Exhibitions

This exhibition highlights four artists and long-term Professors of the Arts from Fort Hays State University! Featured Artists: -Michael Jilg -Kathleen Kuchar -Frank Nichols -Gordon Sherman The artwork on display will represent a range of mediums - from large scale oil paintings and abstract acrylic collage to unique hand-colored etchings! The show focuses on human relationships to the natural environment, exploring the fragments of a culture’s growth or decay, and the delicate balance required for maintaining chaos and order within the intricate process of creating art! We hope you will join us for our opening reception from 5:30pm - 9:00pm! "Pedagogy at Fort Hays" | Exhibition runs July 1st through July 30th, 2022 (Note: we have designated parking behind RSG...

Join us for our First Friday event! Opening reception on Friday, August 5th from 5:30pm - 9:00pm! This exhibition features colorful ceramic vessels and sculptures by Emily Chamberlain along with elegant pottery by Joey Rincones! -------- Chamberlain was born and raised in the rust belt city of Buffalo, New York. She received her Bachelors of Science in both Art Education and Ceramic Design, as a dual major from SUNY Buffalo State College. In 2014, she packed her bags to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts in Ceramics at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas! Chamberlain continues to make sculptural work while being an Art Teacher for Wichita South High School! -------- Born and raised in Southwest Kansas, Rincones began his...

Join us for our First Friday event! Opening reception on Friday, September 2nd from 5:30pm - 9pm! --- This exhibition features mixed media photo collages by Valerie Haring and oil-painted portraits by John Oehm! --- Valerie Haring – Oehm was born in El Dorado KS. She grew up in the country near the Walnut River where she had the luxury to explore nature and her dad’s old car collection. She earned her AA from Butler CC, her BSE in Art Education from Emporia State University, and her MA in Art Education from Wichita State University. Throughout her educational journey, she studied with many of the preeminent college art professors in Kansas. She was the director of the Erman B. White...

Join us for First Friday, October 7th from 5:00pm - 9:00pm! --- Exhibitions Featured: "More Confessions of an Old Smarty Pants and Other Stories" by Marko Fields & "Sentimental Journeys and Haunted Reveries" by Kathleen Shanahan --- This exhibition will be feature intricate ceramics works with themes of humor, irreverence, animation and anthropomorphism by Marko Fields. Featured in the same showroom, will be mixed media artworks that focus on flux, life cycle and nature, as well as the creative impulse by Kathleen Shanahan. --- “My images are hybrids – pastiched images which hint at a narrative. I use disparate elements, drawn from a variety of sources: familiar and foreign, old and new, ceremonial and utilitarian, etc. Media-wise, I work usually...

Join us for First Friday Art Crawl event! "POTLUCK - It's All About Food" opens on November 4th, from 5:30-9pm! This is a group show that will feature artworks inspired by, you guessed it..... anything and everything food related! We have over 15 different local artists participating in this delicious exhibition! ------ Participating Artists: -Amy Baber -James Borger -Marc Bosworth -Bob Burdette -Marc Durfee -Rachel Foster -Brian Hinkle -Sarah Hummel Jones -Nicholas Kostner -Cally Krallman -Jennifer Larsen -Meghan Miller -Beverly Dodge Radefeld -Meredith Radke-Gannon -Trish VanOsdel -Ernest Vincent Wood III & More! ------ "POTLUCK - It's All About Food" ┃ Exhibition runs Friday, Nov. 4th thru Saturday, Nov. 26th

This group exhibition will highlight twelve unique and brilliant metalsmithing artists from the Kansas and the Midwest Region. The collective of metalsmith artists embodies a culmination of elemental processes, materials, and concepts in their work. Through the manipulation of metals, the body adornment, holloware, and sculpture exhibited represent a diversity in expression and beauty. Featured Artists: Sydney Pener - Curator Cheryl Eve Acosta Jacob Burmood Lynn Cool Genevieve Flynn Jon Havener Paige Price Elliott Pujol Scott Randol Eric Ryser Angelica Sandoval Lin Stanionis We hope you will join us for our opening reception from 5:30pm - 9:00pm!

Exciting News! We are extending last month's exhibition, "Elemental: Interpretations in Metal"! We will also be hosting a Curator Talk with Kansas City artist and metalsmith, Sydney Pener! ---- Join us on Wednesday, Jan. 11th from 6pm - 7pm to learn more about this amazing show curated by Pener! ---- Pener will be discussing the various techniques and metalsmithing processes, materials, concepts and themes represented throughout this unique exhibition! We hope to see you there! ---- This event is free and open to the public!

This solo exhibition will feature hand embroidered photo montages, mixed media portrait paintings, and paper collages by local artist, Pam Bjork! We hope you will join us for our opening reception on Feb. 3rd from 5:30pm - 9:00pm! ---- "With camera in hand and an inquisitive mind I’ve been fortunate enough to visit six continents. A few of my most meaningful experiences: Bali, her resplendent beauty and magic helped soothe after the death of my father; Tibet, witness to a ‘sky burial’ at 15,000 feet where heaven and earth meet; Sicily, pilgrimage alongside grieving women during La Processione Dei Misteri after the death of my sister; rare and endangered white lions in Timbavati, South Africa; Cuba, initiation with Santeria babalawos;...

This solo exhibition titled, "Be the Art", will feature kinetic sculptures, interactive artworks, and other ceramic artworks by local artist, Mike Miller! We hope you will join us for our opening reception on Friday, March 3rd from 5:30pm – 9:00pm! -------- ARTIST BIO: Mike Miller is best known for his Machine-Nature Interface series of sculptures. These machine-nature forms combine a natural object with a man made object, creating a machine that produces an original movement or action. Most of Mike’s works are kinetic, whether powered by a motor and salvaged gears, hand crank, the wind, or kids on a swing set. The movements produced echo the machinations of nature itself- plants’ production of oxygen, the orbit of a moon around...