| ART in Embassies Program Selects Topeka Artist's Work Artist Michelle Leivan's Kansas Wildflower Series is honored with two paintings to be exhibited.
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TOPEKA, KS - 3/26/09 - Topekan artist Michelle Leivan is honored with two of her pieces from the Kansas Wildflower Series selected for the ART in Embassies Program. They will be a part of the exhibition at Ambassador Liliana Ayalde, the U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay in the U.S.. Embassy Residence in Asuncion. It will be on loan for the next 3 years.
 About the ART in Embassies Program:Established by the United States Department of State in 1964, the ART In Embassies Program is a global museum that exhibits original works of art by U.S. citizens in the public rooms of approximately 180 American diplomatic residences worldwide. These exhibitions, with art loaned from galleries, museums, individual artists, and corporate and private collections, play an important role in our nation's public diplomacy. They provide international audiences with a sense of the quality, scope, and diversity of American art and culture through the accomplishments of some of our most important citizens, our artists. ART's curatorial team develops thematic exhibitions in collaboration with each ambassador, taking into account the host country's artistic traditions and cultural mores. The agency's website: http://aiep.state.gov Please contact Robert T. Soppelsa, Senior Curator
U.S. Department of State/ART in Embassies
phone: 703-875-4197 email: SoppelsaRT@state.gov
for more information on the ART in Embassies Program.  About the Artist:
"My work
chronicles my personal search for self-identity and purpose through the
female and the floral forms with a focus on color, expression and a
distinctive womanly style." - Michelle Leivan
Educated at Fort Hays State University , Michelle Leivan has been
distinguished as the featured visual artist at the Kansas River Valley
Art Fair, Topeka Jazz Festival and has been nominated for the Kansas
Governor's Artist Award. Michelle has participated in one person shows
and exhibits at the Manhattan Arts Center, Art Council of Topeka,
Topeka Art Guild and Topeka Performing Arts Center. She has also
exhibited
in several juried competitions on the internet and in Soho New York.
Her work is represented in the Ellis County Historical Archives as well
as in several corporate and private collections.
A few of Leivan's Kansas Wildflower Series work can currently be seen locally at the Collective Art Gallery (CAG) of Topeka where the two selected pieces will be on display until the end of March, Topeka Art Guild (TAG) where she is the featured artist for the month of March and the Classic Bean at Fairlawn Plaza as part of a collection from the Topeka Art Guild through the month of April. New floral works will be on display in April in both CAG and TAG.
About Kansas Wildflower Series
Several
of these wildflower pieces have also been honored by being selected to hang
in the Kansas Capital Building, including Governor Sebelius' conference
room.
"With these I have expanded my exploration to the floral form. Hiking
in the luscious meadows and along the rustic roadsides of Kansas I
delight in recording each floral sighting with anticipation of
interpreting each in a new soul revealing piece." - Michelle Leivan
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For more information about Michelle Leivan please go to MichelleLeivan.com or contact the artist 785-220-8460.
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