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Dayton Castleman

Tulips for Bentonville: Placemaking through Temporary Community Art

Tulips for Bentonville is a temporary tactical public art project designed by Dayton Castleman and commissioned by the developers of Oak One Townhomes. The artwork is intended to serve as a gesture of thanks to the surrounding neighborhood for enduring dust and noise during the downtown Bentonville development’s construction phase, and to celebrate Bentonville’s ongoing spring of urban transformation.

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Ozark Beer Company and Art in Place NWA to Collaborate

Ozark Beer Company is collaborating with local artists to reimagine the downtown Rogers Brewery’s backyard as a family-friendly place for welcoming the community and hosting public events. In addition to expanding seating space for patrons, the brewery aims to have the ability to host popular programming like festivals, artist fairs, and swap-meets without the threat of rainouts or the need to block off Arkansas St., and to make the integration of art a priority as development of the backyard takes shape.

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Interform - Assembly: Walmart Beauty Pop Up

Verdant Studio designed and constructed an interactive brand exhibition as a part of INTERFORM - ASSEMBLY, partnering with Walmart Beauty and corporate suppliers Essie, Conair, Carol's Daughter, and Proctor and Gamble (Next of Us, Pantene, and My Black is Beautiful). Starting with a completely blank slate, an empty commercial space in Bentonville’s mixed-use Crystal Flats, Verdant Studio administered all phases of this project, from concept through completion.

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Rambling Vanes, New Art Installation at Fayetteville's Lower Ramble

Verdant Studio's director of creative placemaking and artist lead, Dayton Castleman, created a new art installation for the  City of Fayetteville at the  Lower Ramble, an outdoor space in the Fay Jones Woods below the Fayetteville Public Library. This area gets a substantial amount of traffic from walkers and bike riders accessing this area for recreation or passing through on their way to the City of Fayetteville Bike Trail for transportation. " The Ramble is characterized as: a full embrace of the journey…not in a hurry to get from point A to point B, but rather, open to possibility…the concept falls nicely in sync with the cadence of a walk or a bike ride, spontaneous conversation, outdoor installations and gathering spaces," writes the city of Fayetteville, in reference to the recent re-naming of this area.
 
The installation, Rambling Vanes,  is a kinetic sculptural installation suspended within the canopy overlook ellipse. Steel cables affixed to the bridge structure create a simple geometric lattice form supporting 14 minimal wind vanes that orient in unison to the current wind direction.
 
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Famous Hardware Building collaborates with Dayton Castleman in Year End Art Installation

The Famous Hardware Building in Downtown Springdale will feature their final art installation of the year.  The Downtown Springdale Alliance with funding from the Tyson Family Foundation has once again collaborated with curator Dayton Castleman of Verdant Studio and selected artists to activate the windows at the Famous Hardware building in Downtown Springdale for one last time this year. This time the artists, Conrad Bakker of Urbana, IL and Jay Walker of Philadelphia, PA bring a festive spirit to the windows.

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The Famous Hardware Building in Downtown Springdale Features a New Art Experience by Oklahoma City’s Factory Obscura.

Downtown Springdale Alliance with funding from the Tyson Family Foundation is once again collaborating with curator Dayton Castleman of Verdant Studio and selected artists to activate the windows at the Famous Hardware building in Downtown Springdale. This time the artists hail from Factory Obscura, an Oklahoma City artist collective formed in 2017 to provide immersive art experiences, build a creative economy, and support arts education in Oklahoma City. 

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The Famous Hardware Building in Downtown Springdale Features New Artists in its Second Art Installation

Downtown Springdale Alliance with funding from the Tyson Family Foundation is once again collaborating with curator Dayton Castleman and selected artists to activate the windows at the Famous Hardware building in Downtown Springdale. This time the artists hail from the East and Midwest and will fill the windows with everything from musical instruments crafted entirely from wood, to a twelve-foot tall sculpture, to a device constructed out of hardware store components.

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