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Win Free Classes for a Year!
Spend your winter in the print studio, dance your way through spring, create in ceramics class all summer, and find your voice next fall! Enter our Blocktober raffle and you could win a year's worth of creative adventure. You can win classes while providing someone else access to some of the best arts programming in the region. All money raised goes directly to our education programs and the Lawrence Arts Center Financial Aid Fund which provides more than $120,000 in scholarships each year. Purchase…
Flower Matrix. Claudia Hart
Hart’s decorative patterns are in fact also computer codes – augmented “tags” functioning like QR – that permit users to see her fantastical animations embedded in them through Hart’s Looking Glass augmented app. Through the Looking Glass, one can glimpse a world of pulsing invisible flowers covered with animated graphics culled from Internet signage, computer code, and emoji graphics. Programmed by the artist, her multimedia craft objects are metaphors that unfold, using computer-vision to reveal “magical” layers of new information.…
Brett Kern. Won’t Get Fooled Again
“Something has survived,” reads the tagline for the 1997 movie, Jurassic Park: The Lost World. Undeniably, something has survived: Brett Kern’s infatuation with the pop culture of his formative years, during the late eighties and the nineties. It continues to be through these “cultural glasses” that he continues to view and interpret the world, which influences the subject matter and purpose of his work. Kern’s predilection for producing collectible objects comes from his training as a potter and persistent preoccupation…
The Image & the Vessel – a Survey of Contemporary Pottery
Artists in this group exhibition represent some of the best contemporary potters currently exploring technique, concepts, history, and innovation. The range of processes possible in the 21st century is unlike any other period in history. Building on the rich and long history of imagery on pottery from every part of the world, these artists are continuing to advance with technology and concepts. This dynamic exhibition encompasses a wide range of form and imagery that swings between functional and decorative. The Image…
940 LIVE: Jonathan Fleig and the Flint Hills Album Release
October 19 | 7:30pm $15 Adults/$12 Seniors/$10 Students Join us for an evening of live music as we celebrate the release of Jonathan Fleig and the Flint Hills’ new album, “Driftwood.” Jonathan Fleig is an award-nominated Americana singer/songwriter from Emporia, Kansas. Harkening back to the bittersweet essence of American folk raconteurs, his styling lures listeners from all walks of life, from blues and soul to rock and country. “Driftwood” is a biographical collection of songs retelling the passing of time…
Reefer Madness: The Musical!
October 25 | 7pm October 26 | 7pm & 10pm October 27 | 2pm & 7pm $15 Adults/$12 Senior/$10 Students Inspired by the 1936 film of the same name, Reefer Madness is a raucous musical comedy that takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana. The story follows young Jimmy Harper’s tragic demise after one puff of marijuana sends him from a dope-hazed tumble from the five & dime soda shop to the vice-ridden gutter and…
Affectionate Indifference. A Cat-emporary Exhibition
Final Friday Receptions October 26, 5-9pm and November 30, 5-9pm Supposedly domesticated, we enjoy them as companions. Cats demand our attention while indicating they couldn’t care less. This exhibition seeks the approval of the cat community, by immortalizing the species through art, but I’m realistic about this probability. Throughout art history, cats have been a beautiful vessel for symbolic meanings, ranging from dark unruly sensuality to perfect domestic tranquility. As early as 2000 BC, cats appeared in Egyptian frescoes. Somewhere…
Jason Needham. New Work
INSIGHT Art Talk: November 13, 7pm Jason Needham’s new landscape paintings reflect his longstanding interest in impressionism, post-impressionism, and early American modernists like Marsden Hartley. The scenery he selects is familiar: still life or interior compositions taken from his home, forest scenes just off the beaten path, a pocket of woods with an interstate, parking lot, or air-conditioned retreat close at hand. Works in the exhibition were created from a combination of painting and drawing plein air studies along with…
Lawrence Ballet Theatre presents Madeline
November 3 | 3PM November 4 | 3PM $15 adult/$12 senior/$10 youth This classical ballet, inspired by the beloved children’s books by Ludwig Bemelmans, tells the story of young Madeline, her boarding school classmates, and their many adventures. With beautiful choreography by Cynthia Crews and Lawrence Ballet Theatre dancers, this performance is for children of all ages.