in the touring exhibition featuring 50 Kansas master artists.
Wichita Opening Reception
July 15, 5-7 PM
Exhibition: July 14 - August 15
Center for the Arts
9112 E Central
Wichita, Kansas
Enrich your life.
Meet the artist, cultivate a friendship
and take home an original, one of a kind oil painting.
"Every painting I created or bought has changed my life. Weighing the image and emotion it evokes measures against what I think and feel each time I see it. That constant
self-examination creates a deeper understanding of my mind and heart."
-Matthew Richter
Currently Showcased in Kansas Masters Invitational Show:
As the hot, late-summer sun sinks low in the west, the blistering day gives way to a cool blue cloud rising above the treetops. Soon, rain will soak the thirsty landscape. Beneath the open expanses of a cloud-drenched prairie sky, the dark tree line dwindles in size, reminding human beings of their own small stature.
Currently showcased in the Kansas Masters Invitational Show
Look into the deceptively calm eyes of a charging bison as she flees a raging prairie fire. Tails swishing, the herd behind her jumps scrubby native plums. The lightning-fed cleansing of the grasslands races across the prairie
after them.
For centuries, the Great Plains knew only the season changes, fire, and the hooves of the thunder beasts.
Photo Credit: Zane Richter
Matthew and Tom Weatherford often work in the Paint Creek area of the Smoky Hills, a site only four miles north of Matthew's studio. Sunset bathes the hilltop vistas in warm, hazy light. Along the creek, hidden pockets of bottomland sprout Tallgrass and native wild flowers. Late summer until the first frost, different flower species alternate in glorious bloom. As the sun dips low, turkeys flap loudly into treetops to roost.
This newsletter is written and edited by Kiya Richter Krier, a 2009 graduate of the University of Kansas with a Creative Writing degree. She is currently living and writing in Rolla, Missouri.
