In the mid-19th century, paper was introduced to the Indigenous people of the American Great Plains through the ledger books of the encroaching Americans. That paper became a vehicle to record memories, help retain connections to the land, and visually record acts of resistance. Through serendipity, artist Chris Pappan has taken on the responsibility of […]
New to the Ulrich's Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Deborah Butterfield's Lumen is a beautiful piece from a body of work that the artist has been expanding since the mid-1970s. Over the course of her long career, Butterfield has returned over and over to images of horses and has created them from all kinds […]
Artist Eddie Dominguez will discuss his body of work, which bridges the spaces within and between functional and sculptural ceramics. Born and raised in New Mexico, Dominguez’s work touches on cultural themes and the experience of place. Dominguez is assistant professor of ceramics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is the guest juror for the […]
5:30 P.M. Reception | 6:00 P.M. Program. If you cannot attend in person, click here for the livestream. Annabel Daou is a Lebanese American artist known for her poetic conceptual pieces that often mine history and use language across multiple media to empower viewers in the present moment. She will address her works in which […]
5:30 P.M. Reception | 6:00 P.M. Program. Ann Resnick has been making conceptually complex and visually sumptuous art for over forty years. Also a pillar of contemporary art in Wichita, Ann has worked for twenty-five years as a gallerist, activist, and exhibiting artist to benefit our community. Shown nationally and internationally, much of her work […]
5:30 P.M. Reception | 6:00 P.M. Program. Love in the Time of the Anthropocene exhibition artists--photographers Terry Evans and Philip Heying and painter A. Mary Kay--share their deep and enduring love for the prairie environments that surround them. Joined by curator Ksenya Gurshtein, they will discuss their diverse approaches to understanding the complexity of this unique […]
Join Ulrich exhibition artists Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens for an artist talk in the Flint Hills as part of their ten-day stay with Tallgrass Artist Residency, a program inspired by prairie and place. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit tallgrassartistresidency.org.
5:30 P.M. Reception | 6:00 P.M. Program. Can you imagine a world without birdsong? Exhibition artists Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens, with curator Sylvie Fortin, will discuss their collaborative practice and how their initial inquiry into birdsong for this project led to an exploration of interspecies care, the financialization of agriculture, and the decline of grassland […]
Jay Williams, curator and author of John Baeder’s A Road Well Taken, will speak on one of the most important hyperrealist painters of our era, John Baeder, who preserved America’s rapidly vanishing old diners in his celebrated prints, watercolors, and oil paintings, and inspired the diner craze of the late 70s through 90s. A selection […]
Ayana V. Jackson is a contemporary American photographer and filmmaker who mines 18th and 19th century Western art and photographs as a means to challenge racial and gender stereotypes ingrained in historical narratives. Jackson’s work examines how the Black body has been portrayed, what has been left out of the frame, and uses self-portraiture to […]
In the 1970s and 80s, Soviet émigré artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid found international acclaim for their biting commentary on the epoch-defining geopolitics of the Cold War. Taking their portfolio, A Ballet: The Life of Stalin, now in the Ulrich collection, as a starting point, Vitaly Komar will discuss how his experiences of living […]
Renée Stout is a contemporary American artist whose work is renowned for its potent reflections on African American heritage and visual culture of the African diaspora, encouraging self-examination, self-empowerment, and self-healing. The Ulrich exhibition Renée Stout: Ghosts features Stout’s haunting prints that explore the ideas and visual language of Haitian Voudou and American Voodoo and […]
Inspired by the work of Gordon Parks, photographer, videographer, and journalist Doug Barrett uses his camera to document our contemporary struggles with social justice in Kansas and the U.S. His recent projects have focused on the protests following the death of George Floyd, the Mexico border wall, homeless veterans in the U.S., and Yuma Street […]
The Ulrich Museum of Art will not have an artist talk with Zhang Huan on Tuesday evening, October 27, as originally planned. Huan, who is working on a project in a remote part of China with extremely limited access to wifi, sends his regrets. In his place, however, he has sent six video shorts selected […]
Wichita artist Larry Schwarm will join us from his studio and home to talk about his past and current projects, including his photographs of controlled agricultural burning in the Flint Hills. The billboard with Schwarm’s work goes on view in September at 4355 S. K-15. Registration is required.
Chicago-based artist Terry Evans is known for her photographs of the people and landscapes of rural America and the Great Plains, particularly her native Kansas. The billboard with Evans’ work goes on view in August at 1101 N. West Street. Registration is required.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation in Montana, conveys both humorous and poignant socio-political Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation in Montana, conveys both humorous and poignant socio-political commentary through her complex paintings and prints. The billboard with Smith’s work is currently on […]
Los Angeles-based artist Gajin Fujita’s large-scale paintings merge graffiti, from his beginnings with K2S crew in his home of Boyle Heights, with traditional Japanese mythical figures, ukiyo-e woodcuts, and pop culture imagery. Registration is required.
Sculptor Alice Aycock will join us from her studio in SoHo, New York in the lead-up to the August 4th installation of Twister Grande (tall). The billboard with Aycock’s work goes on view in August at 1619 North Rock Road. Registration is required.
