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Northwest Arkansas is home to a vibrant, diverse, and robust fine art community, and we are incredibly excited for the opportunity to be a part of it.

Midnight Gallery is poised to open this fall of 2024, and our goal is to provide an accessible space fo At Midnight Gallery, our mission is to celebrate and support local artists by providing them with a dedicated space to exhibit their work. We aim for our gallery to be a vibrant space that fosters creativity and collaborates with our robust, incredibly talented art community.

09/28/2026

𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴 | Solo Exhibition by Skye Harris [ SKYE HARRIS | Arkansas Wedding Photographer ]

📍 Midnight Gallery, Bentonville, AR
🗓 Opening Reception: Sunday, October 11, 2026
🕒 from 3 - 5 PM
🌱 On view through November 21, 2026

Light, land, labor, and the cycles of growth.

Join us Sunday, October 11th at Midnight Gallery from 3 - 5 PM for the opening reception of Photosynthesis, a solo exhibition by Skye Harris.

This body of work explores the reciprocal relationship between sunlight, land, and the people whose hands have long tended it.

Photosynthesis is on view October 6–November 21, 2026.

Artwork by Ava WoodsonPines (2025)Oil on canvas32 x 24For inquiries, please contact info@midnightgallerynwa.comMeet Ava ...

09/17/2026

Artwork by Ava Woodson
Pines (2025)
Oil on canvas
32 x 24
For inquiries, please contact [email protected]

Meet Ava Woodson (Ava Woodson, Ava Woodson.art), who is featured in 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘬, on view until October 4th, 2026.

Ava Woodson graduated from the University of Arkansas with her BFA in studio art, concentration in painting, and minor in art history. A Fayetteville based artist primarily working in oil painting, Woodson focuses her practice both from observation and memory, teetering between the past and the present.

Check out more of her work on Ava Woodson.art

For inquiries, please contact [email protected]

09/14/2026

Here are works created by Ava Obert, on view now in 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘬:

5. Candelabra (2025)
Red clay and sand
10 x 13 x 4
NFS

6. Bedroom Window (2025) [Series of small works, 21 total]
Gouache on cold press
Sizes vary
inquire for price

7. On my walk to work (2025)
Gouache on cold press
15 x 12
For inquiries, please contact [email protected]

6. Bedroom Window (2025) [12]
Gouache on cold press
Sizes vary
inquire for price

6. Bedroom Window (2025) [13.1 and 13.2]
Gouache on cold press
Sizes vary
inquire for price

6. Bedroom Window (2025) [19]
Gouache on cold press
Sizes vary
Sold

6. Bedroom Window (2025) [3]
Gouache on cold press
Sizes vary
inquire for price

09/13/2026

DATE: 9/27/26
When: 1 - 2 PM
Where: Midnight Gallery | 407 SW A ST

Join us for a lovely artist talk with painter Ava Obert on Sunday, September 27th 2026 from 1 - 2 PM.

We will offer tea, drinks and snacks, all while enjoying the dialogue that spans Ava’s artistic practice.

Ava Marie Obert is a painter and multidisciplinary artist originally from rural Mountain Home, Arkansas. Obert has been featured in several exhibitions at Midnight Gallery since its opening, including Lush, Petty Not Pretty, and most recently, Sunstruck. She received her BFA in Painting with a minor in Art History from the University of Arkansas, where she expanded her practice beyond her early experiences painting plein air alongside mentors.

Raised among the hills, creeks, rivers, and junk-filled yards of rural Arkansas, Marie developed an early sensitivity to finding beauty and adventure in unexpected places. Her work explores the outdoors, womanhood, memory, curiosity, and the intimate relationships that shape how we experience and understand the world.

09/11/2026

Artwork by Greta Kresse
𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘦 (2026)
Oil on Aluminum 20 x 23

Meet Greta Kresse! Her painting 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘦 is featured in 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘬, on view until October 4th 2026.

Greta Kresse (b. 1999, Little Rock, AR) is a figurative painter based in Fayetteville, AR. She received her BA from Hendrix College and her MFA from the University of Arkansas. Kresse is the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2026) and has attended residencies at Anderson Ranch, New York Studio School, Willow House, and Great Spruce Head Island.

Working with oils on aluminum, Kresse creates vibrant paintings that explore human connection within the Southern landscape. Her practice moves between sustained plein air observation and larger, more ambitious studio compositions. Limited palettes and glazing dissolve figures into humid landscapes or heighten chaos, pushing the work toward poetry. Kresse holds restlessness and love, tragedy and humor, in irresolution, asking the viewer to resist singular readings in favor of questions about home, identity, and belonging.

📸Portrait created by Kes Efstathiou

09/04/2026

This artwork is created by Gabriel Allred (Gabriel Allred) featured in our current group exhibition, 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘬, which is on view until October 4th.

𝘜𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 (2026)
Mixed media collage, acrylic paint, silk-screened images, and found paper on steel sheetmetal.
24 x 18
Please inquire for price at [email protected]

Gabriel Allred Ph.D., is a multidisciplinary artist and former behavioral researcher. His recent work explores autobiographical themes and contemporary issues (e.g., immigration, late-stage capitalism, identity, class). His collage work is heavily grounded in silkscreen printing. Growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada, he spent much of his formative years as a satellite in his father’s sculpture studio. Gabriel studied psychology, earning a Ph.D. with a specialization in human cognition. Possessing a rather nuanced understanding of human cognition alongside sensation and perception, he uses this knowledge in his own artistic practice - utilizing his imagery to conjure implicit themes and concepts. He has also created a number of digital media projects alongside artist and collaborator Keil Corcoran of the band STRFKR. Zinemaking is also a part of Gabriel’s practice, an extension of his photography.

When asked how 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘬 resonates with his art practice, Gabriel Allred said this:

“Marx used the sun as a metaphor for human self-actualization, stating that we “must revolve around (ourselves) as (our) own true Sun.” Institutions can serve as the “illusory” sun that revolves around us when we do not learn to shine upon ourselves. The sun in my piece and practice serves as a beacon to shine light on falsehood and reject illusions, often illusions perpetuated by institutions in service of capital gain. I reflect my own truth upon the viewer’s gaze in my selection of imagery - just as the sun removes the darkness of the old, sometimes oppressive, ideas of the past.“

08/31/2026

OPEN CALL | Group Exhibition | Local Artists & Poets

a room, once entered takes inspiration from Daniel Hoffman’s 1965 poem “Entering doorways.” This group calls for local creatives to apply with either visual art and/or poetry.

While undergoing life’s many a great changes, the rooms we inhabit shift all the same. Objects accumulate (or disappear), furniture is stoutly placed (or rearranged), light seeps through windows (or darkness lingers). What makes a space ours? What makes it not? We’re searching for artists and poets that articulate spaces we enter, inhabit, and depart from, reflecting our ever-evolving lived experience.
Apply by Friday, November 20th 2026.

APPLICATION LINK IN BIO
APPLICATION FEE: $10
DURATION: 1/5/27 - 4/4/27

By local artist, we mean artists that are practicing within 100 miles of Bentonville, AR.

For more information, please contact [email protected]

07/29/2026

At Midnight Gallery, artwork that behaves dually as a portal to inside of Callisto is hand-created for every single exhibition.

For 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘬, our very own Creative Director, Emma Nilsson, created this piece. She is also currently pursuing her MFA in painting at Boston University.

Follow along to hear more about how it was created.

07/28/2026

Join us for a Sunday morning artist talk with artist Molly Martin, who is featured in 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘬. Ease into the afternoon with coffee, conversation, and a closer look at Martin’s practice. Doors open at 11:15 AM.

About the artist:

Molly Martin (b. 1998, Springfield, MO) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work treats line as drawing and sculpture. She constructs wall-based collages and suspended sculptures that loop and tangle through space, exploring tension, improvisation, and the unpredictable behavior of materials. She earned her BFA in Drawing from Missouri State University and MFA from the University of Arkansas, where she teaches in the Art Foundations Program as a post-grad Teaching Fellow. Her work has been exhibited nationally with organizations including Chautauqua Visual Arts, Surface Design Association, Southeast Fiber Alliance, and Studio Break in West Chicago. She is included in the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts Artist 2025-2027 Registry and will attend a summer 2026 residency at the Vermont Studio Center.

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407 SW A Street
Bentonville, AR
72712

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+14795539719

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https://www.midnightgallerynwa.com/, https://fstopshow.artcall.org/

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