Kansas Magazine feature — Home State Artists

Spring 2017|Volume 73|Issue 1

Grossman’s “86 Bends of the Kaw” print panels, were featured in an interview with Saralyn Reece Hardy about her favorite works by Kansas artists at the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS.

EcoRadio KC

George Frazier returns to EcoRadio KC on November 14, telling stories about local wild places and focusing on some fascinating and little-known aspects of our environmental history, both recent and less-recent. Here’s who he’s bringing with him:

Lisa Grossman – Board member of Friends of the Kaw, river expert, and very talented painter. She’ll talk about her experiences on the Kansas River near KC and general river advocacy.

Shirley Braunlich – Board member of Kansas Native Plants Society and serious amateur botanist.

Joyce Wolfe – Board Member National Office of the Audubon Society, Kansas Audubon, Kansas Grassland Heritage Foundation.

Kelly Haggard – Biology teacher at Perry-Lecompton High School and Kansas’ foremost expert on flying squirrels

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Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
Topeka, KS
November 4 – December 30, 2016

Grossman’s “Lightning Triptych” print panels won a juror’s award in the sixth biennial juried print show, a national competition featuring new and experimental printmaking. Juror: Stephen Goddard, Spencer Museum of Art associate director, senior curator of works on paper, and professor of art history.

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100 Years of Arts in the Parks

Grossman’s painting, “Dark Tepee Formation,” is included in “In These Parks,” the first in a series of videos that celebrate the centennial of our National Parks and the arts. Grossman was an artist-in-residence in Petrified Forest National Park in 2009 and 2011 where the work was painted.

100 Years of Arts in the Parks