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The Ulrich Museum of Art is generously supported by Wichita State University, the City of Wichita,Kansas Arts Commission and Ulrich Museum membership. This newsletter is made possible in part by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

A D V I S O R Y B O A R D Kelly Callen, chair ; Joan Beren, vice chair ; Members: Ann Bauer, Martin Bauer, Robert Bubp, Eric Engstrom, Dr. Alan Fearey, Sonia Greteman, Ed Healy, Lou Heldman, Jacque Kouri, Dr. George Lucas, Nancy Martin, Jane C. McHugh, Mike Michaelis, Bruce Schreck, Shoko Sevart, Christopher Shank, Ann Townsend, Carol Wilson; Ex-officio: Ted Ayres, Craig Barton, Dr. Elizabeth King, Dr. Patricia McDonnell, Dr. Gary Miller, Dr. Rodney Miller, Dr. Keith Pickus

U L R I C H M U S E U M A L L I A N C E B O A R DAnn Bauer, president; Members: Rosie Davenport, Deborah Dimmick, Toni Gates, Judy Hess, Christina Hesse, Trish Higgins, Bonnie Bing Honeyman, Anna Kelley, Barbara McKee, Janel Razook, Barbara Rensner, Nancy Schwan, Tim Stone, Christine Tasheff, Jean Zoller ; Ex-officio: Kelly Callen, Dr. Annette LeZotte, Dr. Patricia McDonnell

UPDATE SPRINGSUMMER2011

The Ulrich proudly presents an exhibition to acknowledge the Wichita artists’ collaborative Fisch Haus this spring and summer. As the director, I can scarcely contain my excitement and pride about this project. The museum chose to organize the exhibition for many compelling reasons. The caliber of the artists, the impact of their activities and the importance of our role to recognize local artists of merit are chief among them.

Art museums serve their communities in many ways. It is essential to bring the world of art to the people of Wichita and the surrounding region. Ulrich staff keep a finger on the pulse of the changing art world. We work hard to bring the new trends, ideas from the best, recent scholarship and strong artists from other points on the globe to our campus and city. In this way, the Ulrich plays a significant role in keeping our community current with developments in the larger art world.

Simultaneously, it is the responsibility of every art museum to recognize regional talent and support theartists and art scene close by. Each arts organizationin a metropolitan area discovers how they best

support the arts locally and in concert with others. Organizing the exhibition and producing a catalogue on the Fisch Haus artists fits this key part of our mission. With it, we acknowledge the excellence of their artistic practices and the lasting reverberations of their programs in Wichita.

Fisch Haus marks their 21st anniversary in 2011. At the Ulrich, we appreciate that this collaborative sits at the epicenter of the alternative, contemporary art scene in our city. In fact, they have for some time. The exhibitions, concerts, literary readings, fashion shows—you name it—presented at Fisch Haus overthe years make it the place to be if you want to knowabout the local scene. At the Ulrich, we decided a 21st birthday was high time to pay tribute.

Kansas also celebrates a key birthday this year. The state turns 150! The Ulrich acknowledges this major event by presenting a number of exhibitions and projects that key on pride of place. The Fisch Haus exhibition is one. This fall the Ulrich presents the exhibition Terry Evans: Matfield Green Stories. Evans, a nationally prominent photographer, completed an extended body of work on the small, rural town and its surroundings in the Flint Hills east of Wichita. This too is a local artistic project of tremendous merit and with national significance—just the right kind of project for the Ulrich. Stay tuned for fall!

Please come, look and enjoy.

—Dr. Patricia McDonnell, Director

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EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW

The Ulrich welcomes James Porter to Wichita andWSU as designer/preparator.

If the curator considers what art to show, James considers how to show it best. He will lead all aspectsof museum display, including exhibition design and installation as well as conceiving and fabricatinginnovative gallery interpretation. He comes to Wichitafrom the Tacoma Art Museum where he was the seniorpreparator/exhibition designer for the past five years.

When it comes to inventing or building, James’experience covers the gamut. He created maplecabinets with specialized lighting for Dale Chihuly glassart. For one particularly challenging artwork, he engineered the installation of a sailing yacht in themuseum’s courtyard—up and over the building! Beforemuseum work, James taught bronze casting at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. And

technology is his friend as James is an Apple devotee who loves gadgets, YouTube and Photoshop experiments.

James remains a practicing artist. He received both hisbachelor’s and master’s degree in art from Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. Therehe focused on sculpture and drawing, and collaborative,conceptual work continues as a life passion. For the past 17 years, he and artist Jeff Wheeler have worked andexhibited as a collaborative team under the pseudonymFranklin Ackerley, taken from their middle names (JamesAckerley Porter and Jeff Franklin Wheeler). Highlights of his career working as Franklin Ackerley (you can likehim on Facebook) include group exhibitions with suchnotable artists as Luis Jiménez and Robert Rauschenberg,both of whom are in the Ulrich collection.

The board and staff are pleased to have James as part of the Ulrich team.

Join in celebrating an exhibition featuring Wichita’s extraordinary artist collaborative, Fisch Haus, as it turns 21. Engage in lively banter with Fisch Haus artists and enjoy music, refreshments and party antics.

Free to Ulrich Museum members,$7 for nonmembers.RSVP at (316) 978-3664 or e-mail ulrich@wichita.edu.

Creativity, collaboration and community—Wichita’s Fisch Haus emerged from and consistently promotes the intersection of these three principles. In 1990, four friends—Patrick Duegaw, John Ernatt, Eric Schmidtand Kent Williams—formed the artists’ cooperative. Atfirst known for their temporary ad hoc exhibitions invacant downtown buildings, in 1994 the membersestablished a physical location by purchasing a warehouseon Commerce Street. A vacant building when they moved in, the warehouse now shares the artists’

name—Fisch Haus—and is home to an array of living, studio, performance and exhibition spaces. Masters of ingenuity, the artists have spent years constructing these spaces with scavenged, reclaimed and inventivelyrepurposed materials. Walking through Fisch Haus, one encounters creativity at every turn.

Over the past 21 years, its quartet of founding artistshave developed their own distinct creative careers:Duegaw and Ernatt are accomplished painters; Schmidtworks with sound and sculpture and patents inventions;and Williams’ thoughtful public art projects can be found throughout the city.

As these friends have followed their individual artisticpaths, Fisch Haus—the place—has become a cornerstoneof the Wichita arts community and is recognized for making critical contributions to the development of thecity’s increasingly dynamic network of alternative arts venues. Each year, Fisch Haus presents a rich roster of multi-disciplinary exhibitions, musical and theatrical performances, lectures, readings, films and festivals.

The Ulrich anniversary exhibition celebrates the important contributions that Fisch Haus has made toWichita. The show presents a survey of artworks madeby the founding Fisch Haus artists over the past two decades. Including a new collaborative installation by all four artists and the debut of a Duegaw painting commissioned by the museum, the show promises to engage both those well versed in Fisch Haus history and Ulrich visitors unacquainted with this vital artscollaborative. In typical Fisch fashion, it invites everyoneto enjoy and be inspired.

The Ulrich organized this exhibition, and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Emily Stamey wrote the accompanying 56-page catalogue.

This exhibition and catalogue have been made possiblethrough the generous support of Emprise Bank, KansasArts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts,Edward and Helen Healy, the Docking Family and Jayne S. Milburn. Additional sponsors include Allen,Gibbs & Houlik, L.C., Bill Jinks, Mosby Lincoln Foundationand Mike and Dee Michaelis. Support has also been provided by Chris Brunner and Sonia Greteman,Dr. and Mrs. Hew Goodpasture, Rex and Denise Irwin, Herb and Kathy Krumsick and Keith and GeorgiaStevens. The Wichita Arts Council provided artist awards to support this exhibition.

ULRICH EXHIBITIONS ARE GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE ULRICH SALON CIRCLE AND MUSEUM ALLIANCE.

FISCH HAUS 21: AN ARTISTS’COLLABORATIVE COMES OF AGEPATRICK DUEGAW, JOHN ERNATT,ERIC SCHMIDT AND KENT WILLIAMSApril 16 – August 7, 2011 Polk/Wilson galleries

NIC NICOSIA: MIDDLETOWNApril 2 – May 1, 2011 Amsden Gallery

LOOK OUT: POP ARTFROM THE COLLECTIONJune 11 – September 4, 2011 Amsden Gallery

Photographer and filmmaker Nic Nicosia’s video Middletown (1997) takes the viewer on a surreal, looping tour of his Dallas neighborhood. As circus-like music plays in the background, cowboys wander by, a manmows his lawn in office clothes and other oddities prompt one to wonderwhether the ostensibly mundane suburbs are quite as they seem.

In 1963, artist Roy Lichtenstein was asked to describe thethen-new phenomenon of pop art. He stated simply, “pop art looks out into the world.” Lichtenstein made a name for himself painting recreations of comic book pages. His fellow pop artists Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist depicted soup cans, soda bottles and cars. Collectively, the pop artists looked out at theimages circulating in the world around them—in magazinesand newspapers, on television screens and billboards—and then featured this popular visual culture in their work. Their impulse to see common consumer objects as artistic subjects persists in the work of artists today. With selections from the Ulrich collection, Look Out explores this ongoing pop tradition.

LEFT: Roger Shimomura, Untitled #3, 1988.Color screen print, 25 x 10 1/2 in. Collection of the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Museum Purchase

WSU SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN,MASTER OF FINE ARTS EXHIBITIONMay 7 – June 5, 2011 Amsden Gallery

The Ulrich Museum presents the work of five M.F.A. candidates: PhillipBaumer, Nathan Carris Carnes, Lauren Clay, Joe Leonard and Trent Mosley.

Baumer, a sculptor, received his bachelor’s in interior architecture from Kansas State University and is from Washington, Missouri. Carnes, a ceramist, received his bachelor’s from McNeese State University and isfrom Lake Charles, Louisiana. Lauren Clay, a ceramist, received her bachelor’s from McNeese State University and is from Welsh, Louisiana.Joe Leonard, a ceramist, received his bachelor’s at the University of North Texas and hails from Lancaster, Texas. Trent Mosley, a sculptor, received his bachelor’s from Missouri Southern State University and is from Diamond, Missouri.

ABOVE: Phillip Baumer, Seven Layers of Confluence, 2010. Acrylic enamel, pen and inkon medium density fiberboard, 8 x 12 ft. Courtesy of the artist

RIGHT: Nic Nicosia, Middletown (detail), 1997. Digital video. Collectionof the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Museum Purchase

MEMBERS’ OPENING PARTY7–9 P.M. SATURDAY, APRIL 16

ABOVE LEFT: Eric Schmidt, John Ernatt, Kent Williams, Patrick Duegaw. Photograh © Gavin Peters

COVER: Patrick Duegaw, Two Rooms with Insufficient Light (or) Portrait of Kent and Mel (detail), 2007. Mixed media on sheetrock, 60 x 114 in. Collection of the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Museum Purchase

SUMMERYOUTHPROGRAM

SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 7-9 P.M.MEMBERS’ OPENING PARTYThe Wichita community comes together to celebratethe 21st anniversary of the Fisch Haus. Come early and be among the first to view the Ulrich’s newest acquisition, a commissioned 24-foot-long panorama painting by Fisch Haus artist Patrick Duegaw. To make a reservation (free for Ulrich members and WSU students, $7 for general public), call(316) 978-3664 or e-mail ulrich@wichita.edu.

MONDAY, APRIL 18 ANDMONDAY, APRIL 25, 2-4 P.M. CONTINUING EDUCATION:Emily StameyPop Art: Past to PresentWSU Hughes Metropolitan Complex,5015 East 29th Street NorthAndy Warhol’s paintings of Campbell’s soup cans and film stars and Roy Lichtenstein’s renderings of comic book romances and explosions—these icons of 1960s pop art set precedents that continue to inform artists in the 21st century. This course will survey the evolution of American pop art and thethemes of consumerism, politics, gender and identitythat reverberate throughout its past and present.

Emily Stamey is curator of modern and contemporaryart at the Ulrich Museum of Art. Stamey received her Ph.D. in art history from the University ofKansas, Lawrence. Her research focused on the work of contemporary Japanese-American artist Roger Shimomura.

This class is offered by WSU Continuing Education.Registration is $38. For more information or to register,contact Continuing Education at (316) 978-3731 or visit http://www.wichita.edu/noncredit.

KANSAS 1502011 marks a milestone in our state’s history, and Kansas is celebrating with events and programs throughout the year. From then to now and for Kansas artists Gordon Parks to Terry Evans, theUlrich Museum celebrates the heritage and wondersof Kansas. Kansas 150 is a grassroots effort that includes state agencies, communities and individualsacross the state to educate Kansans about their heritage and commemorate 150 years. For more information, visit www.ks150.org.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2010 A.M. REFRESHMENTS, 10:30 A.M. PROGRAM SENIOR WEDNESDAY: Marty KeenanKansans in HarlemLawrence-native Langston Hughes was a leading literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920sto 1930s. Topeka-native Aaron Douglas is consideredone of the movement’s leading visual artists. The firstAfrican-American movie director, Oscar Micheaux, had roots in Kansas, as did photographer Gordon Parks and poets Gwendolyn Brooks and Frank Marshall Davis. How does a farm state with a small black population make such an influential contributionto the 20th-century arts? Kansans in Harlem examinesthis question to determine how the state itself affected these talented individuals, their motivation and their worldview.

ALL ULRICH MUSEUM EVENTS are free, open to the public and take place at the museumunless noted otherwise. For more information about museum programs, visitwww.ulrich.wichita.edu/events.

Marty Keenan is an attorney and founder of the biennialOscar Micheaux Memorial Celebration in Great Bend that celebrates Kansas African Americans who have made contributions to the arts and literature.

Funding for this project was provided in part by the Kansas Health Foundation, Wichita, Kansas. The Kansas Health Foundation is a philanthropic organization whose mission is to improve the health of all Kansans.

THURSDAY, APRIL 212011 WICHITA JAZZ FESTIVAL:Aaron Douglas and the Harlem Renaissance5:30 P.M. Hors d’oeuvres

and drinks with music by the WSU Jazz Program6 P.M. Emily Stamey and the WSU Jazz EnsembleThe rhythms of jazz, the dynamism of modern art and the history of African Americans come together in the work of Aaron Douglas. After moving to New York City in 1925, this Kansas native became a key figure in the 1920s and 30s flourishing of African American literature, art, music, dance and socialcommentary known as the Harlem Renaissance.

Aaron Douglas and the Harlem Renaissance is acollaboration between the WSU Jazz Program and the Ulrich Museum in conjunction with the 2011 Wichita Jazz Festival. With an array of images, film footage, and live musical interludes, it will present Douglas’ artwork in the context of early 20th-centuryAmerican jazz and the period interest in African cultural heritage.

The WSU Jazz Ensemble includes: Associate Professor Mark Foley, Assistant Professor Gerald Scholl and VisitingAssistant Professor Robert Young. Emily Stamey is the Ulrich curator of modern and contemporary art. For more information on the Wichita Jazz Festival and a full schedule of events, visit www.wichitajazzfestival.com.

FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 5:30-7 P.M.FINAL FRIDAY KICK-OFF: Mikrokosmos Launch Party and Journal SigningMikrokosmos is a literary journal for the students, faculty and staff of Wichita State University, published annually since 1958. Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and visualart are welcomed from current or past members ofthe WSU community. In January 2011, the Mikrokosmosstaff also introduced a national online journal, MOJO, which features the work of writers across the nation. Be the first to pick up your copy of the 2011 print journal at the launch party. Featured artists and writerswill be on hand to sign copies of the 2011 edition. Thisprogram is in collaboration with the WSU Departmentof English and WSU Creative Writing program.

SATURDAY APRIL 30, 1-3 P.M. FAMILY FUN DAY:One Fisch/Two Fisch, Red Fisch/Blue FischFerris wheels and honey bees. Fleas and shovels. Carrotsand dinner parties. Discover a whimsical side of art through the work of Wichita’s artist collective, Fisch Haus. Afternoon fun includes special make-it/take-it art projects, performances and storytelling, all inspired by the creative work of Patrick Duegaw, John Ernatt, Eric Schmidt and Kent Williams.

TUESDAY, MAY 3 AND WEDNESDAY, MAY 4,11:30 A.M.-1:30 P.M.WSU FINALS FRENZY: Ulrich Spa GetawayRelax away the stresses of finals with free back-and-hand massages, soothing tunes, hot teas and refresh-ments in the galleries.

THURSDAY, MAY 5, 4:30 P.M.AUTHOR! AUTHOR!: Creative Writing PresentsStories of manipulation by Andy Warhol, diggingPresident Kennedy’s grave, or surviving to tell what colorthe sky turned at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, in Hiroshima, motivated WSU English students to write their own creative non-fiction. Inspired by published works, English 803 now has its Wichita-centered creative nonfiction stories of the everyday (and the never-ever-again) to read at this special event.

Creative Writing Presents is in collaboration with the WSUCreative Writing program, and Margaret Dawe, directorof Creative Writing and WSU associate professor.

FRIDAY, MAY 6, NOON-1:30 P.M.MEET-THE-ARTISTS RECEPTIONJoin the Ulrich to congratulate the Spring 2011 WSU School of Art and Design MFA students: Phillip Baumer, Nathan Carris Carnes, Lauren Clay, Joe Leonard and Trent Mosley. Artists talk about their work at 12:30 p.m. with a welcome from Barry Badgett, director of the School of Art and Design.

FRIDAY, MAY 6, 5:30-7:30 P.M. MEET-THE-ARTISTS RECEPTION AND PANEL DISCUSSION: Fisch Haus TalesFriends for decades, the artists’ collective Fisch Hauscelebrates their coming-of-age at 21. Attend a special evening of reminiscence about the late-night art marathons,inspiration behind the Fisch Haus name, stories of the artistic spectacles at Fisch Haus openings and the arts community that Fisch Haus helped build. Emceed by long-time friends and collectors Tod Ernst of Planet Hair and Sonia Greteman of Greteman Group, this is thedo-not-miss event of the season. Come at 5:30 p.m. to enjoy special drinks and hors d’oeuvres by local celebrity chef and KMUW commentator Tanya Tandoc.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1810 A.M. REFRESHMENTS, 10:30 A.M. PROGRAM SENIOR WEDNESDAY:Lora Jost and Dave LoewensteinKansas MuralsKansas is home to more than 600 murals, one of which welcomes visitors to the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University. In 2006 accomplished muralists Lora Jost and Dave Loewenstein compiled the first and only book devoted exclusively to Kansas murals, Kansas Murals: A Traveler’s Guide. The book provides a strikingvisual travelogue that offers a new perspective on the state’s culture and history. Jost and Loewenstein take us on a tour of just a few of these intriguing works of art. Kansas Murals: A Traveler’s Guide won a 2007 Kansas Notable Book Award.

Lora Jost is an artist, teacher and muralist based in Lawrence. Dave Loewenstein is a muralist, writer and printmaker based in Lawrence with more than 20public works on view throughout the state.

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 6 P.M.BUZZ-WORTHY ART TALK: Toby KampsAll Together Now210 McKnight Art Center West

Curator Toby Kamps earns critical praise for his engaging exhibitions and insightfulscholarship. In addition to analyzing such canonical contemporary artists as Bruce Nauman and Ellsworth Kelly, Kamps pursues compellingthematic projects, most recentlyexamining the role of folklore

in contemporary art. In his Ulrich talk, he will discuss the historic importance of artists’ collaboratives and the breadth of cooperative production in today’s art world. His presentation will set Wichita’s Fisch Haus artist collaborative in context, as their anniversary exhibition appears at the Ulrich from April 16-August 7, 2011.

Kamps’ distinguished career has included posts at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of ContemporaryArt, San Diego; and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.He is now curator of modern and contemporary art for The Menil Collection in Houston.

Toby Kamps

NEW ACQUISITIONSIn 1968 African American sanitation workersin Memphis, Tennessee, went on strike.Protesting meager compensation, deplorableworking conditions, and arbitrary racist behavior from their white supervisors, these laborers took to the streets carrying placards that demanded human decency by stating simply, “I AM A MAN.” Their struggle received the support of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and it was during one of his trips to Memphis on their behalf that the civil rights leader was assassinated. Photographer Ernest Withers’ documentaryimage of the strikers has become iconic in the visual history of the civil rights movement,an era well represented in the Ulrich collection by Gordon Parks’ photography. Building on these strong holdings, themuseum purchased the Withers photographin 2010. At the same time, the Ulrich made another exciting acquisition—a recent series of paintings by Hank Willis Thomas that was inspired by the 1968 protest. An up-and-coming contempo-

rary artist, Thomas has received increasing national attention for his conceptually rigorous investigations of race, advertising, and American visual culture. In I Am a Man, he creates a replica of the iconic 1968 placard and then 19 variations of its frank statement. Collectively, the paintings prompt consideration of the ways in which ideas about race, masculinity, and humanity have evolved and are verbalized in American popular culture.

TOP: Hank Willis Thomas, I Am A Man, 2009. Liquitex on canvas, 25 ¼ x 19 ¼ in. each. Collection of the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Museum Purchase

BOTTOM: Ernest Withers, I Am A Man, Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tennessee, 1968 (printed 1990s).Gelatin silver print, 20 x 24 in. Collection of the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Museum Purchase

IN MEMORIAMThe Ulrich Museum of Art mourns the recent loss of a mainstay in Wichita’s art community, WSU Emeritus Professor of Art History Dr. Mira Pajes Merriman. Dr. Merriman taught at Wichita State from 1965 through1997 and helped build the School of Art and Design’s arthistory department. Many of her students from 32 years of teachingwent on to become noted artists, scholars, teachers, curators and museum directors. Last spring, Dr. Merriman served as the guest curator for Harold Hogan: Maestro of the Kansas Prairie, an exhibition of prairie landscapes on view at the Ulrich Museum. In June, she gave an illustrated presentation on Hogan that filled 210 McKnight West, also known as Dr. Mira Pajes Merriman Art History Lecture Hall, dedicated in her name in 2006. Dr. Mira Pajes Merriman

ULRICH DIRECTOR VOTED VICE PRESIDENT FOREXTERNAL AFFAIRS FOR COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION

Ulrich Director Dr. Patricia McDonnell was elected the Vice President for External Affairs for the College Art Association in February. Based in New York, CAA is the learned society for scholarship and learning in the visual arts. Artists, art historians, designers, and art museum professionals belong to this important organization. It boasts an international membership of 14,000 individuals and over 2,000 institutions.

FUTURE EXHIBITIONSTERRY EVANS: MATFIELD GREEN STORIESAUGUST 20 - NOVEMBER 27, 2011 Polk/Wilson galleries

Matfield Green is nestled in the Flint Hills, just over the horizon to the east of Wichita. The small town of roughly 50 inhabitants captivated nationally prominent photographer Terry Evans. Her fascination with Matfield Green extended over two decades, and Evans’ poignant, poeticimages frame this rural community in the subtle beauty of the Kansas prairie. This fall the Ulrich Museum brings this eloquent, insightful body of work to the public for the first time.

ULRICH PROJECT SERIES: ANNE APPLEBYSEPTEMBER 10 - NOVEMBER 27, 2011 Amsden Gallery

Anne Appleby’s eloquent, minimal abstractions result from her sustainedstudy of light and color. Her paintings are purposely filled with nuances that celebrate the variety found in nature. With layer upon layer of oil paints and wax, she builds up a luminous and rich field of color that echoes the hues in particular flowers, trees or patches of sky.

TOP: Terry Evans, Cattle Paths, Chase County, Kansas, July 2009.Archival digital print, 34 x 34 in. Collection of the artist

BOTTOM: Anne Appleby, Salmon Pea, 2008. Oil and waxon canvas, 37 x 37 in. Courtesy of the artist

SAVE THE DATEFALLKICKOFFPARTY7–9 P.M. SATURDAY,SEPTEMBER 17

Joins us for a fall party highlighting the newestexhibitions on view, Terry Evans: Matfield Green Storiesand Ulrich Project Series: Anne Appleby.

Eric Schmidt, Kent Williams, Patrick Duegaw and John ErnattPhotograph © Gavin Peters

THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 7-9 P.M.ART FOR YOUR EARS: Jeff BlackMuseum galleries open at 6:30 p.m.

The Ulrich Summer Music Series kicks off the season with the return of Nashville singer/songwriter Jeff Black, who “loves songs about freeing the spirit and treating your individuality as something that’s precious and important.” Self-described as a “burly, bare-knuckled, blue-collar son

of the Missouri plains with dark Irish blood,” his robust performances are sure to please. His songs have been recorded by Waylon Jennings, Jo-El Sonnier, Sam Bush and BlackHawk.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1510 A.M. REFRESHMENTS, 10:30 A.M. PROGRAMSENIOR WEDNESDAY: Kate MeyerC.A. Seward: Artist and DraftsmanKansas-native C.A. (Coy Avon) Seward utilized artistic experimentation that combined the practicality ofcommercial technology with the pleasure of pursuingfine art. As head of the art department in the 1920s and 1930s at Western Lithograph, a commercial printingfirm in Wichita, Seward used his knowledge of commercialdesign and techniques, as well as his position of leadershipamong fellow artists, to serve as a mentor to others. He invaluably contributed to smooth running of the Prairie Print Makers—a group formed in 1930 of ten artists with Kansas connections, including long-time Lindsborg resident Birger Sandzen and Wichita artists Charles Capps, Leo Courtney and Lloyd Foltz.

Kate Meyer is curatorial assistant in the Print Room for the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. She curated the 2010 Spencer exhibition C.A. Seward: Artist and Draftsman.

THURSDAY, JULY 7, 7-9 P.M.ART FOR YOUR EARS: Town MountainMuseum galleries open at 6:30 p.m.

Born out of the all-night jam sessions and fertilepicking scene of Western North Carolina, TownMountain has emerged as one of the premiere young American bluegrass bands. Great original songwriting, tight vocal harmonies, charismatic stage presence and instrumental expertise place this group in the upper tier of contemporary acoustic bands. “Town Mountain is flat loaded with talent. The band delivers its grass both new- and old-style. With Robert Greer singing lead, the vocals come across as authentic, even as the lyrics stretch well beyond the traditional boundaries.” —The Roanoke Times

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2010 A.M. REFRESHMENTS, 10:30 A.M. PROGRAMSENIOR WEDNESDAY: Paul ObergPedagogical Memorials—Origins of WichitaPublic School MonumentsBrass plaques set in stone are often the only lasting reminders of local historical significance. The events andaccomplishments which precipitated their public recognitionare not always well known. Paul Oberg, curator of the McCormick School Museum and Archives and local museologist, will identify a few of the more consequential school monuments in Wichita and present the stories behind their historical dedication.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 7-9 P.M.ART FOR YOUR EARS:Robin Macy and Kentucky WhiteMuseum galleries open at 6:30 p.m.

This concert features local legends with a deserved fan base. Robin Macy sings from her heart with original compositions inspired by the Kansas heartland. Robin andguitar-slinger husband, Kentucky White, play roots music that harkens to an earlier time, influenced by their ongoingwork at historic Bartlett Arboretum, the century-old bountiful patch of nature they call home. Robin teaches and preaches the gospel of Euclid and Thoreau as an educator by day while Mr. White, a native Kentuckian, is a crackerjack programmer and co-owner of Wichitaadvertising agency Howerton + White. Their 2008 Songsfrom the Garden recording pays homage to their vintage instruments, other-era duets and lessons learned from loving the land. Come early for seats!

Jeff Black

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Cost is $3 per child with a minimum of 10 children. Adults are free. Each summer the Ulrich Museum offers guided tours and related art activities for kids’ groups (10 or more) to exploreworks from the collection and special exhibitions to learn more about art and the world around them. This summer, kids ages 5-12 years can join in the fun with two activities.

JUNE: Millipede MemoriesWichita-native Tom Otterness’ sculpture Millipede provides the inspiration for an exciting field day at the Ulrich Museum.The adventure begins in the garden that is home to the sculpture, affectionately nicknamed “Millie.” It continues insidewith a special make-it/take-it art project.

JULY: Pop Art! Campbell’s soup cans, newspaper clippings, Brillo boxes, billboards and celebrity magazines animated the art in the 1960s and 1970s. Inspired by the Ulrich exhibition Look Out, children explore objects from popular culture, then createtheir own “pop art” to take home.

Each 90-minute tour and art activity is $3 per child and requires a minimum of 10 children; adult registration isfree with a paid child. Pre-registration and three-week notice is required. Contact Aimee Geist, education curator,(316) 978-7116 or aimee.geist@wichita.edu to register.

Robin Macy and Kentucky WhitePhotograph courtesy Jennifer Pettersen

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