2013 • 2014
ANNUAL REPORT
LETTER FROM THE 2013-14 BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHAIRMAN Once again, the Lawrence Arts Center reached new levels of achievement and success during the past year. We are on strong financial footing and have stability for our future. We continue to be in a position to offer financial aid to students so that classes are affordable to all. This is made possible through the hard work and generosity of many. We are thankful to the city and our corporate sponsors who recognize that a vibrant arts community is important to our local economy. Businesses consider this factor when relocating or growing jobs in our community. Art is good business. All of our donors, regardless of size, also contribute to the public/private partnership which is the Lawrence Arts Center. We are grateful to our CEO, Susan Tate, and her staff and faculty for their dedication to excellence. Students of all ages and backgrounds benefit from their time at the arts center because of you! With the ArtPlace grant award this past year, you are deservedly on a level of national recognition and prominence. The arts center is so much more than a building – it’s a community of teaching artists that are irreplaceable! Finally, I would like to personally thank each board member for their generosity of time and their support over the past year. We meet as a board monthly, and throughout the month in committees. You are leaders, event coordinators, fundraisers, and ambassadors for the Lawrence Arts Center wherever you go in the community. Thank you! Dan Schriner Chairman, Board of Directors
LETTER FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Dear Friends, Thank you for your engagement with the Lawrence Arts Center. This annual report conveys so much about what our work has been in our FY 2013-14. As always, this means the best in visual and performing arts education, contemporary exhibitions, and performance. This version of our annual report is a visual and graphic complement to our audited 2013-14 which is also available to the public. In visual and performing arts education, we continued to see increases in enrollment from preschool -aged students through adults. Summer enrollments alone saw a 15% increase. We are bursting at the seams! Our STEAM curriculum caught national attention as Margaret Weisbrod Morris and Laurie McLane-Higginson traveled to San Diego as presenters for a national conference for arts educators. Our education team continues to receive requests for consulting in this area as well as in arts-based preschool. We decided to add an early start and late departure opportunity for preschool families who need this support, and we will see how this offering is received by families this year. Hanan Misko, Director of our Dance School presided over reorganization and new dance offerings that have resulted in the need for off-site dance studios to accommodate the expansion. Our Exhibitions schedule, directed by Ben Ahlvers, included “Creative Observer,” an exhibition of work by William S. Burroughs and other artists who visited him in Lawrence during his long tenure here. A host of other exhibitions, art talks, and related films by and about artists from around the world rounded out the year. One exhibitions highlight was the outdoor digital art projection exhibition curated by Luke DuBois and Ben as part of our Free State Festival 2014. Performing Arts, led by Ric Averill, offered shows to capacity crowds many times over this year. From Sweeney Todd in October to Spamalot at the end of July, audiences of all ages filled the theaters. The gift of a new Steinway Concert Grand Piano elevated the stature of this program and supported our desire to produce classical and jazz performance programs for children and adults. Watch for Classical940 and Jazz940 performances as part of our 940 Live Series. Outside the Arts Center, but inside the Lawrence Cultural District, we continued our work with the City of Lawrence on developing the District as a concept, hiring a City Director of Arts and Culture, producing the Free State Festival supported by an NEA “Our Town” grant, and beginning the process of planning for the 9th Street Corridor, a project supported by our 2014 ArtPlace grant and the City. City Manager Dave Corliss and Assistant City Manager Diane Stoddard, along with commissioners, have been vital supporters of these initiatives. Please watch closely for what 2014-2015 will bring. There is something for everyone here. Susan
2013 • 2014
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dan Schriner, Chairman Tom Carmody, Vice Chairman Larry Chance, Treasurer Jean Anderson Tim Caboni Matt Gilhousen Joan Golden Diane Horning Emily Bowersock Hill Brian Horsch Sheryl Jacobs Tony Krsnich Michel Loomis Molly Murphy Jim Otten Dru Sampson Evan Williams
NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Rocco Landesman Mike Michaelis Deanell Reece Tacha Judith Sabatini Roger Shimomura GALLERY Monday — Saturday | 9 am to 9 pm Sunday | 1pm to 5pm The Lawrence Arts Center is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit educational organization. Our members and donors are critical to the success of the Lawrence Arts Center, and we thank you for your financial support. Photos taken by Ann Dean, Marlo Angell and Amy Albright On the cover: Curl Study by Hong Chun Zhang, 2013; Cloud Bottle by Sam Chung (left) 2014 Free State Festival interactive digital installation Gutless Warrior, by Ali Momeni
2013 • 2014 EXHIBITIONS
works by over 150 artists 14 solo shows 6 group shows 15 INSIGHT Art Talks 6 films 3 student shows the annual Benefit Art Auction raised $188,431 for the exhibitions program
spray painted toy gun by William S. Burroughs (right) detail of Burroughs, screenprint by Kate Simon and Shepard Fairey (opposite page) Premonition Point, Ozark, Calif., by Judith G. Levy
JACK COLLINS. NEW WORK TERESA DUNN, BEN DUKE, JOHN GARY BROWN. TIME WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS. & ROBERT MCCANN. & PLACE CREATIVE OBSERVER The paintings in this exhibit JANUARY 17 THUR MARCH 2 OCTOBER 18 – NOVEMBER 16 represent a further exploraUNNATURAL SELECTION 2014 marks the centenary of JUNE 28 – AUGUST 17
tion of an idea Collins began pursuing ten years ago—the idea that painted areas and objects on the canvas are in process of both forming or dissolving, entering or exiting the two dimensional plane of the painting. For most of his artistic career Collins has explored positive and negative space and how they mesh together and interact in a surreal or dreamlike space through the use of colors and shapes that often simultaneously appear to be advancing or receding.
CLINTON RICKETTS. NICE PAINTINGS AUGUST 9 – SEPTEMBER 21
Clint accidentally took a year off from making art after the birth of his first son. He emerged from this sleepless hibernation feeling in many ways like (in his words) a new man. When Ricketts was ready to return to the studio, he felt a strong pull to do something different. He makes a mark with his paintbrush and then responds with another mark. Clint Ricketts received his MFA from the University of Kansas in 2010 and has taught design and printmaking courses at Emporia State, Washburn University and Missouri Western State University.
AUGUST 23 – OCTOBER 12
Whether developed from drawing, collage, photos, or observation, their work shares a ‘more-is-more’ aesthetic, hard-won images and a revelation of the craft of painting through vigorous multi-figure storytelling. Teresa Dunn, Ben Duke and Robert McCann are all Assistant Professors of Art at Michigan State University who actively exhibit their art around the country & internationally.
MARTY OLSON. ERGO SUM: PRESENT TENSE
SEPTEMBER 27 - NOVEMBER 16
Fall 2011 presented a change in vision and process for Olson. Previously, his work was focused on developing a painting style involving acrylic paint and water-soluble media applied to canvas and wood panel surfaces. He has returned to paper with watercolor, ink, collage and colored pencils. Adding a thread of “roots and wings” as an homage to his parents, his work explores mandalas, New Age, Pantheism/Paganism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Jewish Mysticism (Kabbalah), as well as abstracted perceptions of beliefs.
John Gary Brown grew up in Kansas, with a spiritual attachment to the stark, infinite horizon of the prairie. While essentially non-objective, Brown’s paintings are organized around a horizon line, a light source, or an element that places the image in a particular place. From the Northwest to Europe and the Middle East, Brown’s connection to the environment permeates his paintings. Though his work has great range, clearly the landscape - the most elemental of artistic subjects - is his first love.
SHIN-HEE CHIN. MOTHER TONGUE AND MOTHERHOOD NOVEMBER 22 – JANUARY 11
Often utilizing needle, thread, and fabric, Shin’s work calls into question the deep-seated bias that women’s work is trivial, menial, marginal and undesirable. Chin is an Associate Professor of Visual Art at Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally.
long time Lawrence resident William S. Burroughs. In 1981, Burroughs moved his home to Lawrence, Kansas, where he began to feverishly create art. He went on to develop a wide range of painting techniques. From 1982 until his late years, he prolifically created visual art. Burroughs’ work has since been featured in over fifty international galleries and museums including Royal Academy of the Arts, Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim Museum, New Museum, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art. The Lawrence Arts Center presents an exhibition of William Burroughs’ art and collections titled Creative Observer including works from throughout Burroughs’ life. Included in this exhibit is collaborative works with many iconic artists panning Burroughs’ life: such as Brion Gysin, Robert Rauschenberg, Kurt Cobain, Keith Haring, and George Condo, among others. Gallery talks, films, and performances accompanied the exhibit. Creative Observer is a co-project of the Lawrence Arts Center and the William S. Burroughs Estate and is curated by Ben Ahlvers and Yuri Zupancic.
M(I)(A)CRO: A CONTEMPORARY DRAWING EXHIBITION MAY 16 – JULY 5 PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: DAVID MAZURE, GREG FUQUA, BASIL EL HALWAGY, DOUG RUSSELL, SARA SCHNECKLOTH
This exhibition features five artists working to capture the unknown through abstracted natural forms in the medium of drawing. The group’s work questions the roots of perception and the observable universe, attempting to unravel reality through the act of drawing.
NOT COMPATIBLE: NEW WORKS BY JOHN PAUL MCCAUGHEY,
PRINTMAKING ARTIST IN RESIDENCE MAY 23-JUNE 22
Influenced by James BridIe’s definition of the “New Aesthetic,” McCaughey’s work explores the intersection where the digital world merges with the actual environment. Finding beauty in the discarded, juxtaposing old with the new, and blurring lines between organic and manmade.
WAGGLE DANCE. EXHIBITION BY KYLA STRID CERAMICS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE JUNE 27 – JULY 25
detail from painting by Jack Collins
Borrowed from the bees and inspired by daily experiences in a life of travel, Strid’s work features the places, people, plants, books, conversations, foods, or insects encountered in her changing environments. Translating quiet moments and backyard treasures into the forms and surfaces of pots, her work parallels the waggle dance of bees, translating and communicating sources found along a wandering path of life.
JAN GAUMNITZ. HORSE SENSE
JULY 5 THRU AUGUST 16
BETSY TIMMER. HITTING HOME EXHIBITION JULY 11 TO AUGUST 23
TALL GRASS. DEEP WATER. AN EXHIBITION BY CHRIS WOLF EDMONDS AND PAM SULLIVAN
JULY 11 – AUGUST 23
Edmonds and Sullivan share a love of nature and creative visual poetry through color, texture, fabric, stitching, paint, and print. This exhibition features the newest fiber works from both artists and a variety of techniques and mediums.
LACES: WORK BY LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER EDUCATIONAL STAFF JULY 25–AUGUST 27 CIDER GALLERY
Featuring the artwork of over 45 staff and faculty of the Lawrence Arts Center. A multiplicity of work that includes ceramics, drawing and painting, handmade books, jewelry, photos, prints, sculpture, and film & digital media. The impressive collection embodies the diversity of experience, perspective and aesthetics present in the faculty and staff at the Lawrence Arts Center.
STUDENT EXHIBITS WORLD INSPIRED: COMMUNITY CREATED
OCTOBER 25 THRU NOVEMBER 17 RECEPTION OCTOBER 26 | 5 TO 9 PM
John Balistreri in his studio
2013-14 INSIGHT ART TALKS This lecture series brings visiting and exhibiting artists to the podium to talk about their work, and opens dialogue between artist and viewer. INSIGHT Art Talks bring a deeper understanding of works on display in the galleries throughout the year.
BRAD SCHWIEGER | AUGUST 28 | VISITING ARTIST
Schwieger has been teaching at Ohio University since 1990 and is presently a professor of art and ceramics area chair. He actively exhibits his work around the country.
CLINTON RICKETTS | SEPTEMBER 5 | EXHIBITING ARTIST JOHN BALISTRERI | SEPTEMBER 24 | VISITING ARTIST
John Balistreri is currently a professor of art and the head of the ceramic program at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He has been in numerous solo and group exhibits throughout the United States. Balistreri’s work is typically large-scale sculpture. Recently John has been working with Jun Kaneko in Omaha NE. Balistreri is a visiting artist during the Arts Center/University of Kansas Woodfire Spectacular.
MARTY OLSON | OCTOBER 3 | EXHIBITING ARTIST DAN ANDERSON | OCTOBER 15 | VISITING ARTIST
Dan Anderson is currently a full-time studio artist following 32 years of teaching ceramics at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (1970-2002). An avid wood firing enthusiast, he has his own anagama kiln at his Old Poag Road Clay and Glass studio/home in Edwardsville IL, where he now spends 100% of his time. Anderson is a visiting artist during the Arts Center/ University of Kansas Woodfire Spectacular.
JOHN GARY BROWN | NOVEMBER 7 | EXHIBITING ARTIST SHIN-HEE CHIN | DECEMBER 5 | EXHIBITING ARTIST JOHN MCCAUGHEY | MAY 29 | ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE KYLA STRID | JUNE 30 | ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE CHRIS WOLF EDMONDS & PAM SULLIVAN | EXHIBITING ARTISTS
GUEST EXHIBITS & ART SALES Lawrence Photo Alliance Lawrence Art Guild Bizarre Bazaar KU School of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
Cottonwood, Inc., Retirement Enrichment Services shares a strong and rewarding partnership with the Lawrence Arts Center. The opportunity for creative expression within the community from professional artists in this state of the art facility is incredibly rewarding and important to those served by Cottonwood. A life-enriching retirement experience is what we strive to offer our retirees, and the Lawrence Arts Center is instrumental in helping us deliver on our commitment. We especially appreciate that the instructor strives to understand each of the students to better facilitate the learning experience. The instructor shares the technique, but is spacious and encourages fun and artistic freedom. Each fall, the retirees choose their favorite pieces of art which are featured and made available for purchase during our annual art show.
ARTS-BASED PRESCHOOL EXHIBITION WORKS OF ART BY OUR YOUNGEST STUDENTS APRIL 14 —20
The annual Preschool Exhibition is a don’t miss exhibit featuring works from current preschool children at the Lawrence Arts Center. Illuminating the roots of imagination through fearless creativity, this exhibit offers a rare and inspiring glimpse of the origin of ingenuity and inspiration. The Lawrence Arts Center Arts-Based Preschool curriculum allows students the opportunity to work with professional artists. Through rich and varied experiences with the arts in combination with a sound preschool education, creative confidence and innovative skills are clear in the work of these very young students.
USD 497 LAWRENCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EXHIBITION WORKS SELECTED BY USD 497 ART TEACHERS APRIL 23 — MAY 3
The annual USD 497 Public School show features works selected by public school art teachers of K-12 students from across Lawrence. Showcasing a cross section of the diverse, excellent visual arts programing in Lawrence public schools, this exhibit spotlights the value of arts learning and the importance of fine arts programs in public education. Viewed consecutively after the Lawrence Arts Center Arts-based Preschool Exhibition, the exhibit is an enlightening window into the trajectory of artistic development and creative growth happening everyday in Lawrence. 6TH THRU 12TH GRADE ARTS INSTITUTES
STUDENT EXHIBIT ONGOING
Photos by students in Ann Dean’s darkroom and digital photography classes.
FINAL FRIDAYS
THOMAS D. GALLOWAY LECTURE SERIES
Final Fridays began through the cooperation of the Lawrence Arts Center, Downtown Lawrence Inc., the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission, and artists, gallerists, collectives and local businesses, all of whom saw the value of the arts in our city and an opportunity to bring them to a wider public through this monthly free arts festival. Throughout the year on the last Friday of the month, the streets of downtown Lawrence erupt, storefronts convert into flash spaces, and performances and exhibits spill in and out of galleries and businesses. Activities for kids, exhibitions designed to challenge adults, music, dance and theater for all ages are all within walking distance of each other.
Architect Dan Wood, AIA, LEED and Amale Andraos of WORKac, New York City, believe the promise of new possibilities for architecture to engage and shape the future lies in the revision of boundaries between the urban, the rural and the natural. Their work is committed to moving beyond the projected to the possible as they refashion architecture as a performative process and tool to re-envision our environment. WORKac’s recent projects include a masterplan for a new cultural center on New Holland Island in St. Petersburg, Russia, a renovation and addition to the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, Texas, Edible Schoolyards PS216 and PS7 in Brooklyn and Harlem in association with Alice Water’s Chez Panisse Foundation, and a competition-winning Assembly Hall in Libreville, Gabon to be finished for the 2014 Summit of the African Union. The Lecture Series was established by the Galloway family in honor of the late Dr. Thomas D. Galloway. (OPPOSITE PAGE, TOP) Billy the Kid by Stephen T. Johnson
ANTECEDENT GALLERY JASON KLINKNET TOM MOORE CHICKEN BONE CHOPPERS. SOLO EXHIBITION JANUARY 31 THRU MARCH 30 SOLO EXHIBITION
SEPTEMBER THRU OCTOBER
This exhibit is the newest incarnation in the Antecedent Gallery and features sculptures created with bone, teeth, and found objects. Curated by Wayne Propst.
During the 70s Tom Moore was a student in the Art Department at KU. He received his MA in painting from the State University of New York at Albany in 1972. Throughout his career Tom continued to make drawings of comic characters that spoke to his wry sense of humor and strong political beliefs. When Tom contracted Parkinson’s Disease that advanced to the stage where he had difficulty drawing he began producing sketches on small scraps of leftover paper and envelopes. The works in this exhibition are just a small sampling of the thousands of sketches that are stored in boxes, files and notebooks. Curated by Roger Shimomura.
JUSTIN BALDWIN URBAN TRIBAL STRANGERS IN PARADOX A SOLO EXHIBITION BY JUSTIN BALDWIN
CHRIS BARTELDES COLLECTION SELECTED AUTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTION OF CHRIS BARTELDES
JUNE 27 THRU JULY 21
JULY THRU AUGUST
New York artist Justin Baldwin does his best work underground in the subway system. Unlike most who use their Metrocard to gain access to a city full of straphanging subjects, however, he merely uses the subway car as his studio.
From Ben Franklin to the Beatles, this exhibition features images and autographs of iconic figures.
This exhibition of selected subway drawings marks the first time Justin has shown in his hometown of Lawrence, KS since 1996. Curated by Roger Shimomura. detail from Greensburg, an oil painting by Stan Herd
AUCTION ARTISTS BEN AHLVERS
KEITH HARING
MOLLY MURPHY
DAN ANDERSON
STAN HERD
YOONMI NAM
SUE ASHLINE
ANN & STEVE HERTZOG
LORI NORWOOD
INGE BALCH
BRIAN HORSCH
MARTY OLSON
JASON BARR
EROK JOHANSSEN
JACK OZEGOVIC
TOM BARTEL
STEPHEN T JOHNSON
GRACE PETERSON
JON BLUMB
TED JOHNSON
BENTON PEUGH
BILL BOWERMAN
LORA JOST
ANGIE PICKMAN
ANDY BRAYMAN
KAY7 STUDIO
SALLY PILLER
JOHN GARY BROWN
ALICIA KELLY
WAYNE PROPST
ELIZA BULLOCK
GWEN KERTH
JEFF RIDGWAY
ANDREW BURKITT
LIZ KOWALCHUK
DOROTHY RISSMAN
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
MICHAEL KRUEGER
JEREMY ROCKWELL
VALERIE CAMPOS
STEPHANIE LANTER
JESSICA ROLD
GRACE CARMODY
ELIZABETH “GRANDMA” LAYTON
LENI SALKIND
LAWRENCE LITHOGRAPHY
JOHN SEBELIUS
JUDITH LEVY
ROGER SHIMOMURA
ADAM LOTT
KENT SMITH
MATTHEW LORD
HEATHER SMITH-JONES
LIZA MACKINNON
BILL SNEAD
JUSTIN MARABLE
RALPH STEADMAN
BAILEY MARABLE
RICK STEIN
EMILY MARKOULATOS
KYLA STRID
LAURIE MARLOWE
RACHEL SUDLOW
MARIA MARTIN
PAM SULLIVAN
KAREN MATHEIS
JOHN TALLEUR
JOHN PAUL MCCAUGHEY
JUNIPER TANGPUZ
CAROL ANN CARTER ELLEN CHINDAMO SAM CHUNG JACK COLLINS JIM CONNELLY JESSICA CONNER LAURIE CULLING JANET DAVIDSON-HUES
BENEFIT ART AUCTION 2014 The Benefit Art Auction is the primary funding source for the Exhibitions program at the Arts Center and features approximately 150 artworks generously donated by invited artists. This spectacular event is also made possible by corporate and private sponsors, volunteers, and hundreds of art patrons. The Exhibitions Director and Auction Committee strive to include artwork in a diversity of mediums and styles, representing a wide range of retail value while limiting the number of works in the exhibition to 150. The silent auction began with the opening of the Benefit Art Auction exhibition on March 14. The live auction was held April 12 and was attended by over 600 people. The 2014 event raised $188,481 for the exhibitions program. Works sold at an average of 102% of retail proce. Morgan Stanley was the major sponsor.
ANN DEAN CLARE DOVETON LUKE DUBOIS JEFF EATON CONSTANCE ERHLICH SHEPARD FAIREY JOHN FERRY TIM FORCADE HERB FRIEDSON JAN GAUMNITZ JESSE GRAY KEN GRIZZELL
JUDITH MCCREA JEFF MCKEE MARIE MCKINZIE GERRY MILLER RICK MITCHELL KRISTIN MORLAND
LISA GROSSMAN
MARGARET WEISBROD MORRIS
DIANE GUTHRIE
JEROMY MORRIS
NICK SCHMIEDELER
JEN UNEKIS DAVE VAN HEE MARCIANA VEQUIST SHANNA WAGNER THOM WEIK CHRIS WOLF EDMONDS BARON WOLMAN HONG ZHANG YURI ZUPANCIC
VISITING & RESIDENT ARTISTS The resident and visiting artists program at the Lawrence Arts Center offers area residents a unique opportunity to study with practicing artists of varied backgrounds and diverse skills.
2013/14 ceramics artist-inresidence Kyla Strid throws a pot in the studio.
CERAMICS & PRINTMAKING ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
Ceramics and Printmaking 12-month residency programs are designed to provide a creative environment for emerging artists and to broaden the center’s students and faculty awareness of new approaches and techniques. Residents are provided studio space, $500 per month stipend, an apartment, free firings, and 24 hour access to all studios, including print, metal, photography, and digital media. Residencies provide a multi-faceted experience that includes teaching, community outreach, interaction with other artists, and studio care, and culminates in an exhibition of new work.
PROJECT-BASED RESIDENCY
The goal of these short-term residencies is to help support, sustain, and foster growth in local arts and artists by providing material support for development of special projects with an emphasis on interdisciplinary works, and helping local artists to create works competitive on a national scale.
VISITING ARTISTS
are invited throughout the year to work at the Arts Center for varying lengths of time creating exhibits and installations, participating in performing arts productions, and presenting art talks, workshops, and other innovative and interactive projects.
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE 2013/14
Yuri Zupançic
John McCaughey, printmaker Kyla Strid, Anchorage, ceramist
THEATER/MUSIC Jill Anderson, Omaha, actress Seth Golay, Kansas City, actor VISITING ARTISTS 2013/14 Anna Han, Arizona, pianist VISUAL ARTS Dan Anderson, Edwardsville, ceramist Spencer Lott , New York City, puppeteer Alex Kipp, New York City, actor John Ballistreri, Omaha, ceramist Mark Rector, Chicago, actor Jeremy Kane, Alaska, ceramist Amy Kelly, Kansas City, actress Alicia Kelly, Lawrence, artist Ry Kincaid, Kansas City, actor Brad Schwieger, Athens, ceramist Jesus De La Rose, Texas, printmaker Sylvia Stoner-Hawkins, Kansas City, singer John Waters, Baltimore, film FREE STATE FESTIVAL director, screen writer, actor Luke DuBois, New York City, Wayne Hawkins, Kansas City, pianist visual artist, curator Tom Picasso, New York City, actor Nina Katchadourian, New Chaeyoung Park, Lawrence, pianist York City, visual artist Ellen Moore, New York City, director Tiffany Carbonneau, Kentucky, Ryan Kathman, Memphis, director digital installations Paul Nelson, Johnny Winter Band SCHOOL OF DANCE guitarist Grant Hart, singer, songwriter, musician Katie Gilchrist, Kansas City Paula Weber, Kansas City, Kevin Kling, Minnesota, storyteller choreographer Marc Maron, Los Angeles, comic, writer Jenna Dannenberger, CT, Barry Anderson choreographer Michael Arthur Krystyna Hilding, Lawrence, Fresh Produce Collective choreographer Nick Hallett Patrick Suzeau, Lawrence, performer David Loewenstein Willie Lenior, Lawrence, dance Ali Momeni Tobin James, Kansas City, dance Brock Monroe Sean Duus, Kansas City, dance Miles Peyton Michelle Hayes, Lawrence, dance San Façon Jenny SchmidMaddy Varner Nicholas Ward Perrine Wettstein
YOUTH ARTS Molly Curtis, Portland, poet
ceramic artist Josh DeWeese gives a demonstration in the Arts Center ceramics studio during the October 2012 Ceramics Symposium
VISITING ARTISTS + EDUCATION Visiting artists enrich educational and artistic experiences for people of all ages at the Lawrence Arts Center in dance studios, visual arts studios, theaters, and galleries.
REBECCA ZINN WRITING PROJECT
by seventh grade This poetry collection, written and illustrated School in Lawrence, KS, students at Liberty Memorial Central Middle Writing Project. Creative Zinn Rebecca is the culmination of the
Rebecca Zinn began writing stories and poems as a young girl. Her delight in writing grew as she grew older, strengthened by the encouragement of family and teachers. Becky’s parents honor her by bringTHE FROM Y POETR ing the joy of creative writing to a new generation. Believing that all children should experience the opportunity to grow intellectually and imaginatively in ways only creative writing can facilitate, the Zinn family and their many friends created the Rebecca Zinn Creative Writing Project through the Lawrence Arts Center bringing visiting artist Molly Curtis to classroom at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School in the spring of 2013. Student poems and illustrations were compiled into a professionally published book of poetry for all participants.
M ID DLE
Written and illustrated by seventh grade students at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School in Lawrence, KS for the Rebecca Zinn Creative Writing Project
Visiting artist Paula Weber taught a master class for advanced ballet students in the School of Dance, and set an original choreographed piece on the Lawrence Ballet Theatre company that won an award at Regional Dance America.
Support for our 2013-14 visiting and resident artists program is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, ArtPlace America, Center for Global International Studies, Anne and David Hollond, Jan and Jack Gaumnitz, Beth Schultz, the Thomas D. Galloway Family, Sally Hare-Schriner and Dan Schriner, Nicole and Dan Sabatini, Kay and Tom Carmody, and all who “raised the paddle” at our April Benefit Auction for support of our Visiting and Resident Artist Fund.
Visiting performing artists Wallace Cochran and Jeff Stoltz of Drakkar Sauna and Jeff Dearinger of Uptown Mandolin Quartet provided original music and accompaniment in the Arts Center’s spring production of Pinocchio.
2013 • 2014 EDUCATION
8,000 students participated in visual and performing arts 389 students participated in performing arts productions; 186 of them received financial aid 111 school of dance students received financial aid 41 arts-based preschool children received financial aid 245 visual arts students received financial aid In June 2014, 42 teens from Elk and Grant Counties attended the week-long Summer ARTS Intensive at the Lawrence Arts Center. In 2014, 8 artists also traveled to Elk and Grant Counties to teach visual art to 80 1st thru 5th graders. 663 individual adults and youth received financial aid for preschool, visual arts, dance, and theater arts classes over 1,000 students participated in arts education through our support of CASA, Headstart, Boys & Girls Club, Little Nations Preschool, and other social service organizations
CONTINUING EDUCATION The Arts Center offers Art educators workshops and classes in a range of visual arts. College credit is available to fulfill recertification needs for teachers.
ART FOR ALL AGES
The shared vision guiding all Lawrence Arts Center visual arts education programs is to create an environment in which young people develop innovative, disciplined, and enlightened thinking skills while working with artists and arts educators. The guiding principal behind this vision is that these are skills that critically affect long term achievement and are essential qualities in future leaders in all fields.
EARLY EDUCATION
PLAY. DISCOVER. CREATE.
Preschool, Coloring Outside the Lines and Integrated Arts Arts-Based Preschool A pioneer in the use of art in early education, the Lawrence Arts Center’s Arts-Based Preschool has been offering an inspired approach to teaching young learners for over 29 years. The arts are central in this thoughtful early educational environment that encourages creative thinking, decision-making, imagination, and cultural awareness. Employing arts-based activities to learn reading, writing, science and math, this award-winning program provides social, motor, and creative experiences integrated into a sound preschool curriculum. In addition to the daily creative classroom, children work with a music, drama or creative movement specialist each week, and meet visiting artists from around the world. Coloring Outside the Lines and Integrated Arts leveraging the pioneering arts-based curricu-
lum developed and utilized in the Lawrence Arts Center Arts Based Preschool, classes for early learners focus on introduce early learners to the creative classroom. Classes are designed specifically with the developmental milestones of young children in mind.
KINDERGARTEN
IMAGINE. PLAY. LEARN.
Arts Wednesday Kindergarten is a transitional learning stage where early learners bridge from preschool to “big kid” environments. On the public school weekly Wednesday Early Dismissal days, the Lawrence Arts Center offers classes specially designed for students in kindergarten. Classes are taught by early education staff who incorporate more advanced skills and information while still honoring the developmental skills and milestones that are the hallmark of this age.
1ST-5TH GRADE
EXPLORE. IMAGINE. INVENT
Youth Art Education and ArtSpace Youth Art Education: Based on an understanding of how arts education impacts literacy, mathematics, science, and overall academic achievement, our youth arts education program supports the capacity of students to make real-world connections, think boldly and creatively, and motivate themselves to learn in an exciting place that supports innovative thinking. From clay to creative writing, painting to plays, graphic design to film, instructors are professional teaching artists who inform and engage. Art Space ArtSpace is the integrated visual art and science program for students 1st -5th grades. Acknowledging the vital role art has in teaching innovative and creative thinking, the Art Space program places the Lawrence Arts Center at the epicenter of
the movement to add an “A” for “art,” turning STEM into STEAM. Based on the idea that critical thinking, problem solving, and the ability to innovate are essential skills in all educational environments, ArtsSpace is an inspired learning environment in which students try new things, test the limits of their imaginations, practice innovation, and build creative connections. Art Space camps and classes focus on a key principle of art and connect art concepts with scientific concepts, under a cultural theme relevant to young people. This integrated science and art curriculum meets national art and science standards.
6TH-12TH GRADE EXPERIMENT. INVENT. ACCOMPLISH.
Arts Institutes Arts Institutes offer instruction by professional artists in visual arts, dance, theater, and digital media for beginners through advanced students in an accepting, inspired, artistic atmosphere. The institutes
offer a place for students to begin by exploring and building foundational skills, develop technique, and advance to create work they can add to a portfolio. Lawrence Ballet Theatre Lawrence Ballet Theatre is a pre-professional ballet company at the Lawrence Arts Center. Its mission is to provide training and performing opportunities to serious students who are seeking a collegiate or professional career in the field of dance and to provide high quality, rich dance experiences for audiences in Lawrence and the region. Company members are selected at an annual audition. Participation in the company helps prepare students for the demands of a collegiate or professional career in dance by learning classical and original choreography appropriate for the advanced student. The company works to complement and encourage the passion the advanced student has for the art of dance.
In May of 2014, the company attended the Regional Dance America MidStates Festival held in Chicago where they performed a work by choreographer Paula Weber, chair of dance at UMKC, titled “From the Heart”. For this work, Paula received the National Commissioning Award Scholarship. The company is one of the fourteen member companies in the MidStates region and was elevated this year from an “interning” to “performing” company. Summer Youth Theater SYT is the performance-based theater program for youth grades 3rd—12th. Professional musicians, choreographers, directors, and theater technicians observe the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts National Theater Education Standards in teaching the art of theater. Students can chose the SYT performance track, which is focused on acting and stage experience, or the SYT tech track, which is focused on theater production behind the scenes.
ADULT ARTS
ENVISION. CONNECT. ENERGIZE.
With the idea that art is central to the development of vibrant communities, the adult education program is focused on promoting art in everyday life. For beginners to professional artists, Lawrence Arts Center classes and workshops foster learning, practice and innova-
tion. Classes emphasize the development of skills and the chance to practice technique, while setting the stage for social connection and development of creative networks. Classes are offered in a diverse range of media and skill levels that cultivate artistic technique and creative practice to bring ideas to life.
COMMUNITY/STATE OUTREACH
ARTSREACH ARTSreach means art reaches everyone, and our Financial Aid Fund makes this possible. The Lawrence Arts Center offers access to arts education for all children, teens, and adults, providing assistance for classes on an individual basis. It also makes possible the partnerships detailed below.
ARTSREACH FOR ALL
In 2013-2014, the Financial Aid Fund provided $116,588 in financial aid to students of all ages to take classes in visual art, dance and theater arts at the Lawrence Arts Center. 663 individual adults and youth received financial aid for preschool, visual arts, dance, and theater arts classes. Over 1,000 students participated in arts education through our support of CASA, Headstart, Boys & Girls Club, Little Nations Preschool, and other social service organizations.
ARTSREACH FOR PRESCOOLERS ARTSreach supported Preschool Arts classes taught by Arts Center early childhood faculty: Head Start at the Arts Center: 64 children weekly Sept-May Children’s Learning Center at the Arts Center: 16 children weekly Sept-May Little Nations at Haskell Indian Nations University: 12 children weekly Sept-May The Lawrence Arts Center’s Early Childhood SmartMoves Project engages children in multidisciplinary physical movement to connect kinesthetic learning with creativity through dance, drama and music at our Arts-based pre-
school. This year 48 students participated in SmartMoves during the 2013-2014 school year.
of public venues in the region. Seven of these elite young dancers, ages 12-18, receive financial aid.
As part of the ARTSreach project, the Arts Center offered performances and concerts attended by 250 children from Kennedy School, Head Start, Little Nations, and the Children’s Learning Center.
The Arts Center provided film and digital media classes for 13 Van Go Mobile Arts students and 10 students from the Boys and Girls Club Teen Center.
ARTSREACH FOR YOUTH
10 adult clients of Cottonwood, Inc. take classes in Printmaking each week.
The Arts Center is in its fourth year of a partnership with Boys and Girls Club to provide all afterschool arts programming at the Arts Center for BGC children. The Arts Center provides full scholarships to classes for any participants in CASA, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Club, the Community Shelter, and Family Promise. s The Arts Center delivered its ArtSpace curriculum to 80 students in Elk and Grant Counties. The Arts Center partners with the University of Kansas to host 42 teens in Lawrence for the week long Summer Arts Institute. Teens traveled from Elk, Grant and Haskell counties for the week long program. The Arts Center provides weekly arts programming to teens at the Juvenile Detention Center and the County Day School. In 2014-15, the Arts Center provided arts education to 347 students in JDC and 45 in the Day School. 186 teenagers took part in 2013-2014 performance opportunities because of support from our Financial Aid Fund. The Arts Center’s pre-professional Lawrence Ballet Company rehearses 15 hours each week and performs at a variety
ARTSREACH FOR ADULTS
THE CHALLENGE CONTINUES
Our Financial Aid Fund makes ARTSreach possible, providing access to visual and performing arts to all children. Continuing challenges: We have seen the need for financial aid increase each year, and now with 25% of our preschool population in need of tuition support, we are challenged to continue to increase our fundraising for our financial aid program. Federal assistance has also been cut for many of our ARTSReach partners, and we are helping fill the gaps in funding for those programs so that children and tenagers can continue to come to the Arts Center for arts education.
ARTSREACH RECIPIENTS
Big Brother Big Sisters of Lawrence Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence Children’s Learning Center The Community Shelter Cottonwood Inc. Douglas County CASA Douglas County Youth Services Elk County Family Promise Grant County Recreation Commission Haskell Indian Nations University Headstart
USD 283 USD 282 USD 497 USD 507 Van Go Mobile Arts Our Financial Aid Fund Supports: Preschool: $25,155 Theater: $5,600 Dance: $35,548 Visual Arts Education $50,285 Total financial support distributed was $116,588 in 2013-14
FINANCIAL AID FUND FUNDRAISER
Our fall benefit at the home of Evan Williams and Roger Walter and catered by Evan Williams Catering raised $55,600 for our Financial Aid Fund. This fund makes outreach to social service agencies and individual financial aid possible.
OUTREACH
The Arts Center collaborates with USD 497, The Lied Center of Kansas and Theater Lawrence and the Spencer Museum of Art to implement 3rd Grade Arts Day. As part of this program the Lawrence Arts Center provided a half day of dance education to every 3rd grade student in the city of Lawrence. Linda Reimond presented professional development in the Smart Moves curriculum at 2 preschool education conferences. Margaret Weisbrod-Morris and Laurie McLane-Higginson led professional development in the ArtSpace curriculum with teachers and art educators at 4 conferences, including the National Arts Education Association in San Diego.
SCHOOL OF DANCE The Lawrence Arts Center’s dance curriculum is guided by leading professionals in each discipline, and also by the national dance education standards set by the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and the National Dance Education Association. With over 200 years of experience in the dance field, our faculty enable students to follow a sequential program, and develop skills appropriate for their age and level. Building the artist as well as the art, we encourage students to become their best within the spectrum of each discipline, develop a sense of artistry and to experience the joy of dance.
Students from the School of Dance perform the dance of the Death Bunnies in Pinocchio.
PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES OCTOBER 2013
HALLOWEEN BALLET & COSTUME BALL
For pre-schoolers, elementary students and their families! The Lawrence Ballet Theater performed and led a pre-school/family audience in a costume parade. NOVEMBER 2013
ELFWYN’S SAGA
Creative Dance Theatre presented this beautiful child’s tale based on Norse folk tales. The story of a child born blind from a curse placed upon her family, Elfwyn learns to use senses other than sight to save her community from discontent. With help from the Hidden Folk, Elfwyn’s Saga took audiences on a quest from darkness into light. DECEMBER 2013
A KANSAS NUTCRACKER
The Arts Center‘s beloved Christmas ballet set it in 1861, Kansas’ first year of statehood. More than 130 dancers and actors, from students to professionals, and a 13-piece orchestra featuring a mandolin quartet wove together Kansas’ abolition, suffrage and temperance politics with oversized personalities, unpredictable weather, plains landscape and the Civil War into Clara’s surreal ballet dreams. MARCH 2014
PINOCCHIO
School of Dance modern contemporary dance class culminated in a stage production of Elfwyn’s Saga, an original adaptation by Arts Center faculty.
This true-to-the-original production of Pinocchio staged the well-known tale of the wooden boy’s journey to become real, learning hard lessons about life and love along the way. A lyrical production that featuring original puppetry and design by puppeteer in residence, Spencer Lott, with the live music of Drakkar Sauna’s Wallace Cochran and Jeff Stoltz, and accompanied by A Kansas Nutcracker conductor and Lawrenec musician Jeff Dearinger.
THEATER ARTS EDUCATION Watching and participating in theater fosters literacy, stimulates interest in a wide variety of subjects, introduces diverse cultures and characters, and encourages compassion and tolerance. Students develop a love for theater that enriches their development in many ways, offering them a safe place to express themselves, explore issues, take risks and come together with performance artists of all ages and skill levels who share their interest in theater.
APRIL 2014
EMERGENCE: LAWRENCE BALLET THEATRE
An annual production starring the Art Center’s pre-professional ballet company with the original choreographies of Jenna Dannenberger, Hanan C. Misko, Paula Weber, Krystyna Hilding, and company artistic director Cynthia Crews. In addition to current creations the company presented the beautifully haunting restaging of Michel Fokine’s Les Sylphides set to the music of Frederic Chopin.
THE PIED PIPER
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FEBRUARY
OCTOBER–MAY
This interactive family puppet show for pre-schoolers, elementary students and their families featured visiting artist Spencer Lott from NYC’s New Victory Theater, with live music from Ric Averill and Rayyan Kamal. Each show was performed in the Black Box Theater and created an engaging, up close and personal theater experience for the young and young at heart.
In October the Arts Center welcomed a new concert Steinway piano to our stage. The Steinway is an acknowledgement of our commitment to provide access to and develop audiences for classical music for all audiences. Children from Head Start, Haskell’s preschool, and our arts-based preschool watch, listen, and participate in Q&A with accomplished classical musicians throughout the school year.
MAY 2014
END OF YEAR SCHOOL OF DANCE SHOWCASE & GALA
The End-of-Year Dance Showcases are a crucial component of the dance curriculum to demonstrate the progress of each class. These unique performances highlight the focus, hard work and dedication taking place in the School of Dance throughout the year. JUNE-JULY
SUMMER YOUTH THEATER
Summer Youth Theater is the performance-based theater program for youth grades 3rd—12th. Each summer four shows are produced. One musical for each age group is offered. 2014 SYT junior productions included Peter Pan and The Hobbit for students 3rd—8th grade. 8th—12th graders performed Twelfth Night and Spamalot. AUGUST 2014
RED RIDING HOOD
Audiences trekked over the river and through the woods with Little Red Riding Hood as she danced her fateful journey. On the way to Grandmother’s house, unlucky Little Red contended with townspeople, forest animals, a field of daffodils, a noble huntsman, and of course, the sly Wolf who changed all of her plans.
Anna Han performed a classical music concert for preschool students.
2013 • 2014
PERFORMING ARTS
During the 13-14 season, the Lawrence Arts Center produced more than 63 performances of 22 separate productions, with participants totaling over 1,400 and audiences totaling over 10,500. More than 11 guest performing arts productions took place in the Lawrence Arts Center main theater, lobby, and Black Box Theater, featuring more than 450 community and guest artist participants and audiences of over 5,400.
(LEFT) John Waters performed for a sold out crowd in February, 2014
MOTHER %$!# HOOD: A MUSICAL JOURNEY FROM A TO XANAX
A KANSAS NUTCRACKER, SESQUICENTENNIAL EDITION
AUGUST & OCTOBER, 2013
DECEMBER, 2013
You didn’t have to be a mother to love this original musical by Julie Dunlap and Sara Stotts. With musical direction by Ric Averill and the Free State Liberation Orchestra Rock Band, Mother%$!#Hood” followed three very different moms as singing and dancing their way through the world’s secondoldest profession.
The Arts Center‘s beloved Christmas ballet set it in 1861, Kansas’ first year of statehood. More than 130 dancers and actors, from students to professionals, and a 13-piece orchestra featuring a mandolin quartet wove together Kansas’ abolition, suffrage and temperance politics with oversized personalities, unpredictable weather, plains landscape and the Civil War into Clara’s surreal ballet dreams.
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET OCTOBER, 2013
Sondheim’s R-rated musical thriller is a suspenseful masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime. Sophisticated, macabre, visceral and uncompromising, Sweeney Todd mixes a chilling tale with howlingly funny moments of dark humor.
THE NERVOUS SET, A JAZZ MUSICAL OF THE BEAT GENERATION: STAGED READING FEBRUARY, 2014
This original beat generation jazz musical was first performed at the Crystal Palace in St. Louis, a mecca for jazz musicians, poets and beats of the 50’s, and enjoyed a short – but bright – Broadway run in 1959. The Lawrence Arts Center ‘s revival production brought the musical home to the Midwest to claim its birthright. The
NAKED LUNCH
RAW. FRESH. PUBLIC. FEBRUARY THRU APRIL, 2014
In celebration of the 100th birthday of iconic beat writer, artist and Lawrence resident, William Burroughs, the Arts Center hosted Naked Lunch on Fridays at noon featuring new, in-progress, unfiltered and unique work.
STORY SLAM
THE AUDIENCE AS PERFORMER (AN 18+ EVENT) SEPTEMBER–MAY, 2013-14
Stories are told live. Extraordinary, witty, suspenseful yarns are told by audience members MOTH–style the second Friday of each month. Raconteurs step up to the mic to bring laughs, tears, surprise, amazement, and the occasional awkward moment. All are welcome to bring a tale to tell on the theme.
principal characters are based on Jack Kérouac, Allen Ginsberg with lyrics and writing by the iconic beat intellectuals Fran and Jay Landesman and music by the the jazz great Tommy Wolf. Produced and directed by Ric Averill, the February, 2014 stage reading was a development workshop to introduce the re-tooled script, music and artists who will perform the finished work during the 201415 performing arts season.
PINOCCHIO MARCH, 2014
This true-to-the-original production of Pinocchio stages the well-known tale of the wooden boy journey to become real, learning hard lessons about life and love along the way. Imperiled by dangers brought about by Pinocchio’s want of responsibility and self-discipline, the journey is, in fact, a metaphor of the passage from childhood to maturity. A lyrical production that features original puppetry and design by puppeteer in residence, Spencer Lott, with the live music of Drakkar Sauna.
AN EVENING WITH JOHN WATERS
FEBRUARY, 2014
John Waters is famed the world over for his trash epics including Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living, Polyester, Serial Mom, Pecker, Cecil B. Demented, and A Dirty Shame. Two of his more surprisingly commercial films have been adapted for the stage. Hairspray, winner of eight Tony Awards and Cry Baby - The Musical nominated for four Tony Awards. Waters came to the Arts Center as part of a series of events related to the exhibition William S. Burroughs. Creative Observer in January, 2014.
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FIVE PIANISTS PERFORM ON THE LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER’S STEINWAY & SONS GRAND PIANO
Anna Han, Sarah Rasmussen, Zhou Mingtian Yang, Chaeyoung Park, and Professor Jack Winerock APRIL, 2014
DR. STEVEN SPOONER
A New Recital of Sensations Debussy Preludes, Book I
Comedian Marc Maron performed for a special sold out event to kick off the Free State Festival in June.
NINE FORTY LIVE
Nine Forty Live features artists who are creating innovative, new, and original sounds in multiple genres of music. The theater at the Lawrence Arts Center provides a unique opportunity for audiences to see and hear great music. Building on a strong music scene in downtown Lawrence, Nine Forty Live provides an intimate theater setting for dynamic performers and revels in the contributions of diverse artists in music performance and songwriting.
NINE FORTY LIVE 40 WATT MATT PRYOR DREAMS WITH OBI AND GHOSTY
WITH WELLS THE TRAVELLER AUGUST, 2013
40 Watt Dreams play high energy music with a distinctive sound combining rock’n’roll, bluegrass banjo and powerful vocal harmonies. Their live shows feature songs from Katie’s solo CD, “40 Watt Dreams”, released this year on Squirrel Records.
JANUARY, 2014
Sometimes Matt Pryor makes very loud music with The Get Up Kids. Sometimes he makes very quiet music by himself. This special hometown event was backed by a rogue orchestra of horns and strings and many other things.
JOHN CALE
APRIL, 2014
ANNOUNCING 940CLASSICAL AND 940JAZZ
Welsh violist, pianist, composer, and singer John Cale’s singular career began in contemporary classical music, where he was mentored by Aaron Copland and worked with John Cage and minimalists Terry Riley and La Monte Young in the 60s. He co-founded the influential band Velvet Underground along with Lou Reed.
This year, we received the gift of a new Steinway Grand Piano. An anonymous donor who believes in the joy of excellent music and transcendent artistic moments supports these for adult audiences as well as for children. Watch for more beautiful musical moments in classical, jazz, and alternative performance.
WITH DRAKKAR SAUNA OPENING
John Cale peformed on the mainstage for a 940 LIVE concert.
John Cale played in the Lawrence Arts Center main theater for a 940 LIVE concert
Image from the documentary film Quixotic Fusiondirected performsbyaerial acrobatics Civil War on Wheels, Patrick Sumner and dance, accompanied by live music, and featured at the 2013 Free State Film Festival suspended in front of the Arts Center.
FREE STATE FESTIVAL FILM. MUSIC. ART. IDEAS. JUNE 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 2014
Entertaining new independent films, innovative outdoor art installations and performance events, live music, and thought-provoking discussions about art, film, and ideas throughout downtown and along the 9th Street corridor in the Lawrence Cultural District for the Lawrence Arts Center’s Free State Festival during five amazing summer days! FILM
In it’s fifth year, the Free State Film Festival features select films from the national festival circuit programmed with accompanying guests for post screening q&a’s for those interested in delving deeper. MUSIC
Concerts celebrating Lawrence’s vibrant music scene were held in outdoor and indoor venues for audiences of all ages. ART
Outdoor digital art installations and public projections were displayed in surprising places and unexpected ways after dark throughout downtown and east on 9th Street. Adults and children alike were delighted by these creative summer light shows. IDEAS
Partnering with the Lawrence Arts Center, the University of Kansas curated a series of talks, panels and inventive presentations on new, fresh, interesting and innovative ideas on diverse topics. (TOP) Projection on Bowersock Dam structure by Yuri Zupançik (MIDDLE) Johnny Winter performed in a street concert outside the Arts Center for an enthusiastic crowd of thousands (BOTTOM) Artist Michael Arthur created drawings projected real time during a music performance by KU Jazz at St. Luke A.M.E. Church
STAFF
2013 • 2014
STAFF & FACULTY MEMBERS SPONSORS DONORS & GRANTS FINANCIALS
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Susan Tate CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Stacy Galloway Haywood EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS & PARTNERSHIPS
supporters answered our annual appeal for year-end giving with donations totaling over $98,062
DANCE PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Hanan Misko STUDIO COORDINATOR
Jessica Conner/Kyla Strid DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Heather Hoy
Margaret Weisbrod Morris
CURATOR OF EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS DIRECTOR
Laurie McLane-Higginson
Ben Ahlvers MARKETING DIRECTOR & GRAPHIC DESIGNER
over 150 artists were employed as faculty, staff, and visiting artists throughout the year at the Arts Center
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Chuck Grunau
Amy Albright DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA
OFFICE MANAGER
Beth Murphy LEAD INSTRUCTOR & STUDIO ASSISTANT
Grace Peterson
Marlo Angell
ARTS-BASED PRESCHOOL & EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION DIRECTOR
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, PERFORMING ARTS
Linda Reimond
Ric Averill
FACILITY MAINTENANCE MANAGER DEVELOPMENT & MARKETING COORDINATOR
Ruth DeWitt
Steve Richardson EXHIBITIONS ASSISTANT
PERFORMING ARTS ASSISTANT
Erika Gray
Jeremy Rockwell
Souper Bowl Saturday raised $12,105 for visual arts education our preschool earned $8,385 selling poinsettia plants, home baked cookies, and silent auction artwork fall benefit dinner raised $55,600 for our education & financial aid fund the annual Benefit Art Auction raised $188,431 for the exhibitions program
PRESCHOOL GREEN SPACE
Our Arts-based preschool expanded outdoors and to the south. In partnership with the Salvation Army, we created a safe outdoor play space with gardens and more. Thanks to Vinland Valley Nursery for planting and caring for the new Arts Center space.
FACULTY VISUAL ARTS Gina Adams Katie Alldritt Marlo Angell Kelly Barth Carolyn Berry Ashley Boyack Heather Branham-Green Kim Brook Traci Bunkers Amanda Clark Jessica Conner Josh Conner Louis Copt Molly Curtis Dan Dakotas Ann Dean Jennifer Doores Ann Foster Herb Friedson Kristin Robbins Gantz Neil Goss Chuck Grunau John Hulsey Hannah Hurst Whitney Jacobs Jenny Jenks Lora Jost
Monika Laskowska Amy Lenharth Robbin Loomas Liza MacKinnon Sarita Mahinay John McCaughey Larry Mitchell Kaylyn Munro Pat Nemchock Trish Neuteboom Tim O’Brien John Orzulak Grace Peterson Sally Piller Pat Pisani Juli Pitzer Joel Pollock Hollie Rice Jeff Ridgway Jason Romanishin Derek Sellens Sarah Smarsh Kyla Strid Rachael Sudlow Helen Swan Elizabeth Sullivan Juniper Tangpuz Richard Varney Shanna Wagner Cheryl Weaver Doug Weaver
SCHOOL OF DANCE Alice Steuerwald Paige Comparato Cynthia Crews Christie Curtis Donna Jo Harkrider Jerel Hilding Betsy McCafferty Shannon Pickett Josh Romero Daniel Xaysongkham Sarah York Caitlin Mordan
THEATER Patricia Ahern Jeanne Averill Ric Averill Heather Branham-Green Amanda Clark Larry Mitchell Trish Neuteboom Kip Niven Don Schawang
ARTS-BASED PRESCHOOL Heather Smith Jones Megan Hay Megan King Miriam Cain
Andria Devlin Allison Haworth Kim Rack Whitney Juneau Richelle Mechem Erin Dvorak Gracie Rinke Lauren Bracciano Ian Scheck Becky Rogers Kendra Kuhlman Connie Detweiler Pat Pisani Becky O’Keefe Holli Rice Ann Johnson Kelly Cline Linda Wildgen Amanda Clark Donna Jo Harkrider Spencer Lott Chaeyoung Park Anna Han Linda Reimond
ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY Fifty older adults from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute attended an afternoon lecture about Stephen Sondheim and Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street in October, 2013. The lecture, given by University of Kansas Professor Paul Laird and Lawrence Arts Center Artistic Director of Performing Arts Ric Averill, was accompanied by favorite tunes from this Sondheim classic. Osher participants also attended an evening performance of the musical.
THE LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER RELIES ON DONATIONS FROM INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, SMALL BUSINESSES, MAJOR CORPORATIONS, AND FOUNDATIONS TO SUPPORT 44% OF OUR TOTAL OPERATING BUDGET. WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR THE INVALUABLE SUPPORT THEY HAVE PROVIDED TO THE ARTS CENTER DURING THE 2013-14 FISCAL YEAR:
Emily Casey
Susie and Mark Fagan
Joyce Castle
Hans and Iris Fischer
Elizabeth and David Cateforis
Marcia Fisher and Aaron Ketchell
Jerree and Harley Catlin
Eileen Flink
Nancy Cayton Myers
Julie and Theodore Fountain
Laura and Darren Klish
Stephanie Freeman
Megan Chang
Allison and Tripp Frizell
Mary Jo Cink
Linda and Victor Frost
Katy Clagett
Amy Lee and Rick Frydman
Jeanne and Gary Clark
Louie Galloway
Lois Clark
Dan Tian and Fei Gao
Shelley Clark
Shirley and Goodwin Garfield
Alice Clayton
Shelly and Steven Gaudreau
Sarah Coleman
Helen and Norm Gee
Ardis Comfort
Ruth and George Gibbs
Kathryn Conrad
Susan Giggey
Terry Copeland
Julee and Kurt Goeser
Susan Craig
Elsa Goosen
Robin Crawford
Pam Gordon
Molly Crook
Cap and Kitty Gray
Bill Crowe
Sue Greene
Pamela Cullerton Judith Culley
Andrea and Christopher Greenhoot
Jaime David
Roy and Marilyn Gridley
Candice Davis
Talie Griego
Laura Van Sickle-Deavours and Da Deavours
Elizabeth Hageman
Krista and Neal Barbour Jill and Philip Baringer
Mary-Elizabeth Debicki-Guinness
Sheri and Alex Hamilton
Paula and Mark Bastemeyer
Bill Dentler and Kathy Suprenant
Gail and Peter Hansen
Charles and Katie Becker
Steve Ellsworth and Dee Ann DeRoin
Kim and George Hanson
Helen Bennett Jennifer Berquist
Lee Beth and Mike Dever
Sharyn Harley
Carolyn and Gordon Berry
Stacey and Reed Dillon
Markie and Peter Bieri
Jennifer Divine
Judy and David Billings
Jean Younger and Scott Dold
George and Beth Ann Bittlingmayer
Christi and Mark Douglas
Nancy and Gary Bjorge
Don and Teresa Duncan
Janet Bouley Marion Boyle
Patricia Graham and David Dunfield
Cynthia Bracker Sturm
Carol Eades Delnevo
Anne Bracker
Roma Earles
Irma Brasseur-Hock
Becky and Doug Eason
Simon Brody
Jason and Machaela Edmonds
Mark and Marsha Buhler
Steve and Chris Wolf Edmonds
Barbara and Warren Burket
Jane and Charlie Eldredge
Anna and Bill Busby
Pat Ellebracht
Kit Carlsen
Connie Emerson
Carol Ann Carter
Amanda Enfield
up to $999— Mark Aaron Patty Ahern Virgie and Dudley Alexander Mary Kate and David Ambler Alan and Susan Anderson Marnie Argersinger Ken and Katie Armitage Jill Shelley and Dave Baldwin Andrea and Dave Baloga Colette and Jeff Bangert Marge and Price Banks
detail from artwork by Kristin Ferrell titled From the Top
Jana White and Kevin Doyle
John Mattes and Heidi Hallman
Liz and Jerry Hare Judy Harris Stephanie Harris Elizabeth Hatchett Carol and Don Hatton Jay and Dan Haugh Lois Lorene Hawk Julie Heatwole Kristin and Blake Hedges Ann Hedrick Rick Hennig Jene and Don Herron Hilary Brown and Scott Allegrucci Barbara and Justin Hill Suzan Hill Eric Nelson and Sarah Hill-Nelson Jackie Hyland and Tim Hindman
Shannon Hodges
Karan Krna
Claudia Mayberry
Karen Olson
Lee Blackledge and Tom Hoffman
Linda and Gary Kroeger
Suzanne and Steve McAllister
Georgia and Dick Orchard
Julie and Mark Holmberg
Aline Hoey and Bill Kummerow
Marilyn and George McCleary
Uma Outka
Becky and Lisa LaBlanc-Willis
Jeannie and Kirk McClure
Dalton Paley
Betty Laird
Carr McDonald
Gerald and Jeanne Pees
David and Sacie Lambertson
Julie and Greg McDonald
Mary and Paul Pendry
Sarah and Troy Landers
Kathy and Steve McDowell
Mike Penner
Meredith and Anthony Lang
Roxie and David McGee
Cindy and Craig Penzler
Whitney Lang
Sally McGee
Kathy Perkins and Stan Davis
Alison Langham
Linda and Doug McKay
Becca and Blake Peterson
George Langworthy
Catherine Merritt-Edington
Kate Pickert
Sharon Zehr and David Learned
Diane and Robert Meyers
Jarek and Maura Piekalkiewicz
Susan and Stuart Levine
Gerry Miller
Ardith and John Pierce
Yvonne Lim
Phil Minkin
Katie Pierson
Kate Lindsay
Rick Mitchell
Mark Potts
Linda and John Lungstrum
Virginia and Bill Mitchell
Sandy and Mark Praeger
Pam MacDonald-Stallworth
Amanda Monaghan
Cathy Pringle
Lisa Mahoney
Jeff Moran and Susan Kang
Joni and Stephan Pro
Nicole Maneth
Laura Moriarty
Carol Schmitt and Wayne Propst
Julia Manglitz
Edward Morris
Julie Ranjbar
Paulette Manville
Jim Beach and Nora Murphy
Teresa and Stan Rasmussen
Anita and Bob Markley
Lynn Murphy
Catherine Reed
Erika and Rick Marksbury-Page
Virginia and Noah Musser
Katherine Marples
Karen and Tony Mynsted
Dorothy Hoyt-Reed and Ralph Reed
Janet Marquis
Penny Ng
Sonia Reeder-Jones
Helen Martin
Christina Nipper-Karnowski
Nancy Maloney Rich
Jonathan Martin
Jerry Nossaman
Beth Ridenour
Richard Martin
Lucila Olea
Delores Ringer
Lindsey Hoover Diane and Al Horning Janet Howard Linda Howard Kim Hubbel Nancy Hubble Jane and Mickey Imber Sheila and John Immel Nancy and Scott Jackson Tamara and Jim Jarrow Alice Ann and Don Johnston Marsha and David Jones Jackie Juhl Elaine and Mike Kautsch Angie and Tom Keegan Amy and Patrick Kelly Jeffrey Kennedy Joan Kenny and Bill Kutilek Devon Kim Ralph King Larry and Elizabeth Kipp Kathy Kirk Jill Kleinberg Donna Koepp Kim and Kevin Krannawitter
MAJOR GRANTS In July of 2013, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded the Arts Center a $150,000 Our Town grant for the Free State Festival. Originally the Free State Film Festival, the 2014 and 2015 festivals were expanded to include public art and digital media education for youths from Van Go Inc. and Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence. The effort is called the Free State Cultural Connection Project. In June of 2014, the Arts Center was awarded a $500,000 grant from Art Place for the Free State Boulevard Project. The project will be a partnership between the Arts Center and the City of Lawrence, and engage artists with urban designers and civil engineers to reimagine and transform the sixblock stretch of 9th Street that connects the Warehouse Arts District with the downtown Lawrence Cultural District. Van Go, Inc. students worked with the Lawrence Arts Center‘s Digital Media Director and Free State Festival Film Director Marlo Angell to create short films. The project was part of the Our Town grant.
Marcia Roberts
Pascale and Norman Roberts
Rebecca Smith
Jill Rogers
Ruth and Randall Sneegas
John and Valerie Roper
Connie and Gary Sollars
Margaret Rose and Steve Ramberg
Laura Soyland
Ali Rosenblatt
Mary and Matthew Stein
Mary Ross James Rowland Bob and Ann Russell Lucy Russell Whitney Baker and James Russo Michelle Sale Vaughn Salisbury Janet Satz Ron and Elaine Schmidt Nicole Schneider-Delano Gregory and Linda Schnose Ron Schorr and Georgann Eglinski Paul Schmidt and Julie Schwarting
Diane Spicer Alice Steuerwald Steven Hughes Annie and Paul Stevens Philip Stevens Aimee Stewart Nikki Stewart Emma Scioli and Philip Stinson Alisa Stucky Marie Taylor Theresa Tedrow Leanne Tekolste Richard Texada The Singpiehl Household Jessica and Chris Thompson
Margaret Ann Schwartzburg
Judith and Peter Thompson
Virginia Seaver
Tania and Neil Thompson
Penelope and John Seavertson
Marilyn and Benjamin Tilghman
Melissa Watson
Robert Zerwekh
Amanda Sedlick
Amy Trettel
Brian Watt
Hong Zhang and John Kennedy
Margaret and Will Severson
Ruth and Austin Turney
Mary and Jeff Weinberg
Diane and Dick Zinn
Julia and Tim Shaftel
Kathryn and Bill Tuttle
Kay Wertzberger
William Sharp
Ellie and Wes Unruh
Gretchen West
IMAGINATION SOCIETY
Kathryn Sheedy
Bruce Vaughn
Linda and Mike Wildgen
$1000—$4,999
Jean Shepherd
Sharon and Jeff Vitter
Patricia Willer
Ben Ahlvers
Jan Sheldon and Jim Sherman
Shanna Wagner and Alec Miller
Jewell Willhite
Ashley and Matt All
Suzanne and Larry Sherr
Karen Wakefield
Lorie Williams
Jean and Justin Anderson
Jan and Stan Shumway
Agnes Walsh and Craig West
Susan Elkins and Jack Winerock
Jeannie and Ric Averill
Spencer Sievers
Michelle Walter
Kathleen Wiseman
Linda Bailey
Betsy and Steve Six
Lori and Tom Walton
Lindsey Witthaus
Jennifer and Eric Barton
Glee and Jerry Smith
Karen and Chuck Warner
Amy Wolf
Susan and Jim Bateman
Marilyn and Val Smith
Eva Horn and Steve Warren
Anne and Norman Yetman
Robin Bayer
John Younger
Neeli and Venkata Bendapudi
FEBRUARY 2014
LANGSTON HUGHES CREATIVE WRITING AWARDS Growing up in Lawrence prepared Langston Hughes to understand the difficulties of a racist society as well as the complexities of life itself. He responded by writing in diverse genres — poetry, fiction, drama, memoir, travel narrative — and in diverse styles, drawing on the rich culture of African Americans and the many voices of American democracy. The Langston Hughes Creative Writing Awards encourage and support contemporary poets and writers who present their life experiences creatively through poetry, stories, and non-fiction prose. O
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Two awards of $500 each are given annually, one in the area of poetry and one in the area of fiction. The Lawrence Arts Center and Raven Book Store sponsor the awards.
E S C R E AT I V E W RI
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Beverly Smith Billings
Patty and Marty Kennedy
Kerry and Scott Bixby
Laura Kirk and Paul Fellers
Charles and Dee Blaser
Diane and Robert Knapp
Mary Wharff and Andy Bloomer
Karen and Ed Komp
Amanda Clark and Reid Bork
Anthony Krsnich
Dorothy and Bob Bowline
Jill and Mark LaPoint
Karen and Keith Braman
Judith Levy
Anne and Wally Brockhoff
Michel and Burdett Loomis
Jolisa and Don Buchner
Karen Matheis
Tim Caboni
Cindy and Michael Maude
Judith and Ken Calhoun
Katherine and Bill McGillivray
Grace and Tom Carmody
Carol and Gene Meyer
Carol Ann Carter
Dee and Mike Michaelis
Steve and Betsy Clark
Brianna and Brett Mosiman
Margie and George Coggins Phyllis and Louis Copt
Melissa McCormick and Ed Noonen
Janice and Paul DeBauge
Molly Murphy
Sandra and Jeffrey Deitering
Debra and Mike Orozco
Vicki and Joe Douglas
Vicki and Jim Otten
Kaye and Chris Drahozal
Nancy and John Parker
Elizabeth Miller and Lindy Eakin
Amy and Chris Phalen
Ann Evans
Katie and Ty Porter
Dana Fertig
Kim and Mike Rack
Herb Friedson and Martha Taylor
Saralyn Reece Hardy
Colette and Ron Gaches
Durand Reiber and Marty Moore
Brenda Gadd
Mike Roark
Melody and Joe Gatti
Nicole and Dan Sabatini
John and Virginia Gaunt
Leni and Neil Salkind
Sandra Gautt
John and Karry Salvino
Matt Gilhousen
Dru and Bill Sampson
Bobbie and Steve Gish
Carol and Sherry Schaub
Emily Hill and Burke Griggs
Sally Steuerwald
Erin and Justin Hamilton
Pam and Mike Sullivan
Tree and Chris Hanna
Sidney and Tod Sutton
Terri and Tom Harper
Deanell and John Tacha
Kelly and Tanja Harrison
Giles Thompson
Tracy Harrison and Vic Peterson
Jennifer and Dave Unekis
Leslie and Blake Hawley
Kevan and Gail Vick
John and Megan Hay
Dale and Jan Willey
Stacy Galloway Haywood and Derek Haywood
Kimberly and Tim Wingate Judy and Jack Wright
Sandra and Don Hazlett Barbara and Jon Heeb
INSPIRATION SOCIETY
Nancy Helmstadter
$5000—$9,999
Marcia and Stephen Hill
Joan and Web Golden
Barbara and Steven Hillmer
Gunda and Dave Hiebert
Heather and Matthew Hoy
Diane and Al Horning
Stephen Johnson
Marilyn and Brian Horsch
Betsy and Maurice Joy
Sheryl and Bud Jacobs
gallery installation by 2013/14 artist-in-residence John McCaughey
Molly and Robert Krause
Pew Charitable Trusts
Christine and Mike McGrew
Prairie Elf Tree Farm
Marna and Bob Moore
Slimmer Automotive
Gary Nemchock
Sunflower Rentals, Inc.
Sally and Lynn Piller
Evan Williams Catering
Sherri Soule and Tom Ruddy
Mainline Printing
Nicole and Dan Sabatini
Douglas County Community
Paula and Miles Schnaer
Foundation
Lori Norwood and Doug Stull
City of Lawrence
CREATIVE PLACEMAKERS
$10,000 and Up
Weaver’s
Kay, Tom, Tyler and Jeff Carmody
PERFORMANCE DONORS
Marilyn and Tom Dobski
715
Sarah Fayman
AesthetiCare
Ray Fleming
American Century Investments
The Thomas D. Galloway Family
Au Marche
Jan and Jack Gaumnitz
Fun & Games
Mary and Doug Glasnapp Family Charitable Fund of the Douglas County Community Foundation
Gaches, Braden, and Associates
Harrison Family Fund of the Doulgas County Community Foundation
Johnny’s Tavern
Anne and David Hollond Deborah and Rocco Landesman
Grandstand Sportswear Images Laugh Out Loud Love Garden Sounds Mass Street Sweet Shoppe
Ellen LeCompte
Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Barbara Nordling
Crown Automotive
Sally Hare-Schriner and Dan
INTRUST Bank
Schriner
P1 Group, Inc.
Elizabeth Schultz Susan and Brad Tate
TCK - The Trust Company of Kansas
Evan Williams and Roger Walter
Treanor Architects
SPONSORS GENERAL DONORS Architectural Titanium, LLC AT&T Foundation City Wine Market Cottin’s Hardware Dennis Brown Painting First Management The Granada – Mike Logan Graham Enterprises J&S Coffee Kennedy Glass Microsoft Corporation Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
A Certain Glow, cut paper by Angie Pickman
Yarn Barn
Peoples Bank
US Bank Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council Kansas Humanities Council Wilkerson, Saunders, Anderson, DDS Toyota Jim & Susan Hasselle Ty & Katie Porter Anne & David Hollond O’Connor Company, Inc., Piller Family Foundation EXHIBITIONS DONORS Balloon Arts Beimer’s BBQ Bittersweet Garden & Floral Boulevard Brewing Company
Checkers
EDUCATION DONORS
SCHOOL OF DANCE DONORS
Royal Crest Lanes
City Wine Market
Arizona Trading Company
Ann Dean Photography
US Bancorp
Gould Evans
Berry Plastics
Dr. John Hay, DDS
Vinland Valley Nursery
Invisible Hand Gallery
Biemer’s Barbecue
Sabatini Architects
York Children’s Foundation
Lawrence Paper Company
Bracker’s Good Earth Clay
Signs of Life
Mass Street Music
Dillon’s
Teresa Mulinazzi Kempf, CFP
FREE STATE FESTIVAL
Maceli’s
Enel Green Power North America
Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
105.9 KISS FM
Phoenix Gallery
Fuzzy’s Tacos
The Burger Stand
1320 KLWN
Dr. Dan Ranjbar
Hill’s Pet Nutrition
2014 Tour of Lawrence
Stephens Real Estate
Jimmy John’s
University of Kansas School of Dance
Allen Press
McAlister’s Deli
Auto-Owners Insurance
McDonald’s of Lawrence
Callahan Creek
Papa Kenos
CEK Insurance
The Raven Bookstore
Emprise Bank
Stoneback Appliance
Jim Otten Advanced Restorative Dental Studio, DDS
Sylas & Maddy’s
Truity Morgan Stanley Pix Ninja Studios Kansas Humanities Council Sunflower Rentals
Terracon TradeWInd Energy Westar Wal-Mart Wheatfield’s
PRESCHOOL DONORS Allen Press Creative Road Studio Great Harvest Bread Company Hallmark Cards Hy-Vee McDonald’s of Lawrence Munchers Pendleton’s Country Market Phoenix Gallery Prairie Band Potawatomie Nation Foundation Dr. Dan Ranjbar
90.1 KKFI 92.9 The Bull Abe and Jakes Landing Cider Gallery City of Lawrence Crown Automotive Downtown Lawrence Inc Free State Brewing Company Grandstand Ingredient Kansas Public Radio Laugh Out Loud Family Zone Lawrence Convention and Vistors Bureau Lawrence Hits
ART BEES In May, 2014 local beekeepr Jay Hermanoid set up the Arts Center’s art bee colony on the roof of the building. The hive was painted by students in the artsbased preschool.
Lawrence Journal World Lawrence Memorial Hospital Lawrence Public Library National Endowment for the Arts Pachamamas Prairie Fire Entertainmnet Show Pro Audio Silverback Enterprises Sprint The Eye Doctors The Granada The Olivia Collection The Toy Store Theater Lawrence University of Kansas WOW
Arts-based preschool students experiment with paint using salad spinners!
FOUNDATIONS Artplace America Douglas County Community Foundation Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council Ethel and Raymond Rice Roundation Kansas Humanities Council Lawrence Rotary Club National Endowment for the Arts O’Connor Company, Piller Foundation Prairie Band Potawatomie Nation Foundation Ross and Marianna Beach Foundation Shumaker Family Foundation Sprint Foundation US Bancorp Foundation William T Kemper Foundation York Children’s Foundation
Sug Easy leads a summer workshop in the School of Dance
FUNDING* $2,308,229
donations, foundations, and memberships (44%)
City of Lawrence (4%)
earned income (52%) (tickets, tuition, art sales)
EXPENSES* $2,221,489
scholarships and financial aid (5%)
visiting and resident artist program (4%)
exhibitions (16%)
performing arts (27%)
arts education (48%)
(includes preschool and dance)
* UNAUDITED FINANCIALS Audited financials available upon request
installation by Shin-hee Chin