Muscle Worship 7″ Record Release Show and Art Opening

Muscle Worship photo by Leland Meiners

Hamms by Barrett Emke

• Muscle Worship 7″ Record Release Show and Art Opening
Love Garden Sounds (822 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, February 25, 6-10pm

From the Organizers:
Performances by Games at 8pm and Muscle Worship at 9pm.
Artwork on display by Barrett Emke, Christopher Trenary, Seth M. Wiese, and Ryan Hasler.
Bakesale by Blackbird Bakery.
Starting at 8pm we’ll be asking $5 at the door. You get the freshly released 7″ record with your entry fee!

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!

Save The Art – Brownbacklash

Q5 Gallery January Final Friday Opening photo by Bobbie Powell

• Save The Art – Brownbacklash
Quinton’s (615 Mass St. in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, February 25, 4-10pm

From the organizers (QuintEssential Gallery):
“Q5Gallery” opens its doors for local artist to express their feelings about Governor Brownback’s new budget cut; abolishing the state’s arts commission, leaving Kansas to be the only state in the nation without this agency.

Q5Gallery will be showcasing work by the gallery’s founding Artists and Fresh Produce Art Collective members. Along with a local Artist response to the budget cut we aim to inform and spark up conversation in the community regarding resent changes Brownback has made and other proposals involving budget cuts to the state. Exhibiting Artists: Local Artists Brownbacklash – Exhibition curator(s): Leo Hayden, Erok Johanssen, Bobbie Powell, Rachel Herring, Dan Dishman, Matt Farley, Paul Flinders, Jim Luhning, Phil Martinez, Jeromy Morris, Charles Ray, Matt Ridgway, Bill Scoular, Brent Teufel, and Josie Wrath.

Blue Dot Salon Art Opening

Edmée Rodriguez

• Blue Dot Salon Art Opening
Blue Dot Salon (15 E 7th St. in Lawrence, KS)
Saturday, January 29, 6-9pm (Ongoing until Apr. 28th)

From the organizers:
Edmée Rodriguez, Ryan Hasler, Robert Lundbom and Carol Beth Whalen will be showing, photography, paintings and painted gourds. Come enjoy and support local artists.

Note to Self – Water, Color, Paper, Paint – Metamorphosis

• Note to Self – Water, Color, Paper, Paint – Metamorphosis
Lawrence Arts Center (940 New Hampshire Street in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, January 7, 7-9pm (Ongoing until Feb. 5th)

From the organizers:
NOTE TO SELF: New Images by Rick Mitchell, “Water, Color, Paper, Paint”. Paintings by Heather Smith Jones, and “Metamorphosis” New Paintings by Susan Grace. INSIGHT Art Talk Series. Rick Mitchell, Susan Grace: January 20, 7pm. All events are free/open to public

Rick’s photography is for pure visual investigation and has no commercial purpose that he can identify. His involvement with photographic processes developed through study in design, graphic arts, painting, drawing, and to a certain extent, journalism.

Heather Smith Jones is a studio artist and instructor at The Lawrence Arts Center in the Arts-Based Preschool Program. She just completed her first book called Water Paper Paint, Exploring Creativity with Watercolor and Mixed Media which is being published by Quarry Books. Unlike the typical watercolor text books, this unique, beautiful volume is a field book of inspiration, creative ideas, how to’s, and projects, all from an artist’s perspective.

Susan Grace is a professional artist living and working in Lawrence, Kansas. She has been exhibiting her paintings at galleries and museums throughout the U.S. since 1992. Susan has worked with the figure for many years but is not interested in portraying a particular person or in depicting a straightforward narrative. The figures, which are usually female, are frequently wrapped, preserved, and protected in some fashion, whether it is with flesh, such as hands or layers of fat, or a covering of cloth, or marks on the skin. Evoking a sense of solitude, the figures are absorbed in their own isolation and rarely face the viewer.