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Food & Drink368
Lodging59
Culture40
Outdoor326
Civic & Community104
Commerce & Shops264
Education178
Curiosity222

Food & Drink368

Lodging59

Culture40

Arend Arts Center
Arkansas Music Pavilion
Arkansas Public Theater
Arts Live Theatre
Bella Vista Historical Museum
Bella Vista Public Library
Bentonville History Museum office
Bentonville Public Library
Bible Museum
Chi Omega Greek Theatre
Clinton House Museum
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Alice Walton's gift to the country: a free American art museum sunk into a wooded ravine north of the Bentonville Square, with works ranging from Hudson River School landscapes to contemporary commissions. The architecture by Moshe Safdie is its own argument — three glass-and-wood pavilions arranged around two spring-fed pools.
Daisy Airgun Museum
David W. Mullins Library
Eureka Springs Carnegie Public Library
Eureka Springs Historical Museum
Fayetteville Public Library
Great Passion Play Amphitheater
Headquarters House
Intrigue Theater
Ozark Mountain Hoe-Down Music Theatre
Rogers Historical Museum
Rogers Public Library
Sacred Arts Museum
Scott Family Amazeum
Shiloh Museum
Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
Springdale High School Performing Arts Center
Springdale Public Library
Studio 34
Studio 62 Eureka Springs
Thaden Library
The Bentonville Collection
Off campus
The Momentary
The Momentary occupies a former Kraft cheese factory on the south edge of Bentonville — a building that retains its industrial bones, the loading docks now serving as an outdoor stage. It is a sister institution to Crystal Bridges, programming contemporary visual art, live music, film, and performance under one corrugated roof.
The Peel Mansion Museum & Heritage Gardens
The Statton Gallery, Madison's Garden
TheatreSquared
Walmart AMP
Off campus
The Walmart AMP — Arkansas Music Pavilion — is an open-air amphitheater on the eastern edge of Rogers, seating roughly 11,000 between a covered pavilion and a grassy lawn. It is the largest outdoor concert venue in the state and the primary stop on the regional touring circuit for acts from arena-sized headliners down to mid-level country and rock bills.
Walton Arts Center
Walton Arts Center
Off campus
Fayetteville's primary performing arts venue sits at the intersection of Dickson Street and the Razorback Greenway, presenting Broadway touring productions, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra performances, and regional theater in a purpose-built hall that has anchored downtown since 1992.

Outdoor326

Civic & Community104

8th Street Market
The 8th Street Market sits along the corridor connecting the Bentonville Square to the Momentary, a stretch that has accumulated a dense cluster of food, retail, and creative businesses in the decade since Crystal Bridges opened. The market itself is an adaptive-reuse project — former warehouse bones, new food-hall program — that serves as an afternoon anchor for the district.
Abundant Life Ministries
Agape Fellowship
American Legion
Apostolic Life
Arkansas State Police Troop L
Bella Vista Animal Shelter
Bella Vista Fire Department Station 2
Benton County Court House Annex
Bentonville City Hall
Bentonville Community Center
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Bentonville Fire Department Station 2
Bentonville Police Department
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary
Centerton Fire Department - Station 1
Centerton Fire Department - Station 2
Centro Cristiano Springdale
Christian Life Cathedral
Coler Crossing
Cross Chruch
Downtown Bentonville Inc.
Eureka Springs Community Center
Eureka Springs Fire & EMS Station #3
Eureka Springs Post Office
Farmer's Market
Fayetteville Animal Services
Fayetteville Boys & Girls Club
Fayetteville Community of Christ
Fayetteville Fire Department
Fayetteville Fire Station 2
Fayetteville Fire Station 3
Fayetteville Fire Station 4
Fayetteville Fire Station 5
Fayetteville Fire Station 6
Fayetteville Fire Station 7
Fayetteville Fire Station 8
Fayetteville Fire Station 9
Fayetteville First Assembly
Fayetteville Police Headquarters
Fayetteville Post Office
Fayetteville Senior Activity and Wellness Center
Fellowship Bentonville
Fellowship Bentonville Early Childhood
Fellowship Bentonville Elementary
Fellowship Student Ministries Bentonville
Fellowship of the Hills
Flint Street Fellowship
Frank Lloyd Wright House
Gospel of Peace Tabernacle
Grace Evangel Chapel
Harvest Bible Chapel
Hiwassee Fire Station
Iglesia Cristiana Ministerios Alfa y Omega
Iglesia de Dios Maranata
Iglesia del Nazareno Vida Abundante
Islamic Center of Northwest Arkansas
Johnson Fire Department
Johnson Police Department
King's Chapel
Ledger
Mail Boxes Etc.
Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel
Mount Sequoyah Center
New Hope Fellowship
No Limits Fellowship
NorthPoint Apostolic
Pea Ridge National Military Park
Off campus
On March 7 and 8, 1862, Union forces under Samuel Curtis repelled a Confederate advance here in the Boston Mountains, effectively deciding the fate of Missouri and anchoring the trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War. The 4,300-acre park preserves the battlefield nearly intact — a rare condition among Civil War sites — with a seven-mile driving loop and eleven miles of walking trail threading the ridges.
Prairie Grove Fire Department
Prairie Grove Post Office
Primera Iglesia Bautista
Riordan Hall
Rogers Police Department
Rogers Post Office
Saint Martins Episcopal University Center
SpringCreek Fellowship
Springdale Fire Department Station 1
Springdale Fire Department Station 2
Springdale Fire Department Station 3
Springdale Fire Department Station 5
Springdale Fire Station 4
Springdale Fire Station 6
Springdale Post Office
Temple Shalom
The Bentonville Square
The Bentonville Square is the gravitational center of the city — a tree-lined public space anchored by the 1928 Benton County Courthouse, ringed on four sides by restaurants, galleries, specialty retailers, and the original Walton's 5 & 10. On warm evenings, the square fills; on summer Saturdays, a farmers market occupies the perimeter.
The Highlands Post Office
The Massey Building
The Sparky Building
The Way of Color
Thorncrown Chapel
Tulip Tree Shelter
US Post Office
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fayetteville
United States Post Office
Unity of Fayetteville
University of Arkansas Police Department
Walmart Culinary Innovation Center
Walmart Home Office
Walmart Legal/Marketing/Data Center Building
Walmart Mitchell Building
Walmart Museum
Walmart Museum (5&10 Visitor Center)
The building at 105 N. Main on the Bentonville Square is where Sam Walton opened his first Walton's 5 & 10 in 1950, leasing the space for ninety-nine years because the landlord wouldn't sell. It has been restored as a free museum tracing the company's ascent from a single variety store — the mechanical pencil sharpeners, the RC Cola cooler, the original pressed-tin ceiling — to a global retail operation that remade supply chains everywhere.
Washington County Sheriff's Office
Wheeler Fire Department Station 3
Yvonne Richardson Community Center

Commerce & Shops264

Education178

Curiosity222

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8th Street Market Mural
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A Farmer's Dream
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Abe Lincoln With Sunglasses and Koi
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All Bikers Welcome
Off campus
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Almost Forgotten Osage Prairie
Off campus
Already Set in Motion
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Amethyst Slice Set
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Arkansas Vision
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Art Feeds
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Arts District
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Arvest Bike Pavillion
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Astonishment of Perception
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Aura Activity
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Barn Dance ‘We Rise By Lifting Others, Dance First Think Later’
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Battle of the Blossoms
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Bentonville Quilt
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Bentonville Radio
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Big Blue
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Big Tex (Y'ALL MEANS ALL)
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Bike Rider
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Bikers 2 Bones
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Block Street Records
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Blue Bike Tower
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Boombox Radio Station
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Boston Mountain Range
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Botany
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Box Turtle
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Box Turtle
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Brick House
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Bubble
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Buckyball
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CC ART "City of Bentonville" n.d.
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Canoe Canoe
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Car Travel Trailer
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Carrot Bot
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Chaise Gabion
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Chrystal Seawood "Crowned Series"n.d.
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Clank
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ColorFULL
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Column of Four Squares Excentric Gyratory III
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Commission for Peel Mansion
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Compton Gardens
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Congruence
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Context Shift
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Continuum
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Corey Milford "Heartland" n.d.
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Cozy Apple
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Critical Trash
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Danielle Hatch “Tablecloth Diamond” 2025
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Decades Court
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Deer
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Depot
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Dimensional Improbability
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Don’t Be a Chicken
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Double Slit Skyline
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Dreams and Perseverance
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El Cekis (Nelson Rivas)“The Garden Next Door” 2025
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El repartidor de estrellas
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Erika & Louise
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Ernest and Ruth (Exuberant Pink)
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Everyone Deserves a Bike
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Eye Mural
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Fantasy Fish
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Fifth Market Community Mural
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Finish
Off campus
Flag & Eagle
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Flight
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Flowers
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Flowers That Bloom
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Fluttering Quilts
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Fly's Eye Dome
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Found
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GO GO GO
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Garden Boats for Osage Park
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George Washington Supreme
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Glamping at the Bells
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Gnargo
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Graham Edwards “Wavelength” 2025
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Grains of Sand
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Green Bike Tower
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Group of Bears
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Growing and Going
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Gwendolyn
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Hatchet
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Heartland
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Heavy Handed
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HeliosGraphics Razorback
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Hello
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Hello Astronaut
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Hole in the Wall
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Horse Lover
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Ice and a Slice
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In the Trees
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Interactive Neon Mural #16,
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Inward
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J Dickson Black
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Jamie Vaeda
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Jason Jones x Lucas Aoki, "Just Bee" Homegrown Collab, 2025
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Jessica Jones “Give and Take” 2024
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Jim Collins “Hill Climb” 2023
Off campus
Keep it Clean
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Knobby, Rider, Tread
Off campus
LOVE
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Lakes and Rivers
Off campus
Launch Intention (Osage Park)
Off campus
Launch Intention (Thaden School)
Off campus
Lessons From The Creek
Off campus
Lil’ Library in the Park
Off campus
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Love Chemical
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Lowell's Ocean
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Making Change
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Maman
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Mantra “The Butterfly Ballet” 2025
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Mason Jar
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Maybe
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Meteor Shower
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Monarch and Dandelions
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Monkey Ride
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Monochrome II
Off campus
Monster Alley Monsters,
Off campus
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Mull It Over
Off campus
Museum of Native American History Murals
Off campus
My Best Friend:Good Friday Walton
Off campus
Narcissus Garden
Off campus
Natural Skate
Off campus
Neon Slinky Dog
Off campus
New Growth
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New To You
Off campus
Now is Better, Bentonville
Off campus
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OZ Trails
Off campus
Octavio Logo “Agave in the Ozarks” 2020
Off campus
Octavio Logo “Three Stages of Life” 2023
Off campus
Ombre
Off campus
One Fixed Four Jointed Lines Biased
Off campus
Open Heart
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Oracle
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Orange Bike Tower
Off campus
Osage Park
Off campus
Owl Eyes
Off campus
Ozarks
Off campus
PAC-Man
Off campus
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Parabolic Cube
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Paradise Found
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Pi Cropped
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Piano Hands
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Rainbow Springs
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Red Bike Tower
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Redstick
Off campus
Resilience
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Resistance
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Rock & Roll Rotramel
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RopeHounds Art
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Sam Falls "Untitled (Wind Chimes)" 2014-2021
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Sasha Rayevskiy "Bubbles" n.d.
Off campus
Sassy the Sasquatch
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Scattering Screen
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Seeds of Bentonville
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Shape
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Open now
Shaved Portions
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Shore Lunch
Off campus
Shredder’s Digest “Home of the Fastest” 2024
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Silver Screen
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Slowly Toward the North
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Sole d'Oro
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Someone and Someone
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Sparky
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Spicy Curry
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Spike Bikes
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Stand Between Your Wings
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Standing Structure for Human Use
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Stella
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Sugar Skull
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Summer Always Blooms
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SunKissed
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Surfing Frog
Off campus
Tall Grass
Off campus
Tanner Frady "Down on Main Street" n.d.
Off campus
Tempest
Off campus
The 21st Collection
Off campus
The Bruising: For Jules, The Bird, Jack and Leni
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The Captain
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The Feast
Off campus
The Fiddlers
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The Incredible Electric Technicolor Mockingbird
Off campus
The Legend of Hidden Harvest
Off campus
The Melancholic
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The Physics of Being (‘HERE’)
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The Three Feathers
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The Vine
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The Walala Lounge
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The Way of Color
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This is Your Public Library
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Three People on Four Benches
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Todd Sanders "Atomic Star" n.d.
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Todd Sanders "Beer Mug" n.d.
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Todd Sanders "Good Coffee Too" n.d.
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Todd Sanders "Good Luck Horseshoe" n.d.
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Todd Sanders "HWY 71" n.d.
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Todd Sanders "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" n.d.
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Todd Sanders "Modern" n.d.
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Todd Sanders "Neon Star" n.d.
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Todd Sanders "Purple Luchador" n.d.
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Todd Sanders "Sailor Beware" n.d.
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Todd Sanders "Slingin Rhythm" n.d.
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Todd Sanders "Top Hat" n.d.
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Tortoise and Hare
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Tour de Apple Tree
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Triumph
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Turquoise Reeds and Ozark Fiori
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Off campus
Untitled
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Untitled
Off campus
Untitled
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Vaquero
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Wanna Ride my Bike
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Whale Song
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When Spirits Dance Free
Off campus
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Wind Sculpture (SG) VIII
Off campus
Open now
Writing Bentonville
Off campus
Yield
Off campus
You Belong Here
Off campus