Join us for a reception at 5:30 p.m., followed at 6 p.m. by a reading by WSU’s Visiting Emerging Poet, Cindy Juyoung Ok. Cindy teaches creative writing at University of California, reviews books for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet, and translates poetry from Korean. Her poems utilize intelligence and disciplined music to write about being conscious ... 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
Ulrich Curator Ksenya Gurshtein shares her experience curating Nature in the Floating World: Images of Nature in Japanese and Chinese Art. Join us for refreshments at 10 a.m., with the program following at 10:30 a.m.
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
This talk is part of the Ulrich Museum's Voices from the Vault | The 2000s series, celebrating the decades as the museum approaches 50 years in 2025. 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 ... Read More
Poetry Out Loud, a partnership of National Endowment for the Arts and Poetry Foundation, is a national arts education program that encourages the study of great poetry by offering free education materials and a dynamic recitation competition for high school students across the country. Since 2005, Poetry Out Loud has grown to reach more than ... Read More
Live performances, artist talks, hands-on workshops, and a film program will join the Myths of the West exhibit as the Ulrich Museum of Art presents the Contemporary Indigenous Arts Festival, Oct. 4-5 at the museum and other locations at Wichita State University, with sponsorship by Art Bridges, INTRUST Bank and Wichita Marriott Corporate Hills. All events are free of charge.
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
Inspired by Joan Miró’s iconic mural, Personnages Oiseaux, that graces the façade of the Ulrich Museum of Art, Murmurations is the newest category to Tallgrass Film Festival with a selection of films that highlight the connection between Kansas and Miró’s home country of Spain. Join us for a reception at the Ulrich Museum of Art ... Read More
Come play with clay! Try your hand at building a uniquely crafted bowl using traditional techniques with coils and slabs with the WSU Ceramics Guild and Wichita East High School Ceramics Club. Your bowl will be donated to the Empty Bowls Chili cook-off fundraiser for the Kansas Food bank on Saturday, October 22. There will ... Read More
Stev Overstreet Curatorial Intern Josh Cornett discusses his experience working on our current exhibition, Myths of the West: Narrating Stories of the Land and People through Wichita Art Collections. If you’re curious about the research and preparation that goes into creating an exhibition, or just want to learn more about works featured in the new ... Read More
In this talk, Ulrich curator Ksenya Gurshtein will discuss the process of curating the Ulrich's current exhibition, Myths of the West: Narrating Stories of the Land and People through Wichita Art Collections, highlighting the exhibition's key themes and the stories that came into focus by drawing connections between works from multiple Wichita collections. Reception at ... Read More
Join us for a reception and reading by the newest member of WSU’s Creative Writing Faculty, Jason Allen! Jason’s first novel, The East End, published by Harper Collins, is currently under development for a streaming series and has been called “an intense, heart-pounding experience from the first page, with brilliant, complex characters.” The Writing Now/Reading Now ... Read More
Join us for an exploration of our newest exhibitions on display this fall. Ulrich receptions are a conversation, a gathering, an engagement of artists and art enthusiasts intertwined with music, fine fare, and possibility. Ulrich receptions are free and open to the public.
Please join Academic Convocation Keynote Speaker Kwame Onwuachi, author of the 2022-23 WSU Reads selection, Notes from a Young Black Chef, for a book signing and refreshments. This program is organized by the Office of First Year Programs.
10:00 A.M. Reception | 10:30 A.M. Program. Meet Jefferson Godard, a contemporary curator, gallery director, educator, trained architect, and now the new Gallery Manager for ShiftSpace at Wichita State University. Prior to joining WSU, Godard was a Curator at the Salina Art Center, and from 2012 to 2020; and Founder and Director of Aspect/Ratio, a ... Read More
10:00 A.M. Reception, 10:30 A.M. Program. Join Ulrich Staff members as they share insights on some of the pieces they chose for the summer exhibition Deep Dive: Selections from the Permanent Collection. Free and open to all.
10:00 A.M. Reception | 10:30 A.M. Program. Free and open to all. Please join us in celebrating the School of Art, Design, and Creative Industries 2022 MFA graduates, with artist talks by Tim Stone and Meghan Miller.
