March Mustache Madness

• March Mustache Madness
Teller’s (746 Massachusetts in Lawrence, KS)
Tuesday, March 22, 6-8pm and March 25, 5-9pm

Mustache related art will be shown in the upstairs gallery at Teller’s. This goes perfectly with the Mustard Madness at Freestate Brewery just down the street. So, step one, grow a mustache, step two, go eat some Freestate food and get mustard all over that mustache, step three, go to Teller’s and look at paintings and drawings of mustaches, all the while showing off your own March Mustard-Covered Mustache Madness. MMMMMMM.

Art Roundup: March 4, 2011 to March 11, 2011

Weekly roundup of the best art shows and art related events in and around the Lawrence/Kansas City area.

Click the link below for our calendar events March 4, 2011 through March 11, 2011.

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Highlights:

“Adam (after the expulsion)” & “Eve (after the expulsion)” by Sarah Bereza

• Lovely Things
Blue Gallery (118 Southwest Blvd in Kansas City, MO)
Friday, March 4, 6-9pm (Ongoing through March 26)

Featuring works by Amy Abshier-Reyes, Susan Goldsmith, Sher Pierson, Kelly Porter, Sarah Bereza, Jhina Alvarado, Doug Schwietert, and Laura-Harris Gascogne.

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“Filipino Badass” by Jay Norton

• Bad Reputation: New Works by Jay Norton
Midwestern Musical Company (1830 Locust in Kansas City, MO)
Friday, March 4, 8-11:30pm

From the Organizers:
Opening of new paintings by Jay Norton. With live rock and roll by the Kelihan’s kicking off the St. Paddy’ season and the mighty String & Return. There will be smoking, drinking and a super rad time at the funnest place to be on a First Friday. You’ll need ear plugs for the music and eyeplugs for the art.

-• LunaFest: Presented by GaDuGi SafeCenter
Liberty Hall (803 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Sunday, March 6, 4-8pm

Annual Lunafest film festival. Lunafest will feature short films made by women about women starting at 5pm and an art show starting at 4pm. Tickets are available at the venue for $10 ($8 for students and seniors). Proceeds benefit the Breast Cancer Fund, GaDuGi SafeCenter and the KU Women in Film Scholarship Fund.

Lovely Things

Adam (after the expulsion) & Eve (after the expulsion) by Sarah Bereza

• Lovely Things
Blue Gallery (118 Southwest Blvd in Kansas City, MO)
Friday, March 4, 6-9pm (Ongoing until Mar. 26th)

Featuring works by Amy Abshier-Reyes, Susan Goldsmith, Sher Pierson, Kelly Porter, Sarah Bereza, Jhina Alvarado, Doug Schwietert, and Laura-Harris Gascogne.

Art Roundup: February 25, 2011 to March 4, 2011

Weekly roundup of the best art shows and art related events in and around the Lawrence/Kansas City area. It’s Final Fridays this week in Lawrence so there are plenty of art events, plus a couple art-esq events including a Seed Fair. There are surely more to come, so check back in later the week and view the calendar.

Click the link below for our calendar events February 25, 2011 through March 4, 2011.

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Highlights:

“Sioux Falls” by Michael Krueger

• Higher: Recent Drawings by Michael Krueger
Wonder Fair: Art Gallery, Shoppe & Studio (803 1/2 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, February 25, 6-10pm (Ongoing through April 24)

From the Organizers:
The artworks for this exhibition explore a collective need to get higher, get lost, reach a higher place, and be transformed. The imagery in these drawings brings together a collection of utopian fetishes; objects and figures perched, often precariously, atop high places and craggy peaks. Through tiny glimpses of early American history and the so-called Age of Aquarius, the drawings also create warm but cautious vignettes of utopianism and escapism. Feelings of isolation, loneliness and abandonment permeate the drawings, contrasted by colorful elation and a sense of purpose through elevation.

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“Rites of Passage” by Andrew Jilka

• Andrew Jilka: Better Living
The Invisible Hand Gallery (801 1/2 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, February 25, 6-10pm

From the Organizers:
Andrew Jilka’s Better Living is a show about the faults, failures, and aspirations that are pre-programmed into the notion of the American Dream. The drawings reflect upon societal signifiers of health, spirituality, sexuality, and desire. These staples of supposed happiness are explored through tedious repetition in drawings from the past ten months.

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• Kaw Valley Seeds Project Second Annual Fair
Douglas County Fairgrounds (2110 Harper Street, Building 21 in Lawrence, KS)
Saturday, February 26, 10am-3pm

From the Organizers:
The 2011 Fair is coming up soon! It’s free for all ages.

The fair will include a seed exchange, exhibits, local producers, speakers and a children’s activity center. Lawrence Eco-Parents will lead children’s activities throughout the day.

Food from the Lawrence restaurant Local Burger will be available for purchase throughout the day, and tables will be set up near the kitchen. Local Burger will donate 10 percent of its profits at the fair to the Kaw Valley Seeds Project. Thank you, Hilary Brown and Local Burger!

The Kaw Valley Seeds Project is a nonprofit whose mission is to create a Local Living Seed Reserve by fostering a network of people committed to growing and eating, sharing and bartering, buying and selling primary seed varieties of the Kansas River Valley. In addition, our goal is to educate the general public on the pleasures of growing their own food by teaching them how to save, store and plant seeds from their own gardens, and where to obtain organic and local seed lines.

Special thanks to the Douglas County Extension Master Gardeners for co-sponsoring this event. Thanks to KU Environs for their volunteer help the day of fair.

Lawrence Art Party

• Lawrence Art Party
Hobbs Taylor Lofts (740 New Hampshire in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, February 25, 5-9pm

From the Organizers:
We’ll have 25 artists, live music, and a great time!

Among the artists is one of Kansas’ most renowned artists, and winner of the Kansas Governor’s Arts Award, Louis Copt, who will be showing new works!

New this month – a special exhibition by students from Lawrence High School, including video from Jeff Kuhr’s film/media class!