Stevens Puppets

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Visit Us: 1100 North Street, Little Rock, AR 72201

Arts On Tour

The Arts on Tour roster lists a broad spectrum of Arkansas’s finest solo and ensemble performers, individual visual artists and prepared art exhibitions ready for touring within Arkansas. The online AOT listing facilitates the booking process for arts organizations, festival and event planners, schools, civic organizations and government entities interested in contracting with the artists.

The AOT program is designed to reimburse presenters who showcase Arkansas artists listed on the roster. When an AOT artist negotiates a contract with the presenter, the Arkansas Arts Council typically will subsidize 40 percent of the cost of the event as long as funds are available.

New AOT artists are selected each year through a panel process.

Apply For The Arts On Tour Artist Roster

Applications to join the roster are closed until fall 2025.

To be eligible for the Arts on Tour Program, a performing or visual artist must:

Maintain a primary residency in Arkansas, or must have an Arkansas based contact.
Have presented concerts, exhibitions, programs or lecture-demonstrations in locations away from their home location at least twice in the previous year. Exhibitions must have been presented in a formal gallery space.

The Arkansas Arts Council reserves the right to determine the appropriateness of the scope or nature of the presentation proposed by a selected Arts on Tour artist and retains the right to determine the suitability of an AOT artist to remain on the roster once they have been selected.

Arts on Tour Artist Roster application forms should be submitted online by completing the form linked below. You will receive an email confirmation when we have received your online submission.

Stevens Puppets

Dan Raynor

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ENCHANTING! OUTSTANDING! HILARIOUS! EXCEPTIONAL! FANTASTIC! These are but a few of the wonderful adjectives teachers, librarians, and PTO chairpersons are using to describe the incomparable Stevens Puppets. Originally from Middlebury, Indiana, the critically acclaimed troupe has set the bar for puppetry arts nationally, truly becoming a national treasure. Performing for over 89 years, the critically acclaimed Stevens Puppets continue to produce unforgettable, one of kind marionette productions for children of all ages. The Stevens marionettes were all created authentically in traditional old world style, and are featured characters in program is educational and has a moral or life skill woven cleverly and discretely throughout. Check www.stevenspuppets.com for more information.