Ozark Folk Fair
While you're enjoying live music in the Basin Spring Park in the heart of Eureka Springs, be sure to look around at our Ozark Folk Fair! We'll have many artists and craftspeople showcasing original folk art.
Jessica Ames Russell
Jessica Ames-Russell, a painter and ceramic artist based in Eureka Springs, AR, hails from a family of artists, and continues to create in the family studio today. Using her BFA earned from Washburn University, she enjoyed a successful 15-year tenure as a high school art teacher. On a new path now, she is wholeheartedly devoted to forging a vibrant future through her art. Her paintings draw inspiration from enchanting landscapes and the warmth of human connection. Her ceramic creations, marrying functionality with aesthetic allure, showcase her mastery of experimental firing techniques. Jessica's captivating work enjoys regular exhibitions in shows and galleries.
Lisa Crews has 40 years of practicing and making art. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Arkansas State University. She took Graduate Studies in Ceramics and Sculpture at the University of Memphis and the University of Delaware. While teaching art for 10 years in Missouri and Arkansas she learned historical techniques for making Mississippian Native American pottery (500-1500 AD). She also learned French Faience and English Delftware pottery from the 17th and 18th centuries. Her current work combines multi-media with pottery, including sculptural pieces to include clothed figures with a more personal and emotional content. The decorations on vases or other forms are inspired by Nature and include Luna moths, dragonflies, frogs, birds, cats, turtles, and mushrooms.
Lisa Crews Potter
Ron Lutz
Ron is an artist and photographer who makes some of the most usual instruments in the Ozarks. Lutz makes Banjos, electric guitars, slide guitars, and Diddlely Bows out of cigarboxes, Water Skis, driftwood, and even a dog bowl.
Ron: “The cigar-box guitars were born out of poverty in the South. People couldn’t afford an actual instrument so they would often scrounge up something to make their own, like a cigar box, a wire from a screen door, to make music I build a lot of fretless type guitars, though lately I’ve been gravitating to lap steel guitars. “
Ron Lutz and his wife Jody Stephenson live the American dream at Studio 62—their gallery and home in Eureka Springs.
Sumre White
Sumre White is a bold and innovative artist from Eureka Springs, Arkansas. She began her artistic journey in 2019 working primarily in paints and collages. With a passionate and unabridged approach to her craft, Sumre’s work is daring and unconventional. Embracing the nonlinear nature of art, she creates pieces that are ahead of their time and not meant for mainstream audiences. In a world where art is subjective and relative, Sumre White’s unique perspective shines through in her thought-provoking and boundary-pushing creations.
Vicki Hardcastle
Vicki Hardcastle (Eureka Springs, AR) has made fiber art for over 40 years. She loves creating unique one-of-a-kind felted fiber sculptures. She has taught various classes and owns the Hardcastle Folk Art Shop in Berryville, AR. She is a member of the Arkansas Craft Guild.
Julie Kahn Valentine
Julie, who has called Eureka Springs, Arkansas home since 1969, has spent a lifetime traveling with her art including Israel, France, Spain, Mexico, California, New York & New Orleans. She is internationally known as a portrait artist. Drawing is always the backbone of all of Julie's work whether done in watercolor, acrylic, or oil. Much of her current work focuses on Eureka Springs scenes which express the real personality of the unusual historic town that Julie has chosen as home. Julie is Eureka Springs' only official artist and is a big part of the Eureka art scene.
