A group of Fort Smith businesswomen is having a street fair in honor of the opening of Hidden Talent Fine Art Gallery & Restoration.
The street fair will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday on the west end of 3rd Street.
The gallery has more than 40 works of art in its space, and the street fair will feature more than 65 vendors, who include local artists and artisans, gallery owner Lorrie Staggs said.
There will be a variety of vendors from food trucks to pop-up clothing stores. There will also be live music and live painting. Face painting will also be available.
“I really want to get us out there to the community because that’s what we’re all about,” Staggs said.
The event is free to the public.
The gallery will have a reception from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Olen & Co. Market and Designer Again are helping to sponsor the event and will have two fashion shows featuring their clothing, said Jessie Burrows with Olen & Co.
The fashion shows will spotlight sustainable, vintage and handmade clothing.
Burrows said she wanted to celebrate the gallery opening.
“Let’s just make a big to-do of it,” Burrows said.
Burrows said she also wanted to offer Fort Smith residents an alternative to going out of the city to do fun things.
“We’re trying to show Fort Smith has stuff you can do,” Burrows said.
Burrows said she is “just trying to bring people out.”
Staggs said her gallery is an important addition to the community because it offers people who have never shown their work before or who have been rejected by other art shows, a space to show their art.
Alex Gladden is a University of Arkansas graduate. She previously reported for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and The Jonesboro Sun before joining the Times Record. She can be contacted at [email protected].
