Alice Walton Is Getting Art Out of Storage and Into the World

Now the developer of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton is preparing to flex her muscles in the healthcare arena.

The Whole Health Institute will launch construction on a new facility in Bentonville in the upcoming year. The new facility will be located on the grounds of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, a partner organization to the Whole Health Institute.

Two new efforts, one aimed at raising the profile of Black-founded nonprofits and the other geared toward supporting Asian, Black, Indigenous and Latinx arts organizations, have received pledges of support from a variety of partners and supporters, including the Alice L. Walton Foundation.

The gift will allow the University of Central Arkansas to expand its arts programming and foster collaborative partnerships across multiple academic disciplines — visual arts, film, theatre, and music. The $3 million Alice L. Walton Foundation gift is the second largest in school history.

He and his team created the $5 million Bridge Ahead initiative to help regional and metropolitan partner institutions stay connected to their communities and plan for safe reopenings.

The UAMS school nutrition program will work with six school districts in Northwest Arkansas – beginning with Bentonville and Springdale in 2020 – to implement a comprehensive nutrition program.

In 2020, Alice Walton was inducted into the National Cutting Horse Association Members Hall of Fame, one of the association’s highest honors. “While I may have hung up my spurs, I’ll always be a cowgirl,”