Wichita-based computer scientist Joshua Saxe is a senior staff AI scientist at Meta, where he helps lead the design and implementation of trust and safety measures using Generative AI. Prior to working at Meta, he was Chief Scientist at Sophos, a leading cybersecurity company, and Principal Investigator on multiple DARPA-funded cybersecurity AI research programs. He ... Read More
As part of Wichita's city-wide event line-up for The Big Read, Wichita artist Micala Gingrich Gaylord engaged with local elders, gathering personal items connected with their memories of love and activating them in the Grafly Gallery using audio recordings, creating a moving chorus of individual stories. This exhibit, Love Is Memory, on display at the ... Read More
Halsey Burgund is a new media artist and Emmy-winning interactive director whose work focuses on the combination of modern technologies - from mobile phones to artificial intelligence - with fundamentally human "technologies," primarily language, music and the spoken voice. His recent work explores the prosocial and potentially damaging uses of cutting edge technologies, including artificial ... Read More
Join Wichita Journalism Collaborative and the creators of How to Talk About Feeling Bad, a suicide prevention guide zine, for a launch party from 5:30-7:30 p.m., Thursday, May 4 at the Ulrich Museum. Pick up your copy of the publication and enjoy hors d’oeuvres, artists presenting pieces on mental health, and swag from organizations in ... Read More
Come celebrate the accomplishments of art history students studying at the School of Art, Design, and Creative Industries. Join us for presentations by Anne Kraybill, director/CEO of Wichita Art Museum and Samantha Carter, lead educator at Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum. This event is free and everyone is invited.
In his work, contemporary Chinese artist Yang Yongliang brings together a deep knowledge of traditional ink painting and contemporary digital tools, creating fantastical landscape images that comment on the rapid transformation of China’s physical environments over the course of the artist’s life. In this talk, the artist will offer an overview of his career, discuss ... Read More
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
Love is Memory is a free community engagement workshop presented by Wichita artist Micala Gingrich Gaylord in conjunction with The Big Read 2023, a program across several Wichita institutions designed to revitalize the role of reading in American culture and engage participants with ideas about active aging. This workshop will focus on the way objects ... Read More
Focusing on art and society in the 19th and 20th centuries, when Japan underwent a rapid, self-imposed transition to modernity, this talk examines not only the linkages between anime and manga and printmaking, but also the limits of those connections, and how the evidence for and against them has been deployed to serve larger stories ... Read More
In this free demonstration workshop, Visiting Artist April Vollmer will walk attendees through the process of making contemporary woodcut prints, showing the tools involved and printing copies of a multi-color print. This event is open to the public, but space is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required at https://vollmerartistworkshop.eventbrite.com. April Vollmer is a New ... 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
Join us for an exploration of our newest exhibitions on display this summer, Susan Copich | Staged Stories, In Event of Moon Disaster, and Artists at Work: The Ulrich Staff Creates, along with food and fun with a late 60s twist and lots of art loving friends! Dress however you like: casual, fancy, vintage, in ... Read More
Come celebrate the 2023 graduates of the MFA Program in Creative Writing—Adam Benalla, Rachel Greer, Lara Law, and Alexander Romano—as they share selections from their literary works.
In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival theme “Entanglements,” the Mapping Entanglements exhibition, co-curated in 2021 by ADCI faculty member Claudia Pederson and Dale Hudson (New York University Abu Dhabi), focused on five documentary projects and artists or artists’ collectives that explore the augmentation of local places to produce ... 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
Ulrich Spring Family Fun Day is this Saturday, April 15 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. This biannual event features art-themed activities on the plaza in front of the Ulrich Museum, between the Ulrich and McKnight Art Center, and in the Museum galleries. Learn origami, make your own puppet, print with stamps and wood blocks, ... 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
Join us for a reception at 5:30 p.m., followed at 6 p.m. by WSU’s 2023 Distinguished Visiting Writer, Melinda Moustakis as she reads from her new novel. Moustakis’s story collection, “Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories,” is set in the rugged landscape where she was born, and received the Flannery O’Connor Award and a 5 ... 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
