The Arts & Science Center and one of its staff members made guest appearances on a recent episode of Arkansas PBS’s Blueberry’s Clubhouse.

Starring both puppets and humans, the show follows Blueberry, “a fun-loving puppet guide to engaging and insightful activities for students out of school for the summer months, on adventures across The Natural State,” according to Arkansas PBS’s website.

In the season 3 episode titled “A Very Blurry Blueberry,” Blueberry has lost her eyeglasses. On her journey to find her spectacles, she and the audience learn how eyes work from ASC’s own Matthew Howard. He is ASC’s visitor relations coordinator and a familiar face to those who have visited ASC’s front desk since the fall of 2018.

Blueberry’s Clubhouse is an Arkansas PBS original series produced in partnership with the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. The show, which began in the summer of 2020, recently finished airing its third season. Each season airs during the summer; the episodes are also viewable online at arkansaspbs.org or youtube.com.

The show’s crew filmed at ASC on March 13, 2022, over just a couple of hours.

“The Blueberry Clubhouse team was helpful and understanding and knew what they wanted,” Howard said of his segment taping.

Arkansas PBS recently took home honors for Blueberry’s Clubhouse. The station won four awards Sept. 18 during the National Educational Television Association (NETA)’s Public Media Awards Gala. The awards included one in the Education category for the segment “Oral Histories with the Mosaic Templars Cultural” from the first episode of season 2 of Blueberry’s Clubhouse.