CRAVING LIGHT: The Museum of Love and Reckoning
Location: Rita Blitt Gallery
An exhibition in commemoration of Brown v. Board at 70.
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I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America
Location: Main Level Galleries
Photographic portraits of historically and socially influential women of the 20th century.
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On the Outside Looking In?
Location: Main Level Galleries
A photography exhibition curated by Prof. Rik Hine that explores how we think of "insiders" and "outsiders."
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Student to Artist: In Pursuit of the Artistic Practice
Location: Main Level Galleries
An exhibition highlighting the diverse artistic paths Washburn alumni have taken.
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Against the Grain: Wood Objects from the Vault
Location: Main Level Galleries
Rarely seen wood sculptures from the Mulvane collection.
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Clear Water: Encountering Mokuhanga
Location: MAM, Main Level
Featuring Japanese woodblock prints from the Mulvane's permanent collection.
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Invitations to Listen: Rachel Epp Buller
Location: MAM, Main Level
Invitations to Listen, a contemplation of Washburn University’s 2023 WUmester theme of health and healing, features work that artist Rachel Epp Buller created in response to her daily walks during a residency in Alberta, Canada.
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Washburn Art Students Exhibition
Location: ArtsConnect (gallery)
Annual juried exhibition featuring works by art students at Washburn University.
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The Art of Healing
Location: Mabee Library
This WUmester exhibition presented at Mabee Library features the works of Elizabeth Layton and Robert Ault. They each explore the healing power of art through their drawings.
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There is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art
Date: Wed 07/12/23 12:00PM - Sat 10/14/23 5:00PMLocation: Rita Blitt Gallery
Organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, this exhibition examines Black women’s representation in American art over the past two centuries.
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American Farmer
Location: Main Level, North and Center Galleries
Award-winning photographer Paul Mobley’s heroic photographs reveal the true face of American farming and remind us what it means to live with simplicity, contentment, and decency.
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Lyric in Landscape
Location: Main Level, South Gallery
An exhibition featuring seven oil paintings from the Mulvane Art Museum's permanent collection that exemplify American landscape painting at the turn of the century.
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Refugees: 1986 to 2006 Photographs of Peter Turnley
Location: Main Level, North and Center Galleries
Photographs by award-winning American photojournalist Peter Turnley depicting refugees from Eritrea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Rwanda, Checknya, and Kosovo.
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AB X: Abstract Expressionism in the Midwest
Location: Main Level, North Gallery
Abstract Expressionism was a significant twentieth-century art movement that emerged in the 1940s and 50s in New York.
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Ruth Fisher
Date: Wed 11/02/22 12:00AM - Sun 01/15/23 12:00AMAt first glance, Ruth Fisher’s work delights: the colorful paintings, the whimsical hand-lettered, hand-pressed books that are marvels of invention in their design, their layout, their binding. The intricacies of craft, the labor of multiple pressings for color, the hand-stitched bindings, the resourceful gathering of materials—wallpaper, Styr...
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Renovatio: Artists & Antiquity
Date: Tue 01/19/21 12:00AM - Fri 05/14/21 12:00AMLocation: Main Floor, North Gallery
Featuring a selection of works from the early modern era to the present day, this exhibition demonstrates the various ways artists represented in the Mulvane Art Museum’s permanent collection engaged with antique art and architecture.
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Two Ponders Revisited
Date: Tue 01/19/21 12:00AM - Fri 05/07/21 12:00AMLocation: Main Floor, South Gallery
Two Ponders is a collaborative installation by author Dennis Etzel Jr. and artist Barbara Waterman-Peters.
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Sustainability | Social, Environmental, Economic
Date: Fri 02/05/21 12:00AM - Fri 12/31/21 12:00AMLocation: 2nd Floor, North & South Galleries
Oriented around three organizing themes of social, environmental, and economic, the exhibition features artworks that relate to the WUmester topic of sustainability.
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Updates in Endangered Art: a conservation project
Date: Tue 01/19/21 12:00AM - Fri 05/07/21 12:00AMLocation: Main Level, Center Gallery
An exhibition showcasing the latest paintings to undergo conservation.
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100 Minus 3: Art Auction
Location: Virtual
Join the Museum and Friends in a virtual art auction to support educational programs, exhibitions, and collections.
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NO END POINT FOR THE STUBBORN
Date: Tue 06/01/21 12:00AM - Tue 12/14/21 12:00AMLocation: Main Level
An installation by Kate Horvat exploring contributions of activists, Fannie Lou Hamer, Malala Yousafzai, Angela Davis, and Gloria Steinem.
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Radical Women | Stories of Suffrage in the Sunflower State
Date: Thu 06/03/21 12:00AM - Sat 08/07/21 12:00AMKansas women led the way for other women across country in gaining the right to vote.
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Iconic Black Women of the 21st Century
Date: Fri 06/11/21 12:00AM - Sat 08/28/21 12:00AMLocation: Main Level, Conference Room
This exhibition features photographs of five iconic black women who have served as cultural and civil rights leaders in the 20th and 21st century.
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Picture a Text
Date: Tue 09/07/21 12:00AM - Sat 12/18/21 12:00AMLocation: Mulvane Conference Room
In this exhibition, Brad Sneed and Stephen T. Johnson give us art with the purpose of “picturing a text.” Both have illustrated many books for children, helping that audience to experience, as Johnson writes, “the wonderment and pleasure that children have when they see the world differently.”
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Powerful Women
Date: Tue 09/28/21 12:00AM - Sat 12/11/21 12:00AMLocation: Main Level, South Gallery
An exhibition of five painted portraits by artist John Sebelius of "powerful women, juxtaposed with photographs of the same women by award-winning photojournalist Brian Lanker, taken in the 1980s.
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Aeronautic Visual Art Program
Date: Fri 01/31/20 10:00AM - Sat 03/14/20 5:00PMLocation: Main Level: North Gallery
The Aeronautic Visual Art Program presents an interdisciplinary exploration of landscape. AVAP exists as an independent agency that generates original artwork and collects geographical data, situating the role of the artist as a researcher within academic institutions. Image: Aeronautic Art by Benjamin Wills.
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Referential
Date: Fri 02/07/20 10:00AM - Sat 03/21/20 5:00PMLocation: Main Level: South Gallery
Artists have favorite artists. They have mentors and artistic influences. Sometimes, as viewers we notice evidence of these factors on a canvas. Referential is an exhibition built from paintings in the Mulvane Art Museum’s permanent collection that showcase this phenomena. Image: Soppelsa, George, "First Stage", oil on canvas, 1983.
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Washburn Art Students
Date: Thu 04/02/20 12:00AM - Mon 08/31/20 12:00AMA juried virtual exhibition of Washburn art students.
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Art Fair 2020
Date: Sat 06/06/20 12:00AM - Mon 08/31/20 12:00AMJoin us in the virtual gallery of participating artists.
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Hostile Terrain 94
Date: Tue 08/11/20 12:00AM - Sat 11/07/20 12:00AMLocation: Main Level
An exhibition of more than 4000 toe tags representing the migrants who have died attempting to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2020.
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Contours of the Mind
Date: Tue 08/11/20 12:00AM - Fri 12/04/20 12:00AMAn exhibition of self-portraits by artist, Robert Ault. The drawings, from the Mulvane's collection, illustrate Ault's self-published book, Drawing on the Contours of the Mind.
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Recent Acquisitions in Printmaking
Date: Tue 08/11/20 12:00AM - Fri 12/04/20 12:00AMLocation: Main Level
Recent Acquisitions in Printmaking features 18 prints donated to the Mulvane Art Museum by Lawrence art collectors Matthew and Judy Veatch.
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iArt at the Mulvane Art Museum
Date: Tue 08/18/20 12:00AM - Thu 01/21/21 11:55PMLocation: Main Level
An exhibition of five artworks (from the Museum collection) by black artists who examine and retell the cultural and
historical narratives of African Americans through the lens of black experience.
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I Dream A World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America
Date: Fri 02/14/20 10:00AM - Fri 12/25/20 5:00PMLocation: 2nd Level North and South Gallery
I Dream a World includes a collection of 75 photographs by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Brian Lanker accompanied by compelling interviews conducted by Lanker when the photos were taken. The project is a profound look at some of the most historically and socially influential women of the 20th century. Image: Rosa Parks, photograph, 1987.
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Reclamation
Date: Fri 12/13/19 10:00AM - Sat 02/29/20 5:00PMLocation: Conference Room
Inspired by recent visiting ecological artists Armando Bogarin and Brandi Lee Cooper, students in Contemporary Art Practices class have installed an exhibition in the Mulvane Conference Room Gallery that explores the local watershed, environmental integrity, sense of place and the beauty of nature. Image: Pictures of Shunga, S. Reich, digital photography.
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Gradient | 4 Photographers
Date: Thu 10/24/19 10:00AM - Fri 01/24/20 5:00PMLocation: Main Level
Artists Greg Booker, Michael Dickey, Steven Spencer, and Gwen Walstrand bear witness to time's 'relentless melt' and the ways in which the photograph can enlarge our world. They explore the cultural and social landscape, contributing to a dialogue that is shaped by the visual code of the photograph. Image: S. Spencer, untitled, detail.
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Armando Bogarin - Visiting Artist: Installation Art
Date: Tue 08/27/19 10:00AM - Sat 10/05/19 4:00PMLocation: Main Level, South Gallery
Armando Bogarin will be the Mulvane Art Museum's Visiting Artist this Fall. He comes to us from Paraguay through the state's Kansas Paraguay Partnership program. Bogarin has exhibited his work in many countries around the world. Here he will be creating an art installation in the main floor south gallery beginning August 27th.
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100 minus 5: Variations in the Art of Printmaking
Date: Fri 07/05/19 10:00AM - Wed 12/11/19 5:00PMLocation: 2nd Level North Gallery
The count-down to the 100th anniversary of the Mulvane Art Museum has begun. Leading up to the 100-year celebration in 2024, the Mulvane will highlight the art collection through changing annual exhibitions titled 100 minus. These exhibitions honor the artists, the art and those who have supported the Mulvane Art Museum over the course of a century.
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Endangered Art: A Reprise
Date: Fri 07/05/19 10:00AM - Sat 01/04/20 4:00PMLocation: 2nd Level South Gallery
Endangered Art: A Reprise features artworks not included in the premiere exhibition (Endangered Art 2018), that require conservation. Further, the exhibition demonstrates the dramatic transformation of our recently conserved paintings, incorporating behind the scenes documentation of the conservation process, and presenting new research.
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The Other Side of Silence
Date: Mon 05/06/19 8:00AM - Sat 05/18/19 4:00PMLocation: Entrance Level : Adeline Peers Galleries
An exhibition of artworks and response labels created by Washburn University Students. Presented in conjunction with WU-Mester: Freedom of Speech/Freedom of Expression.
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Novel Art - Narrative Paintings by Michael Young and Ian Young
Date: Fri 05/24/19 8:00AM - Sat 10/12/19 4:00PMLocation: Main Level : Adeline Peers Galleries
This exhibition features twenty-two paintings from the private collection of Kansas City collector Fred Whitehead. Michael Young and Ian Young, father and son, each created paintings based on famous literary works 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, respectively.
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2019 Washburn Student Art Exhibition
Date: Fri 04/05/19 10:00AM - Sat 05/11/19 4:00PMLocation: 2nd Level : Joanne E. Harrison Gallery & Maxine J. Anton North Gallery
The 2019 Washburn University Student Art Exhibition is a juried show that is an opportunity for the public to experience the remarkable creativity, skill and intellect of Washburn art students. Please join us for the Opening Reception on April 5th, from 5 to 7 pm. Opening remarks will begin at 6pm. The image shown to the left: Jason Hanna (Washburn Art...
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Unpacking Chinese Apartment Art
Date: Fri 04/05/19 8:00AM - Sat 08/10/19 4:00PMLocation: Entrance Level : Adeline Peers Galleries
In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the creation and exhibition of contemporary art was limited or even outlawed by the Chinese central government. Lacking institutional support and vulnerable to police raids, Chinese avant-garde artists sought alternative spaces and media to share their work with a small yet burgeoning contemporary art wo...
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Shifting Perspectives
Date: Wed 11/21/18 10:00AM - Sat 04/06/19 5:00PMLocation: 2nd Floor South Gallery
Shifting Perspectives is an exhibition of art and material culture from the Mulvane Art Museum’s permanent collection, ranging from the 17th century to the present. Objects on display include sword guards, woodcut prints, ceramics, and paintings, which individually and collectively relate experiences of communication, exchange, and appropriation bet...
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Patricia Sannit
Date: Fri 11/02/18 8:00AM - Tue 01/01/19 5:00PMLocation: 1st Floor South Gallery
An installation of ceramic sculptures by Patricia Sannit exploring a collective notion of time, human endurance,and the indexicality of human behavior.
The land was broken, and home was the flat frontier
Date: Fri 09/07/18 8:00AM - Sat 11/03/18 5:00PMAn exhibition of prints and paintings from the Mulvane Art Museum's permanent collection depicting the landscape, settlement, and lives of people inhabiting the Southern plains, specifically Kansas. The land was broken is presented in conjunction with Washburn University's 2018 iREAD selection The Worst Hard Time written by Timothy Egan.
Peters/Waterman-Peters: Full Circle
Date: Fri 08/31/18 8:00AM - Sat 12/15/18 5:00PMAn exhibition of recent works by Topeka artists Barbara Waterman-Peters and Larry Peters. Both of the artists have come full circle as they discover and rediscover old themes in their respective mediums. The paintings of Barbara Waterman-Peters and ceramic vessels of Larry Peters harness the power of their medium and reintroduces us to the mysteries and ...
Conversations with the Mulvane Collection
Date: Tue 08/28/18 8:00AM - Sat 11/10/18 5:00PMMulvane Art Museum full-time staff have each selected two artworks from the permanent collection. The drawings, paintings, and sculpture are presented in conjunction with a brief text on the history, artist, context and curatorial response.
Flatlander—Belonging to the Land
Date: Fri 07/27/18 8:00AM - Fri 03/08/19 5:00PMFeaturing prints and an installation by John Hitchcock, the exhibition explores the intersection between cultures through the land, language, and the visual symbols of the Great Plains-the epicenter for Plains tribal culture. Hitchcock draws from his experiences growing up on native land that sits adjacent to Fort Sills in Oklahoma. He utilizes drawing an...
David Quick : An Artist's Journey
Date: Wed 05/23/18 10:00AM - Sat 08/11/18 4:00PMAn exhibition of David Quick’s paintings inspired by his interaction with art, the world, and his cats.
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Preserving Petroglyphs: Rock Art Casts from Ellsworth County, Kansas
Date: Wed 05/02/18 8:00AM - Fri 08/10/18 5:00PMIn 2007 and 2008, Thomas Witty, an archaeologist and colleague of Jelinek, donated the casts to the Mulvane Art Museum.
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Reflections on Freedom's Journey
Date: Tue 05/01/18 8:00AM - Wed 08/15/18 5:00PMAn exhibition of Washburn University students’ photographs, writings, and videos associated with the Transformational Experience Travel Course - Exploring Civil Rights.
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Washburn Student Art Exhibition - 2018
Date: Fri 04/06/18 10:00AM - Sat 05/12/18 4:00PMThe Mulvane Art Museum's annual Washburn Student Art Exhibition presents an opportunity for students to apply to exhibit their work in a juried museum show.
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8 studio practices | Art faculty beyond the classroom
Date: Tue 01/16/18 10:00AM - Sat 07/28/18 4:00PMMulvane Art Museum features recent works created by eight Washburn University Art Department faculty members.
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Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate
Date: Tue 09/12/17 10:00AM - Sun 12/24/17 5:00PMReception: Thursday, October 12th from 7:00- 9:00 pm
A group of 39 diverse artists came together and used the anti-Semitic and racist books to create uplifting and dynamic works of art.
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Detention Nation
Date: Fri 09/22/17 10:00AM - Sat 01/06/18 4:00PMReception: Thursday, October 12th from 7:00- 9:00 pm
The Texas/Mexico art collective Sin Huellas has created a thought provoking installation entitled, Detention Nation.
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Transcendental Train Yard
Date: Tue 08/08/17 10:00AM - Sat 01/13/18 4:00PMReception: Thursday, October 12th from 7:00-9:00 pm
This exhibition features serigraphs that incorporate image and poetry. Artist Marta Sánchez and poet Norma Elia Cantú worked collaboratively to create a collection of images and words that poignantly provide a glimpse into the role that the railroad and the carpas (itinerant vaudeville troupes) played in the Mexican American community. Check out...
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Two Strangers Meet in a Parking Lot
Date: Mon 05/22/17 9:00AM - Sat 09/02/17 5:00PMReception: Friday, June 2nd 5:30pm - 7:30pm
We have all been strangers at some point and experienced the fear of meeting new people. "Two Strangers Meet in a Parking Lot" provides a wonderful opportunity to meet unfamiliar people in a familiar place, the parking lot west of the Mulvane Art Museum at Washburn University. The two architectural structures are designed so two complete strange...
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Fairy Tales & Other Futile Fantasies by Michelle Leivan
Date: Fri 05/19/17 10:00AM - Sat 09/02/17 4:00PMReception: Friday, June 2 from 5:30-7:30 pm
Topeka artist Michelle Leivan probes the unpredictable world of politics, social media, and popular culture in this on-going series of self-portraits.
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2017 Washburn University Art Department Student Exhibition
Date: Tue 02/14/17 10:00AM - Sat 04/01/17 4:00PMLocation: Mulvane Art Museum, 17th & Jewell Streets, Topeka, KS
Reception: March 3, 5:30 - 7:30pm
The exhibit features works in a variety of media including: painting, drawing, ceramics, photography, printmaking, sculpture, graphic design and mixed media.
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American Tapestry Biennial
Date: Fri 10/28/16 10:00AM - Fri 12/23/16 5:00PMLocation: Mulvane Art Museum, 17th & Jewell Streets, Topeka, KS
Reception: November 4, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
This juried exhibition features the very best of contemporary, hand-woven tapestry.
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American Dream
Date: Mon 09/19/16 10:00AM - Sat 01/28/17 4:00PMLocation: Mulvane Art Museum, 17th & Jewell Streets, Topeka, KS
Reception: September 30, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
While de-constructing and rewriting the American narrative, these artists examine our culture through the use of language, satire and irony.
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Dance of the line: Rita blitt In motion
Date: Tue 08/30/16 10:00AM - Fri 12/23/16 5:00PMLocation: Mulvane Art Museum, 17th & Jewell Streets, Topeka, KS
Reception: November 4, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
A sneak preview of the Rita Blitt collection and archive recently added to the Mulvane Art Museum collection.
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Estamos-aquí (We Are Here)
Date: Fri 07/08/16 10:00AM - Sat 08/13/16 4:00PMLocation: Mulvane Art Museum, 17th & Jewell Streets, Topeka, KS
Estamos Aquí (We Are Here) is curated and organized by Brad Cushman, curator and gallery director at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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Bud Holman: retrospective
Date: Tue 07/19/16 10:00AM - Fri 12/23/16 5:00PMLocation: Mulvane Art Museum, 17th & Jewell Streets, Topeka, KS
Reception: September 30, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
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.
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Zak Barnes: at Home in Bazaar
Date: Tue 07/12/16 10:00AM - Sat 10/01/16 4:00PMLocation: Mulvane Art Museum, 17th & Jewell Streets, Topeka, KS
Reception: July 15, 2016, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Zak Barnes fills his figure subjects with the people of Bazaar, KS, a small town near Cottonwood Falls, KS.
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Klassics for Kids
Date: Fri 05/27/16 10:00AM - Sat 10/01/16 4:00PMLocation: Mulvane Art Museum, 17th & Jewell Streets, Topeka, KS
This exhibition of art from the 16th through the 20th centuries has depictions of brains, fantastic rooms, scary and imaginary animals, superheroes etc
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Freedom's Journey
Date: Fri 05/27/16 10:00AM - Sat 07/02/16 4:00PMLocation: Mulvane Art Museum, 17th & Jewell Streets, Topeka, KS
Reception: June 3, 5:30 - 7:30pm
This exhibition features photographs, videos, and reflections by students who participated in the Washburn University travel course: Exploring Civil Rights 2016.
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2016 Juried Ceramics Exhibition
Date: Tue 03/15/16 10:00AM - Sat 05/14/16 4:00PMLocation: Mulvane Art Museum, 17th & Jewell Streets, Topeka, KS
Reception: Saturday, March 19, 2016, 2 - 5pm
The exhibition seeks to display a broad range of work being done in clay today, including both functional and non-functional items.
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Marydorsey Wanless Retrospective
Date: Fri 03/18/16 10:00AM - Sat 07/02/16 4:00PMLocation: Mulvane Art Museum, 17th & Jewell Streets, Topeka, KS
Reception: April 1, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
From 1998 to 2015 Marydorsey Wanless was a professor of photography at Washburn University.
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Washburn Art Department Student Exhibit 2016
Date: Fri 02/05/16 10:00AM - Sat 03/05/16 4:00PMLocation: Mulvane Art Museum, 17th & Jewell Streets, Topeka, KS
Reception: Friday, February 5, 2016, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
The exhibit will feature works in a variety of media including: painting, drawing, ceramics, photography, printmaking, sculpture, graphic design and mixed media.
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Non-Objective Mulvane's Permanent Collection
Date: Fri 01/22/16 10:00AM - Wed 03/09/16 5:00PMLocation: Mulvane Art Museum, 17th & Jewell Streets, Topeka, KS
Reception: March 5, 2016, 5:30 - 7:30pm
During the middle of the twentieth century many American artists created works that were Non-Objective, that is images in which no objects are visible.
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Hallowed Absurdities: Works by Theodore Waddell
Date: Tue 01/12/16 10:00AM - Tue 03/22/16 7:00PMLocation: Mulvane Art Museum, 17th & Jewell Streets, Topeka, KS
Reception: February 5, 5:30-7:30pm
The exhibition will offer a variety of enigmatic objects that connect to Waddell's sense of self, place and history.
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