Artist Talk

The expansive practice of Raúl de Nieves, multidisciplinary artist, performer, and musician, explores themes of tradition and transformation. Borrowing from Catholic iconography, Mexican folk traditions, and Kabuki theater, he crafts a distinctive symbolic language that forms its own personal mythology and transforms everyday materials into dazzling, elaborate creations that become part of immersive, story-rich installations. ... Read More

As part of the Ulrich50 celebration, the Ulrich commissioned a new sculpture by Maine-based artist Bianca Beck, created specifically for the WSU campus as the 89th piece in the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection. In connection with the April installation, Beck will give a talk discussing their work, the cornerstone of which is the ... Read More

Multidisciplinary artist Abhidnya Ghuge is known for her immersive site-responsive installations made of thousands of rolled woodblock prints. Her practice engages with themes of belonging and community and is inspired by the ephemeral nature of the human experience. These ideas are quite literally reflected in her means of creating through hands-on community collaboration, wherein different ... Read More

Born in Las Vegas, Justin Favela is renowned for his large-scale installations in cartonería, the traditional Mexican art of piñata making. Favela celebrates his heritage and identity while reflecting on themes of Latinidad, cultural appropriation, and art history. By reflecting on the intersections of tradition and contemporary culture, Favela challenges the ways Latine identity is represented, ... Read More

In connection with the Spring 2025 exhibition, Devan Shimoyama: Rituals, award-winning contemporary multidisciplinary artist Shimoyama will share his creative process, experiences, and inspirations. Shimoyama’s mixed media works explore gender, sexuality, and cultural identities, interpreting at great depths ideas of vulnerability and transformation. He has exhibited worldwide, most recently a solo show at Serlachius Museum Gösta ... Read More

Food Truck: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Artist Talk: 12:15-1 p.m. Bring a sack lunch or purchase a treat from the Shawarma Ur's food truck and join us for an artist talk with members of Sip & Stitch, a group of fiber artist friends who enjoy getting together for wine and creative time! Known for ... Read More

In conjunction with Empty Bowls Wichita, Wichita Ceramic National’s featured artist, Lisa Orr, will give an artist lecture on her softly formed ceramic artworks for the table inspired by the playful and abundant qualities of Mexican earthenware. Orr is an American potter and a teacher of ceramics who has work in both public and private ... Read More

Ghanaian-Moroccan multidisciplinary artist, David Alabo, will discuss his inspirations, creative process, and deep connection to Afrofuturism and Afro-Surrealism, as both historical movements and stylistic modes. Alabo’s work is featured in the fall exhibition, Dream Machine: Fantasy, Surreality, and Play. Join us for a reception at 5:30 p.m., with the program starting at 6 p.m. All ... Read More

Ohio-based multimedia American artist, J.C. Fontanive, will discuss his kinetic sculpture practice, which imaginatively explores physical machines and moving images, with special emphasis on his works included in Dream Machine: Fantasy, Surreality, and Play. Join us for a reception at 5:30 p.m. with the program following at 6 p.m. Everyone is welcome at this free ... Read More

In both his sculptures and paintings, New Mexico-based artist, Doug Coffin (Potowatomi and Creek) has developed a style that suggests a fusion of the ancient totemic form used by many Native cultures with the abstraction and geometric forms of the modernist. The Ulrich installed the 87th and 88th additions to the Martin H. Bush Outdoor ... Read More

Brazilian multimedia artist, Dinorá Justice, creates colorful, highly textural, and conceptually rich works that combine interpretations of the natural world with exploration of cultural and social identity, and human rights advocacy. She will share her inspirations, creative processes, and larger body of work, in connection with the Ulrich’s fall exhibition, [RE]POSE: Leisure Bodies and Empowered ... Read More

In collaboration with the WSU Department of Anthropology’s Archaeology faculty and students, sculptor Randy Regier will give an artist’s talk in the form of a staged field demo, beside his outdoor sculpture, The Celestial Mechanic (2018). Regier will open the clear dome that encases the partially excavated figure, for a rare close look at the ... Read More

WE WILL LIST THE NEW DATE ON THIS PAGE WHEN RESCHEDULED In conjunction with Fully Dimensional: Artists of the Outdoor Sculpture Collection, sculptor Randy Regier will give an artist’s talk in the form of a staged field demo beside his sculpture, The Celestial Mechanic (2016-2018). Regier will open the clear dome that encases the partially ... Read More

In conjunction with Urban Canvas | Exploring Muralism in Wichita and the Duerksen Amphitheater Mural Project, Forward Together/Adelante Juntos, enjoy a discussion with Nathalia Gallego aka GLeo and artist, designer, and community organizer Armando Minjarez about working collaboratively and with community including their experiences with the Horizontes Project and the Duerksen Amphitheater Mural Project. Spanish ... Read More

This exhibition represents the ongoing investigation into the voices and personas of the American past by artist Lesley Dill. For Dill, the voices grew from early America’s obsessions with divinity and deviltry, and on fears of the wilderness “out there” and inside us. The extremes of both shaped history and gave pulse and heat to ... Read More

A significant part of ceramicist Chotsani Elaine Dean’s research is rooted in quilts from slavery (chattel enslavement) thru the Antebellum period, made on and off cotton plantations by enslaved and free African Americans through the mid-20th century. These quilts and the material that gives them life, cotton, serve as a historical source and point of ... Read More

Voices from the Vault is a series of artist talks to celebrate the Ulrich’s 50th anniversary. We’ll begin our celebration of the 2010s with an artist talk by Chaz Guest, an American painter and sculptor of profound inventiveness known for capturing the raw essence of the universal human spirit. Guest’s vivid painting, The Tenth, was ... Read More

This summer, the Ulrich celebrates one of its most important art assets: its talented staff members! Artists at Work: The Ulrich Staff Creates is on view in Grafly Gallery on the first floor of the Ulrich, May 25 through August 5, 2023. This unique exhibition features work by five Museum employees, showcasing a variety of ... Read More

Susan will choose a selection of her images to explore the underlying intentions behind each photograph. She will delve into the technical, metaphorical, and psychological layers that make up each image and share her inspirations for each of her series and the creative decisions she made during the process. Additionally, she will touch on the ... Read More

As part of Wichita's city-wide event line-up for The Big Read, Wichita artist Micala Gingrich Gaylord engaged with local elders, gathering personal items connected with their memories of love and activating them in the Grafly Gallery using audio recordings, creating a moving chorus of individual stories. This exhibit, Love Is Memory, on display at the ... Read More