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Mark Arts 100

Mark Arts 100
January 3 – April 18, 2020

Wiedemann Gallery
1307 N. Rock Road
Wichita, KS 67206
(316) 634-2787

Mark Arts celebrated 100 years as an organization with this blockbuster exhibition, which was open to artists from Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. The jurors were Sonia Greteman, Mike Michaelis and Chris Shank. Grossman took a Third Place award for her small oil, “Spring Sun Sketch.”

2019 Phoenix Awards announced by the City of Lawrence, Kansas

Grossman was honored with a Phoenix Award for Visual Art-Painting, by the city of Lawrence, Kansas, for artistic achievement. Other awardees were Roger Shimomura, for visual arts-painting and arts educator, Dan Rockhill, for architecture/creative spaces, Jancita Warrington, for arts and culture educator, and Clenece Hills, awardee for arts volunteer.

The awards ceremony took place on Sunday, October 27, at 4 p.m. at Theatre Lawrence, 4660 Bauer Farm Drive, Lawrence, KS 66049.

2019 Phoenix Awards

Nouveau at Circa Gallery

New work in a new space!
August 31 – September 28, 2019
Opening reception – Saturday, September 7, 2019

Circa Gallery
1125 Buchanan Street NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413

Place as Portal: A Conversation with Power of Place Visiting Artists

March 27, 2019
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Moderated by Curator Susan Earle and Art History Professor and Department Chair David Cateforis, this was the third in a series of dialogues with artists featured in the exhibiton “The Power of Place: KU Alumni Artists.” This session featured David Brackett, Marcie Miller Gross, Lisa Grossman, Brian Hawkins, Philip Heying, Stephen Johnson, and Rick Mitchell.

Place as Portal: A Conversation with Power of Place Visiting Artists

Please visit The Spencer Museum of Art’s YouTube Channel to see previous dialogues.

Spencer Museum of Art
The University of Kansas
1301 Mississippi
Lawrence, KS

The Power of Place: KU Alumni Artists

February 16 – June 30, 2019

Spencer Museum of Art
The University of Kansas
1301 Mississippi
Lawrence, KS

The Power of Place considered profound understandings of place in the work 29 artists who received degrees from the University of Kansas. Each artist compels the power of hand making in some form, and addresses the power of place, whether it be historical places; the spaces of a textile as place; sites or places of past or current distress, trauma, or violence; place as an abstract idea; or place as a visceral reality. The focus on place also explores the power of this place— the KU campus and community—in shaping students who make art.

The Power of Place: KU Alumni Artists

This exhibition was supported by KU Student Senate and the Linda Inman Bailey Exhibitions Fund

The Spencer Museum of Art – YouTube Channel – see previous Power of Place artist’s dialogue Livestream sessions