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May 2019
Judith G. Levy | be/long/ing (and) a/part/ing
Judith G. Levy Artist Statement My work is about history, culture, and identity. I explore complexity, commonality, and contradiction in personal stories, historical narratives, and socio-cultural issues. I use my queer gaze to examine memory, authenticity, and desire, while I reconfigure and recreate in order to describe departures from traditional understandings and to create new meanings. I use text, found objects, and appropriated materials in an effort to create links between external and internal worlds. I tend to work in…
Johanna Winters | ENDLNG
This exhibition is the culmination of Johanna Winter's time as the 2018-19 Printmaking Artist in Residence at the Lawrence Arts Center. { An endling is the last known of a species. } { An ENDLNG is our protagonist resisting her fate to come undone. } ENDLNG is a puppet-figure performance, installation, and sound piece that proposes a narrative in which female desire and agency demand to be witnessed. Our protagonist confronts her burdensome longing and disappointment through a merging of puppetry, gesture,…
June 2019
Lawrence Dance Intensive: Summer Ballet 2019
A collaboration between the Lawrence Arts Center and the University of Kansas Department of Theatre and Dance, this two-week ballet intensive provides dancers with world-class instruction by accomplished faculty, guest artists, and choreographers. Full Intensive students have the option of staying in dormitories on KU’s beautiful campus. Students must be between the ages of 12-21 years old and dancing at an Intermediate/Advanced level with at least two years of prior dance experience to apply. Click here for merit scholarship audition…
SYT Senior: All in the Timing
June 20 | 7PM June 21 | 7PM June 22 | 7PM Students $7.50/Adults $10 June 22 | 2PM matinée performance of originals $5 suggested donation at the door Directed by Jeanne Averill Written by David Ives Performed by SYT Senior: 8th-12th Graders An award-winning collection of one-act absurdist plays that culminates with the story of how Leon Trotsky spent a whole day with a mountain climber’s ax in his head before he died. The individual one-acts focus on language and…
CLOSING RECEPTION: Judith G. Levy | be/long/ing (and) a/part/ing
Join us to close Judith G. Levy's exhibition, which includes the video installation titled Among the Trees. Among the Trees is an installation created from found 35 mm slides and from edited found drone video that explores the range of the relationships we have with trees. The images move from small-scale intimacies to large-scale environmental disaster. In the first part, trees play a significant role in our personal lives and are part of family portraits, provide shade for picnics and…
Nate Ditzler | Domestic Perseverance
Nate’s work seeks meaning from the seemingly trivial and overlooked moments of everyday life. He uses a combination of handmade and slip cast ceramic forms, fabricated mixed media elements, and modified found objects to give a visual presence to these phenomena. Nate is fascinated by the way that combining familiar and surreal aspects can cause a shift in an artwork’s meaning, as well as the way in which the viewer can enter into the work based on their own subjective…
Rachel Trusty | Summer Crush
Summer Crush features selected work from the mixed-media series Friends and Lovers. This body of work features images of love that are historically invisible. Based on anonymous found photographs, the small paintings depict same-sex female couples from different historical time periods. The titles in the series allude to captions normally written on family photographs and ambiguously address the relationship between the two women shown. This is purposeful as historically same-sex relationships are ignored or relabeled by family or friends to…
(Sub)Urban Sprawl | Curated by Matthew McLaughlin
Featuring Amze Emmons, Yoonmi Nam, Benjamin Rogers, Nick Satinover, Christine Buckton Tillman, & Sang-Mi Yoo Through a combination of print, painting, installation, and sculpture, (Sub)Urban presents an exploration of the contemporary surroundings and the underlying psychology of our modern living environments. (Sub)Urban questions the reality of suburban and urban environments through humor, satire, and irony. The artists exhibited explore the banality of the interior and exterior of our lives, through our homes and planned communities. They explore items from our…
July 2019
INSIGHT Art Talk | Rachel Trusty
Rachel Trusty is an artist, educator, and curator. She is currently a student at the University of Kansas in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Ph.D. Program. She also works as an online Art Instructor at the University of Arkansas Community College in Morrilton, AR. You can find her out in the community organizing art shows and other art events in her home state of Arkansas. Trusty's personal work focuses on themes of femininity and the exploration of traditional women's…