Location: Main Floor, South Gallery
Two Ponders is a collaborative installation by author Dennis Etzel Jr. and artist Barbara Waterman-Peters. The exhibition includes original drawings, paintings, and corresponding poems relating to elegiacal vistas and tangible places of the past, present, and future. Together, the two artists contemplate landscape from both local and global perspectives using text and image.
Dennis Etzel Jr. teaches English at Washburn University. He has an MFA from The University of Kansas and a MA and Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies from Kansas State University. Etzel has two chapbooks and numerous poetry publications.
Barbara Waterman-Peters has a BFA from Washburn University, an MFA from Kansas State University, and an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Washburn University. She has shown regionally, nationally and internationally in over 275 solo, invitational and juried exhibitions.
Images:
Above (detail): Barbara Waterman-Peters, Map of Gage Park Pond, pencil on paper
Below: Barbara Waterman-Peters, Little Stone Bridge II, oil on canvas
