The Arkansas Craft Guild, a cooperative of Arkansas craft artisans, seeks to promote excellence in both tradit...

Basket making is the process of interlacing short flexible fibers to form a container using a process of coili...

James Black, popularly known as the maker of the bowie knife, was one of the early pioneers of Arkansas and se...

The bowie knife, made popular in the 1830s, has evolved into a specific form in current use. The bowie knife w...

Ceramic artist Joseph Aloysius Bruhin III of Fox (Stone County) was awarded the Arkansas Arts Council Fellowsh...

Dallas Bump of Royal (Garland County) was a fourth-generation chair maker who constructed handcrafted furnitur...

Founded in 1926, Camden Art Tile and Pottery Company was the third and last producer of Art Pottery in Arkansa...

Ivan Denton, a pioneering Ozark woodcarver specializing in wildlife and Western scenes, was one of the most pr...

Dryden Pottery was founded in Kansas by A. James Dryden, who relocated his business to Hot Springs (Garland Co...

Rosemary Beryl Snook Fisher was an artist and pottery instructor for the Arkansas Arts Center (now the Arkansa...

Elsie Mari Bates Freund was a studio art jeweler, watercolorist, and textile artist. In 1941, she and her husb...

Fulbright Industries was a furniture manufacturing business in Fayetteville (Washington County) owned and oper...

The history of the Gibson family of basket makers—which, as of 2009, has produced split white oak baskets fo...

Known as the “Whittling Fiddler,” the “Stradivarius of the Ozarks,” or more simply, the “Fiddle Make...

Willie Kavanaugh Hocker of Wabbaseka and Pine Bluff, both in Jefferson County, was a schoolteacher, poet, and ...

George Raymond Hoelzeman is a liturgical artist who has gained national acclaim for his creation of church fur...

Charles Dean “Bullet” Hyten was a master potter and the originator of the famous Niloak Pottery. Although ...

Helen Martin King was one of Arkansas’s most unique artists, developing the almost-forgotten craft of rug ho...

James Buel “The Arkansas Knifesmith” Lile is one of the most accomplished and famous custom knife makers i...

Korto (pronounced “cut-toe”) Momolu is an independent fashion designer and entrepreneur. Her designs featu...

Indians in Arkansas began making pottery containers about 2,500 years ago, during the Woodland Period, and the...

Leon Albert Niehues is a highly regarded basket maker in the United States and internationally. In 2002, he wa...

Niloak is a popular American Art Pottery that was created in Benton (Saline County) from 1909 until 1946 by th...

Ceramist, sculptor, and teacher Helen Ann Evans Phillips played a major role in the development of contemporar...

Pottery has been produced in Arkansas from prehistoric times up to the present day. Of note are prehistoric Na...