Author: Theresa Mott

Join the Ulrich Museum of Art for a talk from Joshua Saxe, “The Promise and Peril of Intelligent, Creative Machines,” starting at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 15 in the Beren Gallery at the Ulrich and via livestream. Attendees are also invited to a reception at 5:30 p.m.

Saxe is a Wichita-based computer scientist and 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 and principal investigator on multiple DARPA-funded cybersecurity AI research programs.

The talk is part of the larger exhibition, In Event of Moon Disaster, a multi-media project created by directors Halsey Burgund and Francesca Panetta to illustrate the possibilities of deepfake technologies. They also offer a variety of resources to help the public understand and recognize the technologies involved.

The public events accompanying the exhibition are supported by the College of Engineering, Fairmount College, National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) and the Barton School.

Join the Ulrich Museum of Art for a talk from Halsey Burgund, “How to Strand Astronauts on the Moon (and other artistic uses for AI),” starting at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 8 in the Beren Gallery at the Ulrich and via livestream. Attendees are also invited to a reception at 5:30 p.m.

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.

The talk is part of the larger exhibition, In Event of Moon Disaster, a multi-media project created by directors Burgund and Francesca Panetta to illustrate the possibilities of deepfake technologies. They also offer a variety of resources to help the public understand and recognize the technologies involved.

The public events accompanying the exhibition are supported by the College of Engineering, Fairmount College, National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) and the Barton School.

The Ulrich Museum of Art will host an artist talk with HYBYCOZO, a collaborative installation art collective made up of Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 1 in Woolsey Hall. Their sculpture, Stratosphere, was the most recent piece to join the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection in fall 2022. A reception is scheduled for 5:30 p.m.

HYBYCOZO’s work consists of larger-than-life sculptures that celebrate the inherent beauty of geometric form and pattern, and compose them in ways that harmonize the experience of sculpture, light and shadow. Much of their work draws on inspirations from mathematics, science and patterns in nature and acknowledges diverse cultural influences in pattern making and design. They seek to create public art that creates a sense of place and invites wonder and curiosity, not only about the elemental geometric forms used to compose their sculptures, but also in the technological processes used to create them.

Join the Ulrich Museum of Art for an exploration of its newest exhibitions on display this summer at its Ulrich Summer Exhibition opening celebration from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 25.

The exhibitions on display over the summer are “Susan Copich: Staged Stories,” “In Event of Moon Disaster” and “Artists at Work: The Ulrich Staff Creates.” As with all of the Ulrich’s programming, this event is available at no additional charge, and everyone is invited.

Join the 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 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 4 at the Ulrich Museum of Art.

Pick up a copy of the publication and enjoy light snacks, artists presenting pieces on mental health and promotional items from organizations in the guide. This event is open to everyone at no additional charge.

Come celebrate the 2023 graduates of the MFA program in creative writing — Adam Benalla, Lara Law and Alexander Romano — as they share selections from their literary works at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 30 at the Beren Gallery in the Ulrich Museum of Art, and join the reception at 2 p.m.

Everyone is welcome to attend the event at no additional charge. The Beren Gallery will only be open during the event, as the Ulrich Museum is normally closed on Sundays.

Join the Ulrich Museum of Art for the visiting scholar talk, “Yes, no, maybe so: Connections between Japanese prints, anime and manga and the stories we tell about them” by Andrea Horbinski at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 27 in the Beren Gallery at the Ulrich Museum. Participants are invited to a reception starting at 5:30 p.m.

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/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 about race, modernity and culture in the Asia-Pacific and worldwide.

The exhibition “Nature in the Floating World: Images of Nature in Japanese and Chinese Art” and associated programs including this one, are generously supported by Pam Bjork, Trish Higgins, and Shoko Kato Sevart, in loving memory of her mother, Taka Kato. The Ulrich is grateful for the ongoing support of Ulrich Friends with Benefits members who make the Museum’s exhibitions and programs possible through their memberships. The Ulrich also receives funding for general operational support from the City of Wichita and Wichita State.

Lori Santos, art educator, 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 in Transmissions: The XXIV Faculty Biennial, on exhibit until April 22 in the Polk/Wilson Gallery in the Ulrich Museum of Art. Join them at 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 19 at the Ulrich Museum to learn about their inspiration and processes.

Come celebrate the accomplishments of art history students studying in the School of Art, Design & Creative Industries at the annual Art History Awards at 6 p.m. Friday, April 21 in the Beren Gallery of the Ulrich Museum of Art.

Join presentations by Anne Kraybill, director and CEO of Wichita Art Museum, and Samantha Carter, lead educator at Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum. This event is open to everyone at no additional charge.

Experience “All Our Thoughts: A Dance Performance” by the WSU Dance Program’s DANC 305 Choreography 1 class at 2 p.m. Monday April 17 in the Polk/Wilson Gallery in the Ulrich Museum of Art.

The performance will be an opportunity for the group to present their work in collaboration with the exhibition, “Transmissions: XXIV Faculty Biennial” featuring works by faculty in the School of Art, Design and Creative Industries.

The immersive event encourages the audience to contemplate the similarities between the languages of dance and visual art, focusing their attention on line and design, movement in art regardless of form, and offering a fresh look at artistic intent.