Category: Art Exhibits

The W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University has partnered with Envision’s Arts Program to showcase five paintings from Savannah, a visually impaired artist, in the new Woolsey Hall. Her work, which resides on the third floor of Woolsey, can be viewed at any time during operating hours and is part of a rotating art installation with Envision in the space. Savannah’s art joins a variety of other original pieces from local artists located throughout the facility.

Savannah uses continuous spirals to create repetitive patterns in her art. Along with having her pieces displayed in Woolsey Hall, her work can be found on a special limited edition wine label with Liquid Art Winery and Estates in Manhattan, Kansas. Her art is also featured in the Envision Art Gallery and Community Engagement Center, which opened its doors earlier this year.

The Barton School’s Woolsey Hall art collection and promotion of visual artists are rooted in a commitment to helping its business students blossom. By developing creative and artistic mindsets, the Barton School opens its students’ eyes to innovative and inspired solutions.

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.

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.

Ceramic bowls from 10 high schools across Wichita will be displayed at the WSU Shiftspace Gallery Oct. 7-19. High school students created these bowls to raise hunger awareness in partnership with Wichita Empty Bowls.

ShiftSpace Gallery, which is located at 334 St Francis in Wichita, is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The bowls were created to be either donated during the Empty Bowls Chili Cook-off later this month or be kept by the students who created them. Stop by to see some fantastic artwork and check out the Wichita Empty Bowl events for the rest of the year at the link below.

If you have any questions feel free to email jefferson.godard@wichita.edu.

A new exhibit by Kerry Majher, Wichita State NASA program coordinator, is currently being featured at the Ablah Library. The exhibit, “Spirited Away: Prohibition in Kansas” details Prohibition in Kansas, which took place from 1881-1948.

This exhibit is part of an independent study for Majher’s museum studies certificate program under the director of her instructor and coordinator Rachelle Meinecke.