Since the early 2000s Kota Ezawa has produced animations, light box installations, public art and works on papers that reference images from a wide array of sources, including the news, cinema, pop culture and art history. Ezawa’s work transforms the original footage of well-known events into an abstracted version that allows viewers to examine them […]
Voices from the Vault celebrates the 2000s! Chinese-born and Lawrence, Kansas-based artist Hong Chun Zhang will talk about her art education and studio practice from China to her adopted home in America over the past two decades. Zhang will discuss the time-consuming making process of traditional Chinese fine style ink painting that she studied at […]
5:30 P.M. Reception | 6:00 P.M. Program. Printing on the Edge of the World. Narrative artist Jos Sances leads a discussion of the contradictions of making politically engaged art in a privileged society obsessed with consumption. He will share the excitement of printmaking, the joys of survival within community, and the practice of examining, accepting […]
UPDATE: This program has been moved to a virtual format only. Registration is required for this free program. Click here to register. Artist Lesley Dill offers a visual exploration of her artistic practice and the American visionaries, writers, artists, and abolitionists who inspired her current exhibition, Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around Me. The power of her […]
5:30 P.M. Reception | 6:00 P.M. Program. Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds is one of the leaders of the Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) traditional Elk Warrior Society and lives on the Cheyenne/ Arapaho Nation Reservation in Oklahoma. As an artist and an advocate for indigenous communities worldwide, he makes work that includes multidisciplinary forms […]
5:30 P.M. Reception | 6:00 P.M. Program. Nancy Davidson is a sculptor, installation artist, and photographer who uses inflated weather balloons to challenge the notions of contemporary monumental sculpture while simultaneously repurposing comedic tropes of bodily mass, fleshiness, and beauty. Her work has been exhibited at the Krannert Art Museum, Illinois; the Institute of Contemporary Art, […]
