Artist Talk

Join us for an artist talk with HYBYCOZO, a collaborative installation art collective made up of Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk. Their sculpture Stratosphere was the most recent piece to join the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection in the fall of 2022. HYBYCOZO’s work consists of larger-than-life sculptures that celebrate the inherent beauty of ... Read More

Artist April Vollmer will present a short overview of the Japanese mokuhanga printing technique and its history, and connect that with contemporary use and her own art, with an emphasis on how the work is made. She will speak about how learning this flexible technique has affected her as an artist, and has inspired a ... Read More

Art Educator Lori Santos uses art as a collaborative tool that creates conversations, builds community, and enacts positive change, telling stories that inspire connectedness and honor difference. Tatiana Larsen found a visual way to permanently record a movement in time. Both are faculty at WSU's School of Art, Design and Creative Industries and artists featured ... Read More

Tanna Burchinal seeks to embrace the challenges of loss and grief during a chaotic time in history. Ted Adler is interested in clay as both a material and a metaphor. Both are faculty at WSU's School of Art, Design and Creative Industries and artists featured in Transmissions: The XXIV Faculty Biennial, on exhibit Jan. 26-April ... Read More

Robert Bubp explores his immediate environment to examine alternate notions of place and space. Marco Hernandez delves into issues associated with the societies and politics of contemporary Mexican and Mexican American cultures. Both are faculty at WSU's School of Art, Design and Creative Industries and artists featured in Transmissions: The XXIV Faculty Biennial, on exhibit ... Read More

Irma Puškarević investigates the semiotization of regional alphabets through collective and personal history and memory. Levente Sulyok explores the relationship between the present, the past, and the future in terms of shifting cultural and physical borders. Both are faculty at WSU's School of Art, Design and Creative Industries and artists featured in Transmissions: The XXIV ... Read More

Adelia Wise uses charcoal on a large scale to invoke the raw vitality it possesses in juxtaposition with flesh and the human form. Fiber artist Ernst S. Kind expresses his true voice through his work. Both are faculty at WSU's School of Art, Design and Creative Industries and artists featured in Transmissions: The XXIV Faculty ... Read More

Photographer Jennifer Ray tackles the US’s violent past and present.Amanda Pfister partnered with poet April Pameticky to create a work that speaks about motherhood, monotony, feminism. Both are faculty at WSU's School of Art, Design and Creative Industries and artists featured in Transmissions: The XXIV Faculty Biennial, on exhibit Jan. 26-April 22 in the Polk/Wilson ... Read More

Jeff Pulaski is passionate about type, its design, form, meaning and history. Barry Badgett takes ideas within various contexts and crosses them in ways that would not normally occur. Both are faculty at WSU's School of Art, Design and Creative Industries and artists featured in Transmissions: The XXIV Faculty Biennial, on exhibit Jan. 26-April 22 ... Read More

Tina Murano’s work is a visual representation of different states of mind, from being stuck to a state of flow. Illustrator, animator, web developer, consultant, and designer, Joshua Smith synthesizes these skills in the service of telling compelling stories. Both are faculty at WSU's School of Art, Design and Creative Industries and artists featured in ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More