ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER LISA LALA
LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER BENEFIT ART AUCTION 4/13/2013 FEATURING ARTISTS FROM THE VIM EXHIBITION
BEN ARCHIE AHLVERS SCOT T KENT GOBBER MICHAEL LISA SMITH LALA
LAWRENC BENEFIT 4/13/20
FEATURIN FROM THE
33rd annual lawrence arts center
BENEFIT ART AUCTION
4/13/2013
featured artists
Kent Michael Smith Lisa Lala Archie Scott Gobber Ben Ahlvers
executive director
Susan Tate
exhibitions director
Ben Ahlvers
auctioneer
Ric Averill
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special thank you
all volunteers
Lawrence Arts Center staff & board
Spencer Museum Student Advisory Board
Jim Otten
Julie Carter
Evan Williams
Sheryl Jacobs
Tom Carmody
Heather Hoy
Lawrence Arts Center Staff
Susan Tate Executive Director
Ben Ahlvers Exhibitions Director
Amy Albright Marketing Director
& Graphic Designer
Ric Averill Artistic Director of Performing Arts
Candi Baker Dance Program Director
Jessica Conner Studio Coordinator
Stacy Galloway Haywood Director of Business
Heather Hoy Development Director
Laurie McLane-Higginson Curator of Education
Margaret Weisbrod Morris Director of
Programs & Partnerships
Beth Murphy Office Manager
Linda Reimond Arts-Based Preschool Director
Steve Richardson Facilities Manager
Lawrence Arts Center Board of Directors
John Bullock President
Dan Schriner Vice President
Larry Chance Treasurer
Tom Carmody
Carol Ann Carter
Julie Carter
Ellen Chindamo
Lindy Eakin
Joan Golden
Emily HIll
Brian Horsch
Lisa Leroux-Smith
Michel Loomis
Molly Murphy
Jim Otten
Dru Sampson
Evan Williams
Silent Auction Instructions Over 100 items in this auction are offered through the Silent Auction. Silent Auction items are displayed with a Silent Auction bid card (“S”) in addition to the identification label. To place a bid, print your name clearly on the card. (There is a minimum 50% bid on all auction items.) Please honor the minimum bid increase of $10. Failure to do so will disqualify your bid. Include your phone number so that we can contact you if you are not present to pick up your work at the end of the auction. Bids made without full names and phone numbers may be disqualified. Bids may be placed until 7:15pm in the middle gallery and 7:30pm in the large gallery on auction night, April 13, just before the Live Auction begins. The names of winners of Silent Auction items will be posted during the Live Auction on April 13. You may claim your Silent Auction item starting one hour after the close of Silent Auction bidding. On Monday, April 15, telephone calls to winners who were not present on auction night will be made to inform them of their winning bid and to arrange for the pick-up of the item. We ask that winning bidders claim their items as soon as possible. BUY OUT OPTION Silent Auction items are available for “buy-out” at 200% of the posted retail value. Bids of that amount or more are not considered buy-outs unless the item has been paid for in advance. To buy-out an item, see the receptionist in the lobby. Once paid for, the item will be marked and will be available for pick-up at 8:30 pm April 13, or afterwards.
The Lawrence Arts Center encourages you to make original art a part of your life. Visit local art venues and purchase original works for your home and work environment.
2013 Benefit Art Auction Live Auction Bidding Certificate $5000 BIDDING CERTIFICATE DRAWING Enter for a chance to win a LIVE auction bid certificate! Read rules below.
• Suggested donation of $100 to enter
• prize drawing of $5,000 Live Auction
Bidding Certificate
• Entries accepted until 7pm April 13
• Winning entries will be drawn April 13,
7:40pm on stage. The winning certificates must
be used during the Live Auction on April 13
• Winner MUST BE PRESENT IN THE THEATER at the time of the drawing.
• Bidding certificate can only be used towards
the purchase of ONE LIVE auction piece (no
cash value – no substitutions.)
• An unused balance will constitute a donation to the Lawrence Arts Center by the winner.
Bidder’s Notes Please use this page to list your Bidder Number and purchases. Knowing the auction numbers of the items you have purchased will speed processing when you pick up your art works. BIDDER ’S NUMBER ________ ITEM NUMBER ________ PRICE ________ ITEM NUMBER ________ PRICE ________ ITEM NUMBER ________ PRICE ________ ITEM NUMBER ________ PRICE ________ ITEM NUMBER ________
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Live Auction
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Eliza Bullock Beacon monotype print with collage and cotton thread on BFK Reeves paper
$450
I received my B.F.A. from Ohio University in Graphic Design in 1995. I began my professional life as a graphic designer in San Francisco doing print-based design work. I was introduced to monotype printmaking in 2000 and that was the catalyst for my shift from design to fine art. I am now based in Lawrence, KS. Born and raised in New York City, I grew up surrounded by the noisy texture and richly layered dichotomy of the city and its inhabitants. There is an alluring tension of extremes in that city which has become an essential part of the work I make. I create abstract works on paper using techniques of monotype, chine collé, collage, drawing, painting and stitching. Monotype, unlike other printmaking methods, is a process through which only one unique print can be made. Each print is one-of-a-kind. In my work, I begin by creating monotype prints and further work into them with additional elements and techniques to complete each piece. www.elizabullock.com.
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Jim Connelly Untitled sterling silver forged pendant with bezel set fire agate — subtle flashes of yellow and green — on a 26” sterling silver snake
$500
Jim is semi-retired, and he is now a house painter, gardener, businessman, uncle, chef, golfer, comedian (according to him), repairman, and metal smith. Jewelry is his top priority with his work represented in two locations in downtown Lawrence—Spectator’s and Marks Jewelers. Jim is available by appointment and for commissions. He can be reached through Silver Works and more or through lawrencemarketplace.com.
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John Chang Untitled Image 01 acr ylic, pulp, rice paper and mixed media on canvas
$4,200
I am especially interested in making and unmaking meaning with the combination of word and image — particularly in this age of digital communication. Incorporating contemporary events and pop culture, I collect daily newspapers in English and Chinese, cut specific text, graphics and articles, and put them in categories. I also gather postproduction material from local ad agencies. Influenced by artists like Kline, Pollock, and Rauschenberg, my calligraphic strokes commingle with expressive brushwork and drips, and the freedom of such abstract artists allows me to explore Chinese characters in a personal, reinvigorated way — connecting to and balancing vital energy. The cross-cultural exchange mediated in my creative process continues to unfold and push beyond duality. In merging the beauty of traditional painting technique, modernist performance-like gestures, as well as typography and imagery, I am forging an art that both creates and expresses myself. Embracing the chaos, or ran, I stand hopefully poised between ambivalent remembrance and undetermined tomorrow.
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Justin Marable Ageless Wonder serigraph, monoprint
$625
Throughout his life, Justin has learned and wandered within the boundaries of his Midwestern homeland, observing the landscape and landmarks of the surrounding region. Printmaking, drawing, and music have become his main methods of artistic expression. Justin graduated from the University of Kansas in 2005 with a B.F.A. in printmaking. He currently resides in the Kenwood neighborhood of Topeka with his wife and daughters. He works full time at his home as an artist, husband, and father.
Live Auction
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Lori Norwood Flint Hills Figure II $2,400
bronze and glass
Lori Norwood is a Lawrence sculptor and a former world class pentathlete who recently won the Phoenix Award for Visual Arts.
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Lisa Grossman Konza Mound oil on canvas $900
Lisa Grossman is a painter and printmaker based in Lawrence, Kansas, whose work focuses on the open spaces and prairies of Eastern Kansas and the Kansas River Valley. Grossman has had twenty solo shows around the Midwest and on either coast. Her work is included in the collections of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas, and the Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University, as well as in numerous public and private collections. She is a 2009 recipient of the Kansas Arts Commission’s Mid-Career Fellowship. Grossman has been an artist-in-resident at Mesa Verde, Petrified Forest, and Rocky Mountain National Parks. Grossman’s work is represented by DOLPHIN in Kansas City, Missouri, the StreckerNelson Gallery in Manhattan, Kansas, the Gallery at Pioneer Bluffs in Matfield Green, Kansas, and EVOKE Contemporary in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Rick Stein Wall Cabinet, coopered door wood (ash, canar y) and glass
$1,700
“In a world driven by instant gratification, honest craft stands out as a counterpoint to the frenzy rampant in our culture. Whether it’s furniture making, painting, jewelry making, or any other tangible craft or art, the process inherently requires patience, attention to detail, and a willingness to demand the best, most consistent effort from the creator. Furniture making demands my best effort, my most skilled and practiced work, and all of my concentration. I can’t rush, work casually, or accept less than my best.”
www.thunderworksinc.com
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Ben Ahlvers Meow Muzzle of Bees Story of Isaac terra cotta and glaze $1,200 choice
Recently featured in Ceramics Monthly magazine, Ben is known for creating whimsical ceramic figures that contain a vein of wit and humor, with an undertone of deviousness and mystery. The narratives in his work are rooted in his experiences as a father and simultaneously touch on relationships and experiences beyond this role. Ben studied at Southern University Edwardsville and received his M.F.A. at Ohio University. He actively exhibits his work which can be found in numerous collections around the country and has lectured at universities around the country. www.benahlvers.com
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Hong Zhang Paste graphite on paper $ 1,250
Hong was born in 1971 during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She received her B.F.A. from Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and her M.F.A. at the University of California, Davis. Her graduate and post-graduate work was recognized with a Skowhegan Artist Residency Scholarship (2003), a Dedalus Foundation M.F.A. Fellowship (2004), and Pollock Krasner Foundation grant (2006). Her work is in a number of public and private collections such as Sylvain Levy/ DSL Collection (France 2011), the Origo Family Foundation (Switzerland 2009), the White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection (Australia 2008), the Kansas City Collection (2010), Spencer Museum of Art at University of Kansas (2006), Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University (2010), and The Ministry of Culture of China (Beijing 1994). She exhibits nationally and internationally at different venues such as the The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in DC, The Third Chengdu Biennale in China, the Lawrence Arts Center, the Portland Museum of Art Biennale, the Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento, and BRIC Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.
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Chris Wolf Edmonds Wind Portraits photo image printed on cotton broadcloth
$800
The primary inspiration for my work is life in all its forms. As an artist and amateur naturalist, I collect the colors and patterns of the world around me and attempt to preserve them in my hand painted and printed fabrics, photo images, pieced designs and books. I spend part of everyday out-of-doors oB.S.erving the coming and going of life in nature. I am fascinated by the magical effects of light, atmosphere and time on the luminosity of a leaf, the dazzle of color refracted through an icicle and the way the winter grasses sketch portraits of the wind. I am mesmerized by an evening sky filled with migrating geese and reflected in a pond where the wind-rippled surface turns it into a mercurial impressionist painting.
Live Auction
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Akio Takamori Leaping Monkey archival pigment print and hand lithography. Edition 19/40
$2,750
Takamori has been awarded several National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grants, recently awarded USA Ford Fellowship among many others. He is regarded as one of the best contemporary ceramics artists of his generation. His Sculptures are in the collection museums such as the Victoria Albert Museum (London), American Craft Museum (New York), Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles). He is currently a professor of art at the University of Washington. This print is courtesy of Lawrence Lithography.
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Kristin Morland Brown chicken, brown cow sequins, beads, oil pastel $900
Received B.F.A. degree in 1998; concentrating in painting and weaving at the University of Kansas. Kristin has been utilizing sequins as her main medium for the last 14 years. Making use of contrast and color, as well as form and texture, I am able to condense my perspectives and interface my language with my experience.
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John Gary Brown Gothic Twighlight oil on canvas
$3,300
John Gary Brown lives and works in Lawrence, Kansas and Creede, Colorado. He has a Masters Degree (M.F.A.) from The University of Washington in Seattle. John taught art classes at The University of Kansas, University of Nebraska, The University of Washington and The Wichita Art Museum. He has been painting since 1960 and has sold six hundred paintings in twenty commercial galleries over the years. He has won many museum prizes and purchases, including First Prize at the Mid-America Exhibition at the Nelson/Atkins Museum in Kansas City, a purchase award at the Joslyn Gallery in Omaha, and a purchase by the Institute of Arts and Letters in New York.
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Jan Gaumnitz Harvest monoprint
$2,000
As a child, Jan lived on a farm, near a lake in Minnesota. The close association with nature had an enduring influence on her life and art. Gaumnitz prefers to be outside “seeing, experiencing, remembering, collecting and photographing,” than creating a work of art inside her studio. By investigating sources for new or old ideas, challenging new techniques and materials, yet following basic fundamentals of art, she works to present a unique expression in a variety of media. www.jangaumnitzstudio.com
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Rick Mitchell Note to Self/ Re-Think it photograph/archival digital print
$950
Rick Mitchell is an artist/photographer and writer living in Lawrence, Kansas. His interdisciplinary work has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, (former) Kansas Arts Commission, New Jersey Historical Commission, Lawrence Arts Commission and several private foundations. He has served on the faculties of Rutgers University, Baker University and the University of Kansas. From 1993 to 2009, he was Director of the Gallery at the Lawrence Arts Center. He currently serves as president of the Waldorf Association of Lawrence/Prairie Moon Waldorf School and as president of Imagination & Place, Inc and the Imagination & Place Press.
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Molly Murphy Palimpsest oil on canvas
$1,350
Molly Murphy is a painter from Lawrence, Kansas and works out of a painting studio in the Crossroads Arts District in Kansas City, Missouri as well as SeedCo Studios in Lawrence’s new Warehouse Arts District. Her work investigates aspects of memory in its many facets. Murphy has completed special exhibitions on the topic for Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas and BNIM Architects in Kansas City as well as during her period as the 2012 Artist-In-Residence in Seaside, Florida. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Lawrence Arts Center and as Coordinator for Final Friday Art Walks in Downtown Lawrence. Her work has been shown from Amsterdam to LA, and is in private and corporate collections across the country.
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Archie Scott Gobber God Loves Fred Phelps Ten, Ows, and Ucks Loop Hole enamel on canvas $3,800 choice
Archie is a painter currently living and working in Kansas City. He is best known for eye-catching imagery that employs clever wordplay as a vehicle for commentary on social topics. Gobber has exhibited his work throughout the country, has been collected in numerous collections, and has received several awards for his art.
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Sam Chung Cloud Teapot porcelain, china paint
$650
Sam Chung received his M.F.A. from Arizona State University (1997) and his B.A. degree from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota (1992). He taught at Northern Michigan University from 1998-2007 and has been teaching at Arizona State University in Tempe since 2007. Sam’s work is inspired by pottery form, function, history, and contemporary design. He has exhibited at Harvey Meadows, Cervini Haas, AKAR, Dubuque Museum of Fine Art, Sherry Leedy, Santa Fe Clay, Lacoste, Taipei County Yingge Museum and Incheon World Ceramic Center. Sam’s work is included in the collections of The Crocker Art Museum (CA), Incheon World Ceramic Center (Korea), Guldagergaard (Denmark), San Angelo Museum (TX) and ASU Ceramics Research Center (AZ).
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Stan Herd Greensburg oil on canvas
$2,000
Herd’s work has been featured on CBS ’s Sunday Morning, NPR’s All Things Considered and What Do You Think?, Dateline NBC, Late Night with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian Magazine, The New York Times, The New Look of Paris and The London Telegraph. A book about his earthworks, Crop Art and Other Earthworks, (Henry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994) details Herd’s artistic journey through stunning pictures and stories.
www.stanherdart.com
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Margaret Weisbrod Morris Windswept acr ylic on panel
$2,000
Margaret is active in the arts education and non-profit community, presenting in national forums such as the Arts Education Partnership’s National Forum and the National Association for State Arts Agencies National Assembly. She has served as a panelist for the US Department of Education, National Endowment for the Arts, Mid America Arts Alliance and the Oklahoma Arts Council. Morris holds a B.F.A. in painting and printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and studied with Edith Kramer, the founder of the field of art therapy, to get her M.A. degree from New York University.
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John Talleur (1925 – 2001) Moonsong woodcut. Edition 1/3
$1,300
John Talleur, professor emeritus of art and honorary print curator. Talleur was known for bringing the printmaking program to KU. He had retired after more than 40 years of teaching. He was born in Chicago in 1925. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1947. In 1951, he earned a master’s degree from the University of Iowa, where he studied with Mauricio Lasansky. He received a Fulbright Fellowship in 1953 for study in France. Later that year he joined the faculty at KU. Talleur’s etchings and paintings have been the subject of numerous exhibits at KU. His works were also exhibited around the United States and abroad, including the exhibition “Surrealism: An American Attitude” at the Thomas McCormick Gallery in Chicago. He received the Kansas Governor’s Arts Award in 1998.
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Angie Pickman Budding Moon hand cut paper
$565
Angie Pickman lives and works as a full-time cut paper artist in Lawrence, Kansas, often operating under the moniker, “Rural Pearl.” She received her bachelor’s degree from Benedictine College in 2001 and her master’s degree from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 2004. She worked in New York City for a number of years before returning to Kansas in 2009 to pursue her artistic career full-time. She exhibits at galleries and art fairs nationally, does illustration work, and teaches various classes and workshops at the Lawrence Arts Center. www.ruralpearl.com
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Clare Doveton Blessing $1,900
oil on canvas
Clare Doveton moved to New York City in 1994, where she was formally trained in painting at Parsons School of Art and Design. There she received a B.F.A. in Fine Arts on merit scholarship and began exhibiting her work in galleries. In 2004 Doveton moved her studio to Kansas, where she currently works in the Warehouse Arts District of downtown Lawrence.
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Janet Davidson-Hues Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah digital print on Rives BFK. Edition of 10
$400
Janet Davidson-Hues investigates and combines language, image, and object to create paintings and installations as well as videos, audios, and performances. Davidson-Hues, born in Baltimore, MD, is an M.F.A. graduate from the University of Kansas and former Assistant Professor of Art at Indiana State University. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. She is currently preparing for an exhibition in New York City in May of 2013.
www.janetplanet16.com
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Kent Michael Smith Resonate Pillar Gully acr ylic, glitter, spray paint, glitter, resin on panel $2,400 choice
Kent Michael Smith received a B.F.A. in painting from Emporia State University and an M.F.A. in painting from Ohio University. His work has been widely exhibited and is included in noteworthy collections such as the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.; The University of Kansas Hospital.; Emprise Bank Corporate Collection. His work was recently featured in New American Paintings.
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Karen Matheis I Feel Love, #7 oil on prepared paper
$500
I Feel Love is a series of paintings reflecting the nightlife of dancing and clubbing. More paintings and drawings of Karen Matheis can be found at www. woodcuts.org. Karen is the writer of Larryville Artists, a blog about the art and literature scene in Lawrence.
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Carol Ann Carter Moisture digital drawing $1,200
Carol Ann Carter’s creative work began in intaglio printmaking and advanced to mixed media painting and fiber construction in 1984. She is currently working in multimedia installation-performance, mixed media, and digital imaging and video. Carter is also interested in collaboration across cultures and disciplines in the arts. Of her work she states: “The objects and spaces I utilize suggest the creative field in which I play my work. It is a field of Art and Design where I practice movement and exchange of elements across boundaries. I am motivated by the dialogues among materials, intelligence or disciplines-by a kind of character conversion where one thing influences or develops by virtue of occupying space with another: red and green pigment meant for a painting, find their way to a chair...or when foot pain assists, over time, in the development of a shoe form. The field for these considerations--for this activity-- is wide open.” Carter has held teaching positions at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN, Penn State University, and the University of Michigan, and joined the faculty of The University of Kansas in 1996.
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Louis Copt Vinland Winter watercolor
$1,250
Artist Louis Copt graduated from Emporia State University in 1971 with a degree in art. Copt began his career as a full time artist in 1985 after returning from a summer of study at the Art Students League in New York City. The focus for Copt’s painting has been Kansas in general and specifically the Flint Hills, the annual prairie burning, and most recently, figurative painting. Louis has taught at the Lawrence Arts Center for over 14 years and has led travel and painting workshops to France, Spain, and Italy. He has also taught at the University of Kansas. www.louiscopt.com
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Tim Forcade Discovered in Water III galler y-wrapped laquered pigment print on satin
$1,800
Tim Forcade is a multimedia artist having applied electronic systems, variable speed motors, theatrical lighting, video and photography to create imagery inspired by light in all its forms. His work has been published,collected and exhibited worldwide. Recent exhibits include the Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art and Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art.
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Jack Collins Wiggle Room acr ylic
$2,000
My paintings are about the process of becoming. Objects appear and disappear into the space created- activating and changing the space around them. The objects are not B.A.sed in daily reality but in imagined relationships within the picture plane. I define the space and objects but I do not name them, allowing the viewer to determine their own personal content based on their own life experiences.
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Warren Rosser Opposite Views 9 color lithograph. Edition $3,000
6/29
Warren Rosser is the William T. Kemper Distinguished Professor of Painting, and Chair of the Painting Department at the Kansas City Art Institute. He has exhibited his work at the Tate Gallery, London, at the Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany, the Galleria Del Cavallino, Venice, Italy, and at the Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland. This piece is courtesy of Lawrence Lithography.
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Jen Unekis Wide Open acr ylic
$285
Jen Unekis began studying Art and Design with an emphasis in ceramics in 1983. Her work at that time was primarily in clay. Still holding onto her love of texture and color, Jen began working in multi-media in 1988. Today Jen’s work is done in a two dimensional context. All of her paintings are done on solid surfaces. This lends itself to creating a layered textural painted surface with an importance being placed on subtle lines, broad shapes, the interaction between color and the play of light on the surface. Jen lives in a little yellow bungalow near the river with her daughter Adeline and husband David, where she has a business that provides decorative interior painting along with an art studio.
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Archie Scott Gobber Lush Pushy enamel paint on canvas
$7,000
Archie is a painter currently living and working in Kansas City. He is best known for eye-catching imagery that employs clever wordplay as a vehicle for commentary on social topics. Gobber has exhibited his work throughout the country, has been collected in numerous collections, and has received several awards for his art.
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Ann Dean Iglesia de Santa Ana, Valladolid Yucatán $380
photography
Ann says, “I love photography because it gives me a chance to savor the fleeting moments in time that we all take for granted and that give our lives meaning.” Specializing in event, portraiture and travel photography, Ann currently works in Lawrence, Kansas as a freelance photographer. Her photojournalistic approach allows for a wider range of interpretation and captures the essence of each occasion. Ann teaches photography classes at the Lawrence Arts Center and the Spencer Museum of Art.
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Pattie Chalmers Tommy Douglas Paints the Devil terra cotta and glaze
$2,000
Pattie Chalmers is a ceramic sculptor who creates narrative tableaus using images culled from childhood tales, fourfor-a-dollar comic books, movies-of-the-week, and personal experience. Her work is a collage of these influences in combination with historical and fanciful elements that reveal her observations about identity, ideologies and our humanity. Chalmers’ primarily work is figurative ceramic sculpture, but because she also engages in a variety of other approaches she understands that her studio practice can be seen as somewhat frenetic. Narrative is the linchpin. Chalmers is inherently an explainer and a storyteller and through her work attempts to map her experiences to give better understanding to others and herself. Pattie Chalmers grew up in Winnipeg; an isolated hinterland that was a fertile ground for the development her imagination. It is there that she received her B.F.A. in printmaking from the University of Manitoba. After which she moved south to the Minneapolis to complete her M.F.A. in ceramics from the University of Minnesota in 2001. Currently she lives in Southern Illinois, where she is an associate professor at SIU.
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John Ferry Decatur #7 wax on board
$1,000
John Ferry is an assistant professor at Kansas City Art Institute. Ferry’s work focuses on aged and damaged cityscapes to reveal the aesthetic beauty of the overlooked and forgotten urban environment and brilliantly portray the cycle of change in our cities. By shifting his visual point of view of the same subject and using the changes in light, space, plane and color, Ferry creates the visual equivalent of movement through time. He paints and lives in Prairie Village, Kansas with his wife Amy and two daughters Katherine and Paige, both of whom are aspiring images makers and more talented than their father. Ferry holds a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute and a M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He is represented by Dolphin Gallery and C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore.
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Gerry Miller Diptych: The Salad Course #1 & #2 acr ylic
$850
Gerry Miller: 1947 Graduated from KU in the painting department. He has been a Lawrence resident for 20 years and paints daily in his home studio. She generously donates her work to the Lawrence Arts Center.
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Stephen Johnson Triptych ultrachrome, pigment-based inks on archival quality stock paper
$1,200
“Thick-textured titanium white paint. Torn tan tape. Tabs. Triangles. Thin transparent tracing paper. A tag. Two-dimensional typewritten text. Three tarnished thumbtacks. Ten teal blue thumbprints. A tilted T. A tiny three-dimensional toy to tease out trains of thought.” — from his award winning book, A is for Art: An Abstract Alphabet. Johnson’s drawings and paintings are in numerous private and permanent collections, including the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. and the New Britain Museum of Art, Connecticut. Solo exhibitions of his work have been featured at the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York; the Katonah Museum of Art, New York; and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. Among his public art is a large mosaic mural at the DeKalb Avenue subway station in Brooklyn, New York and a 58-foot long mural at the Universal City Metro Station in North Hollywood, California.
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Sally F. Piller Fox in the Aspens Moku hangu (Japanese woodblock print technique)
$425
Sally F. Piller is an artist/printmaker living in Lawrence. After years of making woodblock prints using the Western method of printing with oil based ink on dry paper, she now has immersed herself in the art of moku hanga. This ancient Japanese method has its own set of challenges and many advantages, using nontoxic water based pigments, dampened paper, and the ingenious kento color registration system.
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Lisa Lala Red Lush That Little Voice Finding and Looking oil on canvas $3,100 choice
Known for her luscious, expressive oil paintings on glass and canvas, Lisa Lala became well known for her Birds on a Wire series. Other series include the Hill series, Ferris Wheel series, the List series, and most recently the Scribble/ Tangle series, all which often include her doodles, drawings and streamof-conscious writings sketched into the paint with a carpenter’s pencil. Lala attended the University of Kansas where she received a B.F.A. SuB.S.equently she studied under New York painter Wolf Kahn, Slovenian painter Tjasa Demsar (in France), and abstract painter Philomene Bennett in Kansas City. With over ten sell-out shows since her launch in 2003, Lala’s work is now in many notable public, private and museum collections. Lala is represented by galleries in four cities: Atlanta, Kansas City, LA/Laguna Beach, and her hometown Manhattan, KS. She has also exhibited in Belizian Arts, Central America, and several galleries in NYC.
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Raise the Paddle This year’s Raise the Paddle is dedicated to support of the Arts Center’s Visiting and Resident Artist program. Artists come to Lawrence from around the world to live, work, teach, and create new work for periods of one week to one year. Bringing innovative techniques, ideas for collaboration, and interest in working in a variety of mediums, these artists work with Arts Center students of all ages in visual and performing arts.
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Roger Shimomura Eternal Foreigner acr ylic
$12,000
Roger Shimomura is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the University of Kansas. He has had over 130 solo exhibitions and has lectured as a visiting artist at over 200 universities, art schools and museums. Among his many awards he has been cited as a Distinguished Alumnus from the University of Washington, in Seattle. In 2011, he was selected to be a USA Fellow. He is in the permanent collections of over 85 museums nation and his personal letters are being collected by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. His work is currently featured in “Asian American Portraits of Encounter” at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. He is represented by galleries in N.Y.C., Seattle, Kansas City, and Santa Fe.
Wine Tasting An evening of tasting specially chosen wines provided by Susie and Steve Wilson and hors d’oeuvres by Evan Williams Catering for eight in a secret downtown wine cellar. Winner will be chosen at the end of the live auction. Winner must be in theater at the time of the drawing.
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Dan Anderson Little red book man $70
wood fired porcelain, decal fired
Dan graduated with his M.F.A. degree from Cranbrook in 1970. He began his college level teaching at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (SIUE). Located 20 miles from St. Louis, Missouri. Thirty-two years later, in 2002, he retired from university life. Over these three plus decades, Dan positioned SIUE as one of the top 10 graduate ceramic programs in the country (US News & World Report). A frequent workshop presenter, Anderson has lectured and demonstrated at over 160 venues over the past four decades, including the Archie Bray Foundation, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School, Anderson Ranch, Peters Valley Craft Center, Watershed and Arrowmont School. A multiple grant/award recipient, he has received a NEA Artist Fellowship, twelve Illinois Arts Council grants (including six Artist Fellowships) and a Ford Foundation Grant. Major galleries represent Dan across the United States and his work is in numerous private and permanent collections. His “mounds’ anagama wood kiln is fired at his rural Edwardsville studio, Old Poag Road Clay & Glass, twice a year. He has been wood firing for over thirty years. Dan is married to Caroline Bottom Anderson, a glass/metal artist. They have two adult daughters, Sarah and Molly, both living in Portland, Oregon and three grandchildren, Penny, Loretta and Archer.
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Kristi Arnold Grotesquerie
monotype on fabriano
$420
In 2001, Kristi earned a B.F.A. in painting from the University of Kansas and an M.F.A. in painting and printmaking from the University of Connecticut in 2005. She traveled to Krakow, Poland to complete a Fulbright Fellowship at the Akademia Sztuk Pieknych w Krakowie. In 2008, she was awarded the position as the Artist-in-Residence at the University of Kansas, where she spent 2 years teaching and focusing on her work. Kristi’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad including in Australia, South Korea, Bulgaria, Poland, and Austria. She is a recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including a recent International Postgraduate Scholarship, International Postgraduate Award and a Postgraduate Research Scholarship from the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. In 2011, she was an Artist-in-Residence at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium. Currently, Kristi is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts in Sydney, Australia, where she continues to research the perception of “beauty” and the evolution of the term “grotesque.”
www.kristi-arnold.com
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Christa Assad Bronze Fire Hydrant
glazed stoneware
$750
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, mid-career artist Christa Assad is best known for her Re-objectification series -- teapot designs based on objects and buildings from American industry. Assad explains the inspiration for her pieces: “Growing up in Pittsburgh, PA, I was strongly influenced by the Steel City’s dying industry and the grit of these oft-abandoned sites. Tagged with graffiti and other remnants of trespassers and squatters, the physical remains of these sites serve as archaeological artifacts in the study of human behavior and societal evolution.” A teacher, traveler and full time ceramicist with an M.F.A. from Indiana University, Assad’s work is in the permanent collections of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Ceramic Research Center at Arizona State University Museum, and The Penn State Fulbright Scholar Collection. She was named, “Ceramic Artist of the Year,” in 2012 by Ceramics Monthly. Assad is represented by Ferrin Gallery (MA), Harvey Meadows Gallery (CO), Friesen Abmeyer (WA), and Chloe Fine Arts (CA).
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Inge Balch Hat on Cat
ear thenware, mixed media
$300
Balch was born and raised in Copenhagen Denmark. She is curator of the International Juried Orton Cone Box Show. Professor of Art, Baker University in Baldwin City, KS. B.F.A.— B.A. Kansas State University, Manhattan KS. M.F.A. University of Kansas, Lawrence KS
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Jason Barr Pizza Head Soup
acr ylic and ink on LP sleeve (LP included)
$125
Jason Barr is a printmaker/painter living in Lawrence KS. His work is heavily influenced by psychedelia, doodling and pop culture. Bright color and texture play a heavy role in guiding the viewer’s eye on a journey throughout every piece. Jason is a co-founder of the Asteroid Head Art Club, co-owner of the Wonder Fair Art Gallery & the creator of the A.D.D. arts podcast! Jason lives and breathes art in Kansas daily!
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Colette Bangert March: Vertical Green
watercolor on Arches sheet
$900
CSB’s art is abstract reflecting an intimacy with the Midwestern landscape of gardens and fields and ground she has lived with during her life.
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Bill Bowerman Inner Leaf
archival pigment print
$400
My central artistic medium is pen and ink drawing, with a focus on composition and simplicity of line. Influences on my art include Zen, surrealism, and cartooning; most of my pieces aim for some combination of beauty, surprise and/or humor. In 2001 I used my flatbed scanner to make a copy of a ginkgo leaf that I wanted to remember. I was surprised and amazed at the beauty, texture, lighting, and detail of the color image of the leaf that was produced by the scanner. I realized, as other artists have, that capturing images using a flatbed scanner instead of a lens-based camera is an important new photographic technique. Since that time I have actively explored and developed many ways of using “scanography” as an artist. “Inner Leaf” is a recent piece in this exploration. My background in psychology (B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Ph.D, Harvard University) is relevant in many ways to my art. I am a past president of the Lawrence Photography Alliance and of the Lawrence Art Guild.
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Alan Brummell Vase
porcelain
$40
B.A. in Architecture, B.S. Art Education, KSU; MS in Visual Arts Education, KU. Professional potter since 1975, art educator for 26 years.
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Matt Burke Polis
digital print
$800
Burke received his B.A. from Colby College, in Maine and received his M.F.A. in Sculpture from Queens College, C.U.N.Y. He grew-up in northeastern Connecticut and lived for 10 years in New York City before accepting a position at the University of Kansas. He has had numerous one person shows and participated in several group shows including, PS1 MoMA in Queens, NY, the Hopper House Art Center in Nyack, NY, the Brooklyn Museum of Art in NY, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. His work is in several major museums and collections including, the Museum of Modern Art Library, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Institute of Art Library. Recent grants include KU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, Lawrence, KS; LexArts Community Development Grant, Lexington, KY; Internship at New Energy Works, Portland, OR. His research interests include finding parallels between human activity and those in the natural world in order to communicate the interdependency of life. He uses wood for its lasting character and ever association with nature. Burke is an Associate Professor of Sculpture in the University of Kansas Art Department. He lives in Lawrence, KS with his wife and son.
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Grace Carmody Neckpiece $250
sterling silver, 14k gold, black cord
Grace Carmody received a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in design and metals from Kansas University where she studied under Gary Nemchock and the late Carlyle H. Smith. Her work has been featured in over 100 exhibitions. About this necklace, “Since I began designing and creating jewelry in the 70’s, I have accumulated many small silver, gold, copper, and bronze pieces that I designed, and were not actually incorporated into my designs. I now have designed a necklace that uses these pieces. All components are finely finished by hand and assembled into this signature piece.”
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Paul & Deb Chaussee keepin the tree frogs and canaries singing
stained, fused, recycled and dichroic glass
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Paul & Deb Chaussee bottle nose fish buddies
stained, fused, recycled and dichroic glass
$260
This piece features beautiful stained, fused, recycled and dichroic glass on both sides. More of Deb and Paul’s work can be seen at Crown Center and the American Jazz Museum in KC, Betty Ford Gallery in Vail, CO, the recently renovated chapel in the ECM building at KU and www.flickr.com/riverfrontmosaics/photos.
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Allen Chen Blue Bird
ceramics encased with steel armature
$500
Allen Chen was born in 1979 in Taiwan and immigrated to California in 1991. He received his B.F.A. in Spatial Arts from San Jose State University in 2005 and M.F.A. in Studio Arts from the University of Notre Dame in 2009. Allen has since completed an artist residency at Mendocino Art Center in California and a long term artist in residence program at the Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana, and the Lawrence Arts Center. He is currently Assistant Professor Central State University in Xenia, OH.
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Ellen Chindamo 14k earrings
14k gold
$220
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 and is proud to serve on the LAC Board of Directors. In keeping with her passion for philanthropy and her alma mater, Ellen works for KU Endowment but continues to design and create her jewelry for commissions, organizations and individuals.
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Jessica Conner untitled
ceramic
$150
Jessica was born in western Kansas and raised in her ancestral farmhouse. She received her B.A. from Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas in 2000 and her M.F.A. from Fort Hays State University in 2006. Jessica was 2006-07 ceramics artist-in-residence at the Lawrence Arts Center, and has taught ceramics and youth arts at the Arts Center from 2006 to the present. Jessica is currently studio coordinator at the Arts Center and pursuing K-12 teaching certification at Avila University.
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Mark Cowardin That Way
gouache, pencil and flitter on paper
$300
After receiving his B.F.A. in sculpture from the University of Kansas in 1998, Mark H. Cowardin moved on to the University of Arizona in Tucson where he completed his M.F.A. in 2001. Mark’s sculptural work, which conceptually explores the intersection of humans and the natural world, has been exhibited widely on regional, national, and international levels. Cowardin’s work is included in numerous public and private collections, including the John Michael Kohler Art Center, Mississippi State University, and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Laurie Culling Color Grid 20
hand made paper collage
$240
Laurie Culling is a professional artist and an active visual artists’ advocate. Laurie works with acrylics on canvas, mixed media on gypsum, monotypes, fabric, beads, hand-made paper collage and more. Her artwork has been exhibited locally, regionally, nationally, internationally, and she has received numerous awards including the 2002 Phoenix Award in Visual Arts. Laurie’s artworks are in many private, public, corporate collections and in the Spencer Museum of Art “Classroom Collections”. She earned a B.F.A. in painting and drawing from KU; is a 1982 co-founder of Phoenix Gallery; a former co-president and former vice-president of the Lawrence Art Guild; and served as Assistant Director of the Lawrence Art Guild’s 1109 GALLERY the first year it opened May 2009. Laurie volunteered as art exhibit coordinator for the Lawrence Public Library for 20 years.
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Christa Dalien Bear Skin Rug
silkscreen and embroider y
$125
Christa Dalien an artist currently living in Santa Fe, NM. She works in a variety of different mediums including installation, drawing, painting, and printmaking. Originally from Minnesota, she received her B.F.A. in painting and her M.F.A. in printmaking from the University of Kansas.
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Charity Davis-Woodard Textured Vase
porcelain, wood-fired
$130
Charity has been a full-time studio potter since earning her M.F.A. in 1997 from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. In her home-based rural studio she focuses on limited production porcelain functional pots which she fires in a Bourry-box style wood kiln. A part-time community college instructor, Charity is also a frequent workshop presenter for clay guilds, universities and craft schools such as Anderson Ranch and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Her work can be seen in numerous professional publications and at exhibitions and gallery events around the country.
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Jeff Eaton Wedding Skull
enamel on MDO signboard
$500
Jeff Eaton learned screen printing and sign painting techniques while working in the sign industry during the nineties. With the poster art resurgence of the same era and his own involvement in the Wichita music scene, Eaton found a new artistic outlet. After leaving the sign world to tour with band Split Lip Rayfield, and needing his own shop to print out of, Eaton established Pride of Gumbo in 2004 in Wichita and relocated to Lawrence in 2008. Mixing homegrown development techniques along with computer design and use of repurposed or recycled substrates, he, alongside Lawrence artist Leslie Kuluva, launched The Test Kitchen in East Lawrence in January 2010.
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Connie Ehrlich Birdcage
monoprint with solar plate etching
$350
Connie graduated from the University of Kansas in 1993 with an M.F.A. degree in painting. Since then she has been a full time artist, exhibiting her work nationally.
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Justin Fairchild Memento $200
terra cotta
Justin previously took classes in the ceramics studio at the Lawrence Arts Center. He currently lives in Houston Texas.
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Barry Fitzgerald Person of Questionable Character
fired ceramic, acr ylic on wood
$295
Barry Fitzgerald has received over 100 national and international awards for his work, including American Illustration, the Society of Illustrators of NY, Society of Illustrators of LA, 3X3, and Creative Quarterly. His images have been in over 60 juried and invitational exhibitions, including shows in New York, Los Angeles, and London. His clients include The New York Times, Playboy Jazz Festival, Vagrant Records, McGraw-Hill Publishing. Fitzgerald is also a Professor of illustration at the University of Kansas.
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Herb Friedson Spacial Activity
enamel on copper
$220
Herb Friedson was born in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1958 with a B.F.A. in Sculpture. He started enameling in high school. At the Cleveland Institute of Art, he was fortunate to study with renowned enamellists Kenneth B.A.te and John Paul Miller. He received an M.F.A. in Design at the University of Kansas and was hired by KU to teach jewelry-silversmithing and B.A.sic design in the Design Department as well as introducing enameling into the curriculum. Mr. Friedson’s work has been shown in more than one hundred twenty regional, national and international exhibitions including those at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art, Aaron Faber Gallery, New York; Long Beach Museum of Art, Nelson Gallery/Atkins Museum and the Biennale Internationale in Limoge, France.
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Ken Grizzel Signature
serigraph
$300
Ken was born in Great Bend, Kansas in 1937. He attended Fort Hayes State University for his undergraduate education and Wichita State University where he received his M.F.A. in sculpture and painting. Ken taught for 38 years at the University & High School levels. He retired in 1999 and is now living in Lawrence.
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Adam Lott Boldly Gone $80
pen and ink
Adam Lott was born in Nebraska, but has lived the majority of his life in Kansas. He fears nothing.
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Sarah Gross pierced
stoneware
$200
Sarah Gross was born in New York City and is Assistant Professor of Art and Director of the Ceramic Apprenticeship Program at Berea College in Berea, KY. She received a B.A. in studio art at Carleton College and an M.F.A. in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has completed residencies at Greenwich House Pottery, The Lawrence Arts Center, and Grand Valley State University. In 2010 she was named an Emerging Artist by Ceramics Monthly. She has exhibited her sculpture and functional pottery across the country.
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Diane Guthrie Field Afire $300
photograph
Based in Lawrence, KS, Diane Guthrie publishes her images in a variety of regional, national and international publications. This photograph is part of a series capturing the imagery of a controlled burn on the plains of Kansas.
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Ann Frame Hertzog & Steven Hertzog Downtown
photograph
$350
Steven Hertzog is a graduate of Emerson College and the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston with fine arts degrees in both photography and film. Steven has over 30 years’ experience in editing, producing, photographing and directing all forms of audio/visual media from documentaries, commercials and industrials to Motion Picture advertising campaigns. Until moving to Lawrence, Kansas in the winter of 2006, he spent 25 years in Los Angeles dedicated to the world of Motion Picture advertising. Steven built an illustrious career as an editor, producer and creative director, creating the campaigns of A-List films including What Lies Beneath, Castaway, Die Hard, Last of the Mohicans, White Men Can’t Jump, Gross Pointe Blank, A Beautiful Mind and RockStar. Ann Frame Hertzog is a Kansas native and KU Graduate. Ann has over 20 years experience in marketing and advertising. From award-winning campaigns such as Liar Liar, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and The Mummy to
Silent Auction crowd-pleasing hits such as Babe, Apollo 13, Out of Sight and American Pie. Ann has directed, managed and nurtured each movie, client, producer and campaign from concept development to box office success. Prior to her work in motion picture marketing, Ann spent her time in sports marketing and management, including manager of the Kansas Relays, Athletics Coordinator for the Los Angeles Olympics, and with the Commissioner’s Office of Major League Baseball in New York where she helped to institute the Commissioner’s corporate partners marketing program. Ann and Steven are partners in the Lawrence creative marketing company KERN Group Inc. and the Lawrence Business Magazine, and Steven also has his own photography business, Creative Road Studio. www.KERNgroupinc.com www.LawrenceBusinessMagazine.com www.CreativeRoadStudio.com
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David Hiltner Silo Jar $95
wood fired porcelain
David Hiltner is currently the Executive Director of Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, Montana. In the summer of 2005 David and his family moved to Montana to establish the Red Lodge Clay Center. Prior to moving to Red Lodge David was an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. Before joining the faculty at Wichita State University in 1999, he taught at Syracuse University, Northwest College, and at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He received his B.F.A in Ceramics from Wichita State University in 1993 and completed his M.F.A at Syracuse University in 1997.
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Ron Hinton Sculptural Brooch
fabricated bronze and sterling silver
$225
Ron has been a metal artist for 40 years. After receiving a B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Kansas, he has participated in juried exhibitions throughout the United States. Selected exhibitions include: “Put a Lid on It”, National Juried exhibit of boxes at the Society of Arts & Crafts in Boston, Ma.; “Earth Views,” Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C.; The Philadelphia Craft Show, Sponsored by The Philadelphia Art Museum; and the Washington Craft Show, Sponsored by the Women’s Committee of the Smithsonian Associates, Washington, D.C. His Artwork has been represented in galleries from coast to coast as well as by art agencies. Selected installations include: The Ann Arbor Public Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan; One International Place, Dallas, Texas; Waterford Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Nebraska Health Systems, Omaha, Nebraska; Hiratsuka City Hall, Hiratsuka, Japan: Data Systems International, Overland Park, Kansas; One Meridian Crossing, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Emprise B.A.nk Corporate Headquarters, Wichita, Kansas. Ron lives and works in Olympia, Washington where he is currently an Olympia Arts Commissioner and President of the Olympia Artspace Alliance.
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Diane Horning Spring Scarf
handwoven with hand-dyed B.A.mboo yarn
$145
For over 15 years Diane has created handwoven work to adorn the body. She works out of a studio in her home and currently sells her pieces at Spectator’s in downtown Lawrence.
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Brian J. Horsch American Buffalo
ceramic
$250
Brian J. Horsch has been creating hand built and thrown ceramic sculpture since 2008. His focus is human and animal forms both real and unreal. He has a special affinity for farmers, ranchers, and indigenous Kansas critters. Many of his pieces are functional with human or animal accents. Prior to his interest in clay, he was carving sculpture from various hard woods. His ceramic pieces are variously fired by electric, gas, or wood at temperatures between 1900° - 2400°F. His studio is in Lawrence and he lives close to nature near Stull, Kansas.
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Meredith Host Dot Dot Floral Cup & Saucer Set
porcelain with decals
$80
Meredith Host was born and raised in Detroit Rock City. She received her B.F.A. in Ceramics from Kansas City Art Institute in 2001 and her M.F.A. in Ceramics from The Ohio State University in 2008. Meredith has spent time at numerous ceramic residencies including The School for American Crafts at RIT in Rochester, NY, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME, and Dresdner Porzellan Manufactory in Dresden, Germany. She was named one of the 2011 Emerging Artists for NCECA and Ceramics Monthly. Currently, Meredith lives in Kansas City, MO and is a full time studio potter. She has an extensive collection of patterned knee socks and taxidermy shoulder mounts and is a self-proclaimed horror dork and root beer connoisseur.
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Andrew Jilka Violence and Sensation #3
Colored pencil on paper
$800
Andrew Jilka was born in Salina, KS in 1986. He attended the University of Kansas and received a B.F.A. in printmaking in 2009. His printmaking work has been shown in several group exhibitions in Yunnan and Beijing, China as well as Seoul, Korea. His current body of drawings has been exhibited in various group shows focused on the contemporary state of drawing in cities including Lawrence KS, Kansas City MO, Omaha NE, and Atlanta GA. Most recently, his work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine online and in Syracuse University’s Salt Hill Journal. Jilka’s most recent solo exhibition featured a suite of drawings and paintings at the Invisible Hand Gallery in Lawrence, KS where he currently lives and works.
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Ted Johnson Idyll $180
sepia ink and watercolors
Ted was one of the original members of a life drawing group founded in 1980 and that continues to this day at The Valley Lane Studios where conversations between artists and models draw out ideas about life.
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Lora Jost Song in My Heart $275
scratchboard
Lora Jost is a freelance artist whose work includes scratchboard drawing, mixed-media collage, and mosaic. Jost is also a community arts educator, illustrator, and co-author of Kansas Murals: A Traveler’s Guide (2006, University Press of Kansas). She teaches Sketchbook, Mixed-media collage, Creative Process, and other classes at the Lawrence Arts Center. Find her on-line at www. lorajost.org.
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Ben Kappen Bird and Branch $450
blown glass
Ben moved to Kansas in 1988, where he graduated high school in 1996, then spent three years studying illustration at the University of Kansas, before leaving to pursue a career in glass. In 2000 he began to learn how to furnace-work soft glass with Darren Davis at Rainbow Fired Glass in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Using what he had learned there with soft glass, he bought a small torch and began to ‘lampwork’ glass in early 2003. During this time he also began building his own equipment in order to open a soft glass studio in Lecompton, Kansas. The furnace was first fired in June of 2004, marking the grand opening of the Illuminated Glass Studio.
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Alicia Kelly From the Outside-In
cut paper, gouache, sequin pins
$350
Alicia Kelly currently resides in Lawrence, Kansas. She is actively working among nine other artists at SeedCo. Studios in East Lawrence. She believes in the power of the universe and the healing qualities of good cookies.
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Gwen Kerth Untitled
mixed media
$200
Pictorial Designs collage portraits are a beautiful integration of old photos, objects, artwork, and your personal story.
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Bill Kutelik Barcelona $375
oil on canvas
Bill graduated from KU, where he majored in ceramics and glass. His primary focus was cast glass for many years. A few years ago Bill started painting so he could express himself more spontaneously. Bill really enjoyed it and now works in watercolor, oil paint in addition to glass and clay at his rural Douglas County studio.
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Stephanie Lanter What?
ear thenware, crocheted and stitched polyester, pins, glass $450
beads, aluminum screen, hardware
Stephanie Lanter, full-time ceramics instructor at Emporia State University in Emporia, KS, has exhibited her ceramic, fiber and mixed-media sculpture nationally. In addition to completing three-year visiting artist/teaching positions at Wichita State University and Washburn University, she has been awarded residencies at the Red Lodge Clay Center (Montana), The Anderson Ranch (Colorado), The Archie Bray Foundation/Jentel (Montana/Wyoming) and the Mendocino Art Center (California). Her reviews have been published in journals such as Ceramics Monthly and Ceramics: Art and Perception. She received an M.F.A. from Ohio University in 2002. Her most current project, The Waiting Room, is a collaborative, travelling multimedia exhibition, book, and workshop/ lecture series.
www.stephanielanter.com www.thewaitingroomproject.com
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Monika Laskowska Make yourself at home
ceramic
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$120
Monika Laskowska Cluster
ceramic
$300
Monika Laskowska was born in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in 1981 and currently lives in Columbus, Ohio, in the United States, where she is an M.F.A. candidate in the Ceramics Department and a Graduate Teaching Associate at the Ohio State University. She received her B.F.A. from the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology in Galway, Ireland, and studied at The National Art Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria, as part of the Erasmus Exchange Program. She also holds a B.A. in English from the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, Poland. Her work is informed by her multicultural background and explores the effects that displacement and transitory circumstances of life have on one’s sense of home and belonging. She is currently Artist in Residence at the Lawrence Arts Center.
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David Loewenstein Kansans, please stop me! $400
spraypaint stencil
Dave is a muralist, writer, and printmaker based in Lawrence, Kansas. In addition to his more than twenty public works in Kansas, examples of his dynamic communitybased murals can be found across the United States in Missouri, Arizona, Arkansas, Mississippi, Iowa, Illinois, Oklahoma, New Orleans, New York City and in Northern Ireland and South Korea (April 2013). Dave’s stencil prints are exhibited nationally and are in the permanent collections of the New York Public Library, Yale University, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles. He is the co-author of “Kansas Murals,” a 2007 Kansas Notable Book Award Winner, published by the University Press of Kansas; and the co-director of the documentary film “Creating Counterparts” which won Best Documentary at the 2003 Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee. Dave is one of the founders of the Lawrence Percolator community art space and is currently working on the Rocket Grant funded project Give Take Give.
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Robbin Loomas The Eldridge
digital painting on canvas
$350
“My work is a blending of photography and painting. I paint with a computer. Digital painting is an emerging art form where traditional painting techniques and styles are applied using a computer as a tube of paint and a digital tablet and stylus for a paint brush. Each brush stoke is applied individually, by hand. I consider the camera my sketchbook. When I look through the lens I see the beginning of a work if art. It is the bones on which to build.” Robbin Loomas, an award winning photographer and digital artist, received her B.F.A. in photography from the Kansas City Art Institute. Working as a freelance photographer in Kansas City, then as head of photography for University Relations at KU, she now has her own photo studio, Sterling Image, in Lawrence, Kansas. Robbin creates paintings from her photography, and does commissioned work from the images of others. She teaches this technique and painting style at the Lawrence Arts Center and to professionals throughout the Midwest. www.robbinloomas.com
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Bailey Marable Ring $40
sterling silver
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Bailey Marable Necklace #1 $50
sterling silver
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Bailey Marable Necklace #2 $50
sterling silver
Bailey Marable is a full time art teacher, mother to three amazing girls, wife and promoter of the talented and kind Justin Marable, and she still manages to smith a little metal here and there. She is known for sawing out the tiniest of details and shifted that talent to a focus on words and names this year. Her etsy site is hopping and her hands are busy... visit http://www.etsy.com/shop/baykivo if you have a chance on an interest in your own custom ring or necklace.
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Emily Markoulatos Warm Winter $475
acr ylic on canvas
Emily Markoulatos is a 1998 Fine Arts graduate of Iowa State University. Using a woodburning technique combined with layers of paint and oil pastel, she creates a subtle texture that give her paintings depth and movement. The Kansas and Iowa landscapes and their people provide inspiration for her abstract paintings. www.emilymarkoulatos.com
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Laurie Marlowe Mata Hari’s Dream
enamel on copper, silver foil, overglaze, fine silver, silk velvet (inside)
$200
Religious mysticism, expressions reflected in visionary eyes, images of hands that construe the unspoken, the journey of an inner passion – this is the ideation behind the enigmatic creations of Laurie Marlowe. There is something hidden that Marlowe feels driven to communicate, but the language, the words themselves, come from somewhere else. Marlowe conveys that which is inexplicable via the symbolism in her art. Throughout her life, certain themes resurface in the various art mediums in which she has been enamored. Love, beauty, spirituality, kismet, and chaos are the framework upon which she builds her works. Marlowe has studied enamel arts and techniques since 2008 under the instruction and direction of Herbert Friedson.
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Melissa McCormick Plant with Pants
Ear thenware Sculpture, fired to cone 04, with colored slip and $200
matte clear glaze
Melissa McCormick was born in Omaha, NE. She moved to Lawrence, KS to attend KU where she earned a B.F.A. in ceramics. She later went B.A.ck to KU to earn her Pharm. D. and currently works full time as a retail pharmacist. McCormick has kept her interest in ceramics alive, and is currently working in clay from her home shop. She has participated in the Lawrence Final Friday Art Party, and has shown work at the Blue Dot Salon.
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Liza MacKinnon Late Naughts Lawrence $200
mixed media
Liza MacKinnon is a mixed media artist and arts instructor B.A.sed in Lawrence, Kansas. Liza uses historic imagery and visual alliterations to convey complex themes. The piece, Late Naughts Lawrence, is an exploration of memories from the late 00s.
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Travis Millard A New Baby. Pull Down the Heavy Psychic Load (zines) $120
Ar tist Proof. Zines
Travis Millard is an artist living in Los Angeles known for his drawings on paper. Recently Travis design the album for the Dinosaur Jr. “I Bet on Sky” album, The Uncluded “Hokey Fright” album, as well as designing characters for an Adult Swim cartoon pilot. Travis is originally from Kansas, and was a one time employee of the Lawrence Arts Center where he answered phones at the desk and taught cartoons and comics to Kindergarten — 6th graders. www.fudgefactorycomics.com
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Jeromy Morris Hummingbird and Tea Cup Elk
toner transfer, spray paint and acr ylic on wood
$400
Jeromy Morris was born in Denver, CO and now lives and produces in Lawrence, KS. Morris has a B.A.chelor’s degree in Visual Communications and Graphic Design from the University of Kansas. He is a founding member of Fresh Produce Art Collective and Lost Art Sp_ce in downtown Lawrence. Currently Morris is one of 12 resident artists at SeedCo Studios, in the new Warehouse Arts District at 826 Pennsylvania. Morris is constantly finding new techniques to express his creativity through multiple mediums. He fuses together photography, fine art and graphic design to “build moods” using, acrylic, toner transfers and spray paint on wood panel. Inspired by chaos and the mundane, he seeks out subtleties and embraces the accidental. Morris’ process oriented work deals with, interactions and happenings relating to, consumerism and advertising, urB.A.n ruins and type decay, nature vs. industry and the equilibrium and fusion thereof.
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Ed Noonen Porcelain pitcher with cups $75
porcelain, glaze
Ed Noonen lives in Lawrence, KS. He earned a B.F.A. in ceramics from KU. He currently works for Lawrence Fire and Medical. Ed has an active studio life, making pottery in his home shop in his spare time. His focus is utilitarian pottery and burial urns. He has shown work at the Blue Dot Salon.
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Marty Olson Chase $500
acr ylic on canvas
Marty Olson is as local as you can be. He keeps himself busy cutting hair and painting. He thanks you for paying attention through the years...
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Grace Peterson Alternative Landscape 11
ceramic
$400
Grace Peterson was born in Tucson, Arizona. She received her B.F.A from the University of Kansas. She teaches art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri as well as her studio workshop and the Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, Kansas. Grace is a studio artist as well as art educator. She actively shows and sells her sculpture both locally and regionally.
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Wayne Propst One baby in the shell pendant $25
mixed media
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Wayne Propst Dog Tag $15
mixed media
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Wayne Propst Dead Kennedy $10
mixed media
My work explores the relationship between the universality of myth and recycling culture. With influences as diverse as Wittgenstein and John Cage, new synergies are manufactured from both opaque and transparent discourse. Ever since I was a teenager I have been fascinated by the unrelenting divergence of the zeitgeist. What starts out as triumph soon becomes finessed into a carnival of lust, leaving only a sense of failing and the unlikelihood of a new beginning. As wavering forms become clarified through studious and undefined practice, the viewer is left with a summary of the darkness of our condition.
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Brenda Lichman Bowl $50
porcelain
Brenda Lichman grew up in Brookfield, Wisconsin. She received her B.F.A. in ceramics from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 1998 and her M.F.A. in ceramics with a minor in drawing from the University of North Texas in 2002. In 2008, Brenda curated and organized “Line to Volume,” an exhibition of thirty nationally known ceramic artists for the NCECA conference in Louisville, Kentucky. Brenda was named “Emerging Artist” by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May of 2009; she also received a “Merit Award” from the University of Dallas Regional Juried Ceramic Competition that same year. Brenda works as a studio potter in Wichita, Kansas where she also teaches ceramics and drawing at Wichita State University. Her work is represented by Red Lodge Clay Center, AKAR, 18 Hands Gallery, and Santa Fe Clay. www.brendalichman.com
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Clinton Ricketts Duder $145
etching and acr ylic
Clint Ricketts is a printmaker, painter, and teacher currently living in Lawrence, Kansas. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Kansas in 2010 and has taught design and printmaking courses at Emporia State, Washburn University and Missouri Western State University. Clint’s art has been exhibited locally at galleries including The Wonder Fair, The H and R Block Art Space, The Kansas City Art Institute, The Invisible Hand Gallery and as a participant in the Kansas City Collection. Clint’s work has also been seen nationally and internationally in the publication New American Paintings and in galleries including the International Print Center of New York, OK Mountain of Austin, Texas, the Coyne Gallery of The University of Syracuse and Hongik University in Seoul, Korea.
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Jeff Ridgway Late Tuesday Afternoon $250
mixed media on paper
Jeff Ridgway, M.F.A.: lives and works to draw and paint in Lawrence, Kansas. He has taught Life Drawing and Anatomy for the Artist at the Lawrence Arts Center for nineteen consecutive years this Spring. Jeff has also taught Portraiture, En plein air and Studio Painting, Pastels and in 1994 was an instigator and the first instructor of the Arts program at the Northeast Kansas Juvenile Detention Center, which continues to work with troubled youth to this day through Douglas County Youth Services.
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Jeremy Rockwell interference #6 $400
acr ylic on panel
Artist Jeremy Rockwell has always been inspired by the process of using found and repurposed materials. Based on cross stitch pieces made by his Great Grandmother, this diptych is part of an ongoing series that explores the connection between modern technology and iconic imagery. Rockwell currently resides in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Rachel Rademacher Untitled
fused and slumped glass on Kansas limestone base
$200
In 2012, Rachel’s work was selected for the Mulvane Art Museum’s Mountain/ Plains Art Fair as well as the exhibit “Visions of the Flint Hills” at the Buttonwood Art Space in Kansas City. www.rachelsglassart.wordpress.com.
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Leni Salkind Porcelain paper bowls $150
porcelain
Leni Salkind received a B.S. from the University of Bridgeport and an M.A. from the University of Maryland. She began serious study of ceramics during her graduate program and worked as a potter for many years, teaching at the Lawrence Arts Center when it first opened and in the art department at Baker University. She gradually began making sculpture and presently hand builds both functional and non-functional work. She enjoys creating works of clay that reveal the softness and textures of textiles despite the hardness of fired clay.
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John Sebelius Home $1,100
pen and oils on panel
John Sebelius is an interdisciplinary artist who holds an M.F.A. in drawing and painting from the University of Kansas and a B.F.A. in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. Sebelius’s work has been featured in: Harper’s, Express, DETAILS, Review, CNN, Aspen Daily News, The Washington Post, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. John has shown work in Sydney, Australia, Providence, Kansas City, Chicago, and recently had a solo exhibition at the Gonzo Museum in Aspen, CO. Sebelius was also named the Best Artist of 2012 by Lawrence Journal World.
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Deb Stavin Fabulous Foosball, Ghana $300
photograph
“My work has long focused on familiar sights in exotic places, like India and Africa. Lately I’ve been concentrating on exotic sights in familiar places, like this unexpected tiger sighting in my own Lawrence front yard.”
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Rachael Sudlow pearl seafan necklace
cast coral seafan in pink silver, sterling silver, freshwater pearl
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Rachael Sudlow Water Lily Necklace
powdercoated metal, sterling silver
$140
Rachael’s work is often influenced by her love of nature and organic forms. Her designs, mostly created in sterling silver and gemstones, are entirely handmade. Almost all of her work is customizable and can be created to your specifications. www.rachaelsudlow.com
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Pam Sullivan Water Traces $500
mixed media/fiber
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Pam Sullivan Copper Currents III $200
mixed media/fiber
Pam Sullivan is originally from Kansas and graduated with a B.F.A. from the University of Kansas. In 2002, she returned to Lawrence. She has continued to study with many artists in the US and England, has exhibited in juried and invitational shows, and has been a featured artist on HGTV.
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Juniper Tangpuz Mantis Slide Whistle $1,750
corrugated plastics, tip ties, metal
Juniper Albert Tangpuz a.k.a. T.J. was born in Kansas City, MO. He graduated in 2003 from the University of Kansas with a B.F.A. in Sculpture. During the day, he works at Johnson County Community College as the mild mannered Fine Arts Studio Assistant. He enjoys cutting paper and long walks along the artistic landscape.
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Dave Van Hee MONDO BUMPO
paper, ink, acr ylic medium, steel
$250
Dave Van Hee is a native of Kansas City, Missouri. Resident of Douglas County, Kansas. Frequent visitor to Lawrence, Kansas.
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Maria Velasco In Her Sleep $850
MarĂa Velasco is a Spanish-born artist who has been living and working in the USA since the 1990s. Her interdisciplinary work consists of site-specific environments, sculptural objects, and temporary public art commissions. She has shown her work nationally and internationally in university and private museums, and contemporary art venues such as The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, MN, the Contemporary Arts Forum in Santa Barbara, CA, the ARC gallery in Chicago, IL, the Spencer Museum Of Art, Lawrence, KS, the Paula Cooper gallery and the Elizabeth Foundation For the Arts, both in NYC. Her work has been exhibited in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Paraguay and Germany and featured in Art In America and Sculpture Magazine. She has conducted independent curatorial projects, discussion panels, and workshops nationally and abroad. She is an Associate Professor of Visual Art at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, where she currently lives. www.mariavelascostudio.com
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Marciana Vequist Sunset Surrenders to the Blues
archival giclée print
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Marciana Vequist The Eighty-Eight
archival giclée print
$175
Marciana Vequist lives in Lawrence, works as a psychologist during the day, and spends a lot of time at Clinton Lake exploring and shooting sunrises, sunsets, and moonrises. She uses a High Dynamic Range (HDR) processing technique to make ordinary scenes look more interesting. Her processing ranges from realistic to surreal.
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David Vertacnik Burgundy Flower $400
ceramics, steel
David Vertačnik received his M.F.A. from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, N.Y., in 1975 and his Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana State University in 1972. David uses abstracted images of plants, agricultural tools, and the fruitful soil to describe and symbolize life cycles, such as fertility, growth, depletion and renewal. These include ceramics, steel, cast bronze and found objects. Several of his sculptures are designed for outdoor sites, some created with elements that move freely in space. His art has been viewed in numerous solo, two-person, and group exhibitions in the United States and Slovenia. David employs a wide range of materials in fabricating his sculptures. David is one of three artists featured in a story written by Mick Braa in the 2013 spring addition of Lawrence Magazine.
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Monica Vidal Figure in a Stacked Mask
mixed media on paper
$250
Monica Vidal is an artist in Houston, TX. Originally from Erie, Pennsylvania, Monica received a B.F.A. at Cleveland Institute of Art and a M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. She has had solo exhibitions in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas and was an artist-in-residence at Art 342 in Fort Collins, Colorado. Her works consist of large-scale, mixed media sculptures, drawings, paintings and prints. Her next exhibition FALLING HIVE will be shown at Women and Their Work in Austin, TX in May 2013.
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Patrick Vincent Destroyer of Worlds $150
Color Lithograph
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Patrick Vincent Animal Royalty
Artist book-accordion structure, letterpress, screen-print, etching
$100
Patrick Vincent is from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received his B.F.A. from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and his M.F.A. from Arizona State University. He has worked for the design/letterpress workspace Studio on Fire, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Pyracantha Press. With this foundation in books, printmaking, and design, Patrick creates original works of art and collaborates with individuals through print media. He is currently Artist in Residence at the Lawrence Arts Center.
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Shanna Wagner Cosmic Landscape
stained glass and enameled glass
$375
“I find inspiration for stained glass designs in the gorgeous color of glass, the mixing of textures, and jewel shapes to capture the beauty in the world around us.�
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Darin M. White Wearable Sculpture
spalted maple, sterling silver
$115
Darin M. White is an artist, independent curator and art consultant based in Lawrence, Kansas. With his wife Shannon White, a painter and arts advocate they founded b.a.l.m. | beauty, art & life movement in 2007. He is passionate about artists, art, creativity and community. He has served on various volunteer committees, such as the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission and helped launch Final Fridays. He recently served on the steering committee for the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission. His hope and desire is to continue to work as a catalysis on art productions, curations and events to encourage and promote art and artists as well as his own work, searching for ways of exploring and communicating about life and important revelations through art. White equates his artwork to digging in the field, looking for treasures and mysteries to reveal.
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Shannon White Doers and hearers $250
Shannon White is a native of Lawrence, Kansas. She received a scholarship to study Foundations at Cleveland Institute of Art, OH, and received her B.F.A. in Painting at the University of Kansas in 1996. She received multiple university scholarships and Hollander Awards for her work. She has studied in open studios under the direction of Louis Copt and Philomene Bennett, as well. She has sold and shown work nationally and internationally and painted numerous portraits
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Baron Wolman Grace Slick
signed photograph
$425
Baron Wolman was the original Chief Photographer for ROLLING STONE magazine during rock music’s heyday in the 1960s. In an era when photographers and musicians were part of the same explosive scene, Wolman had virtually unlimited access to his subjects. Baron has had the unique opportunity to photograph some of the most influential musicians in history.
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Russell Wrankle Red Hare 1
earthenware, glaze
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$270
Russell Wrankle Red Hare 2
earthenware, glaze
$270
Russell Wrankle received his M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University in 1999 and returned to the West to create an art centered life in Toquerville, Utah in 2001. In 2012 He joined the faculty as Assistant Professor of Art at Southern Utah University. Russell is a sculptor who chooses ceramics as his primary medium His subject matter is personal narrative through the use of animal imagery. He’s interested in taking familiar animals such as rabbits and dogs and reinterpreting them through the filter of his own sensibilities. While the leaping off point for the imagery in his work is personal in nature, he believes that the personal is universal. People from cultures across the world experience the same joy and suffering and he attempts to express the universal experience in his art. Russell exhibits at Duane Reed Gallery, St Louis, MO, Red Lodge Clay Center Gallery, Montana as well as various invitational and group shows around the country. His work is included in many private and permanent collections.
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Robert Zerwekh Red Delights $700
oil on panel
For Robert Zerwekh, realistic still-life oil painting has been an avocation since the early 1970s. He has been in numerous juried and invitational shows and has received several awards. Zerwekh has done many commissioned paintings and his work is in collections throughout the country.
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Jesse Gray Siameses $400
mixed media
Jesse Gray was born in the woods just outside of Austin, TX and grew up rummaging around in thrift stores and playing pinball at honky-tonks. Even after making a relatively recent escape 6 years ago to Lawrence, his feelings of loneliness and longing are still evoked by the sound of both peddle steel and midnight train. He is currently showing at Lost Art Sp_ce and SeedCo Studios, as well as monthly shows in Kansas City and elsewhere.
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Aaron Marable. Courtesy of Invisible Hand Gallery Untitled
hand-pulled screenprint
$50
Aaron Marable has been painting people, both real and imagined, since the nude he painted got pulled from the hall’s wall of his Hiawatha High School. Decency was sited as the reason and this one act flung him head long into the discovery of Beckman, Freud, Grosz, Scheile, Corinth, and Ernst. Painterly sensual painters from Europe’s past crowded his education at Fort Hays State University where he received a B.F.A. in studio painting. Since obtaining his degree he has been faithful to narrative and color in his painting practice. Marable has shown both regionally and locally through the years. The Sonics painting is part of a much larger and ongoing body of work influenced by his years working in a record shop and his love of rock n roll.
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Studio Ike Untitled
hand-pulled screenprint
$50
Ike is the design portfolio of Jeffrey McKee. Ike has over 10 years experience in all fields of graphic design and an extended network of programers, developers, photographers, illustrators and more. We love design as much as we love working with smart and talented clients.
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Molly Murphy. Courtesy of Invisible Hand Gallery
Untitled $50
hand-pulled screenprint
Molly Murphy is a painter from Lawrence, Kansas and works out of a painting studio in the Crossroads Arts District in Kansas City, Missouri as well as SeedCo Studios in Lawrence’s new Warehouse Arts District. Her work investigates aspects of memory in its many facets. Murphy has completed special exhibitions on the topic for Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas and BNIM Architects in Kansas City as well as during her period as the 2012 Artist-In-Residence in Seaside, Florida. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Lawrence Arts Center and as Coordinator for Final Friday Art Walks in Downtown Lawrence. Her work has been shown from Amsterdam to LA, and is in private and corporate collections across the country.
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Andrew Jilka. Courtesy of Invisible Hand Gallery Untitled $50
hand-pulled screenprint
Andrew Jilka was born in Salina, KS in 1986. He attended the University of Kansas and received a B.F.A. in printmaking in 2009. His printmaking work has been shown in several group exhibitions in Yunnan and Beijing, China as well as Seoul, Korea. His current body of drawings has been exhibited in various group shows focused on the contemporary state of drawing in cities including Lawrence KS, Kansas City MO, Omaha NE, and Atlanta GA. Most recently, his work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine online and in Syracuse University’s Salt Hill Journal. Jilka’s most recent solo exhibition featured a suite of drawings and paintings at the Invisible Hand Gallery in Lawrence, KS where he currently lives and works.
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Michael Krueger Pot is Fun $50
ceramic
Michael Krueger is a father, an artist and a teacher. He was born on January 5, 1967 in Kenosha Wisconsin. His family moved to South Dakota in 1970 and he spent his childhood years in Sioux Falls. These formative years in the West cultivated a fondness and curiosity for the history of Westward Expansion and the epic struggles that were cast on the Great Plains. In 1990 Michael earned a B.F.A. from the University of South Dakota and in 1993 he graduated with an M.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame. In 1995, Michael moved to Lawrence for a teaching post at the University of Kansas. Michael’s creative research has taken him all over the globe from Asuncion, Paraguay to the United Arab Emeritus, to Scotland, England, Belgium, France and Italy. He has given lectures and workshops, and exhibited in group and solo exhibitions around the world. www.michaelkrueger.us
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Bill Snead Wild Mares $675
photograph
A portion of a herd of 2000 wild mares raise dust after they were let out of a large coral and headed for the tall grasses of the Flint Hills in Greenwood County, Kansas. There are about 8,500 wile horses in four Bureau of Land Management long-term facilities in Kansas and Oklahoma. The BLM is an arm of the U.S. Department of the Interior. This herd is on the Vestring Ranch near Cassoday, Kansas. About the only thing Bill Snead has been longer than he has been a journalist is a Kansan. From his days as a UPI photographer in Vietnam to being a photo editor at National Geographic to being named “White House Photographer of the Year” while at the Washington Post, Snead’s roots eventually pulled him home.
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Wayne Propst 3 Babies in the shell pendant $25
mixed media
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Wayne Propst Four Shells Pendant $25
mixed media
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Wayne Propst Peace Sign Pendant $25
mixed media
My work explores the relationship between emerging sexualities and multimedia experiences. As temporal derivatives become frozen through undefined and diverse practice, the viewer is left with a new agenda of the undefined of our culture.
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Mike Savage Artists want to wear my red shoes
acr ylic
$1,200
Mike grew up in the Strawberry Hill neighborhood of Kansas City, KS. He has a B.F.A. & M.F.A. from KU. Mike best describes his work as contemporary and impressionistic, a style that stems from his admiration not only from the impressionistic era and it’s greats, Monet and Van Gogh, but also two of his other favorite artists, John Singer Sargent and Wayne Theibold. This painting was created for The Willow Domestic Violence Center’s 2013 Red Shoe Calendar. Proceeds from the sale of this painting will go to The Willow.
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Jane Waggoner Deschner Blake, exuberance $300
mixed media
Jane Waggoner Deschner‘s embroidered found photographs were the subject of a feature article, “Deduction, Speculation, and Fantasy,” in Fiberarts magazine, September/October 2010. 2011 saw her work at the Lexington Art League in Lexington, KY, and in invitational shows in Arizona, Kansas City, Montana, and Wyoming. In 2010, her work was included in “Ucross: Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Arts Residencies,” Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY; “connective threads,” Brooklyn, NY; “Sensational Remix,” Syracuse, NY; and “Zone: Embroidered Digital Commons,” Manchester, UK. In 2012–13, she will have solo exhibitions at the Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT; Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS; and Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA.
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Ted Adler Bottle
wood fired stoneware
$200
Ted Adler is Associate Professor of Art and Area Head of Ceramics Media at Wichita State University. Prior to moving to Wichita, he served Northern Arizona University’s School of Art as an Instructor and Ceramics Studio Coordinator in Flagstaff, AZ. He received his B.A. from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR in 1993 and his M.F.A. from Ohio University in Athens, OH in 2002. Adler has studied with the internationally respected artist Toshiko Takaezu, with whom he apprenticed for more than a year in her Quakertown, NJ studio. He also spent two years as artist-in-residence at the Archie Bray Foundation, the internationally celebrated center for the ceramic arts in Helena, MT. Adler has exhibited work, conducted workshops, and served as visiting artist at numerous ceramic centers and universities in this country and internationally.
Raise the Paddle The Lawrence Arts Center’s Visiting and Resident Artist program is vital to our ability to offer the best in arts education, performing arts, and contemporary exhibitions. Visiting artists work with preschoolers through adults, teach in our studios and in the community, exhibit, create new work in dance, theater, or visual arts, challenge us, and inspire us. Short Term Invitational Residencies These residencies include visual and performing artists who are commissioned to create new work for the Lawrence Arts Center. Project-based Residencies This residency supports area artists who wish to learn new mediums and/or who need temporary studio space to complete special projects. Artists receive use of studio space at the Arts Center, a materials stipend, and private instruction in any medium. Year Long Residencies in Ceramics and Printmaking The Lawrence Arts Center offers 12 month artist in residence programs to ceramics and printmaking artists. Each year, over 100 applicants with M.F.A. degrees apply for the two positions. The residents, chosen by Arts Center staff, other artists, and curators, receive living space, a monthly stipend, curatorial and technical support, instruction in teaching workshops and classes, and a solo exhibition of new work created at the Arts Center. They teach classes and care for studio spaces. Our 2012-13 artists-in residence are Monika Laskowska, ceramics and Patrick Vincent, printmaking.
Thanks to Ellie LeCompte, Anne and David Hollond, Sharon Perry Galloway, Dan Schriner and Sally Hare-Schriner, Lori Norwood and Doug Stull, Tom and Kay Carmody, Steve Lopes and Lois Orth-Lopes, and Jan and Jack Gaumnitz Thanks to the Poehler Lofts Development for the donation of off-site work space for large scale and long term Arts Center projects.