Author: Theresa Mott

Join Trish Higgins, gallerist and curator, for a tour of the works on display in Woolsey Hall, WSU’s newest academic building and home of the W. Frank Barton School of Business, on Wednesday, Jan. 18.

Explore a variety of paintings, sculptures and other media by local and regional artists of all ages. Refreshments will be available starting at 10 a.m., and the tour will begin at 10:30 a.m. The tour is presented by the Ulrich Museum of Art.

The Ulrich Museum of Art regrets to announce that the Writing Now/Reading Now event with Ariana Reines, WSU’s 2022 Distinguished Visiting Poet, has been canceled. The reading by the award-winning poet and playwright was scheduled to take place at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 17 in the Beren Gallery at the Ulrich. The event will not be rescheduled.

The Ulrich Museum of Art invites the WSU community to meet the museum’s new executive and creative director, Vivian Zavataro, who started at the Ulrich last month.

Learn about Vivian and her vision for the future of the museum at Senior Wednesday, 10:30 a.m. Nov. 16, at the Ulrich. Free refreshments will be served starting at 10 a.m.

Vivian is a museologist who specializes in contemporary art, community engagement and art mediation. Her goal is to facilitate interaction between art and the public. Diversity, inclusion and creativity are essential aspects of her practice.

Award-winning poet and playwright Ariana Reines will be featured during a reception and poetry reading at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 17 at Wichita State’s Ulrich Museum of Art. Reines is one of the most dynamic and original voices in contemporary poetry, and she is WSU’s 2022 Distinguished Visiting Poet.

Her books include “The Cow, Coeur De Lion, and Mercury,” the Obie-winning play “Telephone,” and “A Sand Book (2020),” which won the Kingsley Tufts Prize and was longlisted for the National Book Award.

Reines has created performances and art projects for the Whitney Museum, Works & Process at the Guggenheim and Stuart Shave/Modern Art. She’s also taught poetry at Columbia University, Yale University, New York University, and the University of California at Berkeley. She created Invisible College, an anti-institutional project for poetry and the arts.

The event takes place at the Ulrich Museum of Art. Join us for a reception at 5:30pm. The poetry reading will begin at 6 p.m. Writing Now/Reading Now is cosponsored by the WSU Department of English, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Watermark Books & Café, and the Ulrich Museum of Art.

Join artist Chris Pappan for a reception and artist talk at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 29 at Wichita State’s Ulrich Museum of Art.

In the mid-19th century, paper was introduced to the Indigenous people of the American Great Plains through the ledger books of the encroaching Americans. That paper became a vehicle to record memories, retain connections to the land, and visually record acts of resistance.

Through serendipity, artist Chris Pappan has taken on the responsibility of carrying on this tradition and attempts, in his work, to expand the boundaries of tradition, the ideas expressed within it, and expand viewers’ perceptions of who Native people were and who they are now.

Exploring the work of influential historical ledger artists, Pappan will share how his work relates to and then veers away from tradition to explore contemporary narratives through acts of visual resistance.

This program is in conjunction with “Myths of The West: Narrating Stories of the Land and People Through Wichita Art Collections,” on exhibit in the Polk/Wilson and Amsden Galleries through Dec. 3.

Empty Bowls: Chili Cook-Off, a benefit for Kansas Food Bank, will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22 at Woolsey Hall.

The annual event is a collaborative project of the Ulrich Museum of Art; Wichita State University; WSU School of Art, Design & Creative Industries; WSU College of Fine Arts; and WSU Ceramics Guild.

Attendees will see hundreds of handmade bowls created by local artists, college students and high school students, and sample chili from local restaurants and donors. This year’s judges include President Rick Muma and up-and-coming chefs from several of the newest, trendiest kitchens in Wichita’s restaurant scene.

Ticket prices start at $10 and can be purchased at the link below or at the RSC. Guests can choose a bowl to keep as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. This fundraiser benefits the Kansas Food Bank in honor of Hunger Awareness Month.

Empty Bowls: Chili Cook-Off is sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas, Emprise Bank, Fidelity Bank, Meta, Reuben Saunders Gallery, Spirit AeroSystems, USD 259, and Wichita Marriott Corporate Hills.

From Martina McBride and Melissa Etheridge to Charlie Parker and Janelle Monáe, the Wichita State Ulrich Museum of Art will highlight artists and musicians from the Sunflower state at 10 a.m. today, Oct. 19

Join rapper, and arts educator Cash Hollistah as he takes a deeper look into how the power of place informs and inspires us musically.

This program is made possible by Humanities Kansas. Sunflower Music is part of Humanities Kansas’s Speakers Bureau, featuring humanities-based presentations designed to share stories that inspire, spark conversations that inform, and generate insights that strengthen civic engagement.

Refreshments begin at 10 a.m., and the program will be at 10:30 a.m. in the Polk Wilson Gallery of the Ulrich Museum of Art.

Join artist Cheryl Pope as she discusses her recent body of work on view in our current exhibition, “Cheryl Pope: Variations on a Love Theme,” featuring her unique punched-wool-on-cashmere technique on Oct. 20 at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State.

Pope creates richly textured and colorful textile paintings that recreate deeply personal recollections and the silent complexities of beautiful and tragic oscillations between love and loss in our everyday lives.

There will be a reception at 5:30 p.m., and the program begins at 6 p.m. A live stream of the program is linked below. This program will not be available to view after the talk streams on YouTube.