Bass Pro / Outlets of Little Rock

Kayleigh Sagar

Clean Water for Gilly

Artist Bio: Kayleigh Sagar is a 22-year-old portrait artist from Little Rock, Arkansas. Kayleigh is inspired by people and their pets, and enjoys capturing personality in her work. Kayleigh began painting in high school, and developed her passion for portraying identity in her art while studying psychology and practicing portraits of family and friends during college. Acrylic paint is her preferred medium, and she paints almost exclusively with a ¼” angle paint brush. Kayleigh is a graduate student studying Marriage and Family Therapy, and hopes to utilize the therapeutic nature of art throughout her career.
 
Design Concept: My mural design is a dog (Gilly) sitting on the edge of a water bank, with water unfit for even a dog to drink. Surrounding the dog will be muddy grass with leaves, twigs, and flowers. The water draining into the sewer is polluted and will have a mixture of water bottles, coke cans, leaves, fish, and assorted life sized trash. The trash will look like it is both submerged and floating in the water. The dog looking up captures the essence of why I paint: bringing emotion and life into the art. People want the best for their dog, because dogs are treated as family. Making eye contact with a dog surrounded by unsuitable water tugs at my heart, and will hopefully spread the message of keeping water clean for our pets, our community, and the wildlife that we share it with.

Jessica Jones

Where Your Mouth Is

Artist Bio: Among all of my dreams and aspirations, the one that stokes the greatest passion in my soul is creativity. I love and I live to create. I enjoy and have accomplished crafting in many different mediums. I am a part of the visual design team at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, operating as a member of The Oaktree Collective, a group of artists focused on building with natural and up-cycled materials. I have been commissioned by local businesses to help bring creative flair to their establishment and make tangible their abstractions. I have recently had the pleasure of creating several public pieces in Conway AR. I have painted for Blue Sail Coffee, The Naked Hippie, and Kings of Conway to name a few. Please check out my website ArtByJessicaJones.com to see images of the quality of work I produce.
 
Design Concept: My drain art concept will incorporate the opening of the drain. The main image of my design will be a mouth with the bottom lip road level adding a 3-d effect to the design. This concept will also make a more personal impression of the impact of polluting the water that runs through storm drains stating, “would you drink that?”

Mot Rennat

Smelly Boot

Artist Bio: Mot Rennat is a native Arkansas, that upon seeing a unicycle decided to become a French artist. Mot Rennat is a self-taught painter, using mostly acrylics to paint his feelings onto canvas in hopes of making a new best friend. 
 
Design Concept: We can live without electricity, we can live without oil, but we cannot survive without water. Water is life. This is all I could think about while coming up with my design. I wanted to show how pollution effects the natural world. I wanted to paint dead fish surrounded by discarded plastic products, but then I realized I was getting too real, too dark. So I made a U-turn, I decided to paint a cartoon bear fishing but instead of catching a fish it catches an old smelly boot! It keeps with my original idea of showing nature disrupted by our human waste but in a fun family friendly way, that even grandma can enjoy!

April Smith

Furry Friends

Artist Bio: April Smith is an art teacher at Maumelle High School. She teaches kids every day to appreciate art and take time to stop and really see the world around them. She wants her students to really understand the color, line, and form of things in their everyday lives. With an interior design and fine arts degree, April has transferred her technical knowledge and love for the arts to countless students over the years.
 
Design Concept: I wanted to bring attention that all wildlife can be affected by pollution in the river. Arkansas is home to such diverse wildlife and they all depend on water sources to survive. I really want people to know that the candy wrapper or water bottle they leave on the ground can end up in the paws of raccoons, beavers, otters, and more.