Tuesday, August 18, 2015
This World, a photography by Diana Michelle Hausam of Tim West Fayetteville Underground is now featuring a retrospective of the work of outsider artist and Ozark legend Tim West,…
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Mary Celestia Parler and an informant; University of Arkansas Special Collections flickr page [Last fall Art of the Rural launched Middle Landscape, a series of projects that combine releases of…
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Monday, November 17, 2014
The Oregon County Food Producers and Artisans Co-Op is a market and community center located in the Missouri Ozarks in the town of Alton, pop. 879. OCFPAC, which…
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Photograph Rachel Reynolds Luster courtesy of the Oregon County Food Producers and Artisans Co-Op By Matthew Fluharty This week Field Notes, an Arts Journal site edited by National…
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Photograph by Paul Newton, Rural Missouri By Matthew Fluharty Rachel Reynolds Luster, Founding Project Steward of Art of the Rural, has been in the news many times over…
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Thursday, October 31, 2013
NPR’s Morning Edition recently featured a story about the Myrtle, Missouri Public Library and its new librarian Rachel Reynolds Luster. Longtime readers of Art of the Rural may…
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
El Teatro Campesino Founder Luis Valdez Each week we present a compendium of links and perspectives offered daily on our Rural Arts and Culture Feed. We encourage folks…
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Arkansas State Folklorist Mike Luster at the Roundtable; Jennifer Joy Jameson By Rachel Reynolds Luster, Contributing Editor Last month Art of The Rural joined a host of artists…
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, and Bill Evans, recording in 1958 If there is any particular affinity I have for poetry associated with the South, it is…
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Friday, April 6, 2012
By Rachel Reynolds Luster, Contributing Editor Batesville, Arkansas sits nestled in the Ozark foothills. The town is small with a population hovering between nine and ten thousand and…
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