Lucky Star Handmade
What to know
YELLVILLE, AR—Lucky Star Handmade, a new artist cooperative, opened on the town square in Yellville October 24, 2024. The newly remodeled space at 303 E. Old Main Street holds a retail shop featuring all kinds of art, including paintings, jewelry, textiles, and woodwork. It also offers baked goods, local produce, and flowers. Concerts, lectures, and readings are presented in the community performance room. Various classes such as natural dyeing, textile arts, woodworking, handmade paper, and jewelry are available in the workshop. Watch for Yoga, tai chi, and meditation classes.
“We are thrilled to announce the opening of Lucky Star Handmade,” says Donna Musarra. “It is not just a retail shop. It’s a 501(c)(3) dedicated to enriching our community and driving economic development through the power of art and creativity.”
Lucky Star Handmade is an extension of the Lucky Star Artist in Residence Program in Rush run by Musarra and David Mervis. Over the years, their guest artists and a group of local makers have discussed evolving and extending the program to engage the wider community more fully. “Through a series of happy coincidences and the dedication of committed individuals,” Musarra says, “this possibility has now become a reality through Lucky Star Handmade, an all volunteer, board-run non-profit charity.”
The mission at Lucky Star is to create a vibrant art center that fosters a collaborative space for artists, musicians, chefs, writers, farmers, makers, performers, students, and curious individuals. “It is a place to explore unique, finely crafted, handmade goods, savor an artisan baked pastry, attend workshops, enjoy live performances, and connect with the creative community,” Musarra says.
Artists do not have to live in the area to participate, and participants do not need to be artists. If you like to support the arts, listen to music, take classes, eat delicious foods, and contribute to the economic development of unique small towns in rural Northern Arkansas, Lucky Star is a place for you, too, no matter your age.
For more information, call Lucky Star Handmade at 870-449-6109, or visit Handmade on Facebook, and ARLuckyStarHandmade on Instagram. Visit the shop 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday at 303 E. Old Main, Yellville.
