About Us

Who We Are
The Ozark Regional Arts Council is for individual artists, art organizations and art enthusiasts who appreciate and support the fine arts. We welcome your support through membership,
monetary donations, as well as through invaluable contributions of time and talent to help our organization grow in our community and supporting region of the Ozarks.

Goals
The Ozark Regional Arts Council was formed with the ambitious and admirable goal of acquiring, developing, funding, inaugurating and sustaining an arts program for North-Central Arkansas and South-Central Missouri, known as the Twin Lakes Region.

The Council is committed to promoting cultural arts and art education programs for all ages, concerts, workshops, folk arts and crafts, literary readings, permanent and traveling art gallery shows, and performances by touring theater companies.

Nonprofit Status 
The Artist League of the Ozarks was incorporated in 1997 as a 501(c)(3) non–profit corporation. The Ozark Regional Arts Council (ORAC), is thereby currently doing business as its subsidiary to promote artists and artist groups.

The intent of ORAC is that the Operating Board of Directors will consist of representatives from
visual art groups, individual artists and performers, and businesspeople (within an 80 mile radius of Mountain Home, Arkansas) who will be working together to ensure that Mountain Home, Arkansas becomes a center for the cultural arts.

2024–2025 Officers Ozark Regional Arts Council
Dana Johnson, President
Lucinda Blair, Vice–President
Deborah Lively, Treasurer
Kathe Altazan, Secretary

Affiliations
In 2010, ORAC found a permanent home through a partnership with Arkansas State University –Mountain Home (ASUMH) in the Vada Sheid Community Development Center (The Sheid). Years of dedicated fundraising led to the naming of the Ozark Regional Arts Council Conference Room, located on the second floor of The Sheid, in recognition of this enduring collaboration.

The partnership also afforded ORAC that its works be exhibited in the ASUMH Art Gallery, opened in 2014, on a rotating basis, typically monthly, along with student artwork and visiting exhibits. The exhibit Ozark Regional Arts Council (ORAC) 11/23/24 of Asian art and antiques in The Gallery is from the Warren Haley Collection and is part of the college’s permanent collection.