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Mulvane Art Museum Newsletter
June 2016
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The Mulvane Art Fair Is Coming Up!
Did you know that you can now pre-order your Mulvane
purchase individual tickets for June 4 & 5 or buy a bundle of five
tickets for $30. If you'd like to become a member of the Mulvane
 and gain free entry into the Fair, you can do that on the same webpage. When you become a member, you won't need to purchase tickets, and your entry into the Fair will be free both days. Remember that whether you're purchasing tickets or purchasing a membership, you are supporting the Mulvane Art Museum exhibitions, education programs, ArtLab and outreach initiatives.
The Mulvane Art Fair 2016 will feature the work of nearly one hundred artists, live music, a lineup of food trucks and the ArtLab Outdoors. The Mulvane Art Fair is a two-day summer event for the whole family, where adults can browse and purchase art, and kids can make their own art in the ArtLab Tent.
Hands-In Clay Classes in the ArtLab this Summer!
Hand-Built Clay
7 - 9 years old
July 11 - 15
1pm - 3pm
Hand-Built Ceramics and Intro to Wheel Throwing
10 years old - Adults
June 7, 14, 21 and July 12, 19
6pm - 8pm
Spin in to Art: Wheel Thrown Ceramics
Teens and Adults
June 11, 18, 25 and July 16, 23
1pm - 3pm
Attention: The ArtLab hours will be changing temporarily. From May 21 through July 1, the ArtLab hours are as follows: Tues. 10:30am - 7pm Wed. 10:30am - 5pm Thurs. 10:30pm - 5pm Fri. 10:30pm - 5pm Sat. 1pm - 4pm
Regular ArtLab hours will resume on July 2.
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"Freedom's Journey" |
Exhibitions
Marydorsey Wanless Retrospective
March 18 - July 2
From 1998 to 2015 Marydorsey Wanless was a professor of photography at Washburn University. Over her career she has treated many subjects including birds in flight, the Kansas landscape and Caribbean beach towns.
Boom: American Printmaking 1960 - 2000
April 1 - July 2
Drawn entirely from the Mulvane's collection, these prints represent a variety of styles, including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Op, Color Field, New Realism, Photo Realism and Earthworks, among others.
Freedom's Journey
May 27 - July 2
Featuring photographs, videos and reflections by students who participated in the Washburn University travel course: Exploring Civil Rights.
Klassics for Kids
May 27 - September 3
Drawn from the Mulvane Art Museum's permanent collection, this exhibition of art from the 16th through the 20th centuries has depictions of brains, fantastic rooms, scary and imaginary animals, superheroes, baseball bats, fighting silverware and finger-wagging grown-ups.
Estamos Aqui
July 8 - August 13
Featuring vivid colors and sometimes startling imagery, the works in the traveling exhibition, Estamos Aqui (We Are Here) encourage audiences to ask questions about the nature of cross-cultural exchange and discover how artists find their voice through personal experiences that become part of the artistic process.
Zak Barnes: At Home in Bazaar
July 12 - September 3
Many Contemporary Kansas Artists paint the prairie landscape, but many fewer paint the people who inhabit it. Zak Barnes, on the other hand, fills his figure subjects with the people of Bazaar, KS a small town near Cottonwood Falls, KS.
Bud Holman: Retrospective
July 19 - October 22
Born on a farm north of Topeka in 1926, Bud Holman first worked as a Regionalist. In 1954 he moved to New York and developed a highly abstracted landscape style. Holman later settled in Arizona, where he continues to paint each day.
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Freedom's Journey Reception
June 3, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Featuring photographs, videos, and reflections by students who participated in the Washburn University travel course: Exploring Civil Rights.
2016 Mulvane Art Fair
June 4, 10am - 5pm
June 5, 10am - 4pm
The Mulvane Art Fair is a juried art fair that features more than 90 artists using a variety of media from across the state, region, and country. The event also features live music and exciting food options. Proceeds from the Mulvane Art Fair support the programs and the mission of the Mulvane.
Summer 2016 Art Classes
Art classes at the Mulvane are an affordable way for kids to stay active and creative...or for adults to escape from life for a few hours!
Klassics for Kids
June 11, 1pm - 4pm, All Ages
Visit the exhibition, Klassics for Kids, then come to the ArtLab to create your own masterpieces using printmaking, drawing, painting and more! Learn more about the artists' techniques and stories. FREE!
Freedom Family Day
July 9, 1pm - 4pm, All Ages
Create a painting of what freedoms you appreciate and embellish your artwork with exploding fireworks of paint using straws. FREE!
Zak Barnes: At Home in Bazar Reception
July 15, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Lawrence artist Zak Barnes spoofs Kansas mythologies by juxtaposing such icons as sunflowers, windmills, bison, prairie burning and picket fences with women in lawn chairs and above ground pools, drinking wine, watching televisions and wearing tiaras.
International Friendship Day
August 6, 1pm - 4pm, All Ages
Create an artwork that fosters friendship and tolerance to build community. Since 2011, the United Nations have observed International Friendship Day as a move towards world peace. FREE!
Brown Bag Conversation with Zak Barnes
August 31, 12 noon - 1pm
Lawrence artist Zak Barnes and three Topeka figure painters, Barbara Waterman-Peters, Brad LeDuc, and Ye Wang, professor of painting at Washburn, will discuss the joys and challenges of telling stories in paint.
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Estamos Aquí (We Are Here) at The Mulvane Art Museum
Contemporary Serigraph exhibit features vivid imagery by Latino/Chicano artists
Featuring vivid colors and sometimes startling imagery, the works in the traveling exhibition Estamos Aquí (We Are Here) encourage audiences to ask questions about the nature of cross-cultural exchange and discover how artists find their voices through personal experiences that become part of the artistic process.
The engaging exhibition, which opens July 8th at the Mulvane Art Museum, features contemporary serigraphs by 40 artists who took an opportunity to learn a specialized silkscreen print technique during a collaborative Austin-based residency. Many of the artists are speaking from the Latino/Chicano perspective, and the resulting portfolio of prints expresses their celebrations, sorrows, challenges, popular culture and personal experiences.
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A complex assemblage of ethnicity, cultural heritage and languages represents the American story, our story, connected by many strands that speak to universal themes. The subject matter in Estamos Aquí is as diverse as its creators, and it celebrates ideas like identity and sense of place. For example, Alec Dempster's work, Maiz Moderno, is a statement on the cultural understanding that can come from the sharing of food. Artist Sandra Fernandez encapsulates the spirit of being a Latina mother and daughter within the context of society and the "new codes" she has learned by living in the U.S.
The visual language drawn from varied traditions-including family and religious symbols, political motifs, the Mexican Luche Libre matches, neighborhood (barrio) themes and Mexican graphic traditions-enlivens the aesthetic dialogue of the exhibition. In addition to 40 framed prints, Estamos Aquí is accompanied by fully bilingual gallery text and labels, as well as a short film that outlines the artistic process.
Estamos Aquí (We Are Here) is curated and organized by Brad Cushman, curator and gallery director at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The exhibition is toured by ExhibitsUSA, a national program of Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA), which sends more than 25 exhibitions on tour to more than 100 communities across the country every year. M-AAA is the oldest nonprofit regional arts organization in the United States. More information is available at www.maaa.org and www.eusa.org.
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From Our Collection
Salvador Dali L'Elephant et le Singe de Jupiter etching, 1974 Our summer family exhibition is Klassics for Kids, which runs from May 27 through September 3. It features The Elephant and the Monkey of Jupiter, 1974, by Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí (1904-1989). This colored etching is one of twelve prints in Dali's Bestiary, a portfolio in which he imaginatively visualized some fables by French writer La Fontaine (1621-1695). In this fable an elephant and a rhinoceros challenge each other to a fight to see who is the most important. But the monkey messenger of Jupiter, the most important god of the ancient Romans, stops the fight, saying that the gods are not interested in the animals' quibbling. According to the messenger, "Great and small are the same in the eyes of the gods."
Dali's interpretation of the theme is quite imaginative. He does not depict the body of the elephant, but only his trunk, which sprays water in two directions. The rhino's helmet is made out of the sun, and his tusk explodes outward in many pieces. Jupiter's monkey wears a winged helmet and carries a caduceus, a winged staff with two snakes twined around it. These two items are actually the attributes of Mercury, the Roman messenger god. Today the caduceus is associated with the medical profession. |
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Philip Von Saltza, Circus Horses
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Mulvane Art Museum to Present Summer Show: Klassics for Kids
The Mulvane Art Museum is pleased to present our new summer exhibition, Klassics for Kids. The exhibition will run from Friday May, 27 through Saturday, September 3, 2016.
Looking at art through the eyes of children can be exciting! Children's activities set up at the Museum's Inspiration Station will spark their imaginations and encourage them to read, write,  draw and make music and dance right in the galleries.
Look for the symbol to find the kids activities.
Drawn entirely from the Mulvane's permanent collection, this exhibition of art from the 16th through the 20th centuries includes works by such famous European masters as Hans Holbein, Jacques Callot, Leonardo da Vinci, Francisco Goya, Honoré Daumier, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Erté and Salvador Dali. Works by well-known American artists such as Currier and Ives and Claes Oldenburg are also featured, as well as many other American artists, like Kansan Jim Hunt. Depictions of brains; fantastic rooms; funny hairdos; scary, real and imaginary animals; superheroes; baseball bats; fighting silverware and finger-wagging grown-ups are all here! Look for stories from literature, the fables of La Fontaine, Greek mythology, Japanese fairy tales, American folk legends and the lives of saints. This exhibition is sure to inspire you, your kids and grandkids!
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Support the work of the Mulvane Art Museum
Tuesday, June 7 during Topeka Gives day
The Mulvane Art Museum invites all donors, patrons and members to support our efforts to engage the community in opportunities to interact with the arts and to build an environment that recognizes and celebrates the importance of the visual arts in our lives.
Topeka Community Foundation is sponsoring Topeka Gives: A Fun Day of Giving, in an effort to increase philanthropy in the community and bring attention to the important work of non-profits and cultural programs. Your donation will be matched by the Topeka Community Foundation.
"The donations we receive during Topeka Gives helps us to keep admission and programs free of charge while presenting the best educational programming, exhibitions, and outreach initiatives for all ages," says Connie Gibbons, Director.
Topeka Gives: A Fun Day of Giving is scheduled for June 7, 2016, from 7 am to 6 pm at Fairlawn Mall-donations may be made on location during the event.
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Welcome New and Renewed Members!
Hurst Coffman, Kent and Susan Garlinghouse, Steve and Gail LaGrone
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