Lawrence Arts Center 40th Benefit Art Auction by Lawrence Arts Center

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THE BEST IN CONTEMPORARY ART The mission of the Lawrence Arts Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exhibitions program is to enrich the community by presenting the best in contemporary art and to actively engage audiences through multi-disciplinary exhibitions that question and inspire. To that end, the Lawrence Arts Center features 20-25 exhibitions each year from diverse artists in all media, ranging from local preschool children to internationally known artists. Such richness reflects the community that the Arts

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Center serves. Proceeds from the annual Benefit Art Auction make this program possible.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS CLARE DOVETON Chair

ISABEL JOHNSON

CHRIS ENGLISH, Vice Chair

WHITNEY LANG

DAVID HOLLOND, Treasurer

CINDY MAUDE

RON GACHES, Secretary

DALTON PALEY

ASHLEY ALL

RYANN GALLOWAY TACHA

DON BUCHNER

MARGIE WAKEFIELD

JOSHUA FALLEAF

HONG ZHANG

STEVE GISH

NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD MATT GILHOUSEN MIKE MICHAELIS DEANELL REECE TACHA ROGER SHIMOMURA

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READY TO BID? Our utmost gratitude to these friends and supporters who are hosting their table virtually this year! DON & JOLISA BUCHNER EDMONDS DUNCAN REGISTERED INVESTMENT ADVISORS MATT GILHOUSEN LANDMARK NATIONAL BANK

Locate the image of the work in which you are interested and click on the adjacent red "BID ON THIS PIECE" button. Your browser will automatically take you to the Lawrence Arts Center's BidPal website, where you can create an account and begin bidding. Once registered, you will be directed to make an initial bid on the piece of your choice. Though not required, you will also be given the option to set a maximum bid. If you'd like to skip the bidding process altogether, you may "BUY NOW" at 200% of the listed retail price. This option guarantees your purchase by removing the piece from bidding. Questions can be directed to ben@lawrenceartscenter.org.

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BIDDING ENDS AT 9 PM, SATURDAY, JULY 18. The Lawrence Arts Center will offer free local deliveries between July 20-26. All winning bidders who wish to have their purchased art delivered must email auction@lawrenceartscenter.org. A Lawrence Arts Center representative will contact to arrange a delivery.

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Ted Adler

Louis Copt

Susan Grace

Margie Kuhn

Kristin Morland

Carly Slade

Ben Ahlvers

Laurie Culling

Lisa Grossman

John Kuhn

Jeromy Morris

Pat Slimmer

Daniel Alcala

Katie Curry

Diane Guthrie

Kris Kuksi

Margaret Morris

Kent Smith

Nazanin Amiri Meers

Lisa D’Agostino

Richard Gwin

Lisa Lala

Molly Murphy

Barbara Solberg

Daniel Anderson

Dan Dakotas

Retta Hendricks-Backus

Yoonmi Nam

Nicholas Stahl

Sue Ashline

Janet Davidson-Hues

Stan Herd

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Jason Needham

Doug Stremel

Ed Noonen

Kyla Strid

Tim O’Brien

Rachael Sudlow

Marty Olson

Pam Sullivan

Alex Olson

Tonja Torgerson

Grace Peterson

Bobby Tso

Angie Pickman

Mary Tuven

Ashlyn Pope

Jen Unekis

Wayne Propst

Dave Van Hee

Rachel Rademacher

Marciana Vequist

Ardys Ramberg

Shanna Wagner

Laura Ramberg

Jeff Weinberg

Hollie Rice

Darin White

Jeff Ridgway

Shannon White

Jeremy Rockwell

Chris Wolf Edmonds

Dayon Royster

Russell Wrankle

Leni Salkind

Hong Chun Zhang

Nick Schmiedeler

Yuri Zupancic

Angie Ayrault Inge Balch Neal Barbour Simon Bates Ken Bini Bill Bowerman Jim Brothers John Gary Brown Alan Brummell Eliza Bullock Traci Bunkers William S. Burroughs Grace Carmody Carol Ann Carter Deb Chaussee Paul Chaussee Bede Clarke Nichole Collins Jim Connelly

Jennifer Davis Ann Dean Geoff Deman Henry Diltz Jennifer Doores John Dominis Clare Doveton David Dunfield Jason Edmonds Connie Ehrlich Dave Evans Barry Fitzgerald Betsy Forcade Tim Forcade Joelle Ford Herb Friedson Jan Gaumnitz Archie Scott Gobber Kyle Goddard

Blanca Herrada Steve Hertzog Ron Hinton Jen Holt Brian Horsch Mark Hosford Luis Jimenez & Lawrence Lithography

Elizabeth Grandma Layton Cathy Ledeker Judith G. Levy Brenda Lichman Matt Lord Anne Luben Justin Marable Anita Markley

Stephen T. Johnson

Emily Markoulatos

Ted Johnson

Helen Martin

Ben Jordan

Theresa Martin

Lora Jost

Maria Martin

Leslie Kay

Antonio Martinez

Alicia Kelly

Marshall Maude

Brett Kern

Michael McCaffrey

Carly Kimbrough

Melissa McCormick

Baily Kivett

Robert McNown

Michael Krueger

Adam Meistrell

Ann Kuckelman Cobb

Travis Millard

Cally Krallman

Rick Mitchell

John Sebelius Roger Shimomura

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TED ADLER

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Ted Adler is an artist working primarily in ceramics. He has displayed work in more than 75 exhibitions, including a solo show in February 2014 at Greenwich House Pottery's Jane Hartsook Gallery in New York City. An Associate Professor of Art and Area Head of Ceramics Media at Wichita State University, Adler received his BA from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR in 1993 and his MFA from Ohio University in Athens, OH in 2002. He also studied with renowned artist Toshiko Takaezu, with whom he apprenticed for more than a year in her Quakertown, NJ studio. Adler has lectured and demonstrated at ceramic centers and universities across the nation, including the Archie Bray Foundation, Red Lodge Clay Center, Arrowmont School of Crafts, and the Anderson Ranch Art Center.

BEN AHLVERS

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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. He 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 across the country. Ahlvers received his MFA from Ohio University in 2004, preceded by a BFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2 0 1 3 F E AT U R E D A R T I S T â&#x20AC;&#x201C;

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DANIEL ALCALÁ

Daniel Alcalá holds a BA in Fine Arts from La Esmeralda, the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving in Mexico City, as well as a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico. Currently he is a professor at Ruben Herrera Visual Arts and a member of the National System of Creators, Mexico. Alcalá has been featured in a number of solo exhibits including shows at Chopo Museum, Mexico City; WU Gallery, Lima, Peru; Nueveochenta Gallery, Bogota, Colombia; Oscar Cruz Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil; Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA; and Wendt + Friedmann, Berlin, Germany.

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NAZANIN AMIRI MEERS

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Kansas-based artist Nazanin Amiri Meers studied Textile Design and Print (Iran, 2008) and received her MA in Design Technology (Malaysia, 2009). Immigrating to the United States in 2014, she earned an MFA in Fiber Arts at the University of Kansas, which she says was a turning point in her artistic life. Amiri Meers currently is a Studio Artist in Residence at the Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, MO, making large-scale installations and multimedia 2D work that combines various techniques and media to address the importance of privacy and quietude in public spaces. Iranian architecture influenced by Islamic philosophy and decorative patterns is an endless source of inspiration for her work.

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DANIEL ANDERSON

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Dan Anderson is currently a full-time studio artist following 32 years of teaching ceramics (19702002) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where he is now 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, MI. He is an NEA individual artist fellowship recipient and 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. Anderson was a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, in 1996. In 2010, 2012 and 2014, he was also an Artist Invites Artist (AIA) short-term resident at Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana.

SUE ASHLINE

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 in Madison, ME, 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.

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ANGIE AYRAULT

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Angie Ayrault's work is the cathartic expression of years of working as a social worker with oppressed persons in settings including prisons, hospitals, and treatment facilities. These experiences intermixed with social justice advocacy, form the basis of much of Ayrault 's art. Her collages and paintings mimic the fascinating metaphorical layers of therapeutic interplay between counselor and patient, paint and surface. The bright color and texture in Ayrault 's work reflect positive attributes associated with our shared human condition: a sense of lightness, hope, and joy.

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INGE BALCH

Inge Balch received her BA-BFA from Kansas State University and her MFA from the University of Kansas. She has been teaching at Baker University in Baldwin City since 1988. Balch has always been fascinated by the patronage of saints, their humble lives and not-so-humble deaths. St. Nick and his three HO-HO-HOES is part of the Saints Series. St. Nick is the patron saint of unmarried girls and/or prostitutes, pawnbrokers, sailors and many others. The number three appears often in his legend. He resurrected three boys from the brine-tub in a butcher shop, rescued three girls from becoming prostitutes by giving each a gold coin for their marriage dowry, and saved three sailors from drowning."

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NEAL BARBOUR & PARTICIPANTS FROM A FREE FAMILY EXPERIENCE

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Originally from Spokane, WA, Neal Barbour cut his teeth as a visual artist in the Seattle area. He has a wide range of experience as a videographer, screenprinter, ceramicist, and digital installation artist, working in a variety of locations and settings including Chile, Germany, and up and down the west coast of the United States. After 10 years of itinerant artistry, Barbour moved to Portland, OR, to obtain a Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Degree in Art Education from the University of Portland. After teaching in the public school system for seven years, he began working at the Lawrence Arts Center as Director of Youth Education. He has shown work across the country in many solo and group exhibitions and continues to show work locally with emphasis in ceramics and printmaking. Much of his devotion now funnels into education where he strives to create relevant educational opportunities for young artists.

SIMON BATES

Simon Bates is a mixed media artist, primarily focusing on photography. He lives in Lawrence and moonlights as a creative director in the restaurant industry. Bates owns the Cider Gallery along with Codi, his wife and partner. He enjoys composing songs and making music and is influenced by local artist friends as well as by his travels.

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KEN BINI

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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.

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BILL BOWERMAN

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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, which is a photographic process using a flatbed scanner instead of a camera. Bowermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s auction piece utilizes "action" scanography--the background was moved as the scanner was capturing the image. His scanography works have recently been exhibited at the Cider Gallery, Theatre Lawrence, and the PH21 Gallery in Budapest.

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JIM BROTHERS

Jim Brothers (1941-2013) was born in Eureka, Greenwood County, KS. He grew up in the Kansas Flint Hills where he spent summers exploring the prairie and his own Cherokee and pioneer roots. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Phillips University in Enid, OK, and a Bachelor of Science in Education from Emporia State University. He worked as a commercial illustrator; taught high school art at Emporia, Nickerson, and Liberty, KS; pursued a Master’s Degree at the University of Kansas; and then established himself on the west coast before returning to Lawrence. A sculptor and co-owner of Jim Brothers Sculpture Studio, Inc., he found inspiration in a passion for history that nearly equaled his passion for creating fine art.

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JOHN GARY BROWN John Gary Brown lives and works in both Lawrence, KS, and Creede, CO. He has an MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle. John taught art classes at the University of Kansas, University of Nebraska, University of Washington, and Wichita Art Museum. He has been painting since 1960 and in that time has sold 600 paintings in 20 commercial galleries. He has won museum prizes and purchases including first prize at the Mid-America Exhibition at the Nelson/Atkins Museum in Kansas City, MO; a purchase award at the Joslyn Gallery in Omaha; and a purchase by the Institute of Arts and Letters in New York, NY. – 1 9 8 0 s F E AT U R E D A R T I S T –

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ALAN BRUMMELL

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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ELIZA BULLOCK

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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 in Graphic Design from Ohio University and began to study monotype printmaking while living in San Francisco and Italy. She currently splits her time between working as a Marketing Strategist at the University of Kansas and her fine art practice.

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TRACI BUNKERS

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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. Making her own books and art journaling have been a long time passion of hers. Bunkers says she always feels better after “getting her art on” by slapping down some paint and working in her journal. She sells her original artwork, hand-dyed spinning fibers and yarns, handmade books, and kits through her onewoman business, Bonkers Handmade Originals.

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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

William Seward Burroughs II (1914-1997) was born in St. Louis and grew to become 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 he prolifically created visual art until his death. 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. – 2 0 1 4 F E AT U R E D A R T I S T –

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GRACE CARMODY 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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CAROL ANN CARTER Carol Ann Carter's creative work began in intaglio printmaking and advanced to mixed media painting and fiber construction in 1984. She is currently working in multimedia installation: performance, mixed media, and digital imaging and video. Carter is also interested in collaboration across cultures and disciplines in the arts. Carter has held teaching positions at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN; Penn State University; and the University of Michigan; and is recently retired from the University of Kansas.

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DEB AND PAUL CHAUSSEE

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Paul and Deb Chausee have collaborated on many stained glass windows, tables, grandfather clocks, and mirrors in businesses and homes across the country. Some of their windows can be seen at the ECM chapel on the University of Kansas campus. While they both enjoy creating stained glass mosaics, Paul's interests take him in the direction of stretching and honing his woodworking skills. Meanwhile, Deb likes to find new ways to layer stained, dichroic and fused glass in her colorful stained glass pieces, and incorporate ceramics, trinkets, and everything but the kitchen sink in her picassiette mirrors.

BEDE CLARKE

Bede Clarke has been a Professor of Art at the University of Missouri since 1992. He received his Master of Fine Arts in 1990 from the University of Iowa and a BFA from Eckerd College in 1982. Bede's work is found in collections across the US and abroad including Taipei County Yingke Ceramics Museum, Taiwan; Ichon World Ceramic Center, South Korea; South Bend Museum of Art, in Indiana; Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University; and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University.

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NICHOLE COLLINS

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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 Finland. Nichole 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.

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JIM CONNELLY

jimconnellysilverworks.com Jim Connelly is semi-retired these days, but he has been a practicing metalsmith in Lawrence since 1974. His work is available at Swanson's in downtown Lawrence, and can also be seen through lawrencemarketplace.com or at Silver Works & More on Facebook.

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LOUIS COPT

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In 2016, Louis Copt 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. Copt’s 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, and in the scholarly publication American Art Review. In 2011, Copt 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. Copt has taught at the Lawrence Arts Center for almost 30 years. – 2 0 1 7 F E AT U R E D A R T I S T –

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LAURIE CULLING

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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. Culling is a 1982 co-founder of Phoenix Gallery and a former co-president and former vice-president of the Lawrence Art Guild. She volunteered as an art exhibit coordinator for the Lawrence Public Library for 20 years.

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KATIE CURRY

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Katie Curry is a printmaking artist currently working mainly in screen printing and Linoleum block printing. She was born and raised in Olathe and recently graduated from the University of Kansas with a Fine Arts degree. Prior to KU, she attended Johnson County Community College. She has exhibited work in Carlson Center Gallery at JCCC; First Art Gallery of Olathe, KS; and 2010 Gallery in Kansas City, MO. While at KU, Curry began taking printmaking classes and fell in love with the different processes of printmaking. She has been working and experimenting with different printmaking processes ever since.

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LISA D'AGOSTINO

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Lisa D'Agostino was formally introduced to art at college. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Bowling Green State University in 1977, but never really learned to solder well until she was able to work in her studio. She went back to school, and after three years she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Kansas in 1991. During this time she continued to show and sell her work at many selected art fairs and galleries across the country. For D'Agostino, working with her hands has been the only thing that has ever really interested her. Her curiosity about the potential for designing and creating with metal has lasted since she participated in her first art fair in 1980. The shows were local at first but gradually developed into national venues that included galleries as well. Except for a 12-year foray into baskets (see The Basketmaker's Art, Lark Books) her focus has been on jewelry.

DAN DAKOTAS

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 Alternative Photography by Christopher James. He taught high school for 36 years. He was adjunct faculty at several Kansas universities and the Kansas City Art Institute, and currently teaches at the Lawrence Arts Center and 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

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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, is an MFA graduate from the University of Kansas and was formerly an Assistant Professor of Art at Indiana State University. She has exhibited her work nationally in 20 solo shows and 130 invitational and group shows.

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JENNIFER DAVIS

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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 including 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; in addition to 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

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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.

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GEOFF DEMAN

Geoff Deman is a professional brewer and an aspiring artist. Deman was raised in Lawrence and graduated with a degree in art history from the University of Kansas in 1995. He is currently Head of Downtown Brewing at Free State Brewing Company in Lawrence.

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HENRY DILTZ

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Kansas City native Henry Diltz started his career in the 1960s as a musician, but early on found a calling in photography. He was the official photographer at Woodstock, and at the Monterey Pop Festival and Miami Pop Festival, and has photographed hundreds of album covers. Diltz contributed all the photographs to the 1978 book California Rock, California Sound; and has published two additional books of photographs, California Dreaming and Unpainted Faces. In 2001, Diltz was among the founders of the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York City. According to Rolling Stone Magazine, the gallery takes its name from the legendary 1970 Doors album, the cover of which was slyly shot by Diltz after the Los Angeles hotelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s owner had already denied the group permission to shoot there.

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JOHN DOMINIS

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John Dominis (1921-2013) was on staff at LIFE magazine from 1950-1972. During his tenure there he covered the Korean War, 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 John F. Kennedy he won the White House Photographers Award. In 1964, Dominis began photographing entertainers including 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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JENNIFER DOORES 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. Jennifer teaches visual art at the Lawrence Arts Center.

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CLARE DOVETON

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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 its Board of Directors. Her work can be found internationally in private and corporate collections. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2 0 1 5 F E AT U R E D A R T I S T â&#x20AC;&#x201C;

DAVID DUNFIELD

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

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JASON EDMONDS Jason Edmonds is a third generation Lawrence native whose love of art and nature are inspired by his parents, Chris Wolf Edmonds and Steve Edmonds; his wife, Machaela; and their 3 children, Jack, Graham, and Sarah. His creative interests were also heavily influenced by his grandfathers, Lawrence Wolf and Norman Edmonds, each of whom passed along many of the tools and artifacts he uses in his shop today.

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CONNIE EHRLICH

Connie Ehrlich graduated in 1995 from the University of Kansas with a Fine Arts degree in painting. Since graduation, she has pursued a career as a full-time artist and has exhibited nationally. Connie's monotypes come from her imagination--they are not pre-planned but rely on happy accidents. She sits down at her desk and starts working with no preconceived ideas. Because Connie's oil painting background was a pre-planned and photo-realistic style, this type of creating is a new adventure for her. She believes a â&#x20AC;&#x153;natural and instinctive force guides her as she works."

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DAVE EVANS

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Dave Evans was one of the founders of the Gould Evans architectural firm. He has been traveling and exploring his skills in photography since his retirement in 2014.

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BARRY FITZGERALD

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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.

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BETSY FORCADE

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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, KS; and the Phoenix Gallery in Lawrence.

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TIM FORCADE

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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 earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Kansas in 1970, and has combined his education in drawing and painting with ongoing research and experiments with technology-based media. His work has been published, collected and exhibited nationally and internationally. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2 0 0 8 F E AT U R E D A R T I S T â&#x20AC;&#x201C;

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JOELLE FORD

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Joelle Ford's first one-person show, Kansas Collections, was exhibited at the Lawrence Arts Center in 2008. "Circles of Color" was a 25foot installation comprising 12 wooden panels with approximately 1,000 colorful paint can lids attached. "Circles of Color" was also shown at the Mulvane Art Museum in Topeka, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL. One of the 12 panels is part of the Emprise Bank Kansas Art Collection. Joelle has donated an additional panel for the 2020 Lawrence Art Center Art Auction.

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HERB FRIEDSON

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

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JAN GAUMNITZ

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Jan Gaumnitz is a longtime Lawrence artist, with a BS degree from the University of Wisconsin and an MFA from the University of Kansas. Jan works in multimedia and has exhibited internationally and in the Midwest and Southwest. Gaumnitz’s metal sculptures include "Red Dancer" at the Lawrence Arts Center and "Bloom" at the KU Lied Center, installed in September 2018.

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ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER

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Archie is a painter currently living and working in Kansas City. He is best known for eye-catching imagery that employs clever wordplay as a vehicle for commentary on social topics. Gobber has exhibited his work throughout the country, is in numerous collections, and has received several awards for his art. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2 0 1 3 F E AT U R E D A R T I S T â&#x20AC;&#x201C;

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KYLE GODDARD

Born in 1982, Kyle Goddard was raised in the Greater Jackson Area of Mississippi. At the age of 17, Kyle joined the Army Guard, serving nine years with one deployment in Afghanistan. Influenced by the early Modern artists and the New York Abstract Expressionists, Kyle 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.

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SUSAN GRACE

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Susan Grace’s work has been widely exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the US. She has received numerous awards for her work. Grace studied painting informally in Athens, Greece, but her academic background is primarily in literature and theater. She taught courses in modern American and European literature at universities in the US and in Athens. Her study of literature continues to inspire and influence her work as does what she encounters in her travels and daily life. For the past several years she has resided in Lawrence, where she has her studio.

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LISA GROSSMAN

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Lisa Grossman is a painter and printmaker whose work focuses on the prairies and river valleys of Eastern Kansas. Grossman has had 30 solo shows across 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, PA, and the University of Kansas, and is represented by Haw/ Contemporary in Kansas City, MO, Circa Gallery, in Minneapolis, MN, and Strecker Nelson West, in Manhattan, KS. – 2 0 0 5 F E AT U R E D A R T I S T –

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DIANE GUTHRIE

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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 Hallmark Cards, and magazines American Profile, 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

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 and later to set his sights on photojournalism. During his three semesters in the photojournalism program, Gwin earned a part-time position at the Lawrence Journal-World. Within two years he was the head photographer, a position he held for several years. For most of the course of his 40-year career at the Journal-World he was 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.

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RETTA HENDRICKS-BACKUS

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

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Stan Herd is a Kansas-based artist whose most wellknown approach to art is using the land as both palette and canvas, creating singular images on a grand scale by plowing, disking, planting, mowing and otherwise manipulating acres of green space. Herd has achieved international renown for his earthwork ventures. An installation Herd completed in 1994, Countryside, which was an image of a pastoral Kansas landscape on an acre of property owned by Donald Trump in New York City, was the subject of an independent film by Chris Ordal called Earthwork. Several of his most recent works were completed in Asia. His art has been featured in numerous publications, including National Geographic, the Smithsonian, the Wall Street Journal and People magazine. He was named Kansan of the Year in 1996. Herd's work also has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning; Fox Television Breakfast Time; Dateline NBC; CNN News; Good Morning America ABC; and National Public Radio.

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BLANCA HERRADA

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. She 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. She currently resides in Lawrence, where she continues to create work out of her home studio.

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STEVE HERTZOG

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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. He is a publisher 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.

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RON HINTON

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Ron Hinton draws on his academic training in metalsmithing for centuries-old techniques of soldering, forming, and fabricating. At the same time, he uses a photo-etching process to incorporate images onto the metal surface. These techniques enable him to create unique and individual works of art for anything from a corporate boardroom to a residential setting. His primary art works include sculptural wall forms, boxes, and pedestal pieces. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1 9 9 7 F E AT U R E D A R T I S T â&#x20AC;&#x201C;

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JENNIFER HOLT

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Jennifer Holt's porcelain, sculpture and installation art revolves around notions of time, place, and memory. Her work has been shown in numerous national and international exhibitions. She has been an artist in residence in the US at the Archie Bray Foundation, Lawrence Arts Center, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Red Lodge Clay Center and FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums in Fuping, China. Her artwork has been published in national and international publications, and is in many private and public collections. Holt received her BFA from Ohio University, and MFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She currently lives in Decatur, IL, where she is a practicing artist and assistant professor of art at Millikin University.

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BRIAN HORSCH

Brian J. Horsch has been creating hand-built and thrown ceramic sculpture since 2008. He focuses 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, including vases, mugs, jars, bowls, and cups. Prior to his interest in clay, Horsch was carving sculpture from various hardwoods. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s auction piece was fired in a soda wood kiln at a temperature exceeding 2400 degrees F. Brian lives close to nature near Stull.

MARK HOSFORD

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Mark Hosford was born in Kansas City, MO, in 1974 and grew up in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, KS. He moved to Lawrence in 1993 to pursue a BFA in Studio Arts at the University of Kansas with a concentration on printmaking. He received his MFA in 2001 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. That same year, Hosford accepted a teaching position at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, where he is currently an associate professor of art and chair of the Department of Art.

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LUIS JIMENEZ

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Luis Jimenez (1940-2006) was an American artist of Mexican descent who created monumental sculptures for public spaces in cities including Washington, DC; Denver, CO; San Diego, CA; and Lawrence, KS. Born in El Paso, TX, he was also a prolific printmaker drawing images from the broad American experience as well as his Southwestern heritage. "Eagle and Snake" references archetypal images from Mexican and American history and culture. His work is in most major museum collections including The Smithsonian, The Library of Congress, Boston Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, St. Louis Art Museum, The Spencer Museum of Art and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The piece was donated to the auction by 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.

STEPHEN T. JOHNSON

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Stephen T. Johnson was handed the acronym STJ by his drawing students. He now uses it to define the three pillars of his creative framework, subject, transformation, and joy. The pillars represent the subject's transformation into physical reality (paintings, collages, mosaics, sculpture, etc.); the joy is what the artist receives through the process of making. – 2 0 0 6 F E AT U R E D A R T I S T –

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TED JOHNSON

Ted Johnson is a professor emeritus of French at the University of Kansas, where he has received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Mortar Board's recognition as an Outstanding Educator at the University of Kansas, and in 1992, the Senior Class H.O.P.E. award. For nearly 30 years, Johnson has also offered an annual free, public tour of the KU campus, with an “emphasis on the interrelations of the traditional Seven Liberal Arts – Grammar, Rhetoric, Dialectic, Geometry, Arithmetic, Music and Astronomy – as they can be discovered in the sculptures on various buildings.” A founding member of a Life Drawing Group at Valley Lane Studios, Ted enjoys participating in a lively group drawing from life.

BEN JORDAN

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Ben Jordan was born and raised in the American Southwest. He earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology at Northern Arizona University before discovering a passion for clay in 2006. After completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics at Northern Arizona University, Jordan went on to work and apprentice in the city of Groningen, in the Netherlands. After finishing a residency in 2014 at Montana’s Red Lodge Clay Center, Jordan obtained his Master of Fine Arts in ceramics from Virginia Commonwealth University. After graduate school he completed a year-long ceramics residency at Pocosin Arts in North Carolina. He is currently a long-term resident at The Clay Studio of Missoula.

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LORA JOST

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Lora Jost is a Lawrence-based studio artist who has lived and worked in the community for 23 years. She enjoys illustrating and teaches Imaginative Drawing and other drawing classes for adult beginners at the Lawrence Art Center. Her playful drawings reference birds, storms, climate change, and other urgent concerns. Jostâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drawings and mosaics depict the magical, whimsical, and alarming world we live in.

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LESLIE KAY

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Leslie Kay is an artist, 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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ÂÂ 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. She has exhibited nationally and internationally; her most recent exhibitions include OpenBox, Porto, Portugal; and Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer, Alaska

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BRETT KERN

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Brett Kern began his higher education at California University of Pennsylvania. After receiving his BFA, he attended graduate school at West Virginia University with a focus in ceramics. During that time, Kern spent a semester in China at the Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute. After school, he moved west to be a long-term resident at Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana. In the ensuing six years, Kern taught ceramics and sculpture at Davis and Elkins college in Elkins, WV. In the summer of 2017, Kern resigned from his teaching position to pursue life as a full-time artist. He now lives and works from his home in Pittsburgh.

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CARLY KIMBROUGH Growing up in a small Kansas town, Carly Kimbrough admired her grandmother's collection of fine jewelry. Kimbrough received one piece every Christmasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;pieces she continues to treasure as connections to family and tradition. Her 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, CA. 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 where she also teaches art.

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Bailey Kivett grew up in Wichita and Halstead, KS. As a child she spent every penny at the local crafts store - jewelry always being her main focus. At the University of Kansas Kivett dabbled in lots of subjects and mediums before she landed in a beginning jewelry class. With a saw or torch in hand, she was at home. An emphasis soon turned into a second major--she was also on track to be an art teacher--and she hasn't stopped making jewelry since. Kivett finds joy in the creation of custom pieces that bring the wearer closer to their home, children, or favorite quote. Kivett is an art teacher at Lawrence Free State High School and, with Rachel Downs, is co-founder of Dear Me, an artistic collaboration focusing on mental health.

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CALLY KRALLMAN

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Cally Krallman earned a BFA from Washburn University and has studied with Phil Starke, Kim English, Michael Albrechtson, William Scott Jennings, and Matt Smith. Krallman is a member of American Women Artists (Signature Member), Oil Painters of America, Missouri Valley Impressionists Society, and National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society.

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MICHAEL KRUEGER

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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, NY; Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA; Sunday L.E.S., New York, NY; Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO; and the Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS. Important group exhibitions include The Drawing Center, New York, NY; The Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO; Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland, UK; and Adam Baumgold, New York, NY. 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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ANN KUCKELMAN COBB Ann Kuckelman Cobb works primarily in watercolor on translucent cotton vellum, sometimes using smoke as a drawing medium. She holds a doctorate in anthropology and often draws on cross-cultural images, stories, and origin myths as themes in her work. While living in the country, she became fascinated with 300 million-year-old plant fossils, and began asking the question, "Do stones have consciousness?" What has followed is “The Secret Life of Stones,” a series of 23 abstract images inspired by plant fossils found in Kansas coal balls. "Hovering on the Edge of Consciousness" is one of the most recent artworks from this series.

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JOHN KUHN

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, and his work is in numerous corporate and private collections across the US and in Europe. – 1 9 9 8 F E AT U R E D A R T I S T –

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MARGIE KUHN

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A Kansas native, Margie Kuhn attended the University of Kansas earning an undergraduate degree in scientific illustration. She worked as a freelance scientific illustrator for a few years before she began teaching at area arts centers and museums. This experience inspired a return to school, where she earned a Master of Art Museum Education and later a Master of Fine Arts in painting. Kuhn taught at Baker University and Washburn University before joining the University of Kansas Design Department in 2000. Kuhn has exhibited her paintings, drawings, and installations across the country. She has been in group and solo exhibitions at the Kemper-Albrecht Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Mulvane Art Museum, Wichita Art Museum, Butler Institute of American Art, and the National Academy Galleries. Her work is in the museum collections of the Mulvane Art Museum, Springfield Art Museum, Dunnegan Gallery of Art and numerous private and corporate collections across the country and in Europe.

KRIS KUKSI

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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. His works are featured in both public and private collections in the United States, Europe, and Australia.

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LISA LALA

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From the physical space of her cliff-side studio, Lisa Lala explores the larger, intangible questions of our existence in an attempt to re-humanize painting. Her work connects to the white space, the peace and exuberance of our most contemplative moments. While known primarily for her paintings, Lala's practice also includes sculpture, light art, and installations. Lala was born in California to artistic parents who encouraged her instincts from an early age. Her mother allowed her to maintain a work table alongside her in her fiber art studio. She also accompanied her parents on humanitarian trips worldwide, which fostered her unique perspective and exposed her to many different ways of life. Lala now lives and works at Lake Lotawana, MO. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2 0 1 3 F E AT U R E D A R T I S T â&#x20AC;&#x201C;

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ELIZABETH GRANDMA LAYTON elizabethlayton.com Elizabeth Layton, a native of Wellsville, KS, began drawing in 1977 when she took a drawing class at a local university at the age of 68. 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 self-portraits that reflected her response to contemporary social issues. 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,” Don became her biggest fan and promoter. To this day he continues to tirelessly promote her drawings and her story.

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CATHY LEDEKER

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Born and raised on the southern Kansas prairie, Cathy Ledeker sits on a fence that divides country from city, north from south, liberal from conservative, pious from profane. As an artist, she observes and interprets these deep currents of human dichotomy. Having spent years as an art educator and free-lancer, she is always lured by an irrepressible internal compass back to personal art-making. Entering her studio requires a leap of faith from the fence into a churning river of truthtelling. Now retired, Ledeker plans to follow this thrilling trajectory - watching, leaping, immersing and art making - until the day she dies.

JUDITH G. LEVY

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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.

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BRENDA LICHMAN

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Brenda Lichman grew up in Brookfield, WI, where she developed an early interest in art and the handmade object. She received her BFA in ceramics from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 1998, and earned her MFA in ceramics with a minor in drawing from the University of North Texas in 2002. Her work has been broadly exhibited across the country in notable exhibitions, including the 23rd Strictly Functional National in 2015. This year she is honored to participate in 50 Women: A Celebration of Women's Contribution to Ceramics, and Heartland Table, an exhibition project pairing potters with chefs in the Kansas City area as part of the 2016 NCECA Conference.

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Matthew Lord was born in Marysville, KS in 1975. Early on, he learned the value of his art by trading drawings of jet fighters for better food at lunch. In 1999, Lord graduated with a BFA in illustration from KU. He has accomplished many career milestones, including solo and group exhibitions, editorial illustrations, lectures, and workshops. Lord has taken on the roles of teacher, facilitator, mentor, curator, and storyteller. He celebrates his creative community through collaborations that have encompassed art installations, themed drawing events, and an artist-run non-profit creative space. Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. He 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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ANNE LUBEN

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Anne Luben was raised in Wyoming where she received her BA in Studio Art from the University of Wyoming in 2012. Continuing her education in fibers and printmaking, she received an MFA in textiles from the University of Indiana in 2016. Drawing from fantastical sources of visual and narrative culture within country music and western Americana, she employs processes of letterpress and embroidery within her work to propose a magical realist relationship between the embellished garment and the inflated folkloric identity.

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Throughout his life, Justin Marable 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. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2 0 1 8 F E AT U R E D A R T I S T â&#x20AC;&#x201C;

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ANITA MARKLEY

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Anita Markley is a native of California, where she earned her BA at University of Redlands. She earned her MFA in printmaking at Fort Hays State University in Hays, KS. She taught art in Kansas public schools 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.

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EMILY MARKOULATOS

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Lawrence artist Emily Markoulatos primarily creates abstract paintings inspired by the Kansas landscape and its people. As a 3D art teacher at Ottawa High School she has developed a passion for metalsmithing, exploring the similarities between enamel and paint, while enjoying the rigidity and necessary structure that comes with working with metal.

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HELEN MARTIN

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.

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MARIA S. MARTIN

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Maria S. Martin, born in Philadelphia, PA, has called Lawrence home since 1984. Working as an abstract artist, she studied art in Philadelphia and then at the University of Kansas. She continues to take art studio classes and technique workshops today. 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. She works from her shared studio gallery, Creative Mass, located in Lawrence.

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THERESA MARTIN

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Theresa Martin studied printmaking with John Talleur at KU in the mid1980s, between earning a useless BA in philosophy at Harvard and an equally useless MA in creative writing at Temple. After a 25-year art-hiatus during which she became a high school English teacher, raised a family, and only made art at the kitchen table, she took up printmaking again after being exposed to Mexican relief prints. She mostly works in Linoleum, both in her home studio and at the Lawrence Arts Center. 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.

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ANTONIO MARTINEZ Antonio Martinez is an alumnus of the University of Kansasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Master of Fine Arts program with a focus on ceramics. Prior to attending KU, he received his BFA in ceramics from Wichita State University. He has conducted workshops, been featured in publications, and has shown work locally and nationally. Currently, he is also an instructor at the Lawrence Arts Center and Ottawa University.

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MARSHALL MAUDE

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Marshall Maude is a ceramic artist and Associate Professor of Ceramics at the University of Kansas. He has exhibited his work in solo and group shows nationally and in China, Denmark, Korea, and New Zealand. Maude has been an artist-inresidence at the Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute in Jingdezhen, China, and at Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark. His most recent solo exhibitions include the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Northern Arizona University Museum of Art, Lanning Gallery, and the James May Gallery.

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Michael earned a BFA from the University of Kansas in 2006 before receiving an MFA in painting from Indiana University. In the winter of 2016 McCaffrey was awarded a two-week residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. He exhibits both regionally and nationally--recently at Prince Street Gallery and First Street Gallery in New York, NY; Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, OH; The Leedy-Voulkos Arts Center in Kansas City, MO; and the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS. McCaffreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work was published in Manifest Gallery's International Painting Annuals 5 and 9, and in 2015 he received an international grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields foundation. From 2014-2017, McCaffrey was artist-in-residence in 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.

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Melissa McCormick was born in Omaha, NE. She moved to Lawrence to attend the University of Kansas, where she earned a BFA in ceramics. She later returned to KU to earn a Doctor of Pharmacy degree and currently works full time in that field. McCormick continues to create ceramic work at her home studio that she shares with husband, Ed Noonen.

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ROBERT MCNOWN Robert McNown was born Iowa City, IA, in 1944. He received an MFA in painting from the University of Washington in 1972 and has shown in Seattle at various galleries for more than 40 years, the last 20 of which at Francine Seders Gallery. McNown retired in 2014 and relocated to Lawrence, where he has had three shows at Cider Gallery.

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ADAM MEISTRELL

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Adam Meistrell was born and raised in Naples, FL. 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. Meistrellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 continues as the Lawrence Arts Center's Studio Manager of Visual Arts. Adam and his wife, Monica, maintain their art making practice through Trek and Tern Studios.

BID ON THIS PIECE TRAVIS MILLARD

travismillard.com Travis Millard is a Los Angeles-based artist, musician and founder of Fudge Factory Comics. His work spans more than 20 years of self-published zines, comics, gallery exhibitions and notable commercial projects. His illustrations have appeared in Playboy, Hollywood Reporter, Mad Magazine, Wired, and Thrasher among others. Additional clients include Vans, Nickelodeon, Titmouse and Bento Box. He's collaborated on record designs for numerous bands including Dinosaur Jr, Kurt Vile, El-P, The Uncluded, The Get Up Kids, and Paul Thomas Anderson's "Inherent Vice" soundtrack. Millard also produced and art-directed the indie video game "Freedom Finger" ~ a bat$#%! crazy space shooter ~ just released on Nintendo Switch and Steam.

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RICK MITCHELL

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Rick Mitchell, a graduate of the University of Kansas and Rutgers University, 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 formerly director of the Exhibition Program at the Lawrence Arts Center, an adjunct professor of photographic history at Baker University, and taught both photojournalism and drawing and painting at the University of Kansas. He is currently president of The Committee on Imagination and Place, a non-profit educational organization.

BID ON THIS PIECE KRISTIN MORLAND

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Kristin Morland is a visual artist who works primarily with light that takes form with handsewn sequins and beads. For the past 20 years Kristin 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 isness 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-where joyful emotions and the play of light all join together in the creative process. Observing a moment in the ever-changing light, Morland seeks to communicate our world most fully through the tools of her education, curiosity, and exploration.

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JEROMY MORRIS

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Jeromy Morris was born in Denver, CO, 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, a 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 processes 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.

MARGARET WEISBROD MORRIS

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Margaret Weisbrod Morris is an artist with training in analytical psychology. Her work blends metaphor and reality, with a touch of the absurd. Working through a variety of subjects, she is focused on representing sensory dynamics and visual minutiae to pinpoint moments of intensity. Drawn to obsessive-compulsive, repetitive visual elements, as well as illogical, funny or strange situations, her work juxtaposes emptiness with abundance, calm with chaos, and humor with sobriety to create meticulous, dreamlike scenes that are based in reality but are slightly implausible. Morris holds a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Starting her professional career in New York, she was in animation and children's television but eventually left to study art therapy with Edith Kramer, the founder of the field of art therapy, to get her MA degree from New York University.

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MOLLY MURPHY

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Molly Murphy is a Lawrence-based painter creating works inspired by systems and relationships in the natural world. Murphy has taught at 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.

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YOONMI NAM

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Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Yoonmi Nam earned a BFA from Hong-Ik University in Seoul and an MFA from RISD in Providence, RI. 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 she has shown her work in more than 20 solo exhibitions and 180 group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Currently, she teaches at the University of Kansas, where she has been a faculty member since 2001.

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JASON NEEDHAM

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Jason Needham lives in Kansas City, KS, with his wife and daughter. Born in Dixon, IL, in 1971, Needham has also lived in Lawrence; Minneapolis, MN; Key West, FL; and Denver and Fort Collins, CO. Graduating in 1997 with a BFA in painting from the University of Kansas, Needham has exhibited at the Kansas City Artist Coalition in Kansas City, MO; Zip 37 in Denver, CO; The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities in Arvada, CO; and The Late Show in Kansas City, MO. Reviews of his work have appeared in the Kansas City Star, Huffington Post, Westword, and the now defunct Rocky Mountain News.

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ED NOONEN Edward Noonen is a Lawrence 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 everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shared journey 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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TIM O'BRIEN

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Tim O'Brien teaches letterpress printing at the Lawrence Arts Center. Sculptural letter forms have pushed him to other sculptural explorations, including the fairly practical notion of the Tuffet, using locally milled hardwoods and locally raised sheep pelts. Hand-made stuff makes him swoon.

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MARTY OLSON

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

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ALEX OLSON

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Alex is a Topeka native, but forever a 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, and is the LAC Coordinator on the project team for the East 9th Street Project. Additionally, she is a dancer and choreographer and occasionally participates in productions at the Arts Center.

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GRACE PETERSON Grace Peterson is an 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 across the country. She recently lived in Salina, where she served 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

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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.

ASHLYN POPE

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Ashlyn Pope is an African American artist of Gullah descent mainly working with ceramics and textiles. Clay became instrumental in her work while attending Kennesaw State University, where she eventually earned her BFA in ceramics and printmaking in 2013. She went on to complete her master's degree in ceramics at Pennsylvania State University in 2019. Ashlyn also serves a larger community of artists and educators by sitting on the board of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Art as Student Director at Large. She is currently Ceramics Artist-in-Residence at the Lawrence Arts Center. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2019/21 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; CERAMICS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

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WAYNE PROPST

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 between his dining room and Berlin.

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RACHEL RADEMACHER

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Each 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.

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ARDYS RAMBERG

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As an artist, Ardys Ramberg has created flat works in practically every medium, and three dimensional works from gold and silver to walk-in party spaces in steel. The majority of these works have been done as commissions. Musically, she sings original material and old jazz and pop and folk styles. She has been in duos and trios and bands, but now mostly performs solo with her baritone ukulele and harmonicas. She settled in Lawrence near the Kaw river, which has always held a prominent role in her life. Lawrence has afforded her many opportunities to follow her creative impulses, which she is grateful to still have the opportunity to pursue. Her community has supported her with heart, and she will return the favor for as long as she is able.

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LAURA RAMBERG

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Laura Ramberg is a longtime local artist. Her work can be found in homes, businesses, churches, and schools throughout the region. She worked as a stone carver on several Kansas restoration projects including the Douglas County courthouse and the state capitol in Topeka. She is currently working with her brother, Karl, on carving eight historic grotesques for the Museum of Natural History at the University of Kansas.

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HOLLIE RICE

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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. She makes both functional and sculptural work, and firing wood kilns is one of her favorite pastimes.

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JEFF RIDGWAY

Following an early love of painting, Brookfield, MO, native and local artist Jeff Ridgway chose to pursue that passion at what is now called Truman State University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in drawing in the 1970s. After college, Ridgway began working as a graphic designer with Johnson County Community College. He worked in and around Kansas City for many years, and built a strong reputation for himself within the industry, but it couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t satisfy the artist within him. In 1988, Ridgway came to Lawrence to pursue Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees in painting. Today Ridgway continues to create art and also teaches Life Drawing and Anatomy for the Artist at the Lawrence Arts Center.

JEREMY ROCKWELL

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Born in Santa Maria, CA, Jeremy Rockwell is an artist who explores painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and design. In addition to his work at the 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 Lawrenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 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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DAYON ROYSTER

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Dayon Royster hails from Richmond, VA. He received his BFA in printmaking from East Carolina University and MFA in printmaking from the University of Iowa. While at ECU he embarked in his first foray into printmaking with no idea of where it would send him. Printmaking continues to captivate him because of the creative problem solving that is involved with the process. Royster said printmaking keeps him coming back day after day to try his hand at pulling a successful print. His current work conjures universal themes of accessibility, curiosity, empowerment, bias, context, information, knowledge, research, rules and truth. – 2019/21 PRINTMAKING ARTIST IN RESIDENCE –

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LENI SALKIND

Leni Salkind studied art education but it was ceramics that she loved. She studied at the University of Maryland, with Mike Cindric at the University of North Carolina, and at University of Kansas. She taught in the art department of Baker University in Baldwin City. Her work has been shown at the North Carolina Museum of Art invitational show, 7 East 7th Gallery in Lawrence, Diane's Artisan Gallery in Lawrence, and at the Topeka Competition 31 at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library.

BID ON THIS PIECE NICK SCHMIEDELER

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A Prairie Village native, Nick Schmiedeler attended Rockhurst High School before going to Kansas State University and Avila University, receiving a bachelor's degree in nursing in 1995. Moving to Lawrence in 1996 with his wife Cindy, 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

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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 on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He has shown work in Gallery Two,Sydney, Australia; Woods-Gerry 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 Sebelius was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs to be featured artist for My Cause, My Cleats 2018 and 2019.

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Roger 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 120 others. A thirdgeneration Japanese American native of Seattle, Shimomura has drawn much of his inspiration from the emotional and psychological scars that were the product of his family’s imprisonment in an internment camp during World War II. His works combine American popular culture, traditional Asian tropes, and stereotypical racial imagery to provoke thought and debate on issues of identity and social perception. His recent works have included studies in racism and xenophobia through a perspective that is both harsh and humorous.

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CARLY SLADE carlyslade.com 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 bluecollar 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 an instructor at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.

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PAT SLIMMER

From public art to cars, Pat Slimmer is a true renaissance man. In addition to being a master mechanic, Slimmer is the man behind the infamous "Flying Saucer" Art Car. This signature vehicle in the Art Tougeau parade has traveled to many exhibitions and has even been featured in several books. Slimmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public art has been exhibited in Topeka's NOTO Arts District, and the Downtown Lawrence Sculpture Exhibition. He has created metal sculptures for the Lawrence Art Center Benefit Art Auction and the annual Scarecrow Auction, and his metal wreaths are always a favorite part of the Lawrence Festival of Trees.

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KENT SMITH

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Kent Smith is a designer, sculptor, teacher, problem-maker, problem-solver, and dimensionhopper. His work can be found on toys, beer, masks, prints, sculptures, and illustrations. Smith loves solving problems and uses his brainpowers, and a menagerie of media, to deliver unexpected solutions rich in play and story. He hosts life-drawing sessions (Thieves Guild), dropin sketchbook groups (Percolator), and other community-building 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. Kent loves superheroes, 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).

BARBARA SOLBERG

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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, whether working in soft pastels or mixed media. She lives with her husband and two cats on a bluff overlooking the Kansas River, all sources of inspiration for her. The mixed media piece "Voices from the Past" refers to ancient civilizations with a found object that may or may not be an artifact.

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NICHOLAS STAHL

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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. Stahl believes that humans are creators, each and every one. Everything we create has its own story which resides within a larger narrative. Whether that story belongs to a business, an event or any other noun, how it is told is extremely important.

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DOUG STREMEL

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Doug Stremel is a designer and commercial/ editorial photographer based in Lawrence, Kansas. 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.

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KYLA STRID

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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. Kyla 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 Kyla is the Director of Residencies and Adult Education at the Lawrence Arts Center and has a studio at Seed Co.

RACHAEL SUDLOW

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Rachael Sudlow's work is often influenced by her love of nature and organic forms. Her designs, mostly created in sterling silver and gemstones, are entirely handmade. Almost all of her work is customizable and can be created to a clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s specifications. Her degree is from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her business, Sudlow Jewelry, is based out of Lawrence. She teaches jewelry and metalsmithing at the Lawrence Arts Center.

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PAM SULLIVAN

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Pam Sullivan is a Kansas native and a graduate of the University of Kansas. She has a studio in Lawrence where she creates mixed media works that often incorporate the use of paint, paper and canvas. She is actively creating and working with individuals or businesses to place unique art in their spaces.

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TONJA TORGERSON

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Tonja Torgerson's prints explore the internal and external factors that compose one's identity. Organs, blood, and bones intertwine with flowers and floriography. Torgerson is interested in this collision of nature with the body, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. This work reflects on the history of medical anatomy and botanical illustrations within printmaking.

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KWOK PONG â&#x20AC;&#x153;BOBBYâ&#x20AC;? TSO

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Kwok Pong's work investigates the spatial relationship between the development of objects and human interaction. Pong was born and raised in Hong Kong and decided to come to the US to continue his education while beginning exploring the cultures differences. In 2009 he received his BFA from Northwest Missouri State University, and his MA and MFA from the University of Iowa in 2013. Pong 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 years as summer resident at the Archie Bray Foundation, and has exhibited and published internationally and nationally in China, South Korea, Romania, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

MARY TUVEN

Mary Tuven is a native Minnesotan with an undergraduate degree in music and art, and a master's degree in viola from KU. Now a freelance violist, she played for 23 years with the Kansas City Symphony. Her work has been shown in Minnesota; Torpedo Art Center, Alexandria, VA; Octagon in Ames, IA; and regionally at Art in the Woods, KC Unitarian Gallery, the Lyric Theatre, Hays Art Center, and the KS Triennial.

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JEN UNEKIS

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Jen Unekis was born in Los Angeles, 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. Her work is in both public and private collections. She is the coordinator of Art in the Park. – 2 0 1 9 F E AT U R E D A R T I S T –

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DAVE VAN HEE

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Dave Van Hee was born in Kansas City, MO. He has lived in Lawrence since 1972. Van Hee has been making masks for nearly 40 years and describes his work as decorative sculptures.

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MARCIANA VEQUIST

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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. Vequist enjoys the way a photograph can convey powerful thoughts and emotions. She believes that ordinary objects, landscapes, and people provide limitless opportunities to capture extraordinary beauty and power.

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SHANNA WAGNER

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Shanna Wagner grew up in a rural Douglas County and spent many hours walking the prairie feeling energized by the power of the wind. In her designs she finds inspiration in the big Kansas skies, interpreting multiple layers of horizon to be the force of the air and the colors to create movement and intensity. In addition to adding her fused glass jewels and enameled glass details, Wagner wanted to highlight some of the beautiful red, orange and blue colors of glass. The windinspired design also pays tribute to the windmills that have dotted the Kansas landscape for the last century, and celebrates modern wind turbines like in the Smokey Hills Wind Farm in southwest Kansas.

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JEFF WEINBERG

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Jeff Weinberg is retired from KU where he most recently held appointments as Honors Teaching Fellow, assistant to Chancellors Gray-Little and Hemenway, and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. He has served as a board member and trustee of many Lawrence organizations and has been active in the Lawrence arts community. His painting is experiential and drawn from literature and nature. His work is represented in private collections and one museum. Two of his major works were acquired by the Lied Center for the Performing Artswhere they are on permanent display.

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SHANNON WHITE

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Shannon White is a local artist, teacher, and designer. She sees composite images as explorations of the full range of the human experience. White's works invite the viewer into a realm of possibility like words that hang in the air.

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DARIN M. WHITE

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Darin M. White is an artist, independent curator and art consultant based in Lawrence. With his wife, painter and arts advocate ShannonWhite, they founded b.a.l.m. | beauty, art & life movement in 2007. His hope 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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CHRIS WOLF EDMONDS

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Chris Wolf Edmonds’ work has been exhibited widely in traveling exhibits, museums, and galleries from Germany to Japan. In the US she has exhibited at New York’s American Craft Museum and American Folk Art Museum, 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. – 1 9 9 2 F E AT U R E D A R T I S T –

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RUSSELL WRANKLE

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Russell Wrankle tells visual stories with the use of animal imagery. In his work he wrestles with existential questions of life and death through the symbolism of the body and various animals. His intensely saturated ceramic figures represent the decadence of worldly pleasures, a vibrant source of energy that is antithetical to death and dying. It is through embracing life and living that the pull of death and suffering is kept at a distance. Like Aesop's Fables, animals such as dogs, rabbits, crabs, monkeys, and frogs provide a vehicle to express the human condition. Animal imagery is the beginning of a deeper understanding of humanity.

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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.

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YURI ZUPANCIC

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Born in 1980, Yuri Z (Zupancic) is an artist from Dodge City and Lawrence, now based in Paris, France. Largely self-taught, he creates and exhibits paintings, drawings, sculptures, video art, installations, and hybrids of these mediums. Raised in the great landscapes of the American West, he continues to find inspiration in nature while exploring the contemporary human condition and the ambiguous effects of modern technology. Zupancic 's works have been exhibited in Paris, London, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Aspen, Sydney, and Tokyo, and have been published by Huffington Post, WIRED, Juxtapoz, and many others. Zupancic is also the co-founder of PRYZ Agency, which organizes exhibitions worldwide.

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