience that early feeling of BEING magic’ ”
Ken Starbird
Stoneware Garden Lantern
by Ken Starbird
” ‘Creativity is that process which gives external form to inner ideas or feelings evolving from things past, bridging to things future and recording a finite moment of self-awareness’ ” Kenneth Starbird has attained such a distinctive signature in ceramics that his sculptures have the look of emerging from the hand of a wizard. They are both anthropomorphic and divine, splendidly organic, and appear concerned with sorcerous spells and aspects of pagan ritual. Like a convincing magician, Starbird invites the beguiling notion that clay can rise up in a plastic lump from the earth’s crust and spontaneously assume forms and implications concerned with supernatural games.”
Los Angeles Times”
Apartheid #2 Stoneware
by Ken Starbird
Friend or Foe Stoneware
by Ken Starbird
The Artists of Eureka Springs are being celebrated at all galleries in and around town. Please support these treasures of our community with us! For more information on other events, visit www.artofeureka.com
Marsha Havens
and the Eureka Thyme Family
19 Spring Street | Eureka Springs | AR | 72632
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