Celebrate the 23rd Faculty Biennial exhibition with Department of Art, Design and Creative Industries faculty as they pair up to talk about their process. This talk features Megan Ewert, Administrative Assistant and Adjunct Instructor, and Tanna Burchinal, Art Studio Manager. Registration is required. Click here to register.
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
An after-hours exploration of the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection as the glow of the evening light settles and the fireflies of summer twinkle. A community and family event celebrating a summer solstice with interactive stations connecting our sculptures and our history.
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
Please join us for artist talks presented by the 2020 MFA Graduates from the School of Art, Design and Creative Industries. Registration is required. Click here to register.
The third annual art history awards celebrate the outstanding achievements by art history students in several categories, including out-standing individual research project, performance in art history courses, and growth as an art historian. The art history awards also feature a special recognition for teaching excellence among studio graduate students. Registration is required for this virtual ... Read More
Students in Sociology, Dance, and Honors College will present research and choreographed performances in response to collected memories as part of the Ulrich exhibition Solving for X=Identity: Sharing Matrilineal Memories at WSU. The performances are at 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Both performances will take place outdoors on the front terrace of the Museum to allow ... Read More
Come celebrate the graduating class of Wichita State’s MFA Program in Creative Writing as they read from their final projects. Registration is required for this virtual program at ulrich.wichita. edu/programs. Writing Now/Reading Now is cosponsored by the WSU Department of English, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Watermark Books & Café, and the Ulrich ... Read More
Rhea L. Combs is Curator of Film and Photography at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. She also serves as the head of the museum’s Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA). Combs received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University, a Master of Arts ... Read More
Bring the family for an afternoon of outdoor hands-on art making, stories, and fun discoveries in the Outdoor Sculpture Collection. All activities will observe social distancing, mask wearing, and hand-washing requirements.
Renée Stout’s work has been deeply influenced by her decades of research into the art and traditions of both Africa and African diasporas. To help our audiences better understand the connections that Stout’s work makes, the exhibition, Ghosts, incorporates six objects from the collection of Wichita State University’s Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology. All ... Read More
Oklahoma is the setting for Prairie Fever, Michael Parker’s seventh and latest novel, a book that pulls the reader into what one critic calls a “whole family acting out what can and can’t be forgotten, against the backdrops of prairie and range—characters so magnificently and sometimes comically stubborn I really couldn’t put the book down.” ... 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
It’s March Madness month, and Emily Stamey, Curator of Exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, will discuss her latest curatorial project, To the Hoop, an exhibition that explores the myriad facets of basketball’s intersections with contemporary art and culture. Stamey came to the Weatherspoon from the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona. Prior to ... Read More
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 ... Read More
Come help us close the gender gap on Wikipedia! The Ulrich is partnering with Art+Feminism for the second time on the annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. At this event, participants will help research, edit, and add information to Wikipedia entries for women artists in the Ulrich collection. Together we can help give these remarkable artists the representation ... Read More
Join Marquetta Atkins and community panelists for an open dialogue for parents from different ethnic and racial backgrounds around how we talk to our kids about race, racism, and identity. Registration is required. Click here to register. Panelists: Marquetta Atkins (Executive Director Camp Destination Innovation, Director Seed House); Dr. Michelle Vann (Retired teacher, author, and CEO of ... Read More
Monique Meloche is a prominent Chicago dealer of contemporary art and founder of the Monique Meloche Gallery. A native of Windsor, Ontario, she received a Masters degree in Art History and Theory from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago before beginning a career in ... Read More
Irene Lusztig is a filmmaker, visual artist, archival researcher, and amateur seamstress. Her film and video work mines old images, technologies, and objects to reanimate forgotten and neglected histories. Often rooted in rigorous archival research, her work brings historical materials into conversation with the present day, inviting viewers to contemplate larger questions of politics, ideology, ... Read More
