Toucan Jam

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Arts On Tour

The Arts on Tour roster lists a broad spectrum of Arkansas’s finest solo and ensemble performers, individual visual artists and prepared art exhibitions ready for touring within Arkansas. The online AOT listing facilitates the booking process for arts organizations, festival and event planners, schools, civic organizations and government entities interested in contracting with the artists.

The AOT program is designed to reimburse presenters who showcase Arkansas artists listed on the roster. When an AOT artist negotiates a contract with the presenter, the Arkansas Arts Council typically will subsidize 40 percent of the cost of the event as long as funds are available.

New AOT artists are selected each year through a panel process.

Apply For The Arts On Tour Artist Roster

Applications to join the roster are closed until fall 2025.

To be eligible for the Arts on Tour Program, a performing or visual artist must:

Maintain a primary residency in Arkansas, or must have an Arkansas based contact.
Have presented concerts, exhibitions, programs or lecture-demonstrations in locations away from their home location at least twice in the previous year. Exhibitions must have been presented in a formal gallery space.

The Arkansas Arts Council reserves the right to determine the appropriateness of the scope or nature of the presentation proposed by a selected Arts on Tour artist and retains the right to determine the suitability of an AOT artist to remain on the roster once they have been selected.

Arts on Tour Artist Roster application forms should be submitted online by completing the form linked below. You will receive an email confirmation when we have received your online submission.

Toucan Jam

Kelly Mulhollan/Donna Stjerna

(479) 582-2291 Email Kelly Website

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Toucan Jam has all the ‘right stuff’ for elementary students--a fast-paced show called "Things With Wings" that soars around the globe and acquaints kids with poignant legends about winged creatures with the help of songs, puppets, colorful costumes, and lots of interaction. Kelly Mulhollan WOWS the audiences with his mastery on an array of exotic instruments, and Donna Stjerna completes this duo with her accomplished fiddle playing and amazing storytelling. Toucan Jam is also offering a "classroom" Birdwatching Workshop to accompany their "Things With Wings" show for 3rd-5th graders. This workshop teaches students how to use a field guide and introduces them to the joys of birding. (They get to keep the specially designed Toucan Jam Field Guide.) Toucan Jam's 2006 "A World of Music" CD recently won a prestigious Parents Choice Award, and they reflect that music in a new show that is perfect for libraries, festivals, and public events. Good old-fashioned fun infused with a solid educational component has kept Toucan Jam an Arkansas favorite for 13 years.