More Than 40 Artists and Galleries to Fill the Museum for One Weekend Only
The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) announces the artist lineup for the 2026 AMFA Art Market, taking place Sept. 12–13, 2026. Building on the success of the inaugural 2025 event, this year’s market brings together more than 40 artists and galleries, including six emerging artists making their AMFA Art Market debut, with booths spread throughout the museum. Admission is free, providing guests a full weekend for shopping, collecting, and connecting with artists.
Representing the depth of artistic talent found throughout the country, the 2026 AMFA Art Market artists come from Arkansas, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Arizona, Oklahoma, Illinois, North Carolina, and Georgia. The artists work across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including painting, fiber art, sculpture, glass, ceramics, mixed media, wood, and printmaking. Additionally, AMFA’s Windgate Art School will showcase original artwork from numerous instructors and allow attendees to visit the studios and shop their creations.
“Whether you are just beginning to explore art collecting or are a seasoned enthusiast, the AMFA Art Market offers a chance to connect with artists shaping today’s creative scene,” stated Dr. Victoria Ramirez, AMFA’s chief executive officer. “We invite guests to make a day of it — bring friends, chat with the artists, explore the galleries, and enjoy everything the museum has to offer.”
The AMFA Art Market is open 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, and 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 13. On Friday, Sept. 11, AMFA members have access to a special preview from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
On Friday and Saturday, a series of presentations from local gallerists will cover topics such as framing, appraising, and insuring artwork. Throughout the weekend, guests are also invited to enjoy an array of dining experiences, including seasonal fare at Park Grill and specialty refreshments from the Cultural Living Room beverage bar.
Selected artists and galleries for the 2026 AMFA Art Market include:
Art Group Gallery
Art Group Gallery (Little Rock, Arkansas) is a collective of artists offering original works in oil, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, and mixed media.
Deitra Blackwell
Deitra Blackwell (Little Rock, Arkansas) is a former musician turned metalsmith who crafts nature-inspired jewelry rich with historical symbolism and personal storytelling.
Central Arkansas Collective
Central Arkansas Collective (Conway, Arkansas) is a gallery creating varied work — from traditional to modern and surrealist expressions — that invites conversation, contributes to the well-being of the local culture, reflects the heart of the region, and offers a meaningful experience for its neighbors.
Sam and Jenny Dowd
Sam and Jenny Dowd (Prairie Grove, Arkansas) are ceramic artists who create whimsical, sculptural installations exploring the curious relationships between objects and everyday observation.
John Dyas
John Dyas (Bella Vista, Arkansas) is a ceramic artist who creates decorative and crystalline glazed pottery driven by a fascination with glaze chemistry and the ways science, nature, and art converge through fire.
Mark Gardner
Mark Gardner (Saluda, North Carolina) creates a variety of wood objects from salad bowls to decorative vessels, with each piece made from locally sourced hardwoods from the mountains of western North Carolina.
Jill Heir
Jill Heir (Concordia, Missouri) builds heirloom-quality woven pieces inspired by extensive travel and natural surroundings using American or exotic woods, reed, cane, and natural elements.
Ricky Higgins
Ricky Higgins (Decatur, Alabama) is a painter who utilizes color and gesture to express emotional depth rooted in personal story and shaped by faith.
Sage and Tom Holland
Sage and Tom Holland (Fox, Arkansas) create handmade glass art jewelry, marbles, and small sculptures reflecting the look of ancient designs, a love of nature, and expressions of the human condition.
Mark Jackson
Mark Jackson (Fayetteville, Arkansas) is a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings, photographs, and contemporary sculptural chairs are sold in galleries across the US.
Aron Kapembeza
Aron Kapembeza (Wylie, Texas) is a stone sculptor from Zimbabwe who works with Southern African stones, highlighting their texture and form to create unique sculptures inspired by nature and cultural heritage.
Debra Koertge
Debra Koertge (Fayetteville, Arkansas) forges and fuses mixed metals to create her pieces, drawing inspiration from her love of the natural world — fossils, gemstones, and found artifacts.
Fletcher Larkin
Fletcher Larkin (Little Rock, Arkansas) creates visually compelling pottery decorated through use of combing, trailing, and carving.
Loni Lichti
Loni Lichti (Alexander, Arkansas) is the metalsmith behind Silver Phoenix Designs, crafting symbolic, intuitively designed jewelry from recycled metals and striking stones.
M2 Gallery
M2 Gallery (Little Rock, Arkansas) represents an extraordinary roster of local, national, and international artists, creating an inviting space to explore diverse paintings, sculptures, photography, drawings, and works on paper.
David MacPhee
David MacPhee (Maumelle, Arkansas) merges mechanical engineering and artistry to create mixed media paintings.
Ed Martin
Ed Martin (Springfield, Missouri) specializes in unique glass and metal artwork, combining traditional glass techniques with modern 3D innovations.
Caroline Millar
Caroline Millar (Little Rock, Arkansas) is a printmaker whose botanical creations on textiles explore the intricacies of the natural world.
Ron Mynatt
Ron Mynatt (Springdale, Arkansas) is a glass artist crafting vibrant, hand-mixed glasswork at extreme heat, blending bold color, rich texture, and luminous design.
Daniella Napolitano
Daniella Napolitano (Phoenix, Arizona) is a Phoenix-based printmaker and mixed media artist exploring human-animal-environment relationships through ecologically inspired imagery.
Caleigh Parsons
Caleigh Parsons (Dothan, Alabama) paints intuitively using acrylic paint, oil pastels, and other mediums to evoke an artistic conversation.
Jin Powell
Jin Powell (Memphis, Tennessee) explores the human form through hand-carved wood and mixed media such as textured rope, gold leaf, and fabric.
John Powell
John Powell (Memphis, Tennessee) creates sculptural works that blend botanical form, industrial material, and satirical light to evoke wonder and liberate thought.
Red Door Gallery
Red Door Gallery (North Little Rock, Arkansas) has been curating a diverse selection of original artwork focusing on Southern culture from talented regional and national artists for more than 30 years.
Brent Rowley
Brent Rowley (London, Arkansas) creates mixed media paintings that excavate the tropes, compositions, and images of the past to repurpose them into multi-referential creations.
Theresa St. Romain
Theresa St. Romain (Tucker, Georgia) creates jewelry with dimension through classic metalsmithing techniques using materials such as silver, copper, brass, and found objects.
Sandra Sell
Sandra Sell (Little Rock, Arkansas) is a sculptor with a passion for visually emulating nature in carved wood to convey emotional responses to life.
Tod Switch and Mollie Munroe
Tod Switch and Mollie Munroe (Little Rock, Arkansas) make expressive works in wood, metal, and stone, each permitting the material to dictate the creation and voice.
Greg Thompson Fine Art
Greg Thompson Fine Art (North Little Rock, Arkansas) is one of the top private art dealerships in the southern US specializing in southern, modern, and contemporary art movements.
Daniel Van Antwerp
Daniel Van Antwerp (Yellville, Arkansas) creates meticulously handmade glass that reflects innovation, artistry, and a passion for shaping glass into pieces that challenge the ordinary.
Michael Warrick
Michael Warrick (Little Rock, Arkansas) designs and constructs garments using natural fibers and reclaimed deadstock textiles, seeing clothing as both functional design and a form of narrative art.
Elizabeth Weber
Elizabeth Weber (Little Rock, Arkansas) creates multi-layered 3D tactile forms that incorporate slow stitching, embroidery, punch needle, needle felting, and assemblage with mixed media.
Jon Welborn
Jon Welborn (Pittsburg, Texas) is a woodturning artist from East Texas who sculpts native timber into elegant forms celebrating nature’s artistry.
Reian Williams
Reian Williams (Edmond, Oklahoma) is a contemporary artist who uses bold color and detail to explore themes of justice, mental health, and identity through deeply personal visual narratives.
Ruth Wright
Ruth Wright (Columbia, Missouri) is a self-taught weaving artist whose intricate, feather-light wearable art is inspired by global stitching traditions, nature, and geometry.
Sponsors
The AMFA Art Market is supported in part by AMFA Foundation with media sponsor At Home in Arkansas.
About the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
Founded in 1937, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts is the largest cultural institution of its kind in the state, offering a unique blend of visual and performing arts experiences. AMFA is committed to featuring diverse media and artistic perspectives within its permanent collection of 14,000 works of art as well as through rotating temporary exhibitions. AMFA’s international collection spans eight centuries, with strengths in works on paper and contemporary craft, and includes notable holdings by artists from Arkansas, the South, and across the United States and Europe.
With a vibrant mix of ideas, cultures, people, and places, AMFA extends this commitment to diversity through its dynamic children’s theatre and performing arts program, the innovative Windgate Art School, and community-focused educational programs for all ages. Located in Little Rock’s oldest urban green space, MacArthur Park, AMFA’s landmark building and grounds are designed by Studio Gang and SCAPE, in collaboration with Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects.