[logo: Kansas Heritage Group] [painting: Color at Dusk by Judith Mackey; copyright 2007. Used with permission, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS: All rights reserved.] [photograph: Beware of Dog, by Jouvelt (Joel Feldt); copyright 2008. Used with permission. All rights reserved.] [painting: Lilies by Barbara Waterman-Peters; copyright 2009. Used with permission. All rights reserved.]

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Just posted: Kansas native Bruce Conner Memorial, "ON BRUCE CONNER (may he rest in peace) AND ASSORTED KANSAN COHORTS," by poet Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, 2008, Beats In Kansas

Kansas Art Events and Artists Exhibits

Kansas Humanities Council (www.kansashumanities.org) announces free programs on Kansas Art and Artists. Picturing America, a new Speakers Bureau series, is available free-of-charge. Programs include:
  • Picturing the Dust Bowl
  • Birger Sandzen and the New Land
  • A Look Inside Outsider Art in Kansas
  • The Rise of Aaron Douglas, the Dean of Black American Painters
  • Women's Clubs and the Fine Arts in Kansas
  • Exploring the Rich Heritage of Kansas Art

[painting: Kaw Near Lindwood by Lisa Grossman; copyright 2008. Used with permission, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS: All rights reserved.]
[Marc Berghaus Show, 5.4.7 Art Gallery, Greensburg, KS, 2010]
  • The White Show: Works by 49 established and emerging artists from 18 States and Puerto Rico explore the concept of "white." The show was organized by Darin M. White and Shannon White, and adjudicated by Samuel W. Kho, Curator at All Things Project in Greenwich Village; previously co-director of Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles; exhibit from Oct. 23 – Jan. 18, 2010, Signs of Life Art Gallery, 722 Mass., Lawrence
  • "What Remains To Be Seen," new works by Kendra Marable, a collection of distinct mixed media prints and wild shrines to a bygone era; exhibit from Dec. 13 - Feb 13, 2010; Wonder Fair Art Gallery, Lawrence
  • Following the Sun: The Art of Sue Jean Covacevich 1905-1998: Covacevich established herself as a dynamic artist and art educator in south-central Kansas after spending more than a decade working and teaching in Mexico. Jan. 29 - May 2, The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan
  • Michelle Leivan Wildflower Paintings; along with Art Glass by Bill Sheahan, Custom-made Art Hats by Beth Cain, Jewelry by Deb Johnson, Photography by Heidi Wise; Public reception with artists 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Jan. 15; The Upstage Gallery at the Jayhawk, 720 SW Jackson St., Topeka
  • Shots: Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts: Several years in the making, the Spencer-organized Machine in a Void will present nearly 150 works of graphic art made during the years of the First World War (1914-1918), with a post-script on the art of the decade following the war. By invoking the perspective of primarily European artists, the exhibition will bring attention to the substantial roles played by the graphic arts during WWI (1914–1918) as a tool for official propaganda and as means of voicing individual responses to the war ranging from documentation to dissent. Exhibit from March 5 – May 23,Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence
  • Spectacular Uncertainty: An Exhibit of Images from Tim Forcade’s book Spectacular Uncertainty; Artist Reception, Friday, Jan. 15, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m., Gallery talk & book signing — Sunday, Feb. 7, 2:00 p.m.; Exhibit from Jan. 15 - Feb. 27; Strecker-Nelson Gallery, 406˝ Poyntz, Manhattan

    • Submit events, in above format, to: kansasheritage (at) sbcglobal.net; subject line, Artists

S. Clay Wilson's medical crisis -- hard to explain that without his art, the total visual palette used today would be different.

Donations address: S. Clay Wilson Special Needs Trust, PO Box 14854, San Francisco CA 94114
[Courtesy, Jim McCrary, used with permission. All rights reserved.]

William Burroughs, Jim McCrary, S. Clay Wilson -- on William's porch, Lawrence, KS.

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[photograph: 5.4.7 Arts Center, Greensburg, Kansas KS]

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Special thanks to artist Barbara Waterman-Peters, Topeka, KS, for site suggestions and to Barbara Nelson, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS, for providing art works.
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