Winner gets choice
LIVE AUCTION, LOT 11
Angie Pickman
A Shared Gift
Hand Cut Paper
Collage | 25" x 31" | 2023
Joelle Ford Unfurled
Collage | 28" x 40" | 2023
Joelle Ford’s work in mixed-media consists of the utilization of found objects. “Unfurled” is the second installment of “Library Landscapes,” a collaboration between Joelle and the Lawrence Public Library Friends & Foundation. This metaphorical landscape speaks to the recent attacks on the information landscape and censorship attempts through book bans.
LIVE AUCTION, LOT 12
Harold Smith G-Money
and Friend (Inspired by New Jack City)
Acrylic on Stretched Canvas | 48" x 60" | 2021-2023
Born and based in Kansas City, Harold Smith is an artist and writer whose practice spans painting, collage, mixed media, performance, video, sound, and assemblage. He holds a B.S. in computer science and an M.A. in teaching. He is the recipient of numerous honors, a few of which include a three-year Studios Inc. residency, a Charlotte Street Foundation visual artist award, an Art Omi artist residency, a MacDowell artist fellowship, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation artist grant. His work has been shown in notable exhibitions such as Testament; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2021, Can You See Me?; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019, and Colors of Jazz; American Jazz Museum, 2011.
Justin Marable Konza Exaltation
Mixed Media - Acrylic and Silkscreen | 24" x 48" | 2023
Through time, Justin Marable learns and wanders within inner worlds while roaming his Midwestern homeland. He finds inspiration in asking cosmic questions and searching for solutions. Through seeking and exploring, discovery emerges bringing forth infinite possibilities in imagination. As a dreamer and creator, he relates personal experience with utopian ideals to tell a story in the universal language of art and music. The healing power and action of creative process itself drives much of his work as well as a steady stream of angst calmed with beauty observed on a shifting horizon of magic and mystery. To put it simply, he creates to heal past pain, to focus present circumstance, to shape future frontiers alongside infinite change. He currently lives and creates from his backyard studio in Lawrence, Kansas. He strives for a creative existence with intention and meaning daily.
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Susan Grace Suspended
Oil on Paper | 34" x 24" | 2022
Susan Grace is a painter who lives in Lawrence, KS. Her paintings have been widely exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the U.S. She has received numerous awards for her work, and her paintings are in many private and public collections, including the Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, KS and The Art of Emprise Collection, Wichita, KS. Although she studied painting informally in Athens, Greece, her academic background is primarily in literature and theater, and she taught at universities in the U.S. and at The American College of Greece in Athens, Greece. Her study of literature continues to inspire and influence her work. Her primary focus is on the figure, and she moves freely between representation and abstraction while using fragmentation and layering of separate images to create multiple possibilities for interpretation and experience.
Marty Olson Witness
Acrylic on Canvas | 36" x 36" x 2" | 2019
Marty is a lifelong resident of Lawrence. His artwork is in private collections around the country and locally. His ceaseless drive to create has lead to his receiving the Phoenix Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement in 2015.
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Alicia Kelly Sea of Blues
Cut and Sculpted Paper and Acrylic | 30" x 22’’ | 2023
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. Alicia has exhibited nationally and internationally – her most recent exhibitions include: Kansas City Artist Coalition(2020), Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer, Alaska(2019) and OpenBox, Porto, Portugal(2017). She has been an active member of The Paper Artist Collective and Guild of American Papercutters since 2017. Alicia is a paper arts and serigraphy instructor at The Lawrence Arts Center and Van Go Inc. in Lawrence, Kansas. She currently works out of her home studio.
Jen Unekis
Sleeping Through Dreams
Acrylic, Graphite, and Glass Pencil | 48" x 40" x 3" | 2024
Jen Unekis was born in Los Angeles, but spent her childhood in rural Kansas and in a small town in Eastern Idaho. Inspired by surface textures, she paints on a burnished and sealed Venetian plaster panel, choosing acrylic, graphite, China and glass pencil as her chosen media to create the multiple layers and movement found in her paintings. A combination of embracing the unexpected while creating with intention. Jen is Co-Coordinator of Art in the Park, was chosen as the featured artist for the 2019 Lawrence Arts Center Art Auction, has been collected nationally and internationally. Her paintings hang at the KU School of Business at Capitol Federal Hall, LMH’s West Campus and she was recently added to the permanent collection of the Mulvane Art Museum.
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Sarah Williams Bowser Road
Oil on Board | 18" x 24" | 2021
Sarah Williams was raised in Brookfield, Missouri, a rural Midwestern town. Her intimate, tightly-painted works often portray buildings such as gas stations, bungalows and the environments surrounding these structures. After earning a BFA from William Woods University in Missouri, Williams completed her MFA in Drawing and Painting at the University of North Texas in 2009. She now serves as Professor of Painting at Missouri State University in Springfield.
Roger Shimomura Ultra American
Acrylic on Panel | 18" x 18" x 2" | 2010
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.
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Margie Kuhn
Urban Botany 4
Graphite, Pastel, and Pencil on Paper | 22" x 30" | 2022
A Kansas native, Margie Kuhn is a visual artist focusing on material culture as an indicator of historical values and ideals. She has exhibited her drawings and paintings across the country, including The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Mulvane Art Museum, Springfield Art Museum, The National Academy of Design, as well as exhibitions in the Midwest and Northeast. Her work has been featured in Art Journeys American, Watercolor Artist Magazine, and numerous other books and journals. She has graduate degrees in both Painting and Art Museum Education, and taught at several institutions of higher education, including the University of Kansas. Kuhn shares her basement studio with two Cornish Rex cats, who often appear in her drawings.
Clare Doveton
Try to Keep What is Beautiful
Oil on Canvas | 24" x 30" | 2023
Clare Doveton is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Lawrence, Kansas. She creates work reflecting on solitude, nature, and the cycle of life and death. With decades of meditation practice playing an essential role in her process, paintings and drawings stem from solitary retreats to remote parts of the Tallgrass Prairie. Clare Doveton holds a BFA in Painting from Parsons School of Art and Design in NYC. Doveton has continued her education and research through pollinator conservation courses with both Xerces Society and the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service, and completed Permaculture Design Certification through Kansas Permaculture Collaborative. Her work can be found in public and private collections worldwide.
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Michael McCaffrey Cotter
Oil on Canvas | 72" x 54.5" x 2" | 2023
Michael received a B.F.A. from the University of Kansas in 2006 before receiving an M.F.A. in painting from Indiana University. In the winter of 2016, Michael was awarded a two-week residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Michael exhibits both regionally and nationally. He has exhibited 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. Michael’s work was published in Manifest Gallery’s International Painting Annual 5 and 9, and in 2015 and again in 2023 he received an international grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields foundation. In 2023 he spent 6 weeks living and painting in Ballycastle, Ireland on a Fellowship from the Ballinglen Arts Foundation. Currently, he is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas.
Tim Forcade
Regarding Fluidity III
Lacquered Pigment Print on Canvas | 39" x 58" | 2024
Tim Forcade is a multimedia artist who for over 50 years has created imagery inspired by light in all its forms. His work has been published, collected, and exhibited nationally and internationally. His work has always revolved around three core artistic passions: light, technology, and abstraction. The studio is irresistible. He is absorbed in a constant sequence of breakthroughs leading him deeper into light’s purity, technology’s limitless potential, and abstraction’s mystery. With these new works, he finds himself on loosely fitted training wheels, plunging down an insanely steep grade, and wildly laughing.
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Angie Pickman
Come Forth Into the Light of Things
Hand Cut Paper Collage | 37" x 49" | 2024
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.
Rick Stein
Figured Maple and Walnut Entry Table
Maple and Walnut Wood | 57" x 19" x 25" | 2024
Lawrence has been Rick Stein’s home for nearly 40 years. The first 20 or so were spent in the bicycle business, the balance as a furniture maker. The quiet, solitary nature of Stein’s work as a craftsperson contrasts dramatically to the frenzy of the retail world, and he will be forever grateful for the change. Early on, he studied on and off at a wonderful woodworking school in Maine, the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, and he owes a huge debt of gratitude to his local mentor, furniture maker Will Orvedal who has provided both creative inspiration and deep knowledge of the craft.
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Lindsay Pope
New York Times Breakfast
Acrylic on Canvas | 36" x 36" | 2023
Lindsay Pope is a professional Creative Director and Graphic Designer who recently moved to Lawrence from New York City where she developed her signature design esthetic. Her paintings are an extension of her graphic work where she continues to explore inspirational color combinations and clever subject matter.
Hong Zhang
Sunset Over Wetlands
Chinese Ink and Watercolor on Italian Fabric | 25" x 37" | 2023
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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Kristin Morland
Mirror Moon
Sequins, Beads, Thread | 36" diameter | 2021
Kristin Morland is a visual artist who works primarily with light, that takes form with hand sewn sequins and beads. For the past 20 years, 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 is-ness of life. Subject matter is based upon fleeting moments like driving past a field of wheat or snorkeling in the coral reefs of the Caribbean; joyful emotions and the play of light all join together in the creative process. Observing a moment in the ever-changing light; Kristin seeks to communicate our world most fully through the tools of her education, curiosity, and exploration.
Barbara Hall
Spanish Dancer
Oil on Canvas | 43" x 25" | 2024
Painting has always been Barbara Hall’s love, from childhood on. Her education was long and steady. Her senior year at the University of Kansas, she switched from painting to interior design. After receiving her Bachelor’s degree, Robert Sudlow encouraged her to try watercolor to round out her abilities while working toward a Master’s in painting. A heavy load of design jobs stopped her formal schooling. She then took night classes and workshops with famous artists. During the first part of her 40 years in Arizona, she painted mostly figures and landscapes in watercolor. Getting back into oil painting, Joyce Pike encouraged her to try painting still life. Barbara’s early jobs in design, store displays, and film are sources reflected in her paintings. She likes to use fun items suggesting entertaining company in her still life works. Dancing and everyday life is the subject for her figures. Barbara has exhibited throughout the US.
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Javy Ortiz STRBRST
Acrylic, Spray Paint, and Epoxy on Panel | 33" x 30" x 1.75" | 2024
Javy Ortiz is a Mexican-born interdisciplinary artist residing in Lawrence, KS. As a self-taught artist, Javy works prolifically to expand his knowledge and craftsmanship while embracing an experimental approach to creating. He pulls inspiration from personal experiences, as well as pop culture and contemporary social issues. Mixing and layering mediums such as acrylics, spray paint, and epoxy resin, Javy creates compositions that explore identity and resemble the path we navigate through our daily lives. Javy’s work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions regionally and can be found in many private collections. His work can also be found at River Rat Skate Shop, where he frequently collaborates with the shop on brand and product design. Most recently, Javy was commissioned as a lead artist for the new mural at La Estrella - Tienda Mexicana. He had a solo-exhibition at the Lawrence Arts Center in 2023, and will teach his first class at LAC in summer of 2024.
Margaret Weisbrod Morris Headed Home
Acrylic on Panel | 28" x 28" | 2023
Margaret Weisbrod Morris has a BFA is painting and printmaking from the University of Wisconsin and an MA from NYU. Her work travels the crossroads of reality, allegory, symbolism and the surreal; often incorporating dreams. She walks this talk by buying a lottery ticket each month. While she adores Lawrence and being the CEO of the Lawrence Arts Center, if she won the lottery, she’d pay off the entire staff’s students loans, set up a major endowment for the Arts Center, then move to the San Juan Islands in Washington and make art full time for the rest of her life.
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SILENT auction
Fally Afani
The Music Man
Photography | 20" x 16" | 2023
Fally Afani is an award-winning journalist with a career spanning more than two decades in media. She has worked extensively in radio, television, newspapers, magazines, and more. Fally’s work has been featured in magazines, newspapers, and television stations across Kansas. She has received several Kansas Association of Broadcasters awards as well as an Edward R. Murrow award for her online work in journalism. Fally is also the recipient of the Rocket Grant Award, which helped develop live music events for her community. In 2015, a video she made detailing one second of her life every day gained national attention after it was featured on BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post, and continues to make that video every year. Currently, she resides in Lawrence, Kansas, where she focuses on live events and photographs for various media entities and tourism boards.
Fally Afani
Blanche at PRIDE
Photography | 8" x 10" | 2023
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Ben Ahlvers
Terra Cotta and Glaze | 6" x 3" x 3" | 2023
Ben Ahlvers began his role as Gallery Director at the Lawrence Arts Center in the fall of 2009. Prior to that Ahlvers served as Associate Education Director at the Arts Center. Ahlvers has curated exhibitions and coordinated symposiums that have been featured in international publications. He also is an active artist in his own right, exhibiting regularly around the country. Ahlvers received his MFA from Ohio University in 2004, preceded by a BFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
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Devilish
Ben Ahlvers Dead Cup
Terra Cotta and Glaze | 12" x 10" x 8" | 2021
Stephanie Alaniz Waterford Glasses
Lithograph | 11" x 15" | 2023
Stephanie Alaniz (they/them) was born and raised in South Texas. They received their Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2016 from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi with an emphasis in Printmaking. They then went on to receive their Master of Fine Arts from West Virginia University in 2019. Stephanie’s current work focuses on normalizing insecurities, challenging anti-fat bias, discussing mental health issues, and the intersection of all of these topics. Through printmaking, textiles, drawing, and sculpture they are able to create work about these topics with the hope of inviting the viewer in to reflect on themself and how these topics influence the world around us. Stephanie has exhibited in numerous national and international exhibitions. They have also been included in a number of portfolio exchanges over the last eight years. Stephanie currently lives in Emporia, Kansas where they teach art at Emporia State University and the Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, Kansas.
Screenprint | 8"x10" | 2022
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Stephanie Alaniz Together
Katie Alldritt
Lovers Embrace in a Field of Flowers
Watercolor and Gouache | 15" x 12" | 2023
Katie Alldritt, or “Miss Katie” as her students call her, is a multimedia artist with a specialty in watercolor painting. Alldritt grew up in Lawrence and went on to be an arts instructor at the YMCA of the Rockies for nearly a decade. Alldritt left Colorado for Door County, Wisconsin, for two summers where she served as Arts Camp Director at their local arts center. She returned to Lawrence in 2009 when her daughter Lucy was born. Alldritt has been teaching and inspiring young artists at the Lawrence Arts Center as Lead Youth Visual Arts Instructor for the past seven years. She is inspired by her students, cats, and her love of animals in general.
Katie Alldritt Kitty Pals
Watercolor | 20" x 16" | 2023
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Steve Anderson For Ukraine: Strength & Resolve Amidst Chaos
Photography | 22" x 18" | 2022
When Ukraine was invaded in 2022, many people posted images of the Ukrainian flag or a field of sunflowers with blue sky above on their social media. While these images were beautiful, Steve Anderson felt the need to find an image that had a deeper meaning. “For Ukraine: Strength & Resolve Amidst Chaos” is a photograph, regardless of what it actually is, that depicts the determination of the people of Ukraine to survive the attempt to not only take over their country, but to completely destroy their cultural identity. This abstract image depicts the destruction in Ukraine, but more importantly, the strength and will of the people of Ukraine to overcome this monumental challenge. Steve Anderson spent four decades in music as a professional performer, teacher, administrator, and producer. Now retired, he has turned his creative activities to photography.
Sue Ashline
Blue Willow Still life
Gouache, Acrylic, and Sumi Ink on Paper | 28" x 36" x 2" | 2024
Except for a few years in the disco days, Sue Ashline has lived, painted, and shown work in Lawrence for decades. She is retired from her favorite job of all as the matter/framer at the Spencer Museum of Art. You can see her paintings on Instagram.
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Rachel Beer
Breaching the Confines
Stone Lithography | 18" x 14" | 2020
Rachel Beer is a visual artist based in the Midwest. She received her BFA in drawing and printmaking from the University of Oklahoma in May of 2019. She graduated with her MFA in printmaking from Northern Illinois University in May of 2023 and was recently selected as the 2023/2024 Printmaking Artist in Residence at the Lawrence Arts Center in Kansas. Rachel’s work explores the language of drawing in combination with various printmaking techniques. Through subtle mark-making, she devotes an attentive gaze towards the often-overlooked spaces that exist within her internal and external ecosystems.
Shawn Brackbill
Buffalo on the Prairie, Hermosa, SD, 2022
Ink Jet Print | 17" x 22" | 2022
Shawn Brackbill is a professional photographer living in Lawrence, KS. Primarily known for his music, fashion and editorial work, Shawn has shot for The New York Times, Vogue, Interview, Departures Magazine as well as record labels like Atlantic, Domino, Sub Pop and Secretly Canadian.
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Kim Brook
Six Siblings
Porcelain and Wood | 5" x 5" x 17" | 2024
Kim D. Brook is a ceramics artist whose functional work focuses on graceful proportions and subtle surface textures. Her most recent body of work utilizes a surface treatment called water etching. This creates a low-relief texture on her porcelain pieces and each piece has a unique design. Kim also carves into the clay when it is at a leather-hard stage and then fires it partially glazed, which allows the beauty and design of the clay to highlight one other. Kim also teaches ceramics at the Lawrence Arts Center.
Twiggy Cercy
Miss You Before You’re Gone
Ceramic | 22" x 18" x 18" | 2024
Twiggy Cercy is a queer interdisciplinary ceramics artist. They earned their BFA in ceramics from Northwest Missouri State University and recently graduated with their MFA in ceramics from Pennsylvania State University. Twiggy cultivates their own experience of being a queer person rooted in the heart of the midwest. Their work is meant to question the construct of gender and performance through sculpture and wearable art. Twiggy’s focus is to call attention to the uncomfortable dynamic of being raised in a conservative system feeling lost and unseen, allowing for younger queer people to project their own trials of growing up and defying the construct that raised them.
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Rutherford Chang
The White Album Composite
Double LP with Poster Insert | 12" x 12" | 2013
Rutherford Chang is a conceptual artist who was born in Houston and currently lives and works in New York and Shanghai. He received a BA from Wesleyan University in 2002. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including White Space in Beijing, Brown Gallery in London, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. His work uses systematic processes to collect, organize, and re-arrange cultural products to further explore their original nature. Chang’s most recent exhibition, We Buy White Albums, has been featured in many publications, including Dust & Grooves and The New York Times.
Ellen Chindamo
14K Gold Earrings
14K Gold | 2" drop | 2024
Ellen Chindamo is a native Kansan from Lawrence. She received her fine arts degree from the University of Kansas, majoring in metalsmithing. As former Director of Education at the Lawrence Arts Center, she remains avid about the arts. In keeping with her passion for philanthropy and giving back to the community, Chindamo works as the Director of Development for Bishop Seabury Academy and continues to design and create her jewelry for commissions, organizations, and individuals.
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Jonathan Christensen Caballero Sun/Sol
Earthenware and Gold Luster | 10.5" x 10.5" x 3.5" | 2022
Jonathan Christensen Caballero is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Utah. He received his A.S. in Art from Snow College, his B.F.A in Ceramics and Sculpture from Utah State University and his M.F.A. in Ceramics from Indiana University. Caballero has exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as the Clay Center of New Orleans in Louisiana, Standard Ceramic Supply in Pennsylvania, Carbondale Clay Center in Colorado, and Tsukuba Museum of Art in Japan. He recently moved to Lawrence, KS and became the Interdisciplinary Ceramic Research Center Artist in Residence at the University of Kansas. Jonathan’s work has been featured on the cover of Ceramics Monthly’s September 2020 Issue and he is a recipient of the ISC Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. His work focuses on the human figure and advocates for the Latin American labor community.
Mona Cliff Owing
Canotype | 18" x 12" | 2024
Mona Cliff (Aniiih) is a Transdisciplinary indigenous visual artist. She explores the subject of contemporary Native American identity and culture through her use of traditional Native crafting methods such as seed bead embroidery and fabric applique. Beadwork & sewing applique have been a primary foundation of her artist practice. Mona acquired a B.F.A in Printmaking from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA. Honoring native culture, She has continued to work on her art combining contemporary subject matters with indigenous methods of crafting. Her art also focuses on how traditional arts are passed down between generations of women.
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Janet Davidson-Hues
Straight for the Heart
Intaglio and Chine Colle | 27" x 36" | 1988
Janet Davidson-Hues examines language and image to set up a tension between the verbal and the visual. She is a MFA graduate from the University of Kansas and former Associate Professor of Art at Indiana State University. Her work can be viewed on her website.
Jennifer Davis Bird/Dog
Serigraph #15/160 | 18" x 15" | 2016
Jennifer Davis is a Minneapolis-based artist known for her imaginative paintings of surreal creatures and whimsical characters. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at venues such as The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN); The DeVos Art Museum (Marquette, MI); Soo Visual Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN); Foster Museum (Eau Claire, WI); Bloomington Art Center (Bloomington, MN); and Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (Boone, NC), as well as several galleries in major cities across the United States. Davis is a recipient of the 2013 Next Step Fund Grant from the Minnesota Regional Arts Council/McKnight Foundation. She holds a BFA from the University of Minnesota.
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Ann Dean Reflections at the Kansas River
Digital Photography on Metal | 12" x 18" | 2023
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, Ann currently teaches photography at the Lawrence Arts Center and is a freelance photographer specializing in event, portrait, and commercial photography.
Dehmie Dehmlow Platter
Cone 5 Ceramics | 10" x 10" x 1.5" | 2023
Dehmie Dehmlow grew up in Denver, Colorado. She makes pottery and mixed media modular sculptures that tell stories using found materials, ceramics, and other fabricated objects. She has been teaching ceramics and sculpture for about 5 years. She earned her BA in Ceramics and Pre-Medical Sciences from Colorado State University. In addition to ceramics Dehmie’s background is in caregiving for elderly and adults with disabilities. Dehmie was a ceramics intern at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado before she was selected as the 2019 Salad Days Artist in Residence at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine. Dehmie then completed a Post-Baccalaureate program at Louisiana State University. She received her MFA from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2022 and then completed a residency at PrattMWP in New York. She is currently the Ceramic Artist in Residence at Lawrence Arts Center in Kansas. Dehmie enjoys being outside with her dog, Hadlee, and observing the world and people around her.
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Linda Reimond Arts-Based Preschool & Kelly Galloway Kindergarten
Playful Prints
Watercolor and Acrylic | 16" x 19" | 2024
Using circles, “Playful Prints” reminds us of the importance of connection, belonging and play in our lives. This piece is a collaboration between each of the six preschool classes and the kindergarten class this year. Individual classes decided on their color and technique, carefully layering their prints. Special thanks to Kristin Morland for adding the sewing details with one of the classes and to Michael Krueger for framing the piece and adding a little glow.
Deborah Dillon Meditation
Delica Beads, Findings, and Cord | 8" x 11" x 2" | 2024
The Lawrence Arts Center has been a rich resource of creativity throughout Deborah Dillon’s life. Since it’s inception 50 years ago, she has been a student, a parent of students (sons), and an employee. LAC has offered her life-long learning opportunities and enrichment. After teaching arts-based preschool for 35 years, LAC was the first place she approached in her retirement, initially as a volunteer. It was important for her to give back to a program that gave her so much. Deborah strives to be a part of the wonderfully creative staff and the great things happening at LAC. With the skills she gained from LAC, her artwork takes many forms; origami, book binding, stained glass, even leatherwork to create guitar straps. Deborah is honored to be a part of the auction as LAC celebrates it’s 50th year.
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Alycia Earhart Red Tulip
Acrylic on Canvas and Wood | 25" x 21" x 1.5" | 2024
Alycia Earhart is a self-taught painter, illustrator, and metalsmith living in Lawrence, KS. After graduating with a degree in Art History from KU in 2010 and working in various art museums and galleries across Illinois and Kansas, Alycia began her jewelry brand, Oxbow Studio. After 5 years of working exclusively with metal and stone and giving birth to her first child, her creative focuses began to shift towards painting. Studio time was now confined to short nap times and the loud workings of a metalsmith studio were quickly replaced with the quietness of painting. The intricacies of motherhood continue to shape and intertwine itself in her creative work, and rather than fighting to control them, Alycia has learned to embrace them. Her current work aims to capture the whimsy and wonder of everyday simplicities through bright colors, bold forms, playful patterns, and organic textures. Her goal is to create pieces that make her happy and hope they make others happy, too!
Alycia Earhart Bowl of Oranges
Acrylic on Canvas and Wood | 21" x 17" x 1.5" | 2024
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Alycia
Earhart Sardine Earrings
Sterling Silver | 3" x 1" | 2024
Gryffin Eason Water Strider
Acrylic | 13" x 20" x 1" | 2024
Gryffin Eason is an artist born and raised in Lawrence, Kansas. They’ve experimented with styles and mediums but usually draw inspiration and energy from the natural world around them. Much of their work captures the pattern and flow of growing things. Making art is a meditative practice, and they are drawn to delicate, repetitive work which necessitates connection.
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Connie Ehrlich
Mother of Tenderness (Eleusa)
Egg Tempera on Board | 6" x 5" | 2023
Connie Ehrlich’s icons are rooted in the 15th century Russian School and based on Byzantine prototypes. To write an icon, she uses egg tempera with natural pigments and genuine gold leaf on a gessoed wood panel. Most art exists in only the physical world. An icon exists in two- the physical and the spiritual world. The icon is a quiet, sacred object. The magical nuances of light, sparkle of gold, and layers of color aluminates with life.
Roberta Eichenberg
Dark Tiger Lilly
Blown Glass | 15" x 8" x 5" | 2020
Born in San Bernardino California, Roberta Eichenberg was inspired from an early age by her mother to appreciate the importance of the creative process. She obtained a BA from California State University at Chico. She then earned her Master of Arts from California State University at Chico. Awarded a Graduate Assistantship at Ohio State University, Columbus. Roberta studied under Professor, Richard Harned and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. After graduating she accepted a position at the internationally renowned Pilchuck Glass School. In 2000, she relocated to Emporia, Kansas and has taught in the Department of Art at Emporia State University. During the summers she has guided and assisted with courses and workshops at Pilchuck Glass School, Pittsburg Glass Center, Penland School of Crafts, and was awarded several artist residencies.
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Barry Fitzgerald Blazing Trails
Acrylic on Wood | 10" x 10" | 2005
Barry Fitzgerald is an illustration professor at KU. He has been in over 100 juried and invitational exhibitions including shows in New York, Los Angeles, and London. He has received over 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.
Herb Friedson Alien Icon
Enamel on Copper | 36" x 16" x 1.5" | 1998
It all began in high school when Herb Friedson’s art teacher recognized his talent in painting, sculpture and textile design and asked him if he would like to learn how to enamel. Enameling was not taught in the curriculum but if he were willing to stay after school for lessons she would volunteer to teach him. He agreed and that is when his enameling career began. After he learned the enameling basics , he gradually developed his skills into more complicated and intricate enameling techniques. His enamels have been displayed in over 150 shows including those at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Butler Institute of Art, Nelson Gallery, Miami National Ceramic Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Fredericksburg (VA) Center for the Creative Arts, Wichita Center for the Arts, Miami National Ceramic Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Crafts , New York, and Biennale Internationale, Limoge, France.
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Richard Frishman
Medgar Evers’ House; Jackson, Mississippi
Archival Pigment Print | 19" x 26" | 2018
Richard Frishman’s photographs explore how the built environment reveals our cultural histories. In 2021 Frishman was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for photography. The book of his current documentary project, Ghosts of Segregation, is being published by Celadon/Macmillan in February 2024. The Ghosts traveling exhibition premiered at the Lawrence Arts Center in 2021. His work is included in numerous private and institutional collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Amon Carter Museum. Frishman’s photography has been honored with a 2021 Leonian Foundation grant, the 2019 Curator’s Choice Award from Review Santa Fe, the 2019 PhotoNOLA Portfolio Review Award, and two Sony World Photography Awards (2018). He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for feature photography. Frishman lectures around the US about the intersection of the designed environment, history, and social issues.
Matthew Willie Garcia
Closed, Open, Isolated or the Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe
Mokuhanga | 25.5" x 19" | 2021
Matthew Willie Garcia is a printmaker whose work moves far beyond the traditional print media. Garcia specializes in what he calls 4D printmaking, which includes screen printing, projection-mapped animation, large-scale installation, and drawing. His work explores ideas of queer quantum mechanics, intersectional existence, and speculative/science fiction identity narratives through color abstraction and nonrepresentational forms. Garcia was born and raised in Tulare, Calif. He received a BFA in printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the University of Kansas. Garcia has shown his work throughout the Midwest, and recently his work was part of the Queer Abstraction group exhibition at the Nerman Contemporary Museum of Art. Garcia is currently teaching at the University of Kansas.
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D.W. Gates
Copper Leaf
Photograph | 18" x 30" | 2008
D.W. Gates is a Lawrence area photographer. He specializes in nature, land, water and skyscapes.
Jan Gaumnitz
Lotus
Acrylic on Canvas | 48" x 24" | 2019
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. Metal sculptures “Red Dancer” at the Lawrence Arts Center and “Bloom” at the KU Lied Center, installed in September 2018, were created by Gaumnitz. Jan is represented by the Eva Reynolds Fine Arts Gallery in Overland Park, Kansas.
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Osbaldo Gonzalez-Reyes
In ītmēthāl- Renewal
Earthenware, Yucca Fibers, Mulberry Wood, Parrot Feathers, and Beeswax | 8" x 8" x 7" | 2024
Osbaldo was born in Emporia, Kansas and then lived in Mexico until his family moved back to the United States before he began school. Growing up, he found it challenging to communicate and connect with his peers and adults and saw art as a means of expression. Osbaldo earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Kansas and is currently in graduate school. His area of interest is immigrant, migrant, and refugee community health. His pieces are inspired by his family’s Huasteca heritage and experiences as a child of immigrant parents living in Kansas.
Brian Goodman Wallace Co. Kansas Pole Bending
Photographic Print | 21.5" x 33" | 2014
Brian Goodman is a professional commercial photographer born in Texas, from Missouri(Go Mules!), and living in Lawrence, KS. When he’s not shooting, you can find him backpacking and petting dogs.
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Jesse Gray Untitled
Acrylic on Canvas | 22" x 30" | 2024
Jesse Gray originally hails from Austin, Texas., but transplanted to Lawrence in 2007. His work has roots in storytelling and pop surrealism, commonly depicting figurative subjects or objects in service of a visual pun, over-committing to the bit. His paintings, assemblages, and sculptures are in collections from the Midwest to Texas, to Switzerland, and several pieces are on view locally in downtown Lawrence establishments. Jesse continues to explore the potential of new mediums and modalities while keeping true to the beauty of hand-made marks and reflection on the passing of time.
Lisa Grossman
Winter Field
Oil on Panel | 10" x 12" | 2003
Lisa Grossman is a painter and printmaker based in Lawrence since 1996, whose work focuses on the Tallgrass prairies and river valleys of Eastern Kansas. Grossman has had thirty-plus solo shows around the Midwest and on either coast and over 1700 of her works are included in public, private, corporate, and museum collections. Grossman is a 2019 Phoenix Award recipient, an honor from the City of Lawrence for artistic achievement, as well as an 8-time artist-in-resident in our national parks. She has degrees from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the University of Kansas, and is represented by Haw/Contemporary in Kansas City, Missouri, and SNW Gallery, in Manhattan, KS.
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Lisa Grossman
Konza - Smoke
Oil on Panel | 9" x 20" | 2007
Richard Gwin Mi Daiquiri en el Floridita
Photograph | 11" x 17" | 2000
Richard Gwin graduated from Pratt High School in 1968 and attended Pratt Junior College. His aspirations led him to transfer to the University of Kansas to study Fine Arts. He then set his sights on the Photojournalism School. During his three semesters in the photojournalism program, Richard received a part-time position at the Lawrence Journal-World. After two years, he became the head photographer, a position he held for the next few years. For the next forty years, he held the role of Senior Photographer, winning several awards with NPPA , and the Associated Press, having the best sports photograph Nationally in September of 1979, creating two books, one is the 150th Anniversary re-ride of the Pony Express, and a detailed book of 20 years of Travel and change in Cuba, both with accompanying videos, retiring in 2016. He is now giving tours of the Island.
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Richard Gwin
Fishing with Friends
Photograph | 11" x 17" | 2000
Stan Herd
Sunflower Field Print | 22.5"x 28" | 1986
Stan Herd is a Kansas-based Earthworks artist working in Brazil to create a permanent four acre design, to help build a platform for cultural and humanitarian relationships between the two counties. Herd’s work has been seen on: CBS Sunday Morning; Fox Television Breakfast Time; Dateline NBC; CNN News; Good Morning America ABC; and National Public Radio, and All Things Considered.
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Blanca Herrada
Gee Obaby
Oil on Canvas | 12" x 12" | 2021
Blanca Herrada is a Queer, Mexican American Artist living and working in Lawrence, Kansas. Blanca enjoys working within the intersections of art and activism and is passionate about their community. In 2022, Blanca was chosen as one of 52 BIPOC arts and culture leaders selected for the inaugural National Leaders of Color Fellowship. In 2024, she was selected for the fourth cycle of the artsEquity BIPOC Leadership Circle. Blanca enjoys working with diverse communities to spread her love for the arts and strives to make art spaces more accessible and welcoming to everyone.
Pensando en Ti
Oil on Panel | 22" diameter | 2024
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Amy Hilger
Pet Portrait Commission
Graphite on Paper | 11" x 14" | 2024
Amy is a self taught artist and a Lawrence, KS native. She has been exploring her love of animals through her graphite drawings of pets and native wildlife. One of the great loves of her adult life has been her Great Danes, Indy (lost three years ago) and Daisy. Personally understanding how precious the connection to a beloved pet can be, she’s honored and delighted when commissioned to draw each pet portrait. Whichever animal is on her drawing desk, Amy always hopes to bring to life their soulful nature in every drawing.
Jennifer Holt
Untitled (Wall Sconce)
Slip Cast Porcelain | 12" x 3" x 4" | 2022
Jen Holt's porcelain sculpture and installation revolves around notions of time, place, and memory. Her work has been exhibited in numerous national and international exhibitions, including: Clay: Time, Place & Memory; Phoenix Sky Harbor Art Museum, AZ; The Dorothy Saxe Invitational; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; and In Sight; Holter Museum of Art, Helena MT. She has been an artist in residence at the Archie Bray Foundation, Watershed Center, Lawrence Art Center, Red Lodge Clay Center, and attended an international residency at FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums in China. Her artwork has been published in national and international publications and resides in many private and public collections. Holt received her BFA in Sculpture from Ohio University, and MFA in Ceramics from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. She currently resides in east-central Kansas where she is a practicing artist and Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Emporia State University.
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Brian Horsch
Wood Fired Kansas Buffalo
Wood Fired Ceramics | 9" x 12" x 6" | 2023
Brian J. Horsch has been creating hand built and thrown ceramic sculpture since 2008. He tends to focus on human and animal forms both real and imagined. He has a special affinity for farmers, ranchers, and indigenous Midwest critters. Many of his pieces are functional such as vases, mugs, jars, bowls, and cups. Prior to his interest in clay, he was carving sculpture from various hard woods. The piece in this show fired in a soda wood kiln at a temperature exceeding 2400 degrees F. Brian lives close to nature near Stull, Kansas.
Brian Horsch
Wood Fired Walrus
Wood Fired Ceramic with Porcelain Tusks | 8" x 11" x 6" | 2022
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Dorothy Hoyt-Reed Geode Power
Stained Glass | 11" diameter | 2024
Dorothy Hoyt-Reed retired from teaching Spanish at Basehor Linwood in 2013. She has lived in Lawrence for 32 years, except for one year teaching in Missouri and 6 months studying in Costa Rica. Dorothy always lived in the area spending the first half of her life in Ottawa. She is married with 2 children, 2 grandchildren, and 2 of the cutest great-granddaughters in the whole world. Dorothy studied stained glass at the Art Center with Shanna Wagner and operates her own studio, Oz Art Glass.
Thomas Huang Camp/Picnic SetCutting Board & Spatula Spreader
Oak and Cherry Wood | 1" x 13" x 5" | 2023
Tom Huang holds an MFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and is an Associate Professor of Design at The University of Kansas. He has exhibited nationally and is a Fellow of the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. He has held exhibitions at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art and other nationally acclaimed art centers, has been published in American Craft Magazine, in E. Ashley Rooney’s - Bespoke: Furniture from 101 International Artists. His functional and non-functional work challenges the traditional boundaries between Art, Craft, and Design.
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Thomas Huang Wooden Spoon
Basswood | 1" x 6.5" x 1.5" | 2024
David Hughes
Hank Williams
Pigment Print | 23" x 18" | 2017
Having studied at Twickenham College of Technology, David Hughes dabbled with the postal service, TV graphics and road sweeping until along came a job from the Observer. And so started a life of commissioned illustration and authorial work. The latter is best exemplified by his self-penned books including Walking the Dog and, more recently, The Pillbox which has been variously described by reviewers as uncomfortable and disturbing.
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Boat I
Oil on Canvas | 9" x 12" | 2023
John Hulsey’s paintings are included in many hundreds of private and corporate collections including the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, The Hudson River Museum, The AlbrechtKemper Museum of Art, and the United States Embassies in Australia and Jordan. John’s art has been featured in numerous books and art magazines: American Artist magazine, Watercolor, Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Review and International Artist. He has been awarded residencies by the National Parks Service at Glacier National Park, Yosemite National Park, and Rocky Mountain National Park. In 2019, he created a seven-part series of articles for International Artist, A Painter’s Journey, which chronicles the development of his solo exhibition, Transcendence, opening February 2023 at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art. In 2023, John’s artwork and interview was placed in a time capsule by NASA’s Viper Lunar Rover on the South Pole of the moon as part of the Lunar Codex project.
Watercolor | 9" x 12" | 2022
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John Hulsey
Studio
John Hulsey Dawn Road
John Hulsey
A Warm Day
Oil on Canvas | 7.75" x 9.5" | 2018
Stephen Johnson Wetlands
Oil on Panel | 8.5" x 11.5" | 2024
Stephen was the featured artist for the Lawrence Arts Center Art Auction in 2006 and the recipient of the Governor‘s Award for Individual Artist in 2005. He is known for his wide range of painting styles, venturing from abstraction to hyperrealism. He is a nationally decorated author/illustrator of many beloved children’s books such as “My Big Red Fire Truck” and “Alphabet City,” which received a Caldecott Honor, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year Award, and Silver & Gold Medals from the Society of Illustrators in New York City. His original artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the country and his large-scale public artwork can be found in subway stations in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and locally at the Lied Center of Kansas and the Lenexa City Center Library. Stephen‘s work is currently on view at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. and later this spring at The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures in Kansas City.
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Stephen Johnson Symphony in White and Grays Oil on Paper and Mounted to Panel | 4" x 5" | 2024
Stephen Johnson Symphony in Green, White and Red Oil on Panel | 4" x 5" | 2024
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Stephen Johnson
The Letter F
CMYK Print | 18" x 14.5" | 2014
Ted Johnson
Athlete Looking Over His Right Shoulder
Blue Pastel on Grey Paper | 22" x 17" | 1986
Professor Emeritus J. Theodore (“Ted”) Johnson taught in the French and Humanities department at KU from 1968-2001. As specialist in 19th- and 20th-century poetry, Marcel Proust, and the interrelations of literature and the visual arts, Ted is known and beloved for his Socratic teaching and for his annual Stop Day tours of the KU campus. While at KU he received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Mortar Board’s recognition as an Outstanding Educator, and the H.O.P.E. award to Honor an Outstanding Progressive Educator in 1992. In the 1980s he became a founding member of the Valley Lane Studios, a weekly life drawing group which continues today. His original life drawings from these sessions are in private collections and in the permanent collection of the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art.
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Lora Jost
Bunny Love
Scratchboard | 11" x 11" | 2023
Lora Jost is a Lawrence-based studio artist. Her work includes imaginative drawings on paper and scratchboard, mixed-media collage, mosaics, community projects, and illustration. While working in several different media, her consistent themes, style, and quirky visual sensibility bring unity to her work as a whole. Themes in her work include climate change, animal extinction, birds, violence, beauty, whimsy, love, and peace. She has widely exhibited theme-based bodies of work, and recently exhibited at Theatre Lawrence with Cathy Ledeker in a two-person show called Parallels Skewed. Jost’s 2014-mosaic mural, Nearly Spring, is a permanent feature of the Free State Brewery, and in 2014 she received Lawrence’s Phoenix Award for outstanding artistic achievement. Jost enjoys teaching adult drawing, collage, and creative process classes at the Lawrence Arts Center.
Carly Kimbrough Strata
Oxidized Sterling Silver, Rutilated Quartz | 1" x 1" | 2024
Growing up in a small Kansas town, Carly Kimbrough admired her grandmother’s collection of fine jewelry. Carly received one piece every Christmas, and she treasures them as connections to family and tradition. Carly’s passion for jewelry drove her to pursue a design degree from KU and develop her distinctive style at such companies as Melissa Joy Manning in Berkeley, California. Carly 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. Carly resides in Kansas City and teaches art.
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Silver Candle Stick Holders | 1" x 2" each | 2020
Silver | 1" x 1" | 2014
Bailey Kivett grew up making jewelry. She would gather up baby-sitting funds and spend every penny at the local Michael‘s. She was the queen of friendship bracelets, shrinky dinks, and anything she could find to bead. At the University of Kansas, she dabbled in a variety of subjects and mediums before she landed in a beginning jewelry class. With a saw or torch in hand, she was at home. Kivett continues to create jewelry with an emphasis on spreading a positive message. She is also a full-time high school art teacher and shares her craft with children and adult students at the Lawrence Arts Center. She has a creative home with three amazing children.
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Carly Kimbrough Stardust
Sterling
Bailey Kivett Tree Necklace
Sterling
Michael Krueger Penny for Democracy
Colored Pencil on Paper with Custom Frame | 11" x 8.5" | 2023
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 in Lawrence, KS, a Love Librarian, an Honorary Resident Dropper, and a Tamarind Artist.
Elizabeth Layton (1909-1993) a native of Wellsville, Kansas began drawing in 1977 at the age of sixty-eight when she took a drawing class at a local university. In class she learned to use the technique of “blind” contour drawing, in which the artist looks at the paper only for points of reference, concentrating on the subject reflected in the mirror rather than the line being drawn on the paper. Every day, Layton worked at creating self-portraits that reflect her response to contemporary social issues. That fall, a local newspaper reporter, Don Lambert, was searching for an interesting subject for an article and stumbled upon the class display at the college. Upon discovering the drawings of this “old woman from small-town America,” Don became her biggest fan and promoter - and to this day continues to tirelessly promote her drawings and her story.
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Color Lithograph on Rives BFK, #20/100 | 27.5" x 35" | 1986
Elizabeth “Grandma” Layton, 1909-1993 Cinderella
RAFFLE
Elizabeth “Grandma” Layton, 1909-1993
Affection Connection
Print | 22" x 16" | 1989
Ladies Choice Hand Cut Paper | 13" x 13" x 1" | 2021
Rosa Leff grew up seeing no distinction between fine art and craft. What mattered was that things were made by hand and done well. It is with that in mind that she creates her hand cut paper pieces. Each of her papercuts is cut by hand from a single sheet of paper using a knife. Her cityscapes are based on photos she’s taken in her neighborhood and all over the world. Leff delights in bringing a modern, urban perspective to a traditional folk medium. She has served on the board of The Guild of American Papercutters. In addition to being a GAP member she is a member of The Paper Artist Collective. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Her work has been acquired by The Colored Girls Museum, The Museum of International Folk Art, and The Canton Museum of Art. She is the recipient of a 2021 Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Award, the 2021 Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize, and the 2023 360 Xochi Quetzal BIPOC Residency.
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Matthew Lord Donut Toad
Gouache | 8" x 8" x 1" | 2021
Matthew Lord is an artist who draws, paints and occasionally prints. As a child, Matthew voraciously consumed television, played video games, collected comic books and entertained himself for hours by drawing at the kitchen table. As an adult, he is still at it, making art with a playful sensibility that incorporates fantastic elements with realism. Matthew’s art tells thoughtful stories drawn from his curiosity for the natural world and a love of mythology. His projects, commissions and collaborations vary from small paintings, to gigantic woodcut prints, to a moving mural on wheels resembling a jackalope. Matthew’s ultimate goal in creating is to spark wonder with his weird beautiful art. Matthew lives and makes artwork in Lawrence, KS. His fingers are often covered in ink and he still draws at a kitchen table.
Amanda Maciuba Tributary I
Intaglio and Laser-Cut Relief | 21.5" x 28" | 2023
Born and raised in the Buffalo, NY area, Amanda Maciuba graduated from the University at Buffalo with a degree in Visual Studies. She has a MFA in printmaking and a Certificate of Book Arts from the University of Iowa. Amanda Maciuba’s work is concerned with the landscapes, communities, development practices and environmental practices throughout the United States. The work, which consists of drawing, printmaking, book arts and animation, considers how humans influence and attempt to change, destroy and recreate the natural environments around them. She shows her work regularly throughout the United States and has participated in artist residencies at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Fire Island National Seashore, the Lawrence Arts Center, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, the Kathmandu International Artist Residency and the Haystack Open Studio Residency. Currently, she teaches printmaking, drawing and book arts at Mount Holyoke College in Western Massachusetts.
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Liza MacKinnon
Lutie’s Rose Garden
Kansas Maps, Origami, Velvet Ribbon, and Gouache
32" x 25" x 3" | 2021
Liza MacKinnon is a self-taught mixed-media artist and arts educator with 15+ years of experience in teaching, freelance graphic design, and exhibited artwork. Working in Lawrence, KS, she has shown regionally in the Midwest, as well as NM, WA, CA, IL, SD and TX. Liza has exhibited in solo, paired, open group and juried shows. She has pieces in private collections all over the US and six of her pieces are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Public Library and the Lucas Grassroots Art Center. Her work is currently represented by the Edition ONE gallery in Santa Fe and the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in Washington State. Liza specializes in half-scale historic costumes made of paper, creating in-depth studies of women in history. In 2024, she was awarded a fellowship at the Women’s International Study Center in Santa Fe. Liza looks forward to expanding to a full-scale adult 1870 garment made from the historical archives of the Acequia Madre House.
Emily Markoulatos Into the Abyss
Sterling Silver and Crazy Lace Agate | 3.5" x 2" | 2024
Emily Markoulatos is a Lawrence Kansas artist and teacher. Her works incorporate a wide range of art media including metalsmithing, stone sculpting, ceramics, woodburning and painting. Currently Emily’s primary medium is metalsmithing. She takes inspiration from the beautiful mid-western landscapes and natural phenomena. Emily teaches metalsmithing and ceramics at Lawrence High School.
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Helen Martin Wheat Bowl
White Stoneware | 10" x 10" x 3.5" | 2023
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. In addition to maintaining her own studio, Helen takes ceramics classes at the Lawrence Arts Center, sells her pottery at the downtown Saturday Lawrence Farmers Market, and welcomes special orders. Her main outlet is selling at the Downtown Lawrence Farmers Market.
Maria Martin
Stepping Stones
Acrylic, Monotype, and Collage | 30" x 13" | 2024
Maria S. Martin, born in Philadelphia, PA has called Lawrence, KS home since 1984. Working as a mixed media abstract artist, she studied art in Philadelphia and then at the University of Kansas and continues to take art studio classes and technique workshops. She works in acrylic and oil paints as well as collage adding a mix of her sketches, small paintings, photographs and found objects. Texture and surface treatment are important aspects of her work. As the artist, the unpredictability and sense of discovery is very exciting. Her ultimate goal is to create a work that engages the viewer, and takes them on their journey. Maria is active in the Lawrence Art Guild, and serves as its President. Maria works from her studio gallery, Creative Mass, in downtown Lawrence, KS
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Theresa Martin On the Red Line
Linocut | 29" x 23" | 2024
Theresa Martin studied printmaking with John Talleur at the University of Kansas in the 1980s, between earning a useless BA in philosophy at Harvard and an equally useless MA in creative writing at Temple. After a 25-year art-hiatus during which she became a high school English teacher, raised a family, and only made art at the kitchen table, Martin took up printmaking again after being exposed to Mexican relief prints. She mostly works in linoleum. She has exhibited in national juried shows, including the International Print Center of New York’s New Prints and the Boston Printmakers’ North American Print Biennial.
Marshall Maude Water
Wood Fired Porcelain | 8" x 10" x 5" | 2021
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. Marshall has been an artist-in-residence 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 '16, NAU Museum of Art '17, Lanning Gallery '18, and the James May Gallery '19.
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Eliza Mayo
The Gift of Gifts
Mixed Media | 17" x 14" | 2023
Eliza Mayo is an abstract, mixed media artist based in the Lawrence. Her work is a tangible expression of an intuitive, emotive, process-driven conversation between herself and the work. She is intrigued by the tension between calm and chaos and is inspired by the things around her that hold a secret history. She attempts to reveal and hopes to connect by creating work with visceral resonance. She received a BFA in Graphic Design from Ohio University. It was in San Francisco, while working in publishing, where she was first introduced to monotype printmaking (in the back-room workshop of an unassuming gallery in a small alleyway) that her art making journey was ignited. As an artist she is still, and will always be, just at play.
Missy McCoy Apples with Soon to be Anachronism
Oil on Canvas | 14" x 11" x 1.5" | 2022
Missy McCoy is a KU grad with a BFA in textile design. She has painted numerous murals in Lawrence, including Footprints and Cottin‘s Hardware. She now resides and paints in rural Jefferson county.
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Missy McCoy
Public Transportation on Hydra, Greece
Oil on Canvas | 16" x 20" x 1.5" | 2014
Travis Millard
Pet Portrait Commission
Mixed Media | 10" x 8" | 2024
Travis Millard is an American artist, musician and founder of Fudge Factory Comics. His work spans over twenty years of self-published zines, gallery exhibitions and notable commercial projects. Illustrations have appeared in Playboy, Hollywood Reporter, Mad Magazine, Wired, and many more. Travis’ work has also been featured on record covers for Dinosaur Jr, Kurt Vile, Aesop Rock, The Get Up Kids, and others. Recently, Travis produced & art directed the indie video game “Freedom Finger” ~ a bat$#%! crazy space shooter ~ out now on Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and Steam.
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Gerry Miller Lessons
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas | 24" x 48" | 2022
Gerry Miller is a University of Kansas art department graduate, class of 1977.
Chris Millspaugh
Mire Pral at the Taproom
Ink and Gouache | 8" x 10" | 2024
Chris Millspaugh is a small design studio that specializes in brand identity, logo design, print design and old fashioned letterpress printing in Lawrence, KS. Chris offers smart, simple design solutions that are hand-crafted and well thought out. He still sketches ideas on paper and believes there should be research and strategy behind every project. Design is about communication and not decoration. Millspaugh also believes in collaborating with his clients every step of the way – it takes a team to do great work. Chris has a network of some very talented writers, photographers, programmers, illustrators, printers and fabricators that he can call on to collaborate. Chris is also active in the community and currently serves on the following boards: Lawrence Preservation Alliance, Kansas State Fiddling & Picking Championships and formerly the Lawrence Chamber Orchestra.
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Rick Mitchell
Petaluma Sunshine
Archival Color Photograph | 23" x 28.5" | 2019
Rick Mitchell is an independent artist, photographer and writer living in Lawrence, Kansas. He earned a BFA degree in Painting from the University of Kansas, an MFA in Art from Rutgers University and was an auditor in photography and the history of photography at Princeton University. From 1974 to 1992, he taught photography at Rutgers University. From 1993 to 2009, he was Director of the Gallery and Special Projects at the Lawrence Arts Center.
Jeromy Morris Climate of Chaos
Acrylic, Spray Paint and Toner on Panel | 24" x 18" | 2023
Jeromy Morris was born in Denver, CO and now lives and produces in Lawrence, KS. Morris has a bachelor’s degree in Visual Communications and Graphic Design from the University of Kansas. He is a founding member of Fresh Produce Art Collective, Cider Gallery Curator, and Owner of SeedCo Studios. His work is in numerous private and corporate collections. Morris is constantly finding new techniques to express his creativity through multiple mediums. He fuses together process to “build moods” on wood panel. Inspired by chaos and the mundane, he seeks out subtleties and embraces the accidental. Morris’ work deals with interactions and happenings relating to consumerism and advertising, urban ruins and type decay, nature vs. industry, and the equilibrium and fusion thereof.
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Molly Murphy Fire
Oil on Panel | 10" x 8" | 2024
Molly Murphy is a Lawrence-based painter creating works inspired by systems and relationships in the natural world. With the tumult of the last couple years, her work moved from a studio with florescent lights to state parks, fishing lakes, forests and flint hills with an eye to the world that shelters us. Molly has worked in numerous capacities within the local art scene, including serving on the Lawrence Arts Center Board of Directors and teaching at the Lawrence Arts Center. She has coordinated hundreds of shows for local artists and businesses over the past two decades and still coordinates exhibitions for the Bourgeois Pig in Downtown Lawrence.
Ed Noonen Grapes of Wraith
Porcelain | 13" x 8" x 8" | 2019
Ed Noonen is a local potter and funeral urn maker. He earned a BFA at KU in ceramics. Ed enjoyed 28 years on the Lawrence Fire Department as a firefighter/paramedic, retiring in 2018. Additionally, he was a coroner’s scene investigator for Douglas County during the latter half of his career. Ed has always been involved with ceramics since college and now can spend most of his free time in the studio.
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Philo Northrup
Royal Crown Cola Arcade #2
Assemblage | 32" x 21" x 8" | 2022
Philo’s assemblages and ArtCars are made from found objects: junk that he reassembles to reveal the gleaming, unconscious workings of us all. Upcoming local solo exhibits include Habitat Contemporary, the Smalter Gallery and the KC Artists Coalition as well as the Lawrence Art Center. Philo’s artwork has been the subject of over 50 gallery & museum exhibitions including the San Jose Museum of Art, California Museum of Art, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, Triton Museum of Art, Museum of New Mexico & the Burning Man Art Festival. He was selected for grant awards from Art Matters, the National Endowment for the Arts & the LACE Annualé in LA. His art has been featured in the NY Times, Artweek, LA Times, Juztapoz, Artillery, Smithsonian, Wired, SF Chronicle, SF Weekly (cover story) and 2 Wall Street Journal profiles. Philo’s ArtCars take years to complete, and drive every day. From Canada to Mexico; across the Rockies, and onto your street.
Lori Norwood Contraposto #3
Bronze | 15.5" x 7" x 5" | 2010
Lori Norwood is an elected member of the National Sculpture Society and the 2012 recipient of the Lawrence Phoenix Award for artistic merit. She hails from Austin, Texas, graduated from the University of Texas. Lori is very much an object maker. Her work is underpinned by gesture, movement, and the lines produced in the meeting of volumes. An understanding of anatomy informs everything from the loosest, most spare steel and glass “drawings” to detailed, monumental scale portraiture. This portrait of Harry Truman was a finalist for inclusion of his likeness in the United States Capitol building’s Statuary Hall.
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Tim O’Brien
The Fondling Egg
Sycamore, Oak, and Letterpress | 10" x 10" x 10" | 2024
Tim O’Brien loves to teach Letterpress Printing. He also moves sheep and chickens around on the beautiful grass of Kansas, tends many kinds of yummy plants, and makes things large and small out of the beautiful trees of Kansas. Almost any printing he has the privilege of doing concerns itself with these parts of our world.
Alex Olson Boss Black
Reduction Print | 7" x 5" | 2023
Alex is a Topeka native, but forever Lawrencian. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washburn University in 2014. She specializes in printmaking, specifically reduction work and letterpress. Currently, she works as the Development Coordinator at the Lawrence Arts Center. She is also a ballet dancer and occasionally participates in productions at the LAC. In her free time she loves to cook, garden, read and spend time at home with her family.
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Javy Ortiz ST!TCHD IV
Acrylic and Spray Paint on Sewn Canvas | 30.25" x 22.5" x 2.5" | 2023
Javy Ortiz is a Mexican-born interdisciplinary artist residing in Lawrence, KS. As a self-taught artist, Javy works prolifically to expand his knowledge and craftsmanship while embracing an experimental approach to creating. He pulls inspiration from personal experiences, as well as pop culture and contemporary social issues. Mixing and layering mediums such as acrylics, spray paint, and epoxy resin, Javy creates compositions that explore identity and resemble the path we navigate through our daily lives. Javy’s work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions regionally and can be found in many private collections. His work can also be found at River Rat Skate Shop, where he frequently collaborates with the shop on brand and product design. Most recently, Javy was commissioned as a lead artist for the new mural at La Estrella - Tienda Mexicana. He had a solo-exhibition at the Lawrence Arts Center in 2023, and will teach his first class at LAC in summer of 2024.
Anne Patterson County Sea(t)
Ink, Pastel, and Colored Pencil | 24" x 18" | 2000
Anne Patterson was born in a village in Warwickshire, England, and went to Edinburgh College of Art to study Architecture, graduating in 1985 with a Bachelor of Architecture and in 1986 with a Diploma in Architecture with distinction. Anne worked as an architect on the south coast of England until 1989 where she worked on the design of a new church, which fulfilled her interest in the making of sacred places. Anne’s first encounter with Kansas was as an exchange student in the fall of 1982 where she studied at the School of Architecture at KU. She has lived here since 1989 and has been teaching Architecture Foundations at KU for 25 years. Anne loves opening minds and unlocking the creative potential of students. Anne’s teaching often informs her own work and she has many creative interests that are intertwined with her teaching mission: architectural drawing, tailoring, paper sculpture, theater design, watercolors, pop-up models, parade floats, cake-toppers, and creating costumes.
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Donna Paul Fall Colors
Oil on Board | 12" x 12" | 2023
Donna Paul grew up in Akron, Ohio and currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas where she paints the local landscape in pastels and oils.
Graduating from the University of Kansas with degrees in medical chemistry and pharmacy, Donna had little time for artistic pursuits until she retired from a hectic career in retail pharmacy. That’s when she enrolled in her first painting class at the Lawrence Art Center. Though largely self-taught she has taken workshops and classes with well-known pastelists and oil painters. Donna describes her work as representational, somewhere between realism and abstraction. Donna exhibits her paintings in various shows throughout the local and regional area and is a member of the MidAmerica Pastel Society.
Donna Paul Autumn Wetlands
Pastel on Paper | 10" x 8" | 2023
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Graphite on Paper | 17" x 13" | 2019
With a foundation rooted in drawing and printmaking, Nick Perry of Red Legger Studio works in an illustrative, semi-psychedelic style of pop surrealism. He uses screen printing as the ideal medium to display his graphic style that teeters the line between fine art and a low brow cartooning vibe. He creates narratives blending both the sacred and ephemeral. In addition to history and American culture his influences include underground comics and outlaw print makers.
Ceramic | 6" x 6" x 3" | 2014
Grace Peterson is an active artist creating work in a wide variety of mediums. She earned her BFA from the University of Kansas and her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the country. She recently lived in Salina, Kansas 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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Nick Perry Song of the Cherub
Grace Peterson Copper Head Road
Wayne Propst Motovator
Mixed Media and Oil Coating Mounted on Wood 11" x 11" x 7" | 2024
Wayne Propst has been makin’ things for decades. He works in performance, jewelry, sculpture, assemblage, panels, etc. Non-conformist, critical thinker. He makes things for fun...no synergy, please.
Wayne Propst Pencil Rack
Marble, Brass, and Wood | 6" x 8" x 2" | 2024
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Wayne Propst Stem Research
Copper and Found Objects | 5.5" x 4.5" x 1" | 2024
Wayne Propst Tooth Wand
Hedge Wood, Brass, and Tooth | 7" x 3" x 3" | 2024
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Wayne Propst Dead Kennedy
Hedge Wood, Brass, and Silver | 4" x 2.5" x 2.5" | 2024
Wayne Propst Peace Brass | 2.5" diameter | 2024
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Wayne Propst Sledgehammer #0102
Industrial Coatings and Mixed Media on Panel | 18" x 20" | 2024
Laura Ramberg Laughing Rhino
Woodfired Ceramic | 13" x 9" x 10" | 2023
Laura Ramberg is a local artist and sculptor. Her commissioned work can be found throughout the region and state, in schools, churches, homes, and businesses. Working in the traditional media of bronze casting, hand-built ceramics, and wood and stone carving. She is best known for her architectural stone carving and ceramic pieces. A KU grad, she earned her BFA in sculpture in 1981, and in 2013 was honored with the Phoenix Award for exceptional lifetime achievement. She taught art at the Juvenile Detention Center for 20 years.
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Hollie Rice
Long Lake Sunrise
Mixed Media on Live Edge Wood | 12" x 38" | 2024
Hollie Rice is a ceramic artist and educator living and working in Shawnee, Kansas. 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.
Jeff Ridgway West
Oil on Wood Panel | 9.75" x 11.75" | 2024
Jeff Ridgway is a local artist who produces humanistic paintings, drawings and sculptures that are in collections throughout the United States and Europe. He has taught Life Drawing and Anatomy for the Artist at the Arts Center for over 25 years. Jeff has also taught Oil Painting, Portraiture and Pastel classes, as well as, various workshops during his tenure. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Drawing, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and the Master of Fine Arts in Painting. Jeff is probably best known for his figurative work, especially portraiture, which he creates for both commission and whimsy.
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Amanda
Sterling Silver and Stone | Size 9 | 2024
With a torch and hammer in hand, Amanda Roberts rekindled her metalsmithing practice in 2021, finding an escape from the day-to-day hustle. Her work is simple and clean, focused on precision techniques that present thoughtful problem-solving opportunities. She loves creating practical, wearable pieces, leaving hints of the metalsmithing process in the final form. Amanda was born and raised in Emporia, Kan., and graduated from the University of Kansas with a BS in Journalism and Mass Communications in 2012. She returned to Lawrence in 2021 and is the Chief Communications Officer at the Lawrence Arts Center.
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Roberts Crazy Lace Agate Ring
Amanda Roberts Hairpin
Copper | 5.5" | 2023
Mixed Media | 7.5" x 7.5" | 2014
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 over 20 artists and musicians, in the Warehouse Arts District. He is represented by Kim Weinberger Fine Art in Kansas City, Missouri. He lives and works in Lawrence, KS.
Wire and Mixed Media on Wood | 6" x 80" | 2023
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Jeremy Rockwell Bird
Jeremy Rockwell SUPER
Michelle Rogne Fruit Basket
Porcelaineous Stoneware | 11" x 5.5" | 2023
Michelle Rogne works as a full time ceramic artist, selling her work at art festivals and online. She holds a BS in natural sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and obtained her art education at the Lawrence Arts Center. Her work is inspired by her time spent working as a field biologist and traveling.
Laura Rollins
Double Sided Pendant
Enamel on Copper with Silver Jump Ring | 1.5" x 1.5" | 2018
Laura is an artist born and raised in St. Louis Missouri. While in STL Laura participated in Artica, a multidisciplinary arts collective and annual arts festival. Laura moved to Lawrence in 2013 and earned her Bachelor’s degree from KU in Jewelry and Metalsmithing in 2016. Her artwork focuses on the beauty of physical reality in growth and decay. Recurring themes in her artwork include human anatomy, botanicals and spiritualism.
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Leni Salkind
Sweet Rosy
Ceramic | 12" x 6.5" x 6" | 2018
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, Kansas. Her work has been shown at the North Carolina Museum of Art invitational show, 7 East 7th Gallery in Lawrence, Kansas; Diane’s Artisan Gallery in Lawrence, Kansas; and at the Topeka Competition 31 at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library in Topeka, Kansas.
Goldie Schmiedeler
Boots McFancy
Resin | 33" x 26" × 5" | 2024
Goldie Schmiedeler (B.1999 Lawrence, Kansas) is an emergent artist living in Chicago llinois. His artistic sensibilities are rooted in a profound intersection of identity and culture. With the American Midwest as his backdrop, he creates distinctive objects that delve deep into the dynamics of selfhood, and its relation to the broader socio-cultural world. Shortly after graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023, Goldie exhibited cowboy boots at Galerie Gardette in Paris, France.
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Nick Schmiedeler
Ranch Folk
Wallhanging Assemblage | 13.5" x 12" x 4" each | 2024
Born and raised in Prairie Village, Kansas, Nick attended Rockhurst High School then onto Kansas State University and Avila University, where he received a Bachelor’s in Nursing in 1995. Moving to Lawrence, Kansas in 1996 with his wife Cindy, they bought a 19th century Craftsman home in Old West Lawrence, where a rustic folk art environment has been created and maintained. Their home was featured on HGTV’s “Home Strange Home” in December of 2012. Utilizing local salvage and metal scrapyards, along with local alleys, nature trails, river banks and other locales, Nick searches out natural, discarded, and reuseable materials to create indoor and outdoor sculptures. Nick has been showing and selling sculptures throughout the midwest for about 25 years. Many of his pieces can be found on his website, nickschmiedeler.com.
Mariah Seifert
Portrait Session Commission
Photography2024
Mariah Seifert loves making portraits and documenting all of the special moments. She has always been interested in archiving the things that are important to her and she is somewhat of a sentimental hoarder. Photographs have become her way of holding onto the things, people, and moments that are dear to her. Born and raised in Kansas, the Midwest holds a very special place in Mariah’s heart. When she was a teenager, she fell in love with photography and she has been working on her craft ever since. She has been working as a portrait photographer since 2014, as a Lead Wedding and Engagement Photographer for Melissa & Beth for almost a decade. She attended the University of Kansas where she received a BFA in Photography in 2018. Mariah loves photography, her family, her pets, your pets, all pets, vintage Pyrex, thrifting, houseplants, mugs full of coffee, connecting with others to tell their story, and delivering images that you can hold onto forever.
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Pat Slimmer
Rock Garden
Tig Welded and Polished Aluminum with Rock Base from Douglas County | 16" x 9" x 5" | 2024
From public art to cars, Pat Slimmer is a true renaissance man!
In addition to being a master mechanic, Pat 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. Pat’s public art has been exhibited in Topeka’s NOTO Arts District, and the Downtown Lawrence Sculpture Exhibition Pat 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.
Jim Slough
Ai Dreaming
Print on Metal | 30" x 40" | 2023
Jim resides in Lawrence with his wife, Doni, and his son, Hayden. He is a native Kansan and has lived in Douglas county since 1976. Educated as a pharmacist, he worked in the field 2.5 years before quitting, to devote himself full time, to blowing glass. He is a founding member of Free State Glass, working there until the doors closed in 2013. It took nearly 10 years for him to find his artistic voice in another medium. Jim started painting in 2023. He paints on paper, using watercolor, tempura and acrylic paints. Adding pencil, markers and pastels. “I love texture” he says. These images are then printed on metal in editions of 10. The inspiration for his work is based in science and the interconnectedness of all things. He uses these connections to create a narrative to Dispel the Myth of Death. He wants the images to convey mystery and hope. Engaging the viewer to either take a step forward (to get a closer look) or to take a step back, as an involuntary reaction.
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Celia Smith
Cartajima, White Town of Andalusia
Acrylic on Canvas | 24" x 24" | 2012
Celia is a long-time resident of Lawrence and a lifelong painter. She believes that without feeling, there cannot be Art. She states “My mind and imagination could never attain the richness and complexity of Life.” Celia received a Master’s Degree from the University of Madrid in Spain, her country of origin. Exhibiting locally, regionally and nationwide, she has received numerous awards and recognitions, among them the Phoenix Award in Visual Arts for 2008.
Kent Smith Robot Parade Triptych
Woodblock Prints | 19" x 13" each | 2024
Kent Smith is a dimension-jumping illustrator, designer, sculptor, teacher, problem-maker, problem-solver, and magic-man sharing visions from afar. His work can be found on Star Wars toys, Free State beer labels, custom masks, huge woodblocks prints, giant festival sculptures and tiny trading cards. Kent uses his crazy brain-powers and a menagerie of media to solve problems and deliver creative, unexpected, solutions rich in play and story. Kent also celebrates teaching in the Design Department at the University of Kansas as well as working with the Lawrence Arts Center, The Percolator, VanGo and other fine organizations. Kent loves super-heroes, ninjas, monkeys, UFOs, cryptids, robots, ray-guns, and romance. He hopes you will stop by and visit Smittytown whenever you need a solution to a problem, a fantastic escape, or ridiculous adventure.
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Michael Snell
Persistence of Memory #2
Photographic Print on Metal | 12" x 12" | 2024
Michael C. Snell was born in Topeka, Kansas. Dragged all over Kansas in his youth by his Wild-West historian father, he began to enjoy it at some point. Even began to love it. Bridge historian, advertising agency refugee, and eventually a freelance designer and travel photographer. He has now explored the backroads of six continents. His “persistence” series of photographs merge multiple images of a single landmark, combining different perspectives over a long period of time. The 12 images making up “Persistence of Memory #2” were shot between 1980 and 2023 and include b&w negative, color transparency and digital formats.
Adelai Spears
The Lord of the Snails
Ceramics | 10" x 5.5" x 4.5" | 2023
Adelai “Adi” Spears has been the Lawrence Arts Center ceramics studio intern for the last year and a half. Along with ceramics, Adelai also enjoys jewelry, printmaking, painting, and wood burning. She has a pet dog and is a lover of animals and the outdoors as well as an avid gardener. Her artwork is often inspired by nature and the beauty, color, and variety that exists within it. She especially enjoys using many different forms of surface decoration in her ceramic pieces to represent different themes from the natural world.
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Kale Stewart was first introduced to glass while earning a BFA from Emporia State University. He went on to earn an MFA in Glass at Illinois State University. Much of his inspiration stems from a lifelong fascination with the textures, patterns, and contrast of materials used in buildings and architecture. His interest in the aesthetics of man-made materials like metal, concrete, and wood grew exponentially while working in and around construction with his father. Kale finds the network of how materials work together, the contrasts of colors and shapes, and the impressive scale beautiful. Many of his work’s elements reflect these substructures’ exposed qualities. Glass blowing was a game changer for him. The material itself lends to endless possibilities of creativity. However, what Kale finds most appealing is the teamwork and camaraderie involved in creating the glass-blown pieces. A group effort is essential to realize a shared vision, and when that happens, it is a great feeling!
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Kale Stewart
Floppy Bowl I
Blown Glass | 6" x 12" x 12" | 2023
Kale Stewart
Floppy Bowl II
Blown Glass | 6" x 12" x 12" | 2023
Doug Stremel Sticky Situation
Photography | 24" x 36" | 2024
Doug Stremel grew up in Ellinwood, Kansas. His first camera was a plastic Mickey Mouse model he won from the local five-and-dime. His first career was broadcast journalism. He wandered into advertising, raised three awesome boys, started a couple small businesses, and finally found his way back to photography. And now, he’s the boss at jack-a-lope.com.
Kyla Strid Ramen Bowls, Set of 4
Midfire Red Clay | 3" x 7.5" x 7.5" each | 2023
Kyla Strid is the Director of Residencies & Adult Education at the Lawrence Arts Center, in Lawrence, Kansas. She received her 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, she is an avid gardener, foodie, and traveler. Her adventures, whether they are in the backyard or abroad, often influence the pots she makes in her studio.
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Helms Chain Copper Bracelet
Copper | 7.5" | 2024
Rachael’s work is often influenced by her love of nature & organic forms. Her designs, mostly created in sterling silver & gemstones, are entirely handmade. Almost all of her work is customizable & can be created to your specifications. Her degree is from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her business, Sudlow Jewelry is based out of Lawrence Kansas & she teaches jewelry & metalsmithing at the Lawrence Arts Center. Her site is www.rachaelsudlow.com
Aluminum | 72 x 60 mm | 2023
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Rachael Sudlow
Rachael Sudlow Ripple Cuff
Robert Sudlow, 1920-2010
Sunny Pond
Acrylic on Panel
A long time professor at KU, Bob Sudlow inspired countless students to get out in the prairie and view the world through an impressionist’s eye. Often working with a canvas strapped to his car, he would frequently be found in the rural hills around Kansas trying to capture the light and feel of the rural prairie. He was the first Kansas Governor’s Artist and Kansan of the year in 1997. His paintings, mostly oil and watercolor, can be found in permanent museum collections across the United States. Locally, his work can be found at the Prairie Hills Art Gallery.
Kathy Suprenant Azzurra
Textile | 26" x 20" x 0.5" | 2023
Kathy Suprenant’s textile art is informed and influenced by her scientific training. She uses monoprinting, traditional relief printing and digital printing on fabric to create an imaginary world that is magnified, distorted and open to interpretation.
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Leah Tacha
Teal and Gold Grass Vase
Glazed Ceramic with Digital Decal | 6" x 6" x 2" | 2020
Leah Tacha (b. 1984, Lawrence, KS) just recently relocated back to Lawrence, KS from NYC. She received her BFA in Painting from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 2007 and her MFA from SUNY Purchase College in 2009. Her first solo exhibition in NY was curated by Jon Lutz at Sardine in Brooklyn, NY in 2014 and she had another solo show curated by Lutz at 106 Green Gallery in 2016. She has shown with Morgan Lehman Gallery, SSD (Shrine & Sargent’s Daughters), Deanna Evans Projects, Daily Operation, Underdonk, RARE Gallery, New Baroque, and the Torrance Art Museum, among many others. In 2015 she was awarded the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop SIP Fellowship in New York City. In 2017 she was awarded a Windgate Fellowship from the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT. She is currently represented by Gold/Scopophilia* gallery and her second solo show with the gallery ran through January 2021. Her most recent solo show in NYC was with Morgan Lehman Gallery in December 2021.
Heinrich Toh
A Quiet Return
Monoprint and Paper Lithography on Rives BFK | 25" x 18" | 2023
Heinrich Toh is a Singapore born studio artist and educator based in Kansas City. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art and and the La Salle College of the Arts. He has taught extensively around the country. Institutions and venues include the Kansas City Art Institute, Penland School of Arts and Crafts, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Sun Vally Center For the Arts, Oklahoma Fine Art Institute at Quartz Mountain, among others; Toh has exhibited at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Bellevue Art Museum, and galleries around the country. His work is in private and public collections; including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Truman Medical Center, Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas and the University Hospital in Cleveland. His work is inspired by culture, heritage, travel and layers of memory.
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Ann Trusty Candlelit Peonies
Oil on Canvas | 16" x 12" | 2023
Ann Trusty is a third-generation artist whose work embodies the natural world. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, France and Turkey in both museum and gallery exhibitions, and has received favorable reviews by the New York Times. With John Hulsey, she publishes the educational website, The Artist’s Road. She studied fine art at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA; the Kansas City Art Institute; & the University of Kansas. In 1980 she moved to Garrison, NY, and opened her studio in the former train station overlooking the Hudson River where she continued to develop and show her work for ten years. She is a Signature Member of the American Women Artists. Trusty’s art has received the American Artist Professional League Award; Merit Awards from Richeson 75; the Merit Award from the American Craft Awards, NY; and has been featured in many publications, including Gakken Art Books, Tokyo; Lark Books; International Artist Magazine; and Artists Magazine.
Ceramic | 12" x 18" x 3" | Late Twentieth Century
Born : KC MO ,1950 . Still functioning just east of Oak Hill Cemetery.
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Dave Van Hee Clay Tablet
Paradise Cove on a Moody Day
Black and White Photography | 24" x 18" | 2023
In her day job as a psychologist, Marciana Vequist relies primarily on the use of words for expression and communication. In contrast, her work as a photographer gives her the opportunity to express herself without words. She enjoys the way a photograph can convey powerful thoughts and emotions. She believes that ordinary objects, landscapes, and people provide limitless opportunities to capture extraordinary beauty and power.
Color Photography | 18" x 22" | 2023
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Marciana Vequist
Marciana Vequist Clockworks
Sydni William Dreamscape
Collagraph | 25" x 18" | 2022
Sydni William is an artist and educator born and raised in Kansas City, KS. Sydni moved to Lawrence, KS in 2021 where she currently works and resides. She’s passionate about community based arts education and visual arts accessibility. Sydni primarily works in printmaking and photography, specifically intaglio etching and alternative photography processes. Her work explores emotion, self reflection, the absurdness of the world and her interpretation of it.
photo by Brian Goodman
