Lindsey Collins is the assistant director at the ARTx3 Campus and former theatre education manager at the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas (ASC) in Pine Bluff. With over 20 years of experience in community theatre, she has appeared in numerous productions, including Hairspray (Velma Von Tussle), Gypsy (Mama Rose), and multiple Razzle Dazzle shows. She has also directed several ASC favorites, such as Sister Act: The Musical, Legally Blonde, A Christmas Story, and Clue: At Home Version.

Passionate about theatre education and community engagement, Lindsey brings energy and creativity to every project. In her downtime, she enjoys naps and showing no mercy in family games of Spades.

Nick Stevens, who is a small business and nonprofit consultant and business owner, recently became the director of Extended Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Previously, Stevens was the education and events specialist for the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development. With a background in the nonprofit/NGO sector, Stevens has experience in marketing, education and training, strategic planning, and partnership building.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Central Arkansas and a master’s degree in public service from the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. He is certified in Experiential Learning by the Institute for Experiential Learning.

Stevens has deep roots in Central Arkansas and a steadfast dedication to serving the community. He co-founded the Creative Institute of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas, and helped facilitate the formation of the Arkansas Farm to School Network and the Central Arkansas Collective.

Allison Clark is the executive director of Arkansas Learning Through the Arts. She served as the Central Arkansas program manager for the organization from June 2023 to August 2025.

She holds a BSE in Special Education K-12 from Henderson State University and taught students across all age groups before transitioning to the nonprofit sector. She is pursuing her MPA in Nonprofit Management from Arkansas State University.

Arkansas Learning Through the Arts (ALTTA) provides arts and literacy-integrated residencies to students in Pre-K through 12th-grade settings. ALTTA has a roster of 14 different artists who offer 70+ unique programs. These programs are designed to pair with the classroom teacher’s lesson plans, and the activities focus on the skills students are learning in their literacy, social studies, science or math units.

Robert Bean has been slinging his own unique brand of visual stories on canvas and paper since the late 1990s.

A graduate of the School of Visual Art at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Bean served as the Department Chair of Painting and Drawing at the Museum School of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock and was an adjunct instructor of figure drawing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Bean is a facilitator for Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Artist INC programs, which focus on professional development skills for creatives. Bean often leads workshops on best business practices for the Arkansas Arts Council. 

Margaret Keough is the director of advocacy at the Mid-America Arts Alliance. She previously served as its director of marketing and communications.

Through her role, she seeks to boost funding, support and recognition for the arts and creative economy, as well as for artists and creatives by empowering arts advocates across M-AAA’s region and across the U.S.

She is an active member of the Creative States Coalition, Americans for the Arts, and the Cultural Arts Group. Her professional background includes more than 20 years of museum marketing experience at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, both in Kansas City, Missouri.

Keough has spoken at conferences and events across the country, including the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, National Arts Action Summit, and National Arts Marketing Project. She holds an MBA from Rockhurst University and undergraduate degrees in art history and journalism, with a concentration in advertising, from the University of Kansas.

Michael Eubanks is a professional saxophonist and vocalist. He has been on the Arkansas Arts Council’s Arts in Education Roster and Arts on Tour Roster since 2009.

Eubanks is a licensed master social worker. He provides direct and community-impact counseling services to veterans, the aging population, school-based and faith-based groups, youth, the incarcerated and for substance abuse. He has earned honors and recognitions for his work in mental health from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He served for 12 years in the military with 10 years as active duty in the U.S. Army.

Eubanks' interest in music and helping others continued while in the military. He performed for high-ranking military audiences and assisted with disaster relief efforts and outreach to an orphanage while in Korea. After returning home, he earned a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. He continues to perform as a saxophonist and vocalist. He has produced two CDs: "Christmas at Michael’s" and "On a Day Like This."

Eubanks utilizes his clinical and musical platforms to gain ground as a public presenter, educator and interventionist in our communities.

Misiewicz is the Founder and former Artistic Director of Trike Theatre: Northwest Arkansas’ professional theatre for youth and families and co-founder and first Artistic Director of Theatre Squared in Fayetteville. For the past 20 years, she has been implementing arts integration residencies with PreK-8th grade students, coaching teachers, training teaching artists and building cooperative, creative, kinesthetic classrooms wherever she goes.

Misiewicz lives in Bentonville, Arkansas, and loves to travel with her family and have spontaneous dance parties in the kitchen.

Shakeelah Rahmaan is the programs director and interim curator for the ARTx3 Campus and has been with the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas for six years.

Rahmaan is a Little Rock based artist and has been creating art in various forms for most of her life. She holds both undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR). Her work often features alcohol inks and acrylics, enhanced with modeling paste for added texture.

Rahmaan's art is a reflection of her identity — shaped by her cultural heritage, personal experiences and family traditions. Much of her portraiture is inspired by and modeled after her family, making her work deeply personal and storytelling in nature.

AFRIQUE AYA, featuring Angelo Yao, is a group of dancers and drummers dedicated to enjoying and sharing the music and culture of West Africa. Angelo Yao is a master drummer and dancer who was born in Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), West Africa. He was invited to Yale University in 1997 by choreographer Ralph Lemon to create “Geography,” a fusion of post-modern movement and traditional African dance. That production went on tour to several states in the U.S. Angelo moved to Burlington, Vermont in 1998, where he formed AFRIQUE AYA. The company performed and taught residencies and workshops in colleges and schools around the New England area. He moved to Arkansas in 2000 and now resides in Springdale.

Dr. Jennifer Moore, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, is the founding Dean of the School of Occupational Therapy and a dedicated advocate for inclusive engagement in meaningful occupations—including the arts. As an occupational therapist, Jennifer has the privilege of supporting individuals in living full, purpose-driven lives through occupational participation. In her academic leadership role, she designs transformative learning experiences that empower students to embrace the powerful vision of service and impact through occupational therapy.

Jennifer’s teaching, scholarship, and service interests center on occupation-based and community programming, leadership and advocacy, and professional formation. She is deeply committed to creating opportunities for all individuals, regardless of ability, to participate in and benefit from the arts. She has coordinated programs that increase access to the arts for people of all abilities and has been actively involved in a performing arts group for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Whether through performance or attendance, Jennifer champions the belief that the arts should be accessible to everyone, as both creators and consumers. In recognition of her significant contributions to the profession, she was named a Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association. She holds degrees in occupational therapy, including a PhD from Texas Woman’s University.

Virmarie DePoyster, a native of Puerto Rico, is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and community leader whose work fosters creativity, healing and community engagement.

DePoyster develops and implements art programs for adults and teens while also being a professional exhibiting artist. Since 2011, she has been instructing students as part of the Arkansas Arts Council's Arts in Education Roster.

She created a therapeutic art program for at-risk youth in rural Arkansas that ran from 2012 to 2018. She provided arts instruction to thousands of patients at The BridgeWay, an acute care mental health facility in Little Rock. There, she saw firsthand the healing power of artistic expression.

She has also facilitated professional development workshops through an artist-teacher partnership with the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards. In 2023, DePoyster started Healing Arts, a therapeutic art program for CARTI patients, caregivers and staff. In 2024, she facilitated an After School Residency in Pine Bluff honoring Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges and Harriet Tubman. Her dedication to the transformative power of art, both in teaching and advocacy, makes her an invaluable asset in the field of arts education.

DePoyster earned a Governor's Arts Award for her work in arts in education and an Individual Artist Fellowshiop Award for her community arts work from the Arkansas Arts Council in 2024.

Rufus Wolff is a founding member and co-leads our firm's tax and corporate law practice. His practice focuses on a wide range of taxation and business law matters, regularly counseling private individuals, emerging technology companies, real estate developers, oil and gas companies, securities firms and many other types of entrepreneurs whose needs require a creative yet practical approach to their complex legal matters.

He frequently represents clients in the areas of corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, securities law, tax, estate planning, and estate administration. Wolff also counsels clients on matters concerning employee benefits and executive compensation, with an emphasis on providing counsel to professional employer organizations (PEOs).

Wolff is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and has served as an adjunct professor of law at the William H. Bowen School of Law in Little Rock, where he taught Corporate Income Taxation from 1989 to 1996. He has been actively involved in the PEO industry since 1987 and has represented numerous PEOs nationwide. He was recognized by Best Lawyers as among the best tax attorneys in Arkansas.

Mike Orndorff is a developer who owns Mike Orndorff Construction and who is behind the rejuvenation and new arts community at Pettaway Square in Little Rock. Located east of South on Main in Little Rock, the mixed-use community space has attracted artists and arts-related businesses looking for an affordable space to start their businesses. 

Orndorff built his first home at the age of 27. He started building homes in Benton before tackling mixed-use construction in the Pettaway area, where he lives, and has been working on the project for about nine years. Orndorff focuses on affordability, community and walkability in his construction efforts, which has attracted new entrepreneurs looking to get into physical locations and has increased creative placemaking, particularly in Pettaway. The Pettaway Square – with its town-square feel – has generated collaborations among the startups and with other neighborhoods holding events and festivals.