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Valerie Skubal with Tangent Arc

March 23, 2011 Events

Erica Jolene of Tyler Gregory, The Granada, Lawrence, KS. by Valerie Skubal

• Valerie Skubal with Tangent Arc
Love Garden Sounds
(822 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, March 25, 5-9pm

Kansan Photographer Valerie Skubal will  have her photos on display along with a performance by the band Tangent Arc at 7pm.

Eyeteeth Summertees

March 23, 2011 Events

Previous Tee-Print event featuring the work of Fudge Factory Comics & Asteroid Head Art Club

Eyeteeth Summertees
Wonder Fair: Art Gallery, Shoppe & Studio (803 1/2 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, March 25, 7-10pm

From the Organizers:
Wonder Fair makes your very first summertime tee!
ONE NIGHT ONLY!

A live interactive print event by the Wonder Fair Family! Gallery goers will create one-of-a-kind tee shirts by choosing the placement of eyes and teeth designed by Wonder Fair Family. Come join in the fun, grab a tee, and help support Wonder Fair!

Build This Cardboard Thing


Build This Cardboard Thing
The Lawrence Percolator (940 New Hampshire in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, March 25, 5-9pm (Ongoing until Apr. 30)

From the Organizers:
Cardboard Construction Workshops March 26 & 27 1 -5pm
Parade and Opening Reception Friday, April 1st at 6pm

Eric Farnsworth will be leading the workshops where you can participate in building creatures that will be apart of the parade and opening reception. Juniper Tangpuz will be showing his amazing works in the gallery.

Them

March 21, 2011 Events


• Them
The Invisible Hand Gallery (801 1/2 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, March 25, 6-9pm

From the Organizers:
Works by Dave Loewenstein. An installation of cut-paper tableaus that follow Drones, Nimbys, and Frame-up Specialists as they try to rid their back yards, business districts, and border towns of Them.

Dave Loewenstein is a muralist, writer, and printmaker based in Lawrence, Kansas. In addition to his more than twenty public works in Kansas, examples of his dynamic community-based murals can be found across the United States in Missouri, Arizona, Mississippi, Iowa, Illinois, Oklahoma, New Orleans, New York City and in Northern Ireland. Dave’s stencil prints, which focus on current social and political issues are exhibited nationally and are in the permanent collections of the New York Public Library and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles. He is the co-author of “Kansas Murals,” a 2007 Kansas Notable Book Award Winner, published by the University Press of Kansas; and the co-director of the documentary film “Creating Counterparts” which won Best Documentary at the 2003 Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee. Dave is one of the founders of the Lawrence Percolator community art space; and currently teaches the course “Roots and Practice: Community-Based Public Art” at Washburn University in Topeka.

Blues and Greys

March 21, 2011 Events


Blues and Greys
The Bourgeois Pig (6 East 9th Street in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, March 25, 5-9pm (Ongoing until Apr. 24)

In her first show, Dana Hangauer will display colorfield paintings in acrylic on canvas that are inspired by abstract expressionism and artists like Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and Hans Hoffman. Hangauer’s works were created with unique forms of paint application, the use of color comes from a place of comfort in the artist and is intended to create the same in the viewer.

Art

Artist Shout Out: Walter Inglis Anderson

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Music

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Fashion

Runway Style: Thomas Tait Fall 2011

Runway Style: Thomas Tait Fall 2011

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Photography

Photo File: Saga

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Film

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TV

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Web

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News

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