Kevin Kresse is an Arkansas native who has supported his family as a painter and sculptor in Little Rock, AR., for 25 years. He has exhibited his work in New York, N.Y., Washington D.C., Memphis, TN, Atlanta, GA and various galleries and institutions around Arkansas.

Kresse was named the 2015 Individual Artist for Arkansas from the Governor’s Art Awards, and was one of four people selected by the Mid-America Arts Alliance to be interviewed for a video celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts in 2016

He has won several awards in the Arkansas Arts Center annual Delta competition, as well as a painting fellowship from the Mid-America Arts Alliance and another from the Arkansas Arts Council. Kresse is currently working on an 8ft. tall bronze of Johnny Cash, which will become part of the US Capitol’s Statuary Hall collection.

With musical guest The Salty Dogs