Lawrence Arts Center 2021 Benefit Art Auction

LAWRENCE ARTS

CENTER

2021 BENEFIT

ART Auction

Featured Artist Michael McCaffrey

March 12 – April 10

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See all the artwork, and bid online! one.bidpal.net/artauction2021

All pieces are available for online bidding through April 10 at 9 pm.

All proceeds from the Lawrence Arts Center 2021 Benefit Art Auction fund the Lawrence Arts Center’s exhibitions program, which includes not only gallery exhibits, but also art talks, films, and more.

Free local deliveries.

Winning bidders will be contacted at the conclusion of the auction.

This year’s featured artist, Michael McCaffrey, has created several paintings specifically for this auction. In his process, McCaffrey has painted many known (and lesser known) places in and around Lawrence. McCaffrey’s works are among approximately 175

Galleries are open: Monday-Thursday 9am-9pm

pieces currently listed on our online auction site and open for viewing in our galleries.

Friday-Saturday 9am-7pm

The 2021 Benefit Art Auction will close with glitter and glam as

Sunday 1:30-7pm

Lawrence’s own Deja Brooks debuts as emcee at an exciting virtual event presented LIVE from our main stage at 7:30pm

MASKS REQUIRED

Saturday, April 10.

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Once again we invite you to dress yourselves up (or down!) and join us online for a good time in support of a great program.

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BEN AHLVERS

NORMAN AKERS

Mickey Mouse Grew Up a Cow

Navigate with Caution

Terracotta and Glaze, 31 x 20 x 14”, 2016

Polymer Relief Print, 22 x 16.2”, 2020

Ben Ahlvers began his role as Gallery Director at the Lawrence Arts Center in the fall of 2009. Prior to that Ahlvers served as Associate Education Director at the Arts Center. Ahlvers has curated exhibitions and coordinated symposiums that have been featured in international publications. He also is an active artist in his own right, exhibiting regularly around the country.

Ahlvers received his MFA from Ohio University in 2004, preceded by a BFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Norman Akers was born and raised in the southern Flint Hills of rural Oklahoma, and is a member of the Osage Nation. He holds degrees from the Kansas City Art Institute, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Akers has had solo exhibitions at the Lawrence Arts Center and across the Midwest. He has participated in group exhibitions of contemporary Native American art across the United States. His paintings and prints are in collections including the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Rockwell Museum, Heard Museum, Eiteljorg Museum, and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Akers is currently an Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting at the University of Kansas.

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KATIE ALLDRITT

KATIE ALLDRITT

Nude Cat in Fantasy Landscape

Sheep in Sheep’s Clothing

Mixed Media Collage, Acryla Gouache, and Fabric,

Watercolor and Gold Leaf, 15 x 12”, 2020

15 x 12”, 2020

Katie Alldritt, or “Miss Katie” as her students call her, is a multimedia artist with a specialty in watercolor painting. Alldritt grew up in Lawrence and went on to be an arts instructor at the YMCA of the Rockies for nearly a decade. Alldritt left Colorado for Door County, Wisconsin, for two summers where she served as Arts Camp Director at their local arts center. She returned to Lawrence in 2009 when her daughter Lucy was born. Alldritt has been teaching and inspiring young artists at the Lawrence Arts Center as Lead Youth Visual Arts Instructor for the past seven years. She is inspired by her students, cats, and her love of animals in general.

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DANIEL ANDERSON

SUE ASHLINE

Paul Bunyan Souvenir Bottle

Lockdown Still Life

Woodfired Stoneware and Electric Decal Firing,

Gouache, Acrylic, and Sumi Ink on Paper, 35 x 28”, 2021

10 x 5.5 x 5.5”, 2020

Sue Ashline has lived and worked in Lawrence for many years. She has a BFA in painting from the University of Kansas and studied at the Skowhegan School of Art and at the University of Iowa. She has exhibited widely. Her work is in the collection of the Spencer Museum of Art, the Emprise Bank collection, and in many private homes.

Dan Anderson is currently a full-time studio artist following 32 years of teaching ceramics (19702002) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He now holds the rank of Professor Emeritus. Anderson received his BS degree in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and his MFA degree in ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He is an NEA individual artist fellowship recipient and he has been awarded six artist fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council. An avid wood firing enthusiast, he has an Anagama wood kiln at his Old Poag Road Clay & Glass studio/home in rural Edwardsville, IL. Anderson was a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT in 1996.

Anderson was also an Artist Invites Artist (AIA) shortterm resident at Red Lodge Clay Center in 2010, 2012 and 2014 in Montana.

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RETTA BACKUS

TOM BARTEL & BRAD SCHWIEGER

Earthen Vase

Untitled Head

Cone Six Red Clay, 8 x 8 x 20”, 2020

Stoneware and Glaze, 10 x 10 x 8”, 2020

Tom Bartel is a ceramic sculptor who maintains a studio in Athens, Ohio, where he serves as Professor and Ceramics Chairperson at Ohio University. His works are constructed to refer to both the body and also charged, stylized surrogates for the body including dolls, toys, and figurines. Bartel has lectured, conducted workshops and exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad. His work is included in many public and private collections, and he has numerous publications.

Lauretta (Retta) Hendricks Backus’s home and studio is south of Lawrence. She is a regular in the Lawrence Arts Center’s ceramic studio. It is there that she discovered her love for building human figures out of clay. Backus is heavily influenced by artists and the creative environment in the ceramic studio and is excited about what she has yet to make.

tombartel.net Brad Schwieger has been teaching at Ohio University since 1990 and is presently a professor. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Utah State University in 1983 and his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1981. Schwieger has shown his ceramics internationally.

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KEN BINI

BILL BOWERMAN

Eine Kleines Nachtbild

Ceramic Curves No. 10

Oil on Canvas, 22 x 28 x 1”, 2020

Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 14”, 2012

Ken Bini is a Lawrence-based artist working in various painting media. Bini’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He is currently teaching painting and drawing at the Lawrence Arts Center.

Since the mid-1980s, Bill Bowerman has regularly done pen and ink drawings, with a focus on improvisation, composition and simplicity. Artists that inspire him include Matisse, Picasso, Klee, Magritte, Duchamp, Noguchi, and Dorothea Lange. Since 2001, he has been exploring a wide range of uses of scanography (i.e., photography using a flatbed scanner instead of a camera). His scanography works have recently been exhibited at the Cider Gallery, Theatre Lawrence, and the PH21 Gallery (Budapest, Hungary).

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ALAN G. BRUMMELL Harvest Bowl Stoneware, 12.5 x 3”, 2021

ELIZA BULLOCK Into the Forever Mixed Media, 20.5 x 20.5 x 2”, 2014

Eliza Bullock is an abstract artist based in Lawrence.

Her mixed media works on paper utilize techniques of monotype printmaking, painting, drawing, collage, and assemblage. Bullock received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in graphic design from Ohio University and began to study monotype printmaking while living in San Francisco and Italy. She currently splits her time working as a Marketing Strategist at the University of Kansas and in her fine art practice.

ALAN G. BRUMMELL Chip and Dip Set Porcelain, Plate 12 x 2” and Dip bowl 5 x 2.5”, 2021

Alan Brummell has a BA in Architecture and a BS in Art Education from Kansas State University and a MS in Visual Arts Education from the University of Kansas. He taught elementary art in the Lawrence Public Schools for 23 years. He studied ceramics under Angelo Garzio and Lee Davis. His professional career in pottery began in 1975. Brummell writes, “My pottery is to be used and enjoyed every day. Its purpose is to provide continued enrichment for those who use it.”

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TRACI BUNKERS

TRACI BUNKERS

Walk Strong Lucky 13

Put a Bird On It

Acrylic Paint, and Mixed Media on Stretched Canvas,

Acrylic Paint, and Mixed Media on Stretched Canvas,

12.75 x 12.75”, 2021

12.75 x 12.75”, 2021

Traci Bunkers, author of The Art Journal Workshop, Print & Stamp Lab, and Print It!, is a multi-medium artist who loves rusty things, glitter glue, old books to cut up, and cheap cameras. Since making her own books and art journaling have been a long time passion of hers, she always feels better after getting her art on by slapping some paint down and working in her journal. Through her one-woman business, Bonkers Handmade Originals, she sells her original artwork, hand-dyed spinning fibers and yarns, handmade books, and kits.

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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (1914-1997)

GRACE CARMODY

Untitled (Jigsaw)

Silver Sauce Ladle

Mixed Media on Paper, 14 x 20”, 1988

Sterling Sliver, 1 x 7”, 2015

William Seward Burroughs II was born in 1914 in St. Louis. Burroughs was an innovative writer and artist in many media. A primary figure of the Beat Generation, Burroughs went on to deeply influence a wide swathe of culture and thought with dozens of books and hundreds of paintings, essays, spoken word performances, and multi-media collaborations. In 1981, Burroughs moved his home to Lawrence where, from 1982 until his death in 1997, he prolifically created visual art. Burroughs’ work has since been featured in more than 50 international galleries and museums, including Pompidou Center, the Royal Academy, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Grace Carmody designs her jewelry using sterling, 14K gold accents and precious and semi precious stones.

Her designs are reminiscent of Mid Century Modern artists. She graduated from the University of Kansas with an MFA in metals.

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ELLEN CHINDAMO

SAM CHUNG

14K Gold Earring Jackets

Stoneware Cloud Mug

14K Gold, .5 x .5”, 2021

Stoneware, White Slip, Sgraffito, Celadon, and Gold Decal, 4.25 x 3.5 x 5”, 2020

Ellen Chindamo is a native Kansan from Lawrence.

She received her fine arts degree from the University of Kansas, majoring in metalsmithing. As former Director of Education at the Lawrence Arts Center, she remains avid about the arts. In keeping with her passion for philanthropy and giving back to the community, Chindamo works as the Director of Development for Bishop Seabury Academy and continues to design and create her jewelry for commissions, organizations, and individuals.

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SAM CHUNG

NICHOLE COLLINS

Stoneware Cloud Tumbler

Sterling Silver and Vermeil Earrings

Stoneware, White Slip, Sgraffito, Celadon, and Gold Decal,

Sterling Silver and Vermeil, 1.5 x .25”, 2021

6 x 3.5 x 3.5”, 2020

Nichole Collins is a metalsmith, jewelry designer, and artist. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Kansas and also studied at Lahti Polytechnic in Lahti, Finland. Collins hand fabricates her jewelry using influences from industrial design and abstract geometric form. The ancient metalsmithing techniques she uses include fusing, soldering, and forging. The line uses combinations of gold, sterling silver, and various gemstones to create unique and edgy compositions while maintaining an underlying sense of delicacy. Collins resides in Lawrence and is active in the artist community. She is a passionate gardener and world traveler.

Sam Chung is a ceramic artist and educator who creates pottery that reframes historical ceramics from a contemporary, cross-cultural perspective. As a second-generation Korean-American, he explores the metaphorical role of the vessel. His current work references traditional Korean cloud motifs and pottery shapes while juxtaposing past with present through his vivid, graphically painted imagery. He has exhibited his work internationally at Harvey Preston Gallery, Duane Reed Gallery, Gallery IMA, Ann Linnemann Gallery, ClayAKAR, Greenwich House Pottery, Sherry Leedy Contemporary and Lacoste Gallery. Chung’s work is included in the collections of The Crocker Art Museum, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Guldagergaard and San Angelo Museum. He lives and works in Tempe, Ariz., where he is currently Professor of Art at Arizona State University.

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LOUIS COPT

SUSAN CORNISH

Fires Near Elmdale

Courtesy of Lawrence Lithography

Jemez River

Oil on Canvas, 15 x 30 x 1.5”, 2020

Lithograph, 26 x 19.75”, 2005

In 2016, Louis was the featured artist in the Lawrence Arts Center’s Annual Benefit Art Auction. His one-person exhibition showcased a series of new works featuring contemporary paintings and cast glass sculptures of Kansas barns. Louis’ work has been featured three times in The Artist’s Magazine, and three times he has won its award for Top Finalist in the Landscape Division. He has also been featured in American Artist Magazine. His work has also been featured in the scholarly publication American Art Review. In 2011, he was named Kansas Governor’s Artist. His work is owned by private collectors nationally, and he has executed several regional, public commissions as well as having his work included in the Kansas State University’s Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. Louis has taught at the Arts Center for almost 30 years.

This print was created by artist Susan Cornish at Lawrence Lithography. Michael Sims established The Lawrence Lithography Workshop in 1979 as a contract printing and teaching facility for local and regional artists. Based in Lawrence, it provided a place where artists with little or no printmaking experience could collaborate with a master printer to produce original hand-pulled lithographs. Over time the workshop expanded its operation beyond contract printing, increasing its emphasis on printing and publishing national and regional artists. Today TLLW, now located in Kansas City, Mo., is one of the few privately owned, fine art publishing presses in the Midwest.

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LAURIE CULLING

DAN DAKOTAS

Layered Lights

Nature’s Delight

Mixed Media Collage (Hand-Made Paper, Canvas, Mylar,

Encaustic, Cyanotype Photogram, ECO and Watercolor

and Tissue), 20 x 24 x .75”, 1996

on Arches Paper, on Wood, 24 x 12 x 1”, 2021

Laurie Culling is a professional artist and an active visual artists’ advocate. Ranging in style from realistic to abstract, Culling works with acrylics on canvas, mixed media on gypsum, monotypes, hand-made paper collage and more. Her artwork is subtle, understated, whimsical, and pointedly to the essence. Her art has been exhibited internationally. She has received numerous awards including the 2002 Phoenix Award in Visual Arts. She earned a BFA in Painting and Drawing from KU. She is a 1982 co-founder of Phoenix Gallery and is a former co-president and former vice-president of the Lawrence Art Guild. Culling volunteered as an art exhibit coordinator for the Public Library for 20 years.

Dan Dakotas has shown his work internationally, receiving numerous awards for his photography and jewelry. Five photographs were included in the book “A Heartland Portrait.” Another photograph was included in the book “Alternative Photography”

by Christopher James. He taught high school for 36 years. Dakotas was adjunct faculty in several Kansas universities and the Kansas City Art Institute and currently teaches at the Lawrence Art Center and at the Lansing Correctional Facility. Additional awards include Kansas Governor’s Artist and the Rauschenberg Award for work with special needs students. He served on several National Endowment of the Arts grant review panels.

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JANET DAVIDSON-HUES

JENNIFER DAVIS

In the Beginning

Bird/Dog

Screen Print, 26 x 29 x 1.5”, 1985

Serigraph, 14 x 11”, 2016

Janet Davidson-Hues investigates and combines language and image in order to set up a tension between the verbal and the visual in her paintings and prints. She was born in Baltimore and is an MFA graduate from the University of Kansas and former Assistant Professor of Art at Indiana State University. She has exhibited her work nationally in 20 solo shows and 130 invitational and group shows.

Jennifer Davis is a Minneapolis-based artist known for her imaginative paintings of surreal creatures and whimsical characters. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at venues such as The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN); The DeVos Art Museum (Marquette, MI); Soo Visual Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN); Foster Museum (Eau Claire, WI); Bloomington Art Center (Bloomington, MN); and Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (Boone, NC), as well as several galleries in major cities across the United States. Davis is a recipient of the 2013 Next Step Fund Grant from the Minnesota Regional Arts Council/ McKnight Foundation. She holds a BFA from the University of Minnesota.

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ANN DEAN

GEOFF DEMAN

Havana by Number - 264

Everyone Sees What They Want to See

Photography on Metal, 12 x 18”, 2019

Mixed Media, 24 x 20 x 1.5”, 2019

Artist Ann Dean’s photographs capture a range of moments from straightforward beauty to surrealist flashes within everyday life. She writes, “I love photography because it gives me a chance to savor the fleeting moments in life that we all take for granted that give our lives meaning.” Although travel photography is her passion, Dean currently teaches photography at the Lawrence Arts Center and is a freelance photographer specializing in event, portrait, and commercial photography.

Geoff Deman is a professional brewer and an aspiring artist. When he is not at Free State Brewery, Deman works in mixed media utilizing a variety of materials.

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JOHN DOMINIS

JENNIFER DOORES

Media Headquarters. Woodstock Festival

Little Boy Ceramic, Clay, Glaze, and Acrylic, 11 x 6 x 10”, 2017

Photograph, 28.5 x 38”, 1969

Jennifer Doores holds an MA from the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. For 40 years, she designed for her own ceramics company. She came to Lawrence eight years ago and began making art for its own sake.

Doores teaches visual art at the Lawrence Arts Center.

Dominis was on staff at LIFE magazine from 1950 1972. Among his first assignments was to coverc the Korean War. He later witnessed the early years of the Vietnam War and the Indonesian revolution. In the sports arena, he covered five Olympic Games. For his travels with President Kennedy, he won the White House Photographers Award. In 1964, Dominis began photographing entertainers such as Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, and Robert Redford. Later, Dominis pursued a new avenue of photography as Picture Editor at People magazine and Sports Illustrated. His work appears in Life, Traveler, Smithsonian, The New Yorker, Time, Fortune, and Architectural Digest, among others.

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CLARE DOVETON

DAVID DUNFIELD

All is Waiting

Untitled

Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 x 2”, 2021

Woodfired Stoneware, 9.25 x 9.25”, 2012

Clare Doveton is a graduate of Parsons School of Art and Design in New York City. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Kansas Zen Center, and decades of meditation practice play a key role in her work. She completed permaculture design certification through Kansas Permaculture Collaborative as part of her continued interest and research of integrated systems and patterns in nature. Doveton was the Featured Artist for the Lawrence Arts Center Benefit Art Auction in 2015, and now also serves on their Board of Directors. Her work can be found internationally in private and corporate collections.

David Dunfield is a former Lawrence city commissioner, and has been a practicing architect. He holds a BA and Master of Architecture from the University of Kansas. Dunfield worked in ceramics for several years, participating in the wood firing classes in the Lawrence Arts Center and the University of Kansas ceramics partnership. He and his wife pat recently relocated to Boulder Colorado.

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GRYFFIN EASON

CHRIS WOLF EDMONDS

Ink Blot No. 2

Woodland Ornaments

Pen and Ink on Paper, 11 x 14”, 2021

Giclee Print on Aluminum, 40 x 40 x 1.5”, 2014

From the fungal metal work Gryffin Eason made studying sculpture at the University of Kansas, to the pen and ink mandalas they have been drawing since high school - emulating the intricate patterns of nature has always been a source of inspiration. Eason finds the detail work required for their art meditative, if time-consuming. Their pieces are drawn in flow-state and strive to allow viewers better access to their own subconscious. Eason has participated in a handful of group shows locally and is an administrator at the Lawrence Arts Center.

Chris Wolf Edmonds’ work has been exhibited widely in traveling exhibits, museums, and galleries from Germany to Japan, in the United States at New York’s American Craft Museum and Museum of American Folk Art, in Washington’s Renwick Gallery, in Lawrence at the Spencer Museum of Art and Lawrence Arts Center, and in Wichita at the inaugural exhibit for the new Mark Arts Center. She has been awarded the Kansans of Distinction Award for Visual Arts, the Lawrence Arts Commission Phoenix Award for Exceptional Artistic Achievement, and one of her pieces was recognized as one of the 100 Best American Quilts of the 20th Century.

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CONNIE EHRLICH

SABRINA EYRE

Spring

After the Show

Mosaic, 19 x 7 x 1”, 2018

Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil, and Ink on Paper, 5 x 7”, 2021

RECIPE Ingredients: Ordinary Object Glass Pieces Alex’s Plus Adhesive Imagination Grout Water Fun Directions: 1. Find ordinary object from thrift store or garage sale.

2. Glue glass pieces to object with specified adhesive.

3. Mix in a pinch of imagination and a sprinkle of fun.

4. Let dry 24 hours.

5. Grout to taste.

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Born on an Army Base and raised in small town Kansas, Sabrina Eyre is an emerging contemporary artist based in Lawrence. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emporia State University with minors in Physical Sciences and Art History, and now works in her studio at home. Eyre works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, woodworking, and handicrafts. She enjoys spending time with her family, building IKEA furniture, and learning all the words to every Weird Al song.

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BARRY FITZGERALD

BETSY FORCADE

Spring Snooze

Twilight Samadhi

Acrylic and Ink on Board, 12 x 15”, 2016

Pigment Print on Canvas in Maple Float Frame, 37 x 40 x 1.5”, 2021

Barry Fitzgerald is an illustration professor at KU. He has been in more than 100 juried and invitational exhibitions including shows in New York, Los Angeles, and London. He has received more than 140 national and international awards for his work, including four consecutive inclusions to 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide, a biennial juried book published by Luerzer’s Archive in Vienna, Austria.

Betsy Forcade studied advanced photographic techniques as an assistant in a commercial studio working for national and international clients for the past 30 years. She learned about lighting, camera angles, composition and technical aspects of photography. She is fascinated with the medium and continues to learn and experiment. Forcade prefers shooting in natural and wild locations. Rather than simply documenting what she sees, she works to create emotional expressions of nature. Her work can be seen at the Strecker Nelson West Gallery in Manhattan, Kan., and the Phoenix Gallery in Lawrence.

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TIM FORCADE

JOELLE FORD

Kaiju

Whimsy

Mixed Media, 52 x 38 x 3”, 2021

Collage, 32 x 40”, 2018-2020

Tim Forcade is a multimedia artist employing painting, theatrical/studio lighting, electronic systems, video and photography to create imagery inspired by light in all its forms. He has combined his education in drawing and painting (BFA 1970) with ongoing research and experiments with technology-based media. His work has been published, collected and exhibited nationally and internationally.

Joelle Ford’s work in mixed-media consists of the utilization of “found objects” and material donated by friends and family. “Whimsy” is composed of donated children’s book jackets. Ford cut the paper jackets into strips before arranging and attaching them to matte board resulting in a colorful work that creates a sense of movement.

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HERB FRIEDSON

MATTHEW WILLIE GARCIA

Byzantine Jewel

Super State No. 1

Enamel on Copper, 11 x 11”, 1953

Screen Print on Yupo, 23 x 33”, 2019

Herb Friedson is a graduate of the University of Kansas where he taught basic design, jewelry-silversmithing, and all levels of enameling. He has been a professional enamellist since 1953. His work has been included in more than 150 regional, national, and international exhibitions including those at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NY, Biennale Internationale, Limoge, France, Long Beach Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, and the Ohio Crafts Museum of Art.

Matthew Willie Garcia is a printmaker whose work moves far beyond the traditional print media.

Garcia specializes in what he calls 4D printmaking, which includes screen printing, projection-mapped animation, large-scale installation, and drawing. His work explores ideas of queer quantum mechanics, intersectional existence, and speculative/science fiction identity narratives through color abstraction and nonrepresentational forms. Garcia was born and raised in Tulare, Calif. He received a BFA in printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the University of Kansas. Garcia has shown his work throughout the Midwest, and recently his work was part of the Queer Abstraction group exhibition at the Nerman Contemporary Museum of Art. Garcia is currently teaching at Missouri Western State University, and is Print Studio Coordinator at the Lawrence Arts Center.

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JAN T. GAUMNITZ

ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER

Jazz

Y’all Come

Acrylic on Paper, 40 x 31”, 2009

Archival Ink Print, Artist’s Proof 1/1, 9 x 12”, 2020

Jan Gaumnitz is a longtime Lawrence artist, with a BS degree from the University of Wisconsin and an MFA from the University of Kansas. Gaumnitz works in multimedia and has exhibited internationally and in the Midwest and southwest. Metal sculptures “Red Dancer” at the Lawrence Arts Center and “Bloom” at the KU Lied Center, installed in September 2018, were created by Gaumnitz.

Archie Scott Gobber is a painter currently living and working in Kansas City. He is best known for eyecatching imagery that employs clever wordplay as a vehicle for commentary on social topics. Gobber has exhibited his work throughout the country, has been collected in numerous collections, and has received several awards for his art.

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KYLE GODDARD

SUSAN GRACE

Spillway

Blown Cover

Acrylic, 72 x 52”, 2021

Oil on Paper, 29.5 x 37”, 2017

Born in 1982, Kyle Goddard was raised in the Greater Jackson Area of Mississippi. At the age of 17, Goddard joined the Army Guard in which he served for nine years with one deployment in Afghanistan. Influenced by the early Modern artists and the New York Abstract Expressionists, Goddard became interested in the science of composition. After receiving his BFA from the University of Southern Mississippi, and MFA from the University of Kansas, he received a State Fellowship in Mississippi for his paintings in 2013, and was recently published in Studio Visit Magazine.

Susan Grace is an artist whose work has been widely exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States. She has received numerous awards for her work. Although she studied painting informally in Athens, Greece, her academic background is primarily in literature and theater. She has taught courses in modern American and European literature at universities in the US and Athens. Her study of literature continues to inspire and influence her work as does what she encounters in her travels and in her daily life.

For the last several years, she has resided in Lawrence, where she has her studio.

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LISA GROSSMAN

DIANE GUTHRIE

Overhead

Water Fall

Acrylic on Canvas, 48 x 60 x 1.5”, 2008

Photography, 20 x 30”, 2018

Lisa Grossman is a painter and printmaker whose work focuses on the prairies and river valleys of Eastern Kansas. Grossman has had thirty solo shows around the Midwest and on either coast and her work is included in numerous public, private, and museum collections.

She has degrees from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Penn., and the University of Kansas, and is represented

by Haw/Contemporary in Kansas City, Mo., Circa Gallery, in Minneapolis, Minn., and Strecker Nelson West, in Manhattan, Kan.

With more than 30 years of experience as a professional photographer, Diane Guthrie has published in numerous national and international publications, including the photography for Marla Jackson’s recent book “Narrative of the Souls: Quilted Portraits.” Other outlets featuring her photography include American Profile Magazine, Hallmark Cards, Natural Home and Garden, Grit, Herb Companion, Small Gardens, Flea Market Style, Romantic Homes, Romantic Country, Ponds USA, Mother Earth News, Cappers, Native People, Healthy Pet, Container Gardens, Native People, and Kansas!

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RICHARD GWIN

DENNIS HELM (1946-1992)

Camio & Che

Untitled

Photography, 30 x 20”, 1994

Woodblock Print, 24.5 x 20.5”, Year Unknown

Richard Gwin graduated from Pratt High School in 1968 and attended Pratt Junior College for two years.

His aspirations led him to transfer to the University of Kansas to study fine arts. He then set his sights on the photojournalism school. During his three semesters in the photojournalism program, Gwin received a parttime position at the Lawrence Journal-World. After two years, he became the head photographer, a position he held for the next few years. For the next forty years, he held the role of senior photographer, retiring in 2016. Gwin’s many hobbies and interests include drag racing, fishing, gardening, fearless cooking, and building his own home. When not focused on his many projects, he has enjoyed extensive travels to Jamaica, Nicaragua, Mexico, and, avidly, to Cuba.

Dennis Helm (1946-1992) was a vital part of the Lawrence and Kansas artistic community. His beautiful, visionary murals for the restored Lawrence opera house, now known as Liberty Hall, have been enjoyed by countless people who have attended and performed there. Helm received a Lockwood Scholarship to study in Western Europe in 1972 and a CETA grant in the 1970s. Helm was a beloved artist and friend in the Lawrence Community.

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STAN HERD

BLANCA HERRADA

Kamala Earthwork

Topo Chico

Serigraph Print Edition 68, 19.5 x 27”, 2020

Oil and Acrylic on Hand-Built Canvas, 18 x 24”, 2021

Stan Herd is a native Kansan known worldwide for his massive earthwork creations. Once a painter of large murals, Herd now creates ephemeral works of art with fields, farm equipment and plants. Since 1981 this selftaught artist has created field-sized “pictures” of such subjects as Kiowa Indian Chief Satanta, Will Rogers, a vase of sunflowers and many others. Herd’s work has been seen on: CBS Sunday Morning; Fox Television Breakfast Time; Dateline NBC; CNN News; Good Morning America ABC; and National Public Radio, and All Things Considered.

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Blanca Herrada is a native of Emporia. As a child, she spent much of her time reading, writing, exploring Peter Pan Park, and spending time with her family. At the age of 12 she traveled and lived overseas where she was inspired by the presence of art. While in high school, Herrada continued to pursue an artistic career with fervor and determination. Herrada earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emporia State University with an emphasis in painting and a minor in art history.

Her art is inspired by her life experiences, particularly her Mexican/Chicana heritage. She strives to visually express emotion, intimacy, and life experiences through her work. Herrada’s family and friends all play key roles in her artwork. Herrada currently resides in Lawrence, where she continues to create work out of her home studio.

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BRIAN HORSCH Steam Punk Kansas Buffalo Ceramics, 12 x 9 x 8”, 2021

STEVE HERTZOG Olympic National Forest Photographic Print, 12 x 18”, 2016

Steven Hertzog is a graduate of Emerson College and the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston with Fine Arts Degrees in both photography and film. Hertzog is one of the publishers and chief photographer for the Lawrence Business Magazine. Hertzog has more than 30 years of experience in editing, producing, photographing and directing all forms of audio/ visual media from documentaries, commercials and industrials to motion picture advertising campaigns.

BRIAN HORSCH Oval Wood Fired Vase Ceramics, 13 x 9 x 7”, 2020

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Brian J. Horsch has been creating hand-built and thrown ceramic sculpture since 2008. He tends to focus on human and animal forms both real and imagined.

He has a special affinity for farmers, ranchers, and indigenous Midwest critters. Many of his pieces are functional such as vases, mugs, jars, bowls, and cups.

Prior to his interest in clay, he was carving sculpture from various hard woods. The piece in this show fired in a soda wood kiln at a temperature exceeding 2400 degrees fahrenheit. Horsch lives close to nature near Stull.

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TOM HUANG

JOHN HULSEY

Untitled

Switching Tracks III

Clinton Lake Driftwood and Steel, 68 x 18.5 x 11”, 2018

Watercolor, 12 x 16”, 2017

Thomas Huang holds an MFA in furniture design from the Rhode Island School of Design, a BA in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis, and has studied with Bamboo Basketry Artist Jiro Yonezawa. In 2007 the American Craft Council named him a “searchlight artist,” an emerging artist to watch. His work has been exhibited nationally and has been included in exhibitions juried by Sam Maloof, Suzanne Baizerman, Jo Lauria, and Gail Brown. He recently held a solo exhibition at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. He is currently represented by the Wexler Gallery in Philadelphia, Shidoni Gallery in Santa Fe, and has been featured in American Craft Magazine. A practicing artist, furniture maker and educator, Huang has taught classes and workshops at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Penland School of Crafts, and at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. He teaches design full time at the University of Kansas where he is an associate professor.

John Hulsey is a nationally recognized artist and accomplished master painter in watercolor, oil, and pastel. For 10 years Hulsey worked in New York, where his paintings were featured on the cover of Time Magazine, and elsewhere. His work is included in numerous corporate and non-profit collections, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., and United States embassies. Hulsey’s art has often been featured in American Artist magazine, Watercolor magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur magazine, and International Artist magazine. He has been awarded residencies by the National Parks Services at Glacier National Park, Yosemite National Park, and Rocky Mountain National Park.

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STEPHEN T. JOHNSON

STEPHEN T. JOHNSON

Palace

The Letter F

Oil, Acrylic, Ink, and Collage on Paper, 9.75 x 13”, 2021

CMYK Print, 11 x 15”, 2014

Stephen Johnson is a nationally decorated artist, illustrator and author of popular children’s books that have been recognized with a Caldecott Honor, two New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year Awards, and Gold and Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators in New York City. His original artwork has been exhibited in museum and galleries across the country and are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., the New Britain Museum of Art in Connecticut, and the Spencer Museum of Art here Lawrence. His public art can be found here in Lawrence, at the Lenexa City Center Public Library, Love Field Airport in Dallas, and subway stations in downtown Brooklyn, New York and in North Hollywood, Calif.

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HEATHER SMITH JONES

MARY ANNE JORDAN

10.16.15

Diamond Shards

Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil, and Colored Pencil on Paper,

Textile: Cotton, Linen, Thread, 26 x 25.5”, 2019

12.25 x 13.25”, 2015

Mary Anne Jordan is an artist quilt-maker and professor in the textiles and fibers program at the University of Kansas’ Department of Visual Art. She has exhibited artwork across the United States and internationally in Japan, Korea, Poland, South America, France, and Canada. In her teaching, Jordan specializes in printed and dyed textiles, quilting, and textile design. She received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and BFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Heather Smith Jones is a mixed media artist practicing in painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking.

She was an instructor at the Lawrence Arts Center in the arts-based preschool from 2004 to 2018 and is author of Water Paper Paint, Exploring Creativity with Watercolor and Mixed Media. Smith Jones’s original work is represented regionally by Strecker Nelson West Gallery and is part of many private and public collections internationally. She moved to Lawrence in 1998 and earned an MFA from the University of Kansas in 2001. Smith Jones has lived in East Lawrence since 1999 where she resides with her husband, daughter, and three cats.

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LORA JOST

LESLIE KAY

Cat

Banana Tree

Pen on Paper, 10 x 8”, 2020

Screen Print, 13 x 16 x 1”, 2018

Lora Jost is a Lawrence-based studio artist who has lived and worked in the community for 23 years. She also enjoys illustrating and she teaches Imaginative Drawing and other drawing classes for adult beginners at the Lawrence Arts Center. Her playful drawings reference birds, storms, climate change, and other urgent concerns. Her drawings and mosaics depict the magical, whimsical, and alarming world we live in.

Leslie Kay is an artist and printmaker and lifelong Kansan. She earned a BFA in printmaking at the University of Kansas, and she continues to develop her aesthetic, craft, and roots in the community. Kay operates LFK Press, a print and design studio in East Lawrence, specializing in hand-printed fine art, band merchandise, and her original line of products.

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ALICIA KELLY

CARLY KIMBROUGH

Scratching the Surface

Ring on the Rocks

Cut, Sculpted Paper, 24 x 32 x .5”, 2020

Sterling Silver, Rutile Quartz, and White Sapphire, 1.5 x .5 x 1”, 2020

Alicia Kelly was born and raised among the red dirt and wildflowers of Northeastern Oklahoma. Her love of the paper medium developed alongside her love of pattern making and serigraphy. With evolving plans of each cut and fold, her papercut works become a collaboration of focus and meditation. Kelly has been an active member of The Paper Artist Collective since 2017. Kelly has exhibited internationally; her most recent exhibitions include: OpenBox, Porto, Portugal (2017) and Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer, Alaska (2019).

Growing up in a small Kansas town, Carly Kimbrough admired her grandmother’s collection of fine jewelry.

Kimbrough received one piece every Christmas, and she treasures them as connections to family and tradition. Kimbrough’s passion for jewelry drove her to pursue a design degree from KU and develop her distinctive style at such companies as Melissa Joy Manning in Berkeley, Calif. Kimbrough uses traditional metalsmithing techniques to create handmade jewelry that will last for generations. She puts a modern twist on the clean, romantic elegance of Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles. Kimbrough resides in Kansas City and teaches art.

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BAILEY KIVETT

MICHAEL KRUEGER

Tree Necklace

Rain

Sterling Silver, 1 x 1”, 2014

Acrylic on Linen, 26.75 x 13.75”, 2021

Bailey Kivett grew up making jewelry. She would gather up baby-sitting funds and spend every penny at the local Michael’s. She was the queen of friendship bracelets, shrinky dinks, and anything she could find to bead. At the University of Kansas, she dabbled in a variety of subjects and mediums before she landed in a beginning jewelry class. With a saw or torch in hand, she was at home. Kivett continues to create jewelry with an emphasis on spreading a positive message.

She is also a full-time high school art teacher and shares her craft with children and adult students at the Lawrence Arts Center. She has a creative home with three amazing children.

Grounded firmly in drawing, Michael Krueger works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, animation, and ceramics. Krueger’s artwork reflects a deep interest in American history, contemporary American culture, art history, the human experience, and personal memoir. Recent solo exhibitions include The Elizabeth Foundation, New York, N.Y., Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, Mass., Sunday L.E.S., New York, N.Y., Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, Mo., and the Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kan. Important group exhibitions include The Drawing Center, New York, N.Y. The Denver Museum of Art, Denver, Colo., Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and Adam Baumgold, New York, N.Y. Michael Krueger is a professor at the University of Kansas, a Love Librarian, an Honorary Resident Dropper, and a Tamarind Artist.

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JOHN KUHN

MARGIE KUHN

Day Lilies

Deadly Sin #57: Cookie Jar Too Small

Acrylic on Canvas, 30 x 42 x 1”, 2020

Ink, Pencil, and Gouache on Sized Paper, 15 x 22”, 2017

After growing up in Hutchinson, John Kuhn moved to Lawrence where he attended the University of Kansas.

He worked as a graphic designer for Centron Films before becoming a full-time studio artist in 1982. He has exhibited his paintings in galleries nationwide. His work is in numerous corporate and private collections in the U.S. and Europe.

A Kansas native, Margie Kuhn is a visual artist focusing on contemporary culture as a reflection and variation of historical values and ideals. She has exhibited her drawings and paintings across the country, including The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Mulvane Art Museum, Springfield Art Museum, The National Academy of Design, as well as group gallery shows in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Texas, and Illinois. Her work has been featured in Art Journeys American, Watercolor Artist Magazine, and numerous other books and journals. She has graduate degrees in both painting and art museum education, and taught at several institutions of higher education, including the University of Kansas.

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KRIS KUKSI

ELIZABETH GRANDMA LAYTON

Flying Dragoon

(1909-1993)

Now I Can Read!

Mixed Media Assemblage, 8.5 x 5 x 3”, 2021

Lithograph, 42 x 32”, 1992

In personal reflection, Kris Kuksi feels that in the world today much of mankind is oftentimes frivolous and fragile, being driven primarily by greed and materialism. He hopes that his art exposes the fallacies of man, unveiling a new level of awareness to the viewer. His work has received several awards and prizes and has been featured in more than 100 exhibitions in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Kuksi’s art can also be seen in a number of international art magazines, book covers, and theatrical posters. Kuksi’s art is featured in both public and private collections in the United States, Europe, and Australia.

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ELIZABETH GRANDMA LAYTON

JIM LEEDY Woodfired Cup

(1909-1993)

I Am Loved

Woodfired Stoneware, 8 x 8 x 7”, Circa 1995

Giclee Print, 12.5 x 11.5”, 1977

Jim Leedy is a pioneer of postwar American art, the first to bring the gospel of abstract expressionism to American Ceramics. Leedy constantly crosses the boundaries of materials, genres, subject matter, and themes. He is also considered the “Grandfather of the Kansas City Crossroads Art District.” His work has been exhibited extensively at locations including the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York; the Oakland Museum of Art; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His work is held in the collections of the Kansas City Art Institute, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Minnesota Museum of Art in St. Paul, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.

Elizabeth Layton, a native of Wellsville, Kansas began drawing in 1977 at the age of 68 when she took a drawing class at a local university. In class she learned to use the technique of “blind” contour drawing, in which the artist looks at the paper only for points of reference, concentrating on the subject reflected in the mirror rather than the line being drawn on the paper. Every day, Layton worked at creating selfportraits that reflect her response to contemporary social issues. That fall, a local newspaper reporter, Don Lambert, was searching for an interesting subject for an article and stumbled upon the class display at the college. Upon discovering the drawings of this “old woman from small-town America,” Lambert became her biggest fan – and promoter - and to this day continues to tirelessly promote her drawings and her story.

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JUDITH G. LEVY

MATTHEW LORD

The Artist and the Muse # 8

Awesome Opossum

Flashe, Gouache, and Acrylic on Paper, 18 x 21”, 2005

Gouache, 8 x 10”, 2021

Judith G. Levy is a multidisciplinary artist who has had solo exhibitions in Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Chicago, Kansas City, and Lawrence. She has participated in national and regional group shows and film festivals throughout the United States, and was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Rocket Grant and an Art in the Grove project at The Spencer Museum of Art. She is currently participating in a three-year artist residency program at Studios Inc., in Kansas City.

Matthew Lord was born in Marysville in 1975. Early on he learned the value of his art by trading drawings of jet fighters for better food at lunch. In 1999 Matthew graduated with a BFA in illustration at KU. Lord has accomplished many career milestones, including solo and group exhibitions, editorial illustrations, lectures, and workshops. He has taken on the roles of teacher, facilitator, mentor, curator, and storyteller. Lord celebrates his creative community through collaborations that have encompassed art installations, themed drawing events, and an artist-run non-profit creative space. Lord’s artwork tilts toward the absurd and incorporates elements of fantastic realism. With his preferred mediums of gouache, ink, and printmaking, he tells a well-constructed story. Lord draws inspiration from curiosity for the natural world and a love of mythology. Lord lives and makes artwork in Lawrence. His fingers are often covered in ink.

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JUSTIN MARABLE

LIZA MACKINNON

Reversion of Petro Power

Kansas Childhood

Screen Print, 21 x 26”, 2014

KS Maps, Rickrack, and Gouache, 18 x 18”, 2021

Throughout his life, Justin has learned and wandered within and outside his Midwestern homeland, observing social and physical landscapes. He finds inspiration in asking cosmic questions and searching for the solutions. Through seeking and exploring, discovery emerges bringing forth infinite possibilities in imagination. As a dreamer with realist tendencies, he relates personal experience to utopian ideals to tell stories in the universal language of visual art. Artistic activism drives much of his work as well as influences from childhood, science, and nature. His work is included in various private and public collections nationwide and has appeared in local, regional, and national publications. He lives a full and creative life in Lawrence, Kansas with his three daughters.

Liza MacKinnon of MacKomics Studio is a Lawrence artist and arts educator working in a variety of mediums, including sculpture, textiles, mixed media, painting, and handmade books. MacKinnon currently specializes in pieces featuring historic costume, social issues, and repurposed materials.

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ANITA MARKLEY

EMILY MARKOULATOS

Elevation

Canna II

Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas, 20 x 16 x 1.5”, 2017

Acrylic on Wood-Burned Panel, 24 x 12”, 2015

Anita Markley is a native of California where she received her BA at University of Redlands. She earned her MFA in printmaking at Fort Hays State University.

She taught art in the public schools in Kansas for many years and now concentrates on her artwork and volunteering as a docent at the Spencer Museum of Art. Her work reflects her interest in the art and architecture and the complexity of the places she visits in her travels. Using photos taken and materials gathered along the way, as well as acrylic paints, she develops mixed media images which reflect that complexity and create a sense of place.

Lawrence artist Emily Markoulatos’ artworks are inspired by the Kansas landscape and its people. She works primarily with acrylic paint, creating both abstract and representational paintings. Markoulatos teaches 3D art at Ottawa High school as well as jewelry classes at the Lawrence arts center. Markoulatos also works with include metals and ceramics.

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HELEN MARTIN

MARIA MARTIN

Party Platter

Winter Visitors Through Memories Window

Ceramic, 12 x 12 x 3”, 2021

Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas, 36 x 24 x 1.5”, 2021

Helen Martin is a longtime Lawrence studio potter who enjoys making pottery for everyday use and gifts. She primarily throws with a white stoneware that is fired in a gas kiln. She is well known for decorating her pieces by impressing Kansas wheat into damp clay, and for producing abstract designs using colored clays.

Born in Philadelphia, Maria S. Martin has called Lawrence home since 1984. Working as an abstract artist, she studied art in Philadelphia and then at the University of Kansas, and continues to take art studio classes and technique workshops. She works in acrylic and oil paints as well as collage adding a mix of her sketches, small paintings, photographs and found objects. Texture and surface treatment are important aspects of her work. Martin is active in the Lawrence Art Guild, having served as vice president, and now president of the guild. Martin works from her shared studio gallery, Creative Mass, in Lawrence.

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THERESA MARTIN

ALDEN MASON

At Brushy Run

Courtesy of Lawrence Lithography

Strange Bird

Linocut, 12 x 7.5”, 2017

Lithograph, 25.5 x 19.75”, 1994

Theresa Martin studied printmaking with John Talleur at the University of Kansas in the 1980s, between earning a useless BA in philosophy at Harvard and an equally useless MA in creative writing at Temple. After a 25year art-hiatus during which she became a high school English teacher, raised a family, and only made art at the kitchen table, Martin took up printmaking again after being exposed to Mexican relief prints. She mostly works in linoleum. She has exhibited in national juried shows, including the International Print Center of New York’s New Prints and the Boston Printmakers’ North American Print Biennial.

Mason received his MFA from the University of Washington in 1947. He was a professor of art at the University of Washington until his retirement in 1981, and then painted full-time until his death in 2013. Mason was fascinated by the natural world from childhood, particularly with insects, fish and birds. He was an avid angler and bird-watcher, which is reflected in the subject matter of his prints. Primarily a painter, his prints also reflect the “squeeze-bottle” painting technique that he developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The childlike, playful style of his abstracted figures reveals the influence of the works of modern masters Arshile Gorky, Jean Dubuffet, and Joan Miro.

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MICHAEL MCCAFFREY 2021 Benefit Art Auction Featured Artist For the past several years, Michael McCaffrey, has been creating paintings and drawings of his home in Lawrence, capturing many known (and lesser known) places in and around town. In his painting process, McCaffery oscillates between recording accurate visual information and invented abstract forms. Through this process, a woven tapestry that captures a deeper, holistic view of his subject emerges.

McCaffery received a BFA from the University of Kansas in 2006 before earning an MFA in painting from Indiana University. In the winter of 2016, McCaffery was awarded a two-week residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. McCaffery exhibits nationally, most recently at Prince Street Gallery and First Street Gallery in New York, Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, K Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi, Texas, and the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. In 2016, McCaffery’s work was published in Manifest Gallery’s International Painting Annual 5, and in 2015 he received an international grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. From 2014 to 2017, McCaffery was artist in residence at Hashinger Hall at the University of Kansas. Currently, he is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas where he teaches painting, drawing and life drawing.

Watkins Museum Oil on Panel, 10 x 8 x 1”, 2020

Watson Library II

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Moving Cloud Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 x 1”, 2020

Clouds, at Clinton (Summer Day) Oil on Panel, 5 x 5 x 1”, 2020

Pink House w/Watson Oil on Panel, 10 x 8 x 1”, 2020

In the Woods, In the Winter Oil on Panel, 14 x 11 x 1”, 2021

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Granada Oil on Canvas, 22 x 50 x 2”, 2021

Watson Library Oil on Panel, 10 x 8 x 1”, 2020

Looking North Oil on Canvas, 30 x 24 x 2”, 2021

Memorial Stadium Oil on Panel, 8 x 8 x 1”, 2020

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17th and Indiana

Weaver’s

Oil on Panel, 10 x 8 x 1”, 2018

Oil on Panel, 10 x 8 x 1”, 2020

Lawrence, towards Downtown, Summer Grain Silo, from Campus

Oil on Panel, 12 x 24 x 1”, 2020

Oil on Panel, 10 x 20 x 1”, 2021

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Walk in the Woods Oil on Panel, 12 x 24 x 1”, 2021

Windy, Grain Silo Oil on Panel, 10 x 8 x 1”, 2017

From Well’s Overlook Oil on Panel, 6 x 6 x 1”, 2019

Marina, at Clinton (Rainy Day) Oil on Panel, 5 x 7 x 1”, 2020

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White House in my Neighborhood Oil on Panel, 10 x 8 x 1”, 2020

Fancy Blue Car on Campus Oil on Panel, 12 x 12 x 1”, 2021

17th and Kentucky

18th and Alabama

Oil on Panel, 5 x 5 x 1”, 2020

Oil on Panel, 10 x 8 x 1”, 2018

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Lawrence, towards Downtown Oil on Panel, 12 x 24 x 1”, 2020

Somewhere Near Home Oil on Panel, 10 x 8 x 1”, 2019

Van Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 x 1”, 2020

17th and Alabama Oil on Panel, 8 x 8 x 1”, 2020

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ADAM MEISTRELL

ROBERT MCNOWN

Lantern Vase

Five Take Five

Cone Six Clay, Terra Sigillata, Underglaze, and Glaze,

Acrylic on Canvas and Panel, 32 x 48”, 2020

8 x 6 x 6”, 2021

Robert McNown was born Iowa City, Iowa, in 1944.

He earned an MFA in painting from University of Washington in 1972 and has shown in Seattle at various galleries for more than 40 years, the last 20 mainly at Francine Seders Gallery. McNown retired from his day job in 2014 and relocated to Lawrence, where he has had three shows at Cider Gallery. As of 2019 he is represented by the gallery Frederick Holmes & Co. in Seattle, Wash.

Adam Meistrell was born and raised in Naples, Fla. His first memories are of making art and traveling. After graduating from Penn State, he spent a few years seeking out adventure: driving to Alaska, jumping off cliffs in Italy, and surfing in Costa Rica. Meistrell’s work experience has been as varied as his travels. He has extensive teaching experience in K-12 art, along with adult and community education. Meistrell earned his MFA from Louisiana State University in 2017 then moved to Lawrence where he serves as the Lawrence Arts Center’s Studio Manager of Visual Arts. Meistrell and his wife, Monica, maintain their art making practice through Trek and Tern Studios

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TRAVIS MILLARD

RICK MITCHELL

Happy Ghost

Cabin Door

Plastic, Paint, and Varnish - Hand Rotocast Edition of 50,

Archival Color Photograph, 33 x 44 x 2”, 2015

6.5 x 4.5 x 4.5”, 2011

A graduate of the University of Kansas and Rutgers University, Rick Mitchell taught photography at Rutgers for two decades, specializing in photographic conservation as a member of the Photographic Materials Group of the American Institute of Conservation. In Lawrence, he was director of the Exhibition Program at the Lawrence Arts Center, an adjunct professor of photographic history at Baker University, and taught photojournalism in the William Allen White School of Journalism, as well as drawing and painting in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas. He is currently president of The Committee on Imagination and Place, a non-profit educational organization.

Travis Millard is an American artist, musician and founder of Fudge Factory Comics. His work spans more than 20 years of self-published zines, gallery exhibitions and notable commercial projects. Illustrations have appeared in Playboy, Hollywood Reporter, Mad Magazine, Wired, and many more. Millard’s work has also been featured on record covers for Dinosaur Jr, Kurt Vile, Aesop Rock, The Get Up Kids, and others.

Recently, Millard produced and art directed the indie video game “Freedom Finger” now out now on Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and Steam.

Instagram: @theotherfudge

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KRISTIN MORLAND

JEROMY MORRIS

Mother Earth

Above and Beyond III

Sequins, Beads, and Acrylic, 30 x 30”, 2020

Spray Paint, Toner, Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Panel, 81 x 36 x 2”, 2021

Kristin Morland is a visual artist who works primarily with light that takes form with hand sewn sequins and beads. For the past 20 years, Morland has been sewing sequins as her preferred medium. The main impetus for her work is reflecting observations and putting them into form. The process of creating her sequin works are a quiet rhythmic light meditation on the is-ness of life.

Subject matter is based upon fleeting moments like driving past a field of wheat or snorkeling in the coral reefs of the Caribbean; joyful emotions and the play of light all join together in the creative process. Observing a moment in the ever-changing light, M ​ orland seeks to communicate our world most fully through the tools of her education, curiosity, and exploration.

Jeromy Morris was born in Denver, Colo., and now lives and produces in Lawrence. Morris has a bachelor’s degree in visual communications and graphic design from the University of Kansas. He is a founding member of Fresh Produce Art Collective, Cider Gallery Curator, and Owner of SeedCo Studios. His work is in numerous private and corporate collections. Morris is constantly finding new techniques to express his creativity through multiple mediums. He fuses together process to “build moods” on wood panel. Inspired by chaos and the mundane, he seeks out subtleties and embraces the accidental. Morris’ work deals with interactions and happenings relating to consumerism and advertising, urban ruins and type decay, nature vs. industry, and the equilibrium and fusion thereof.

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MARGARET MORRIS

MOLLY MURPHY

Slow Burn

The Island

Acrylic on Masonite, 22.5 x 18.5”, 2018

Oil on Canvas, 17 x 32 x 3”, 2020

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MOLLY MURPHY

YOONMI NAM

Garden

Book of Bamboo

Oil on Canvas, 14 x 18 x 3”, 2021

Mokuhanga (Water-Based Woodblock Print), 8.5 x 12”, 2020

Molly Murphy is a Lawrence-based painter creating works inspired by systems and relationships in the natural world. Murphy has taught and served on the Board of Directors at Lawrence Arts Center.

She recently attended a residency with her young daughter in Selangor, Malaysia which influences much of her current work.

Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Yoonmi Nam earned a BFA from Hong-Ik University in Seoul and an MFA from The Rhode Island School of Design. She has received numerous grants and awards to support her studio practice and travel. Her work is in the collections of the RISD Museum, Spencer Museum of Art, and the Beach Museum of Art, among others, and has shown her work in more than 20 solo exhibitions and 180 group exhibitions both internationally. Currently, she teaches at the University of Kansas, where she has been a faculty member since 2001.

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JASON NEEDHAM

ED NOONEN

The Doctor’s House

Hearts and Heads II

Screen Print on Paper, 18 x 23 x .75”, 2004

Porcelain, 13 x 10”, 2020

Jason Needham lives in Kansas City, Kan., with his wife and daughter. Born in Dixon, Ill., in 1971, Needham has also lived in Lawrence, Minneapolis, Minn., Key West, Fla., and Denver and Fort Collins, Colo. Graduating from the University of Kansas with a BFA in painting in 1997, Needham has had artwork exhibited at the Kansas City Artist Coalition (KC, MO), Zip 37 (Denver, CO), The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities (Arvada, CO), and The Late Show (KC, MO), among others. Reviews of his work have appeared in the Kansas City Star, Huffington Post, Westword, and the now defunct Rocky Mountain News.

Edward Noonen is a Lawrence-based ceramic artist creating works in porcelain and stoneware. Noonen earned a BFA from the University of Kansas in 1985. He has concentrated mainly on wheel-thrown objects throughout his artistic career. Formerly a professional firefighter and death investigator, Noonen pieces together universal images on his pottery to enhance the user’s experience with it. His work represents the shared journey of everyone and is a reminder of the inevitable. Its purpose, he hopes, is to nudge the viewer to find peace and enjoy the ride.

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ALEX OLSON

MARTY OLSON

Puffy Blue and Velvet Orange

Home

Reduction Prints, 16 x 21”, 2021

Acrylic on Canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021

Alex Olson is a Topeka native, but forever Lawrencian.

She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washburn University in 2014. She specializes in printmaking, specifically reduction work and letterpress. Currently, she works as the Development Coordinator at the Lawrence Arts Center. She is also a ballet dancer and occasionally participates in productions at the Arts Center. In her free time she loves to cook, garden, read and spend time at home with her family.

Marty Olson is a lifelong resident of Lawrence. His artwork is in private collections around the country and locally. His ceaseless drive to create has led to his receiving the Phoenix Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement in 2015.

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JAVY ORTIZ

MIKE OTT (1945-1996)

CLR-BLoK

Tie Rack

Acrylic, Spray, Gold Leaf, and Epoxy Resin on Wood Panel,

Watercolor, 34 x 29”, 1985

26 x 15.25 x 2.5”, 2021

Michael (Mike) Ott was a Professor of Art at the University of Kansas for 26 years, arriving in Lawrence at the age of 24 in 1969. He came to the Midwest after earning a BFA at the University of Colorado in 1967 and an MA in painting at the University of California at Berkeley in 1969. Ott’s watercolors have been widely exhibited. Since 1985, he had participated in 31 juried exhibitions, 15 invitational exhibitions, 15 solo and small group exhibitions, and four traveling exhibitions. His work is included in more than 40 corporate and private collections, ranging from the crown prince of Brunei Darussalam to the Hallmark Art Collection in Kansas City, Mo. In 1986, Ott received the Governor’s Artist Award by the Kansas Arts commission. Ott served on the Lawrence Arts Center board from 1985 to 1996 and on the board of Los Angeles’ Visual Humor Project from 1989 to 1992. Ott was an active and inspired artist and teacher until his untimely death in 1996.

Javy Ortiz is a multidisciplinary artist born in Cd. Juarez, Mexico, and currently lives and works in Lawrence.

Ortiz is self-taught and gathers inspiration from personal experiences, pop culture, and contemporary social issues. He creates prolifically to evoke his own mood and personality through his art while engaging the viewer through vibrant colors and mixed media.

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DONNA PAUL

GRACE PETERSON

After the Harvest, Queens Road

Fatty Boom Boom

Oil on Panel, 11 x 14 x 2”, 2020

Ceramic, 6 x 6 x 3”, 2014

Donna Paul paints impressionistic landscapes in oil and pastels. She is intrigued with the local landscape of Kansas and especially her hometown of Lawrence.

Paul’s art is about capturing a sense of place and trying to look for the beautiful in the ordinary.

Grace Peterson is an active artist creating work in a wide variety of mediums. She earned her BFA from the University of Kansas, and her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the country. She currently lives in Salina where she serves as the Visual Arts Coordinator for Salina Arts and Humanities and Visual Arts Director for the Smoky Hill River Festival.

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ANGIE PICKMAN

ANGIE PICKMAN

Tall Thistle

Nothing Could Hold Us Back

Hand-Cut Paper Collage, 5 x 7”, 2014

Hand-Cut Paper Collage, 22 x 18 x 2”, 2020

Angie Pickman is a nationally recognized cut paper artist who combines the art of traditional paper cutting with collage to create intricately detailed works of art and animations. Her work is heavily inspired by her love of nature and the tranquility of the terrain of rural Kansas. She has been featured in Martha Stewart Living and Midwest Living magazines, and her animation work premiered on PBS in 2016 in the documentary Daughters of the Forest. She has won numerous awards for her work, including an Independent Music Award for album art. Her first children’s book, Merry Menagerie: Animal Antics from A to Z, was published

by Ascend Books in 2018.

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WAYNE PROPST

WAYNE PROPST

WAYNE PROPST

WAYNE PROPST

WAYNE PROPST

Spoon Vs. Fork

Garden City Clip Hanger

Repaired Spoon

Dead Kennedy #1

LFK Necklace

Mixed Media, 9 x 8 x 2”, 2020

Mixed Media,

Mixed Media,

Mixed Media,

4 x 2 x 3”, 2018

2 x 7 x 2”, 2020

4 x 2 x 2”, 2018

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WAYNE PROPST

WAYNE PROPST

WAYNE PROPST

Dead Kennedy #2

Tooth Wand

Level Teaspoon

Mixed Media,

Mixed Media,

Mixed Media,

9 x 2 x 2”, 2018

6 x 8 x 1”, 2021

WAYNE PROPST Sledge Hammer #137 Mixed Media on Canvas, 40 x 48”, 2021

4 x 2 x 2”, 2018

Wayne Propst is a recipient of a grant from Folsom Prison where he served time for stealing mugs and tie clips from the gift shop of the Spencer Museum. He has exhibited in group shows at White Castle and the Lawrence Arts Center, though not at the same time. He currently spends his time in his dining room missing Berlin.

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RACHEL RADEMACHER

LAURA RAMBERG

Landscape Plate

Baby Rhino Meets Global Warming

Fused and Slumped Glass, 10 x 10”, 2012

Ceramic with Glass Mosaic, 16.5 x 11 x 13”, 2020

Each Rachel Rademacher piece begins with an inspiration: a glimpse of sunrise through the trees, a vivid sunlit field of wildflowers, or an antique quilt.

Rademacher’s work with glass has trained her eye to be alert for the bright colors hidden in the world around us. A single color may start her on the quest to represent the image seen from the various colors and textures of glass available. Spread out around her on the work table in her studio, the pieces take on the look of a puzzle in process. Each piece is cut and ground to fit into its slot in the composition. Finally, the various pieces fall into place and the puzzle is complete.

Laura Ramberg is a longtime local artist. Her work can be found in homes, businesses, churches, and schools throughout the region. She has worked as a stone carver on several restoration projects in Kansas including the Douglas County Courthouse and the State Capitol in Topeka. She has recently completed work with her brother Karl, carving eight historic grotesques for the Natural History Museum on the University of Kansas Lawrence campus.

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HOLLIE RICE

JEREMY ROCKWELL

Cocktail Glass Trio

Debris I

Wood Salt Fired Ceramic, 4 x 3 x 3”, 2020

Mixed Media on Sewn Canvas, 16.25 x 16.25 x 3.5”, 2020

Hollie Rice is a ceramic artist and educator living and working in Shawnee. She has been teaching at the Lawrence Arts Center for nearly 20 years. She loves to share her passion for ceramics by teaching others about clay. Rice makes both functional and sculptural work, and firing wood kilns is one of her favorite pastimes.

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JEREMY ROCKWELL

JEREMY ROCKWELL

Bird

Il Capte Rien/5

Mixed Media, 7.5 x 7.5”, 2014

Mixed Media, 36 x 26 x 3”, 2019

Born in Santa Maria, Calif., Jeremy Rockwell is an artist who explores painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and design. In addition to his work at the Lawrence Arts Center, Rockwell also manages and is a founding member of SeedCo Studios, an open concept artist studio and a gallery housing more than 20 artists and musicians in the Warehouse Arts District.

He is represented by Kim Weinberger Fine Art in Kansas City, Mo. He lives and works in Lawrence.

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JOS SANCES

SETH SANCHEZ & NATHAN MIZE

Front Yard Persimmon

Fraser Silhouette

Scratchboard, 24 x 18 x .75”, 2020

Digital Drone Photography, 18 x 24”, 2020

Jos Sances has made his living as a printmaker and muralist for more than 45 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. He founded Alliance Graphics in 1989 and prior to that co-founded Mission Gráfica at San Francisco’s Mission Cultural Center. Sances has steadily created narrative art that address issues and ideas. The Library of Congress acquired 495 of his prints that broadly represent his output. In California he has shown art at Avenue 50 Gallery in Los Angeles, Vessel Gallery in Oakland, the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, The Berkeley Art Center, and in New York in the show “Committed to Print” at the Museum of Modern Art. Currently Sances’ work is included in “¡Printing the Revolution!” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 2019 and 2020 Sances’ 51ft. x 14ft life-size scratchboard drawing of a sperm whale was featured at the Richmond Art Center in California and at the Lawrence Arts Center.

Sances is a proud founding and lifelong member of the Great Tortilla Conspiracy.

Nathan Mize started Drone Lawrence in 2018 as he was completing his senior year at KU, and one of his first clients was an apartment complex in town. Seth Sanchez was a resident at the apartment, and every day when he went downstairs to get his morning cup of coffee he saw a very sharp drone video playing on the lobby TV with the handle @dronelawrence watermarked in the corner. He decided to send a message to Drone Lawrence and a few days later Mize and Sanchez were off and running on their first collaboration. The partnership started with a focus on video shoots for apartments, restaurants, breweries, real estate agents, construction sites, etc., but the aerial photography element quickly grabbed the limelight, and has gone from a fun side-project to a major focus of Drone Lawrence. Armed with technology to provide a unique perspective, Mize and Sanchez are constantly on the lookout for the perfect shot from far above the golden valley.

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JANET SATZ

NICK SCHMIEDELER

Vertical Rising

Introducing the Luxurious 1948 HyTone

Archival Ink Print Mounted on Board, 25 x 10”, 2010

Wall-Hanging Sculpture Made of Found Objects, 18 x 48 x 12”, 2020

Janet Satz’s multi-layered collages of manipulated photographs, drawings, and prints, dramatically evoke the sights and dynamism of the urban environment.

Born in Chicago, she earned a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York; and an MA in Art Education and a Doctor of Arts Fellowship from New York University. She has earned awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Kansas Arts Commission Artist Fellowship. Her work has been added to the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institute, Spencer Museum of Art, and the corporate headquarters of Emprise Bank, Sprint, American Century Investments, and Mercedes Benz, among others. Her piece “Vertical Rising” was selected to be on the cover of CITY VOICES: A Periodical of Writing and Art; Volume 9/2011.

A Prairie Village, Kansas native, Nick Schmiedeler attended Rockhurst High School before going on to Kansas State University and Avila University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1995. Moving to Lawrence with his wife Cindy in 1996, they bought a 19th century craftsmen home in Old West Lawrence, where they created a rustic folk art environment.

Traveling the back roads of the Wheat State, Schmiedeler is inspired by all things Kansas. On a quest to visit every county and a passion for photographing old, abandoned bridges, Schmiedeler finds repurposeable items along the way. He has created rustic sculptures for the past 25 years.

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JOHN SEBELIUS

ROGER SHIMOMURA

All Hail RBG!

Ann Coulter & Me

Watercolor and Pen on Watercolor Paper, 27 x 21”, 2020

Acrylic on Canvas, 34 x 34 x 2”, 2009

John Sebelius is an interdisciplinary artist who holds an MFA from the University of Kansas and a BFA with honors from Rhode Island School of Design. Sebelius’s work has been featured in: Harper’s, Express, DETAILS, Review, CNN, Aspen Daily News, The Washington Post, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Sebelius has shown work in Gallery Two (Sydney, Australia), WoodsGerry Gallery (Providence, RI), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), Kansas City Artists Coalition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and had a solo exhibition at the Gonzo Museum (Aspen, CO). The citizens of Lawrence voted him the Best Artist of 2017, and he was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs to be featured artist for My Cause, My Cleats 2018 and 2019.

Roger Shimomura’s paintings, prints, and theatre pieces address sociopolitical issues of ethnicity.

Shimomura’s work is included in major museums across the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, the Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian, the National Portrait Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New York Public Library, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Art Museum, and more than 120 others.

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CARLY SLADE

MAN/APE (ADAM LOTT & ADAM SMITH)

Dumpster Fire: A 2020(1?)

Commemorative Candle

Local Fauna Mixed Media, 20 x 30”, 2021

Ceramic, Wax, 2020’s Trash (Toilet Paper, Mail-In Ballots, Hand Sanitizer, All Your Plans), 7 x 4 x 5”, 2021

Adam Smith is a photographer, gallerist and archival framer who has lived in Lawrence for nine years. His former gallery, The Invisible Hand Gallery, was the first brick and mortar art space in what is now known as the East Side Arts District. Smith likes to think that he is the mountains and the sea. Adam Lott was born in Nebraska, lives in Kansas, and will never die. Together they make magic.

Carly Slade grew up in “Big Sky Alberta,” Canada. She received her MFA from San Jose State University and her BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design.

Her work is influenced by her blue-collar roots and is plagued by a concern for the precarious nature of the working class. Using a mix of materials (most often including clay, embroidery, and building supplies), Slade creates dioramas of real places in an unreal perspective. Slade is currently visiting instructor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

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KENT SMITH

BARBARA SOLBERG

Shoot for the Stars

Eternal Rhythms

Mixed Media on Wood, 24 x 24 x .75”, 2021

Oil, Gauze, Wax, Stone, Wood, and Handmade Linen Cord, 9.25 x 12.5”, 2005

Kent Smith is a designer, sculptor, teacher, problemmaker, problem-solver, and dimension-hopper. His work can be found on toys, beer, masks, prints, sculptures, and illustrations. Smith loves solving problems and uses his brain-powers, and a menagerie of media, to deliver unexpected solutions rich in play and story.

Smith hosts life-drawing sessions (Thieves Guild), drop-in sketchbook groups (Percolator), and other communitybuilding opportunities focused on creativity. Smith celebrates teaching in the Design Department at the University of Kansas as well as working with the Lawrence Arts Center, The Percolator, and VanGo. Smith loves super-heroes, ninjas, monkeys, UFOs, cryptids, robots, ray-guns, and romance. He hopes you will visit Smittytown whenever you can (and especially if you are up for fantastic escape, ridiculous adventure, thinking about silly things seriously and serious things in unexpected, sometimes silly, ways).

A graduate of the University of Kansas, Barbara Solberg has lived in Kansas most of her life, making art and receiving numerous awards for her work. Love of nature, concern for the environment, and travels to new locales have been continuing themes in her art, whether working in soft pastels or mixed media. She lives on a bluff overlooking the Kansas River with her husband and two cats, all sources of inspiration for her. The mixed media piece “Eternal Rhythms,” refers to the cycles of nature, whether the sun or moon, the temporal nature of living things and the enduring quality of stone.

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CHLOE SOTOMAYOR

NICHOLAS STAHL

The Astronaut

Content // Bedtime

Archival Print on 100% Cotton Paper, 8 x 8”, 2020

Acrylic, Spray Paint, and Paint Pen on Panel, 18 x 18 x 1”, 2021

Chloe Sotomayor is a Chicana visual artist who specializes in drawing and painting. She received her BFA from the University of Kansas with a minor in art history. Her artwork explores themes of mysticism, sensorium and the divine feminine.

Nicholas Stahl is a graphic designer and art director living and working in Lawrence. His work utilizes easily accessible, common materials and mediums filtered through a design centric process.

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DOUG STREMMEL

RICK STEIN

Couch Potato

Elm and Cherry Coffee Table

Photography, 20 x 20”, 2016

Elm and Cherry Wood, 18 x 35 x 17”, 2021

Doug Stremel is a designer and commercial/editorial photographer based in Lawrence. He shoots on location with an emphasis on lifestyle, travel, food, and portraiture. Stremel’s photos have appeared in National Geographic, Photography Monthly, Midwest Living, Best of the Midwest Guide, Kansas!

Magazine, and many other magazines, books, and online resources. His photography and design honors include Communication Arts, CLIO, National ADDYS. National Geographic Shot of the Day, PDN Magazine Travel Photography Awards, and SATW Muster travel photography awards. Stremel is the founder and creative director at Jackalope Design in Lawrence.

Lawrence has been Rick Stein’s home for nearly 40 years. The first 20 or so were spent in the bicycle business, the balance as a furniture maker. The quiet, solitary nature of Stein’s work as a craftsperson contrasts dramatically to the frenzy of the retail world, and he will be forever grateful for the change.

Early on, he studied on and off at a wonderful woodworking school in Maine, the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, and he owes a huge debt of gratitude to his local mentor, furniture maker Will Orvedal who has provided both creative inspiration and deep knowledge of the craft.

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RYAN STORCK

KYLA STRID

Gas Giant

3 Lil’ Buds

Acrylic with Gold Leaf, 48 x 30 x 2”, 2021

Porcelain, 4 x 14 x 4”, 2021

Ryan Storck was born 1990 in New York City and moved to Lawrence in 2004. Outside of some high school art education and a few Johnson County Community College classes, Storck is generally a selftaught painter. He specializes in acrylic painting on canvas and panel. Most days he can be found with his dog Hilde at Seedco.

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KYLA STRID

RACHEL SUDLOW

Earrings

Wheat Earrings

Black Porcelain and Gold Luster, 2 x .5”, 2021

14K Gold Fill and Goldplate, 2.5 x .25”, 2021

Kyla Strid has a BFA in ceramics from the University of Alaska Anchorage and an MFA from Ohio University.

She has been awarded residencies at the Clay Studio of Missoula, Red Lodge Clay Center, Guldagergaard (Denmark), the Lawrence Arts Center, Haystack, and Penland School of Crafts. Strid has extensive professional experience working as a studio technician, studio manager, gallery manager, and curator at various institutions across the country. Additionally, her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and she has worked as a consultant on an archaeological dig of a Minoan Pottery Workshop at Gournia, Crete. Currently, Strid is the Director of Residencies and Adult Education at the Lawrence Arts Center and has a studio at Seed Co.

Rachael Sudlow’s work is often influenced by her love of nature & organic forms. Her designs, mostly created in sterling silver & gemstones, are entirely handmade. Almost all of her work is customizable & can be created to your specifications. Her degree is from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her business, Sudlow Jewelry is based out of Lawrence Kansas & she teaches jewelry & metalsmithing at the Lawrence Arts Center.

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BOBBY TSO

JEN UNEKIS

Moment of Reinventing- Culture Assembly - Building Block Series #002

Acrylic, Graphite and China Pencil on Textured Panel,

A New Day For Old Nonsense 20 x 48 x 3”, 2020

Ceramics, Wood, Plastics, and Metals, 4.5 x 10 x 6”, 2019

Jen Unekis was born in Louisiana, but spent her childhood on a farm in rural Kansas and in Idaho surrounded by potato fields. On the farm she was inspired by the many generations of thick paint and wallpaper on the cracked and broken plaster and lath walls. The fine crumbling lines, broken edges, burnished surfaces and layers of color have left their imprint on her paintings. But Unekis’s goal ultimately is to make paintings that embrace their past and love who they have become. Unekis’s work is in both public and private collections. She is the coordinator of Art in the Park.

Kwok Pong “Bobby” Tso’s work investigates the spatial relationship between the development of objects and human interaction. Tso was born and raised in Hong Kong and came to the United States to continue his education while beginning to explore cultural differences. In 2009 he received his BFA from Northwest Missouri State University, and in 2013 he earned his MA and MFA from the University of Iowa. Tso is currently an assistant professor at Northwest Missouri State University.

He was a Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist in 2014, and NCECA Emerging Artist in 2016. He spent two summers as a resident at the Archie Bray Foundation, and has exhibited and published internationally at galleries including China, the Republic of Korea, Romania, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

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DAVE VAN HEE

DAVE VAN HEE

Nice Strong Stretcher

Fire Break

Mixed Media, 19 x 35 x 3”, 2020

Acrylic on Panel, 20 x 16 x 1”, 2020

Dave Van Hee was born in Kansas City, Mo. He has lived in Lawrence since 1972. Much of his work is mixed media and incorporates bright colors and bold textures.

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MARCIANA VEQUIST

DARIN WHITE

Misty Reflections

Loved

Inkjet Print, 18 x 24”, 2021

Hand Pulled Woodblock Print on Arches Paper, 14 x 17”, 2021

In her day job as a psychologist, Marciana Vequist relies primarily on the use of words for expression and communication. In contrast, her work as a photographer gives her the opportunity to express herself without words. She enjoys the way a photograph can convey powerful thoughts and emotions. Vequist believes that ordinary objects, landscapes, and people provide limitless opportunities to capture extraordinary beauty and power.

Darin M. White is an artist, independent curator and art consultant based in Lawrence. With his wife Shannon White, a painter and arts advocate they founded b.a.l.m. | beauty, art and life movement in 2007. His hope and desire is to continue to work as a catalyst on art productions, curations, and events to encourage and promote art and artists as well as his own work, searching for ways of exploring and communicating about life and important revelations through art.

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SHANNON WHITE

JOHANNA WINTERS

EL

UHGLY SWMMNG

Artist Print, 20 x 16”, 2015

Monotype with Drawing and Chine-Collé, 26.5 x 27.5 x 4”, 2019

Shannon White is a local artist, teacher, and designer.

She founded b.a.l.m. the beauty, art, and life movement with her husband Darin White in 2007.

She currently teaches drawing and painting at the University of Kansas.

Johanna Winters is from Minneapolis, Minn., where she competed on an Olympic-development cross country ski team and served as the Education and Community Programs Manager at Highpoint Center for Printmaking. Winters received her MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2018 and was the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Thomas Fellowship. She was recently awarded residencies at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland, and the Vermont Studio Center. Winters has performed her puppet-based work nationally at Fluorescent Gallery (Knoxville, TN), Track One Silo Room (Nashville, TN), The Drugstore (Kansas City, MO); and has upcoming performances at Open Eye Figure Theatre (Minneapolis, MN), and PLUG Projects (Kansas City, MO).

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BARON WOLMAN (1937-2020)

HONG ZHANG

Creedence Clear Water Revival - John Fogerty, Oakland Coliseum Arena

Chinese Ink and Watercolor on Rice Paper, 21 x 28”, 2019

Autumn

Black and White Photography, 21 x 27”, 1970

A Chinese-born and USA-based artist, Hong Chun Zhang received a BFA from Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1994 and an MFA from the University of California Davis in 2004. She is represented by Haw Contemporary in Kansas City. Hong’s work has been exhibited in Asia, Europe, and North America, from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC to The Chinese National Art Museum in Beijing.

Her work can be found at DSL Collection in Paris, The White Rabbit Collection of Chinese Art in Sydney, and Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas.

She has received the Skowhegan Artist Residency Scholarship, the Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.

Baron Wolman was an American photographer best known for his work in the late 1960s for the music magazine Rolling Stone. He wasthe magazine’s first editor of photography from 1967 to 1970. In an era when photographers and musicians were part of the same explosive scene, Wolman had virtually unlimited access to his subjects. Wolman has had the unique opportunity to photograph some of the most influential musicians in history.

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ANDRZEJ ZIELINSKI

TED JOHNSON Young Woman

Courtesy of Lawrence Lithography

Laptop Accessing

Pen and India Ink, with Water Color Wash, 7 x 9.75”, 2018

Lithograph, 20 x 19.5”, 2015

Ted Johnson is a founding member of a Life Drawing Group at Valley Lane Studios, and enjoys participating in a lively group drawing from life.

Andrzej Zielinski was born in Kansas City, Mo., and received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA from Yale University. His work has been shown in New York City, Los Angeles, Berlin, Tokyo, Dubai, and Sydney. Zielinski‘s work is in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, and the National Gallery of Australia. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

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Raise the Paddle!

In conjunction with the Lawrence Arts Center’s 2021 Benefit Art Auction, we are asking you to virtually ‘Raise the Paddle’ for the Visiting and Resident Artist Program.

Our goal for Raise the Paddle this year is $40,000.

Please donate today!

With a national reputation for intensive, community-based creative experience, our distinguished program includes year-long residencies, project-based residencies, and visiting artists. The Visiting and Resident Artist Program brings artists from across the street and across the globe to the Arts Center to work, teach, and realize ideas that are on the cutting edge of what is possible when art and community come together.

For more than 15 years, hundreds of Visiting and Resident Artists have come to Lawrence from across the world. While here, these practicing artists create and exhibit new works in the visual or performing arts. Part of their time is also spent working with artists of all ages and abilities in our studios, schools, and local organizations. While here, visiting and resident artists challenge us, inspire us, and change our lives, and it would

Here are a few examples of how your donation makes a difference: $5,000 bring in visiting artists for multi-day workshops like the Ceramics Symposium $2,500 allow a teaching artist to offer a master class in printmaking $1,000 support a visiting artist offering a two-day workshop in the School of Dance $500 support material costs for a project-based resident artist’s studio work $250 help provide supplies for students in a teaching artist’s master class $100 assist in covering the cost of exhibiting the project-based artist’s work at Final Friday

not be possible without support from generous donors like you! one.bidpal.net/artauction2021

With sincere thanks for the generosity of artists and the support of art buyers, the Lawrence Arts Center continues to provide free access to exhibits and ensure that Art is for Everyone.

The annual Benefit Art Auction is the main funding source that allows the Exhibitions Program to show a full range of exhibits – from preschool to internationally recognized artists – to all audiences for free.

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Oil on Canvas, 22 x 50 x 2”, 2021

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