Piero Golia: Solutions to Mortality January 20 – April 1, 2018 | Grafly Gallery

UPDATEWinter/Spring 2018 Today’s Art Matters: The Impact of an Academic Art Museum Every director of every non-profit this revolves around how we engage occurs to me that perhaps my own story organization spends a significant our audiences, and for a university art is testament to the power of the academic amount of time thinking about how to museum, it’s in large part how we impact museum. I was an art history student at successfully muster the resources to our students. WSU in the 1970s, I worked at the Ulrich continue and to grow their institution’s as a part time gallery attendant, and then mission. Some organizations are I’m proud to say the Ulrich works every full time for two years before moving fortunate to have a strong earned revenue day to be a positive force for engaging on to graduate school. I had the honor stream—ticket sales, shops, cafes and with contemporary issues in the art of to meet and interact with many visiting events. Generous patrons establish today for campus and community. We do artists: Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Benny endowments to assure aspects of the this by bringing the art of emerging and Andrews and others; and I was mentored institution’s mission carry on regardless established artists to Wichita through by Ulrich Director Martin Bush. The of the ebbing fortunes of the present, dynamic, thought-provoking exhibitions. Ulrich experience opened my eyes to the and every non-profit organization is in We bring artists to campus who interact possibilities of art as a career, and to the perpetual fundraising mode. with faculty, students and local artists. meaningful role that museums play in our And we work directly with students society. I look forward to the prospect of A current strategy of fundraising is to on campus through employment, future museum and arts professionals who “tell your organization’s story”. We internships, volunteer opportunities and discover their initial spark of interest in art know our supporters appreciate concrete classroom participation and projects. and the museum profession through their examples of how our activities impact As I wrap up my final academic year as own meaningful connections to the Ulrich others. For many arts organizations, director of the Ulrich Museum of Art, it while students at Wichita State University.

Bob Workman Director, Ulrich Museum of Art Letter from the director Letter

1 Bob Workman discusses exhibition design and art placement with the WSU School of Art, Design and Creative Industries’ class Realism/Activism/American Art in the Polk/Wilson Gallery as they plan the Ulrich Museum’s Winter Exhibition We The People: American Art of Social Concern.

Advisory Board Ulrich Alliance Martin Bauer, Chair. Members: Tammy Allen, Mickey Armstrong, Ted Ayres, Patrick Habkirk, President. Members: Pam Bjork, Genevieve Farha, Nancy Brammer, Robert Bubp, Alan Fearey, Sonia Greteman, Sangeeta Khicha, Ruthie Gillespie, Robin Henry, Bethany Janssen, Anna Kelley, Ed Lincoln, George Lucas, Jane McHugh, Courtney Marshall, Nancy Michaelis, Sangeeta Khicha, Janelle King, Jordan Kirtley, Brittany Lockard, Mike Roach, Courtney Rogers, Dennis Ross, Shoko Sevart, Georgia Stevens, Lee Ruth Ann Martin, Lela Meadow-Conner, Gretchen Postiglione, Lee Starkel, Starkel, Mark Torline, Janice Van Sickle, Honorary: Jacque Kouri Laura Thompson, Trish VanOsdel

Ex Officio: Paul Allen, Patrick Habkirk, Dr. Elizabeth H. King, Ex Officio: Martin Bauer, Bob Workman Dr. Rodney Miller, Dr. Anthony Vizzini, Bob Workman

2 3 January – March (As ofDecember 18, 2017.) and Bill,JuliaLuke McBrideinhonorofBobWorkman. Dr. Dr. Pat Purvis, DennisandAnnRoss, DonandEllieSkokan, JohnandKay Morse, Charles E.Baker, Laurie Finucane,JustusH.Fugate, andMark GeorgeandEleanor Lucas, A. Marcia andTed providedAdditional byDenise andRex generoussupport Irwin, D. Ayres, Liz andBobWorkman andananonymousdonor. Sondra Beren, M.Langel,Clark andSharonBastian,JaneMcHugh,Louise L. The KhichaFamily Firm,Ron Foundation, PringleLaw Martin andLee Starkel, Mickey Armstrong, TheGridley Family Foundation, Brammer, JohnandNancy anditsassociatedprograms madepossiblebycontributionsThis exhibition are from classRealism/Activism/AmericanFall 2017 . Art Professor Dr. BrittanyLockard andtheeleven studentsinthe Workman, IndustriesAssistant Design&Creative WSUSchoolofArt, and iscollaboratively Bob curated byUlrichDirector andpresented of theUlrichMuseum—nownumberingalmost7,000 worksofart— permanentcollection fromtheextensive isdrawn The exhibition 1950s andcontinue to thesocialissuesoftoday. inWETHEPEOPLE presented spanfromtheMcCarthy era ofthe art economicsexism, inequality, andpoliticalcorruption. Theworksof toward andprogress socialconcerns addressing awareness suchas Since themid-19th century, havevoiced artists theneedfor greater protections underourConstitution. been someofthequalifiersused to denypeopleequalrightsand shifted over history. Race, gender, have andownershipofproperty ascitizenshas citizens, thedefinitionofthosewhowere considered was founded theoretically ontheprincipleofequalrights for all within oursociety. Despitethefact thattheUnitedStates ofAmerica We ofthebroadinjustices liveinatimeofheightenedawareness Gallery 20–March25,2018|Polk/Wilson January ofSocialConcernWE THEPEOPLE:AmericanArt D.J. ScanlonPoliticalButtonCollection Worn the Politics:Selections from visually expressed theirpoliticalviews. visually expressed Again,” showingtheways Americans “Reagan/Bush: Make AmericaGreat from “Truman for to HumanRights” March 25,2018.Thecollection ranges view attheUlrichMuseumthrough willbeon Lindquist Hallbutaportion Collection. Thecollection ishousedin the D.J. ScanlonPoliticalButton aselectionofbuttons from presents the WSUPoliticalScience department In associationwithWETHEPEOPLE, Images (clockwise from the top): 1) Benny Andrews, Symbols, 1970. Oil and collage on canvas, 8 x 36 ft. Gift of Mr. Milton Ratner 2) Luis Cruz Azaceta, LOTTO: THE AMERICAN DREAM, 1992. Screen print, 14 1/2 x 23 in. Museum Purchase 3) Sarah Faust, Red Nails and Dusk, 2002. Chromogenic color print, 18 x 15 7/8 in. Museum Purchase 4) Leon Golub, INTERROGATION, 1992. Screen print, 26 x 26 in. Museum Purchase EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean April 21 – August 12, 2018 | Amsden - Beren - Polk/Wilson Galleries EN MAS’ introduces performance art with Throughout the 2014-2015 Caribbean Carnival a focus on the influence that Carnival and season, EN MAS’ tracked nine artists— related masquerading traditions in and of John Beadle, Christophe Chassol, Charles the Caribbean and its diasporas have had on Campbell, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Marlon contemporary performance discourse and Griffith, Hew Locke, Lorraine O’Grady, Ebony practice, in both the artistic and curatorial G. Patterson, and Cauleen Smith—as they realms. Indeed, EN MAS’ takes into account engaged, transformed, or critiqued historical performance practices that do not trace their and contemporary Caribbean performance genealogy to the European avant–gardes of practices from Carnival in Santiago de los the early twentieth–century but rather to Caballeros, Port of Spain, Fort-de-France, the experiences of slavery and colonialism Kingston, London and Brooklyn, to Junkanoo through the mid–nineteenth century, the in Nassau and the New Orleans second independence struggles and civil rights line—or in their own imaginary cartographies movements of the mid–twentieth century and and invented performance traditions. The population migrations to and from the former resulting newly commissioned works took colonial centers for most of the last century. place according to different modes of public EN MAS’ takes its title from a pun on “Mas’” address and audience engagement including (short for masquerade and synonymous with semi-private rituals at the margin of the Carnival in the English-speaking Caribbean) festival celebrations and street processions in and “mass” (as in the French colloquial “en the midst of the carnival revelry. masse,” meaning all together).

EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean is The Ulrich Museum presentation of EN MAS’ is made possible by an exhibition curated by Claire Tancons and Krista Thompson; contributions from The Gridley Family Foundation, organized by the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), New John and Nancy Brammer, The Khicha Family Foundation, Orleans and Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. Martin Pringle Law Firm, Ron and Lee Starkel, Clark and Sharon Bastian, Jane McHugh, Louise L. Beren, The exhibition is made possible by an Emily Hall Tremaine Sondra M. Langel, Liz and Bob Workman and an anonymous donor. Exhibition Award. Additional support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and by the Institut Additional generous support provided by Denise and Rex Irwin, Français in support of African and Caribbean projects. The Marcia and Ted D. Ayres, Charles E. Baker, exhibition debuted at CAC New Orleans in spring 2015, and Laurie and Mark A. Finucane, Justus H. Fugate, will tour through 2018. George and Eleanor Lucas, Dr. Pat Purvis, Dr. Dennis and Ann Ross, Don and Ellie Skokan, John and Kay Morse, and Bill, Julia and Luke McBride in honor of Bob Workman. (As of December 18, 2017) April — August

5 Images (clockwise from the top-left): 1) Ebony G. Patterson, Invisible Presence: Bling Memories, April 27, 2014. Performance. Location: Kingston, Jamaica. Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago. Photograph: Monique Gilpin and Philip Rhoden. 2) Christophe Chassol, BIG SUN, 2014. Video still. Image courtesy of the artist. 3) Cauleen Smith, H-E-L-L-O, 2014. Video still. Location: Holy Cross Levee. Trombone: Michael Watson. Cinematography: William Sabourin. 4) Hew Locke, Give and Take, August 23, 2014, Performance. Tate Modern, London. Photograph: Akiko Ota. Piero Golia: Solutions to Mortality January 20 – April 1, 2018 | Grafly Gallery

The Ulrich Museum is home to over 600 works by the artist Charles M. Grafly that includes drawings on paper, paintings, plaster casts, and bronzes. Beginning in the fall of 2016, the Museum has invited artists to respond to this collection within the context of the Grafly Commission, wherein they will produce works that will help to place Grafly’s work in conversation with contemporary art.

Los Angeles-based artist Piero Golia engages with such themes as community, the absurd, and the prospect of chance. Much of his work in sculpture, painting and installation is infused with humor and a lyrical romanticism. During his Grafly residency he will respond to the namesake’s practice, while interrogating the site of the Grafly Gallery itself. The limits of the gallery’s architecture, its proximity to both the Grafly Sculpture Garden and the School of Art, Design, and Creative Industries, as well as its existence within an academic museum are all elements that will inform the artist’s creation of a new, site-specific body of work while he considers the reactions to it by those who will be the main viewers of the work: the students of WSU.

Image: Piero Golia, Untitled (My Gold is Yours), 2013. Installed at Venice Biennale. Gold and concrete, 98 3/16 x 98 3/16 x 98 3/16 in. (c) Piero Golia. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian Gallery. January – April

7 at; into; across April 7 – August 12, 2018 | Grafly Gallery

Artists: Michèle Pearson Clarke, Erika DeFreitas, Delio Delgado, Dionne Simpson, Camille Turner

at; into; across is organized in response to the exhibition EN MAS’ April – August which explores the relationship between the historical conditions that informed Carnival in the Caribbean, and its influence on the development of performance art in the “West”. Taking a cue from EN MAS’ emphasis on the genre of performance within the context of the Caribbean this exhibition shifts direction to focus on work by five Caribbean-Canadian artists, and highlights the ways in which the discipline presents itself within each artist’s separate practice.

Overall, at; into; across works to deconstruct the medium through the isolation and underscoring of particular elements within; specifically those of movement, the body, speech, and gesture while commenting on themes of diaspora, site, history, erasure, and community. Informed by the position of existing “in-between” cultures, their work articulates a liminal poetics (and tension) of yearning and being.

Image: Erika DeFreitas, selectrions from A Teleplasmic Study with Doilies (Angie No.1–4), 2010-2011. Archival inkjet print.

8 Winter Exhibition Opening Worn Politics: Presidential Campaign JANUARY Saturday, January 20 Buttons and the American Idea Senior Wednesday: We the People 7–9 p.m. Public Reception Tuesday, January 23 Wednesday, January 17 The Ulrich Alliance invites you to an 5:30 p.m. Reception | 6 p.m. Talk 10 a.m. Refreshments | 10:30 a.m. Program Hughes Metropolitan Complex, Room 132 evening of art and conversation to Neal Allen, Wichita State Associate 5015 E. 29th Street North celebrate the winter exhibition We Professor of Political Science, will talk Ulrich director Bob Workman will The People: American Art of Social about items from the D.J. Scanlon discuss how art creates social change Concern. Meet, mix, and mingle with Political Button collection that are through a selection of important the eleven undergraduate, graduate presented in association with the works included in our upcoming students and adult learners of the winter exhibition We the People. exhibition WE THE PEOPLE: art history class Realism/Activism/ The collection ranges from “Truman American Art of Social Concern, American Art who organized this for Human Rights” to “Reagan/ drawn from the Ulrich collection and major exhibition of works from Bush: Make America Great Again,” organized in collaboration with the the Ulrich Museum’s permanent showing the ways Americans visually ADCI art history course Realism/ collection. Co-curated by School of expressed their political views. Activism/American Art, taught Art, Design and Creative Industries by Dr. Brittany Lockard. Senior professor of art history Dr. Brittany Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story Wednesday provides lifelong learning Lockard, and Ulrich Museum Thursday, January 25 opportunities for adults 55+. Director Bob Workman. 5:30 p.m. Documentary Screening Hughes Metropolitan Complex Educator Preview Party 5015 E. 29th Street North Saturday, January 20 | 5 p.m. Sentenced to life in prison at the We’re opening the doors early for an age of 16, Cyntoia Brown’s past educators only sneak peek! Join us reveals a common thread among for food, refreshments and a private incarcerated women. Me Facing preview of our new winter exhibitions Life: Cyntoia’s Story illustrates how and the outstanding educational the justice system fails to address programs and field trip opportunities systemic issues surrounding human available to K-12 teachers, college trafficking, abuse, and juvenile educators and students. justice—issues that should serve as a call for intervention. Following the screening, Producer Dan Birman and Kansas civic leaders, will discuss the implications of this story for our own community.

Presented by the WSU Center for Combating Human Trafficking and the Ulrich Museum in association with the winter exhibition We the People. Events & Programs

9 Senior Wednesday: The Architects Of Freedoms: FEBRUARY Abstraction Can Save the World! The Divergent Americannesses of MARCH Brown Bag Gallery Walk Wednesday, February 21 Thomas Jefferson and Luis A. Jiménez Salon Circle: Emily Bills Thursday, February 8 10 a.m. Refreshments | 10:30 a.m. Program Dr. Robin Henry, Pedro Guerrero’s Photography of 12 p.m. Gallery Walk | 12:30 p.m. Lunch Weaving current trends in arts education Associate Professor of History, WSU Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture Join members of the curatorial team and the national art scene into what’s Thursday, February 22 Participating Adjunct Professor and led by Ulrich director Bob Workman happening in Wichita and with her 5:30 p.m. Reception | 6 p.m. Program Coordinator of the Urban Studies and ADCI Assistant Professor, Dr. own artistic practice, painter, arts Writing the Declaration of Independence Program, Woodbury University, Los Brittany Lockard, for an intimate administrator and educator Kate Van in 1776, Thomas Jefferson became Angeles and Part-time Assistant discussion of selected works in We Steenhuyse will present a playful known as the “architect of freedom.” Professor, The New School, New York City the People: American Art of Social and passionate perspective on how But what constitutes freedom, and who Thursday, March 1 Concern. Lunch will be provided crucial the arts—particularly abstraction gets to partake of its full power? Like 5:30 p.m. Reception | 6:15 p.m. Program following the gallery walk. RSVP to and experimentation—are to the most educated men of the 18th century, In 1939, self-taught photographer [email protected] or call (316) 978-3664. health of ourselves and our world with Jefferson assumed the full scope of the Pedro Guerrero introduced himself to his Scottsdale, Arizona neighbor Poetry Out Loud High School Regionals: small approaches to big ideas! Senior freedoms promised in the phrase “life, Wednesday provides lifelong learning liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” Frank Lloyd Wright, beginning a National Recitation Contest twenty-year relationship as the Saturday, February 10 opportunities for adults 55+. applied only to white, property-owning men. In “The Mass of Mankind…Thomas exclusive photographer of Wright 10 a.m. Competition | 10:30 a.m. Reception Sandra Beasley Jefferson Quote” (1992), the artist- architecture and the architect Poetry Out Loud encourages students himself. The resulting body of visual to learn about great poetry through turned-architect, Luis Jiménez, invites us to examine the absurdity of American material has been the subject of memorization and recitation. Since extensive research by our speaker, 2005, Poetry Out Loud has grown to racism—codified into colonial slave law, ratified into the nation’s government, and will be shared through this reach more than 3 million students fascinating view into Wright’s (poetryoutloud.org). and embedded into the American economy—that leaves the fullness of genius. Dr. Emilly Bills, who received Writing Now/Reading Now: Sandra Beasley Jefferson’s core American promises a PhD in the history of architecture Thursday, February 15 unmet, while challenging us to reconsider and urbanism from the Institute of 5:30 p.m. Reception | 6 p.m. Reading what it means to be an American. Fine Arts at New York University, will Sandra Beasley is author of three poetry discuss how Guerrero interpreted collections: Count the Waves; I Was the Wright’s architecture, his personality as a designer, and the Taliesin Jukebox, winner of the Barnard Women Kate Van Steenhuyse Emily Bills Poets Prize; and Theories of Falling, winner community through his photographs. of the New Issues Poetry Prize, as well as the memoir Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: This event is limited to Ulrich Salon Tales from an Allergic Life. Beasley is on Circle members. Learn more about the faculty of the low-residency MFA Salon Circle and how you can join on program at the University of Tampa. page 21. WN/RN is co-sponsored by the WSU Department of English, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Watermark Books & Café, and the Ulrich Museum of Art.

10 UPDATEWinter/Spring 2018 Museum Hours: Tuesday–Friday: 11 a.m.–5 p.m. | Saturday–Sunday: 1 p.m.–5 p.m. | Closed Mondays/University & Major Holidays SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Martin Luther Senior Wednesday: Winter King Jr. Day We the People Exhibition no classes JanuaryJanuary 10 a.m. Refreshments Opening 10:30 a.m. Program 7–9 p.m. Public Reception

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Worn Politics: Presidential Me Facing Life: Campaign Buttons Cyntoia’s Story and the 5:30 p.m. American Idea Documentary 5:30 p.m. Reception Screening 6 p.m. Talk WE THE PEOPLE: American Art of Social Concern On view: January 20 – March 25, 2018 Image: Benny Andrews, Symbols, 1970. Oil and collage on canvas, 8 x 36 ft. Gift of Mr. Milton Ratner

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28 1 3 March Salon Circle: Emily Bills 5:30 p.m. Reception 6:15 p.m. Program 6 7 8 9 10 Brown Bag Piero Golia: Solutions to Mortality Gallery Walk On view: January 21 – April 1, 2018 12 p.m. Walk Image: Piero Golia, Untitled (My Gold is Yours), 2013. Installed at 12:30 p.m. Lunch Venice Biennale. Gold and concrete, 98 3/16 x 98 3/16 x 98 3/16 in. (c) Piero Golia. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian Gallery. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

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15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Spring Exhibition EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Senior Wednesday: Music of the Opening Art of the Caribbean 7–9 p.m. On view: April 20 – August 12, 2018 Caribbean Carnival 10 a.m. Refreshments Public Reception Image: Hew Locke, Give and Take, August 23, 2014. Performance. Tate Modern, London. Photograph: Akiko Ota. 10:30 a.m. Program 22 24 25 26 EN MAS’ Curator Talk: Claire Tancons 5:30 p.m. Reception 6 p.m. Talk

29 30 1 2 3 Writing Now/ Reading Now: Fall Classes End Study Day Finals Begin MFA Graduates May 1:30 p.m. Reception 2 p.m. Reading

@ulrichmuseum | ulrich.wichita.edu | Free Admission | 316.978.3664 | 1845 Fairmount St. | Wichita, KS UPDATEWinter/Spring 2018 Museum Hours: Tuesday–Friday: 11 a.m.–5 p.m. | Saturday–Sunday: 1 p.m.–5 p.m. | Closed Mondays/University & Major Holidays SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Martin Luther Senior Wednesday: Winter King Jr. Day We the People Exhibition no classes JanuaryJanuary 10 a.m. Refreshments Opening 10:30 a.m. Program 7–9 p.m. Public Reception

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Brown Bag Poetry Out Loud Gallery Walk 10 a.m. Reception February 12 p.m. Walk 12:30 p.m. Lunch

11 12 13 14 15 17 Writing Now/ Reading Now: Sandra Beasley 5:30 p.m. Reception 6 p.m. Reading

18 19 21 22 23 24 Senior Wednesday:The Architects Abstraction Can Of Freedoms Save the World! Dr. Robin Henry 10 a.m. Refreshments5:30 p.m. Reception 10:30 a.m. Program 6 p.m. Program

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29 30 1 2 3 Writing Now/ Reading Now: Fall Classes End Study Day Finals Begin MFA Graduates May 1:30 p.m. Reception 2 p.m. Reading

@ulrichmuseum | ulrich.wichita.edu | Free Admission | 316.978.3664 | 1845 Fairmount St. | Wichita, KS Brown Bag Gallery Walk Artstream Gallery Hours & Programs Justin Donofrio Thursday, March 8 APRIL Monday, April 2 12 p.m. Gallery Walk | 12:30 p.m. Lunch Artstream Nomadic Gallery Gallery Hours 9 a.m.–8 p.m. Join members of the curatorial team The Artstream Nomadic Gallery has Opening Reception 5:30–7 p.m. led by Ulrich director Bob Workman been putting contemporary studio and ADCI Assistant Professor, Dr. pottery on the street for over 15 Tuesday, April 3 Brittany Lockard, for an intimate years. Based in Carbondale, CO, Gallery Hours 9 a.m.–5 p.m. discussion of selected works in We the Artstream is a unique traveling the People: American Art of Social exhibition space housed in a restored Artstream Artist Demos Concern. Lunch will be provided 1967 Airstream trailer. Since its debut Monday, April 2 and Tuesday, April 3 following the gallery walk. Please tour, “North American Dishmakers,” 9:30 a.m.–12 p.m. and 1:30–4:30 p.m. RSVP to [email protected] or call the Artstream has exhibited work by Henrion Hall, Room 110 (316) 978-3664. more than 150 national, international, Ceramic artists John Cohorst, Molly and emerging ceramic artists, and Berger, and Justin Donofrio Senior Wednesday: Sculpture on the Go has made stops in over 100 locations Wednesday, March 21 across the country from New York Artstream Artist Talks 10 a.m. Refreshments | 10:30 a.m. Program City to Los Angeles, Houston to Tuesday, April 3 Ulrich museum educator Jana Minneapolis. 5 p.m. John Cohorst Durfee will discuss the twelve- 5:30 p.m. Molly Berger month project to develop the new Visit www.art-stream.com for more 6 p.m. Reception Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture information on exhibiting artists. 6:30 p.m. Justin Donofrio Collection Mobile App, an interactive McKnight Art Center, Room 210 multi-media application that will Artstream Nomadic Gallery events accelerate education, engagement, and programs are in collaboration and broaden accessibility. Senior with the WSU Ceramics Guild, Wednesday provides lifelong learning Ceramics Media, and the School of opportunities for adults 55+. Art, Design and Creative Industries. John Cohorst

Molly Berger Salon Circle: Melanie Taylor Spring Exhibition Opening EN MAS’ Curator Talk: Claire Tancons Writing Now/Reading Now: Presenting Art Within a Work of Art Saturday, April 21 Tuesday, April 24 MFA Graduate Reading Thursday, April 5 7–9 p.m. Public Reception 5:30 p.m. Reception | 6 p.m. Talk Sunday, April 29 5:30 p.m. Reception | 6:15 p.m. Program Music, dance, parade and pageantry Over the last decade, Claire Tancons 1:30 p.m. Reception | 2 p.m. Reading Our final Salon Circle speaker of fill the evening of our spring feast, has charted a distinct curatorial Our final reading of the year honors “The Wright Year” is Melanie Taylor, the opening of EN MAS: Carnival and and scholarly path in performance, Wichita State’s 44th graduating class former Director, Exhibition Design Performance Art of the Caribbean. inflecting global art historical of MFA Creative Writing students. at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Explore the galleries and venture genealogies with African diasporic The 2018 class will read selections Museum in New York City. The amongst the works of the nine aesthetics. A graduate in Museum from their work, with fiction by Guggenheim is well known as exhibition artists as they explore the Studies from Ecole du Louvre and Matthew Garner, Chance Swaim, one of the most—if not the most- history of performance art related to in Art History from the Courtauld Annmarie Woods, and Josh Zimmerer, fascinating spaces in which to the traditions of Caribbean Carnival. Institute as well as a former and poetry by Katie Amundsen, view art—and Ms. Taylor is highly Snakettes offer Creole favorites, Curatorial Fellow of the Whitney Nicole Byrne, Shannon Nakai, and regarded for her work designing roadside fare, regional ingredients, Museum Independent Study Toni Loeffler. WNRN is co-sponsored art installations within a work of and spice blends of the Caribbean Program, Tancons’ independent by the WSU Department of English, art. Join us for what promises to with fresh fruit drinks, and rum vision has been supported by an Fairmount College of Liberal Arts & be a truly unique and insightful punch. Interludes of reggae, calypso Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Sciences, Watermark Books & Café, presentation by one of the most and soca flow throughout the art Fellowship, a Prince Claus Fund and the Ulrich Museum of Art. important exhibition designers center and out onto the plaza. Artistic Production Grant and two working today. This event is limited Admission to receptions at the Ulrich Curatorial Research Fellowships from MAY to Ulrich Salon Circle members. Learn Museum is free, and the public is the Foundation for Art Initiatives. Senior Wednesday: more about Salon Circle and how you welcome. Get engaged with today’s Tancons has curated for the New 2018 ADCI MFA Graduates can join on page 21. contemporary arts discourse. Orleans, Gwangju, Cape Town, and Wednesday, May 16 Goteborg biennials, as well as Tate 10 a.m. Refreshments | 10:30 a.m. Program Senior Wednesday: Modern and Faena Art, and has Please join us for a celebration of Music of the Caribbean Carnival recently been selected curator for the the 2018 MFA Graduates of the Wednesday, April 18 Sharjah Biennial 14 in 2019. School of Art, Design and Creative 10 a.m. Refreshments | 10:30 a.m. Program Industries with presentations by MFA candidates Laura Nave, Garet Please join the WSU Steel Band and Claire Tancons Gerald Scholl, Associate Professor of Reynek, Trishelle Jeffreys, Alexis Percussion, for a concert highlighting Rivera, and Samantha Miller Gott. the music of the Caribbean in Senior Wednesday provides lifelong support of our spring exhibition En learning opportunities for adults 55+. Mas’ opening April 21, 2018. Senior Family Fun Day Wednesday provides lifelong learning Saturday, May 19 | 1–3 p.m. opportunities for adults 55+. Bring the whole family to explore the culture, traditions, and art of the Caribbean Carnival with hands- on mask making, music, costumes, and dancing. Light snacks will be provided and admission is free.

14 WSU Choreography 1 students interpret looking at the overlooked Nathaniel Donnett

Rodney McMillian Many thanks to the following donors for their generous support of exhibitions and programs for the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017

Grand Gallery Paul and Carolyn Harrison Dr. Dale and Jerry Marcus Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Dr. Deborah G. Haynes Chris Shank and Anna Anderson Joan S. Beren Outdoor Sculpture Conservation Fund William and Judy Hess Trish Higgins Supporter Benefactor Denise and Rex Irwin Dora Timmerman-Bayer and Bob Bayer Gridley Family Foundation James Johnson and Barbara Odevseff Bikki Bevelhymer Sangeeta Khicha David and Carolyn Blakemore Trustee Delmar and Mary Klocke Art Busch and Joanne Lofland Mickey Armstrong Dr. Sam and Jacque Kouri Dr. Jerry and Kiki Cohlmia Emprise Bank Dr. Jerry and Diane Leisy Brian and Emily Docking Colby Sandlian Dr. Patricia McDonnell Kyle and Thomas Futo Richard D. Smith and Sondra M. Langel Dr. Jerry Martin and Norman Warminski † Robert Louis Gambone Rev. Trust Scott and Ruth Ann Martin Joseph Goodwin Eric F. Melgren Anita Jones Director Jayne S. Milburn † Kansas Humanities Council Martin and Ann Bauer Dr. Glen and Marianne Misko Tom Kirk Dr. John and Nancy Brammer Bill and Shelly Moore J. Fred and Christine Kubik Dr. Alan and Sharon Fearey Dr. Barry and Jane Murphy Larksfield Place Bud and Toni Gates Richard Overby and Mat Buckingham Bill, Julia and Luke McBride Jim and Ruthie Gillespie Stev Overstreet Howard and Rose Marcus Norma Greever Martin and Donna Perline Belden and Anna Mills Sonia Greteman and Chris Brunner Dr. Keith Pickus and Deirdre O’Farrell Dr. George M. Platt † Patrick Habkirk and Dean Bradley P.Ink Creative, Gretchen and Mike Postiglione A. Scott and Carol Ritchie Michael Heaston Gary and Jo Ann Pottorff Mikel and Leann R. Stout Michael A. James Dr. Pat Purvis Carl Swanson † and Jean Loy-Swanson Dr. Gyan and Manorama Khicha Janel Razook Textron Charitable Trust George and Eleanor Lucas Jim and Beverly Rhatigan Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Bauer, L.L.P. Courtney Rogers Friend Dee and Mike Michaelis Dan Rouser Jan and Jerry Aaron Kay and John Morse Reuben Saunders – Artworks Ted and Marcia Ayres Robert E. Shields Reuben and Jane Saunders Patty Bennett Ron and Lee Starkel Robert B. and Nancy Schwan Foundation Dr. Elaine and David Bernstorf Shoko Sevart Christopher Brooks Curator Dot Shannon Richard and Cynthia Carl Tammy Allen and Tom Popp Marty and Kent Shawver Christa Childs Bill and Donna Ard Don and Ellie Skokan Richard and Elvira Crocker Charlie Baker Sarah T. Smith Polly Dye Clark and Sharon Bastian Monica and James Smits and Aspen Boutique Alana Friedman Louise L. Beren Keith and Georgia Stevens Ryan Gates and Kate Van Steenhuyse Dr. Peg Bicker and Larry Schwarm Eugene Stucky and Randy Brown James and Carolyn Grier Pam Bjork Hon. Scott W. Stucky Mike and Amy Herd Douglas and Linda Brantner † Becky and Roger Turner Lou and Terry Heldman Gerri Colgan and Michael Klaassen Bruce and Trish VanOsdel Leroy and Patsy Lehman C.M. Copple Family Jeff and Janice Van Sickle Duane Nordick David G. Crockett Paula Varner Tom and Katie Pott Decades Two LLC Bob and Liz Workman Paul and Joanna Ramondetta Jessica Gries Edwardson Johann A. Zacharias Barbara Rensner J. Eric Engstrom and Robert Bell Roy L. Ridener Gordon W. Evans Charitable Trust Sustainer Novelene Ross Chris and Genevieve Farha Arts Memphis John and Patsy Selby Vincent Farha Alta Brock Dale and Kathy Strattman Zach and Leilah Farha Charitable Foundation Dennis and Janet Cohlmia Michael Sudermann Anne Frey and Robert “Kirk” Filbey Nathan Esau and Tswei-Ying Huang The Union for Contemporary Art Dr. H. Guy and Carol Glidden Mark and Laurie Finucane Tom and Norma Veazey Dr. Hew and Judy Goodpasture Justus H. Fugate Peter and Jean Zoller Patricia Gorham and Jeff Kennedy Bonnie and Richard Honeyman Karen and John Hageman Joe and Becky Linot

† In Memoriam Burnt Generation September 8 – December 9, 2018 | Polk/Wilson Gallery Curator: Fariba Farshad Artists: Azadeh Akhlaghi, Gohar Dashti, Shadi Ghadirian, Babak Kazemi, Abbas Kowsari, Ali & Ramya, Newsha Tavakolian, Sadegh Tirafkan

Burnt Generation is an exhibition of contemporary Iranian photography that surveys the profound impact of decades of political unrest and social upheaval on the people of Iran. The title comes from the moniker given to Iranians born between 1963 and 1980 – a generation whose youth was profoundly marked by the Iranian revolution of 1979, which brought down the ruling monarchy and had major social, political and economic consequences, and the Iran-Iraq War, which lasted for eight years. Featuring an array of approaches to photographic storytelling, Burnt Generation has three central themes: the isolation, loneliness, and desolation of youth; the common threads that unite the country in spite of decades of tumult; and the personal, political and social consequences of war. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to move beyond cliché—an invitation to forget the stereotypical images of Iran and enter the worlds of eight highly original, intellectually engaged artists. Save the Date Save

17 Images (clockwise from the top): 1) Azadeh Akhlaghi, Tehran – Marzieh Ahmadi Oskuie / 26 April 1974, 2012. Digital print on photo paper, 110 x 318 cm. 2) Abbas Kowsari, Light, Tehran/16th July 2011. 3) Sadegh Tirafkan, Body Curves, 2003. Calligraphy on black and white print. 19 Ulrich News Moroles & Associates rebuild Fountain Wall in three phases. Photos courtesy: www.morolesartco.com

Jesús Moroles’ Fountain Wall reinstalled after complete conservation There are significant complete rebuilding of an upgrade to low heat LED tested to assure perfect responsibilities that come Fountain Wall, by the late lamps. Quite to our surprise, accuracy of the water with maintaining one of Texas-based sculptor Jesús significant earthquake activity components. Then, the this country’s best outdoor Moroles located in the entry in the region shifted a portion conservators returned to sculpture collections; plaza of the museum. When of the wall, necessitating its reinstall the sculptural surface especially one that is placed the Ulrich Museum of Art closure for safety concerns. and power wash the stone. All across 320 acres of campus was expanded in 1995, a new Moroles & Associates in time to be winterized for the grounds. So it is fitting sculpture terrace and entrance personnel include artists and next few months. to celebrate when major plaza were constructed. Key technicians who worked with restoration work is completed, to this addition was the Jesús throughout his career. We very much look forward to as was done one year ago installation of three works With their intimate knowledge the operation of the wall for when we welcomed the return of art by Moroles: Granite of his techniques, the carved decades to come, and sincerely of Joan Miró’s iconic mosaic Landscape, Granite Weaving wall was carefully removed. appreciate the support of mural, Personnages Oiseaux. and Fountain Wall. Wichita State University Contractors then rebuilt Physical Plant leadership and This past fall, conservators Over time, Fountain Wall the cinder block and brick crews who supported this from Moroles & Associates began to show signs of wear, structural wall. Plumbers project throughout. successfully finished the and the lighting required re-piped the plumbing and

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