5:30 P.M. Reception | 6:00 P.M. Fiction Reading. Sindya Bhanoo is WSU’s 2022 Visiting Emerging Fiction Writer. Her debut short story collection, Seeking Fortune Elsewhere, is forthcoming in 2022 (Catapult). Her fiction has appeared in Granta, New England Review, and Glimmer Train, and she is the recipient of an O. Henry Award and scholarships from the ... Read More
It’s open mic night at the Ulrich! All WSU undergraduate and graduate students are invited to take the stage with performances in poetry, music, dance, theatre, and art. Visit ulrich. wichita.edu/programs for more information on how to sign-up for your time at the mic.
UPDATE: This program is being rescheduled to a date in March due to the surge in Omicron variant cases. The new date has yet to be determined. Check this site regularly for updates. 10:00 A.M. Refreshments | 10:30 A.M. Program | 110 Henrion Hall. Join ceramic artist Brenda Lichman in the fight against hunger in our ... Read More
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 ... Read More
UPDATE: THIS PROGRAM WILL NOW TAKE PLACE ON FEBRUARY 19 | 10:00 A.M. Reception | 10:30 A.M. Competition AT THE STUDIO SCHOOL, 751 Geo. Washington Blvd. Poetry Out Loud is a national arts education program that encourages the study of great poetry by offering free educational materials and a dynamic recitation competition for high school ... Read More
UPDATE: This program has been moved to Tuesday, March 22 at the Ulrich Museum. Join us for a discussion on the impact of the arts on our resilience and mental wellbeing with Dr. Christopher Leonard, director of WSU Counseling Services; Rachel Amerson, doctoral student in psychology; and Ellamonique Baccus, executive director of Arts Partners Wichita. ... Read More
UPDATE: Due to the recent spike in Omicron variant cases, this event, originally scheduled for January 27th, will now tentatively take place from 5-8 p.m. on Friday, February 25th provided the surge has subsided by then. Check ulrich.wichita.edu/programs for the latest. Celebrate the opening of our spring exhibitions surrounded by art, music, and friends. Ulrich ... Read More
UPDATE: This program has been moved to a virtual format only. Registration is required for this free program. Click here to register. How do university art museums work with their audiences around the U.S.? What is the biggest difference between university museums in the Czech Republic and the United States? Eva Gartnerová, visiting Czech Fulbright ... Read More
10:00 A.M. Reception | 10:30 A.M. Program. Take a tour of the Ulrich Collection Study Center, a space for visitors to encounter works from the Ulrich’s permanent collection in an intimate, personal experience not offered in any other museum in the Wichita area with Head of Education, Jana Erwin, Curator, Ksenya Gurshtein, and Registrar Jo Cox.
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 ... Read More
3:30 P.M. Program | Reception to follow. Dr. Alice Boyle is an Associate Professor of Biology at Kansas State University. Her talk is in conjunction with the fall exhibition Look, it's daybreak, dear, time to sing: Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens.
10:00 A.M. Reception | 10:30 A.M. Program | Riverfront Stadium 200 S. Sycamore Street. Riverfront Stadium opened this summer to rave reviews, and a huge welcome to Wichita’s new Double-A baseball team, the Windsurge. Fans of baseball, excited to return to the game and tour the new stadium, were also invited to “look everywhere” and to explore all ... Read More
5:30 P.M. Reception | 6:00 P.M. Poetry Reading. Join us for the release of the new book of poems by award-winning poet and WSU professor Sam Taylor. At once poem, essay, memoir fragment, and art object, The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse is a sweeping elegy for our Earth—and our plastic-choked ... 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
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, ... Read More
Bring the family for an afternoon of hands-on art making, stories, and fun discoveries about the treasures in our neighborhoods, the birds that live amongst us, and shapes found in our environment. Free and open to all.
10:00 A.M. Refreshments | 10:30 A.M. Program. Founded in 2016, The Tallgrass Artist Residency is a unique program that offers individual artists/artist teams time and space to retreat and research in a rural, tallgrass prairie setting. Though the experience is rural, it is not isolating. Artists are provided lodging at Matfield Station in the small community ... Read More
Volunteering at the Ulrich offers you a wide variety of benefits: a greater understanding of art, pride in helping an institution, engaging with a community of art lovers and life-long learners, and sharing your skills and talents. Join us for an informative look at the diverse roles a volunteer can fill, and discover how you ... Read More
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attish's keynote address will now be delivered virtually and the book signing at the Ulrich has been canceled. Click here to view her virtual keynote address.
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.
