The Preacher’s Son offers unique and sustainably-sourced dinner service in a thoughtfully-restored historic church just steps from the Bentonville City Square. To complement the historic architecture of the church, carefully curated works from the Oz Art NWA collection hangs along the brick walls. With an extensive wine list and incredible service, the exclusive dining experience is the perfect setting to celebrate life’s moments – both big and small – and the seasonality of Northwest Arkansas’s finest ingredients. After enjoying a meal with friends, family, or co-workers, visit the rooftop bar or the speakeasy, Undercroft, located below the restaurant.

Two Rivers belongs to a series of quilts made from clothing, textiles, and other materials collected from currently and formerly incarcerated people. Originally trained as a sculptor, artist Jesse Krimes later spent six years in federal prison. While incarcerated, he created and smuggled out artworks using the limited materials he had available: prison sheets, hair gel, plastic utensils. Following his release, he has continued to make artwork that reflects on the prison system in the United States.

This quilt, like others in Krimes’s Elegy Quilts series, shows a domestic scene inspired by incarcerated people’s memories of home. A solitary chair, devoid of a human figure, evokes the absence of Americans who have disappeared from their families into the criminal justice system. For the artist, the materials and images “serve as symbolic stand-ins for the body that yearns to return.” Krimes thinks of his work as a method to make incarcerated people more visible to us: “We’re all still people, whether we’re in prison or not … and we’re all a part of the society, even though you can’t see us. This is a way to visually reintegrate people back into the community,” the artist has explained.

Jesse Krimes
Two Rivers, 2021
Antique quilt, used clothing collected from incarcerated people, assorted textiles
67.50 x 130 in

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