Wildwood Park Names Bevan Keating Artistic Director

Bevan Keating, artistic director of Wildwood Park for the Arts

Bevan Keating on Monday was named artistic director of Wildwood Park for the Arts in Little Rock.

Keating is artistic director of the Wildwood Academy of Music and the Arts, which he will continue to oversee. Keating is the park’s third artistic director since it was founded in 1991.

He is also director of conducting and choral studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, director of music and the arts at Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock and founding artistic director for Praeclara, a multidisciplinary performing arts company supported by Second Presbyterian.

Wildwood Park has 105 acres of trails and botanical gardens and a 625-seat theater and art gallery. 

Keating will manage the park’s music and arts education programs, all concerts and events in the Lucy Lockett Cabe Festival Theatre, Wildwood’s Art in the Park visual arts exhibitions and many seasonal festivals.

Keating said in a news release that the park “really shows young students what they can do in their future career.”

“It takes a community to foster and raise the arts in a city like Little Rock,” he said. “Now, at Wildwood, I am working the community as a professional. I am helping young performers to gain professional experiences. It’s a great way to connect the community at all levels, and that is the exciting part to me.”