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Fred Jones Museum of Art and the National Weather Center
The University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK
April 23 – June 19, 2017

April 22–23, Exhibition opening and weekend events
Grossman’s “Lightning Triptych” print panels were chosen for the National Weather Center’s third biannual exhibition of weather-themed work.

National Weather Center Biennale 

Grossman showed oils and watercolors at the Lawrence Public Library and gave a presentation for Jayhawk Audubon‘s monthly program series where she shared images and insight from her experiences as an artist-in-residence in Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, Mesa Verde National Park, CO, Petrified Forest National Park, AZ, Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, NE, and the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, KS. The Lawrence Public Library is hosting an exhibit of nearly twenty original works and proceeds from sales will donated to the National Park Foundation, the Lawrence Public Library and Jayhawk Audubon Society.

February 27, 2017, 7:30 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church
1245 New Hampshire Street
Lawrence, KS 66044

March 1 – 31, 2017
Lawrence Public Library
707 Vermont Street
Lawrence, KS 66044

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.

December 23 2016 – February 4, 2017
210 N. First Street
Minneapolis, MN 55401

Grossman had a piece in Circa Gallery’s Winter Salon.
Dark Clouds Descend, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in.

Circa Gallery’s Winter Salon

Haw/Contemporary
1600 Liberty St., Kansas City, MO 64102
November 11 – December 31, 2016

Grossman showed plein air and studio paintings from her April artist-in-residency at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve north of Strong City, KS.

Grossman is featured in a documentary film by Dave Kendall that marks the 20th anniversary of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. Screenings were held in Emporia and Manhattan, KS, and it aired on public TV stations in the Kansas City, Topeka, and Wichita areas.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve: A Flint Hills Love Story
Prairie Hollow Productions, Inc.

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

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.

Printed Image 6 

Artist Symposium at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum, Manhattan, KS. 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. – each of ten artists gave a presentation of their artist-in-residence experience at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve this summer. Symposium podcast.

The exhibit opened at The Bank Art Space, Matfield Green, KS, 5 – 8 p.m. and runs through December.

Tallgrass Artist Residency