"America's Best Idea: The National Parks" Carol Hart a Fort Smith native

a Fort Smith native

Featuring artwork and poems

showcasing his four-decade career with images of landscapes

resulting in an expansion of the medium’s potential

For the theme of Our Common Ground

"America's Best Idea: The National Parks" Carol Hart a Fort Smith nativeCarol Hart, Fayetteville, AR Americas Best Idea: The National Parks, 2026 Acrylic and collage 24 x 24 In thinking about the phrase "Our Common Ground" my thoughts kept returning to our national parks. As an artist married to a geologist and raising two sons, our vacations often took us to one of the national parks. Here is where our sons learned to identify every rock and formation, and the night constellations not visible from our sky at home. From