Did you know the Lawrence Arts Center has studio internships? They are great work exchange opportunities within our Printmaking and Ceramics studios! Applications are open now for the coming year. We also wanted to take the opportunity to recognize and thank our outgoing studio interns, Michelle Rogne in the Ceramics Studio and Anne Luben in … [more]
Monday, May 21 | 4:45 – 6:00 pm Lawrence Arts Center, Main Lobby The Inventor Grrls are proud to present their end-of-semester projects to the public next Monday, May 21st. Our premiere cohort of six inventors will exhibit their projects in the Main Lobby, offer a short presentation about their process, and participate in … [more]
We are excited to have Free State High School’s painting and drawing teacher, Rachel Downs, teaching two classes here at the Arts Center this summer! Rachel received an MFA in Painting and Drawing from New Mexico State University and an MAE from KU. In addition to Free State High School, she has also taught at Emporia State University … [more]
May 13, 2018 by Nick Krug When artist Michael Benedetti first began exploring the idea of memories in his art, it was the summer of his third year of graduate school at the University of Georgia and he was taking measurements of everything in his apartment — everything from the space itself on down to his … [more]
Thanks to a Fine Arts Grant from the Alpha Delta Kappa Foundation, the Early Childhood Education program at the Lawrence Arts Center is gearing up to launch a Guest Artist Series in the coming school year! The grant will help bring fine arts practitioners from various backgrounds to the Arts Center, providing preschool and kindergarten … [more]
Our arts based kindergarteners made a music video! These talented young filmmakers collaborated on the story, choreographed, performed their own movements, recruited guest dancers, and operated the camera under the guidance of instructor Amanda Clark. Check out their inventive take on “Happy” and get ready to smile… Spoiler alert: you might even see Miss Linda … [more]
Recently, the Lawrence Arts Center received some very exciting news. The National Endowment for the Arts approved an Art Works grant to the Lawrence Arts Center in support of “Laboratory for Creativity,” an initiative to expand access to ARTSpace, the Arts Center’s award-winning out-of-school time STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) curriculum for 1st-5th … [more]
May 8, 2018 by Sara Shepherd The Board of Directors of the Lawrence Arts Center has named a new CEO of the organization: Margaret Weisbrod Morris, who has been the arts center’s chief program officer. Read more …
The Board of Directors of the Lawrence Arts Center has named Margaret Weisbrod Morris as the organization’s new CEO. Weisbrod Morris, who has dedicated her career of more than 20 years to arts programming and education and the artist’s endeavor, assumes her new role from her post as Chief Program Officer for the Center. … [more]
May 6, 2018 by Nick Krug Leave it to an artist to draw inspiration from some of the most minuscule of muses. For Shiyuan Xu, a sculptor from Hangzhou, China and one of two artists in residence at the Lawrence Arts Center, her inspiration has largely come from subjects on the microscopic scale, unable to … [more]
