COVER FEATURE Q&A: @aboldcollab 💖🎙️
We’re continuing our monthly Cover Feature Q&A Series — where we sit down with the face of each issue and ask a few fun, thoughtful questions so you can get to know them beyond the cover!
For our March 2026 Home issue, we met with @clairepongonis.studio & @abinteriors of A Bold Collab ↓
Watch the full reel to learn more about what inspired their collaboration + their upcoming event on April 30th! #FayettevilleArkansas #FayettevilleAR #ABoldCollab
Cover moment 💖
We’re honored to be on the cover of this month’s Home Issue of @fayettevillecitylifestyle — and to share more of the story behind A Bold Collab inside.
Two women building something we believe in. A space rooted in art, design, and community. A place where home is collected, lived, and curated — layered over time and filled with meaning.
Our Wintering Show is still up — and closing soon. If you’ve been meaning to come by, this is your week. We’re open Tuesday–Friday, 12–5.
Come see us. Come feel it in person.
Cover 📸 by @mashburnphoto
Article by @meredith.pinkston
#ABoldCollab #CollectedLivedCurated #FayettevilleAR #HomeIssue
*Link to article in bio
Introducing A Bold Collab—a creative venture at the intersection of art, design, and collected style.
Founded by interior designer Andrea Brooks, with visual artist Claire Pongonis, A Bold Collab curates pop-up art experiences that bring together original contemporary work, distinctive vintage pieces, and thoughtfully styled spaces. Each installation is a fresh mix of creativity, storytelling, and design—inviting guests to experience art in a setting that feels both inspiring and unexpected.
No two events are the same. Whether hosted in a studio, home, shop, or unconventional venue, each collaboration is shaped by the vibe of the space and the ethos of the people celebrated. That flexibility is the heart of A Bold Collab—it’s part gallery, part shopping experience, and part interior styled moment, always with a bold point of view.
Follow along @aboldcollab for upcoming events, artist features, and behind-the-scenes peeks into what we’re collaborating on next. 📸 by @millie._.cooper
#aboldcollab #andreabrooksinteriors #clairepongonisstudio #boldinteriors
Erin Morrison’s practice lives in the space where labor, ornament, and devotion intersect, transforming humble materials like gypsum, burlap, and gilded surfaces into works that feel both ancient and immediate.
Based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Erin moves fluidly between painting, sculpture, printmaking, and relief work, creating pieces that reflect on preservation, motherhood, and the quiet politics of making by hand. Her work holds a tension between labor and luxury, authenticity and artifice, where devotional objects, architectural ornament, and historical currency all seem to speak the same language.
There’s something deeply personal in the way her work honors repetition, care, and transformation. Each surface feels like both an offering and an excavation—revealing how beauty can carry memory, and how making can become its own form of resistance.
With exhibitions spanning Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Sicily, and beyond, and work held in collections including Cedars-Sinai, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and The Bunker Artspace, Erin continues to create work that feels both intimate and expansive—rooted in the belief that what we make by hand still matters.
You can see Erin’s collage work in the Behind the Cover show through May.
Some artists create paintings—Flora Saldivar creates atmosphere. Her work invites you to slow down, to sit with color, and to notice the quiet emotional shifts that happen beneath the surface. As a Mexican American artist working in large-scale soak-stain abstraction on raw canvas, Flora has built a practice that feels both deeply personal and grounded in heritage, process, and the stories carried through each layer.
Her custom gouache blends absorb directly into raw canvas, creating diffused fields of color that feel alive and shifting. Through her proprietary Verso-Infundo method—working on both sides of the canvas to create what she calls “ghost layers”—she explores memory, identity, and the way the past quietly shapes the present.
These layered surfaces become both visual and personal archives, reflecting her bicultural experience and the constant conversation between history and becoming. With work held in permanent collections including OZ Art NWA and the Walton Arts Center, and recognition from Artsy as an “Artist on the Rise,” Flora continues to create work that feels expansive, intimate, and deeply felt.
Her paintings remind us that softness can still hold power—and that color itself can hold memory.
We love how Emma’s work that feels both tender and captivating, like a memory you can’t fully place, or a feeling you recognize before you can name it. Born and raised in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Emma creates paintings, fiber works, and sculptural pieces that explore identity, femininity, nostalgia, and the quiet disorientation of becoming.
Her practice is deeply rooted in material. Her practice includes dyed canvas, layered paint, soft fiber, and texture that asks to be felt as much as seen. Through oil, acrylic, and textile processes, she builds work that holds contradiction: softness and tension, comfort and discomfort, familiarity and distance. Each piece feels like an invitation to sit with complexity rather than resolve it.
For Behind the Cover, Emma is showing both oil and acrylic paintings on dyed canvas and fiber works that beautifully reflect the range of her practice. Her work feels intimate and honest, like pages from a story still being written. We’re so excited to share it with you.
Dani is an award-winning fiber artist based in Northwest Arkansas, known for her extraordinary needle felted works she describes as “painting with wool.” Her practice is rooted in observation, storytelling, and a deep reverence for nature where she captures animals, landscapes, and moments of quiet wonder with incredible depth and detail.
Her Murmuration series feels especially powerful in person. Inspired by the sweeping movement of starlings in flight, these pieces speak to community, change, and the beauty of moving together through uncertain seasons.
The Behind the Cover show features a 24” x 30” murmuration and six small colorful murmurations, and wow, you all have loved them! With almost the entire collection selling out there is still time to see Dani’s work in person and find your own.
These are the kind of pieces that stay with you. Come see them through May!
There’s something unmistakable about a Cheryl Kellar piece. The color. The attitude. The fashion influence. The way every painting feels layered with personality and story.
We’ve loved Cheryl’s work for years, and we’re so excited to have three of her newest pieces currently showing at A Bold Collab as part of Behind the Cover. Her work is also featured inside Art for Everyone — including the runway-inspired piece shown against those unforgettable pink walls in Andrea’s home.
Cheryl herself is just as vibrant as the work she creates — vivid purple hair, colorful glasses, sharp wit, huge heart — the kind of artist who makes a room more interesting the second she walks into it. But beyond all of that fun is real depth. Her water media paintings have this incredible ability to balance boldness with softness, glamour with emotion.
Fashion may inspire the work, but Cheryl’s paintings are really about presence. Mood. Confidence. Individuality.
Come see her work in person at A Bold Collab. Like great fashion, her work leaves an impression long after you’ve walked away.
#ABoldCollab #BehindTheCover #CherylKeller #FayettevilleArkansas #ArkansasArtist
Today may be my birthday… but last week felt like the real celebration.
A room full of artists, collectors, family, new faces, old friends, laughter, stories, and so much incredible art. The kind of night that reminds me why we started A Bold Collab in the first place.
Feeling really grateful for this creative community that keeps showing up for us — and for each other. 💖
The gallery will be open today 11 to 4, so if you missed the opening, come see the show, spend some time with the art, and maybe take a piece home with you.
And yes… I do like this kind of party. 🎶🖼️
🎥 @honecreative.studio
There’s something really special about following an artist’s work through the years — watching their visual language evolve while still feeling unmistakably them.
We’re so excited to have work by Alex Bodishbaugh King @alexs__studio featured in Behind the Cover. Andrea has collected Alex’s work for years, and beyond that, Alex, Claire and Andrea have shared friendship and connection through the local art community as fellow artists and creatives — which makes having her work in this show feel even more personal.
Alex’s work is playful, graphic, layered, and full of personality — the kind of art that quietly transforms a room and somehow still makes you smile every time you walk by it. Her work is also featured on the cover and inside Art for Everyone, making this collaboration feel even more connected.
Come see these pieces in person alongside work from 35+ artists featured throughout the exhibition.
Behind the Cover continues through May at A Bold Collab.
#ABoldCollab #BehindTheCover #ArtForEveryone #FayettevilleArt #AlexBodishbaughKing
What started as hundreds of pieces of art, constant rearranging, long days, second guesses, instinct, and a vision Claire and I were trying to bring to life, slowly became something bigger than we imagined.
Piece by piece, we curated a show that felt layered, collected, vibrant, and full of stories. Everything I love to be surrounded by. The artists, the work, the energy in the room — somehow it all started speaking to each other.
Over 100 works.
35+ artists.
Countless helping hands.
And by opening night, it all came together exactly the way it was meant to. ✨
Still grateful for this one. Still recovering.
Doors will be back open Thursday through Saturday 11 to 4. ALL are welcome.
Behind the Cover at @aboldcollab
Located in Matt Miller’s studio on Meadow St behind Gearhead Outfitters.
