Mulvane Art Museum 
 

First Friday Reception
Join us Friday May 5, 2017, 5:30 to 7:30 pm at a reception for three exhibitions created by students from Washburn University.

A Story Told 

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The exhibition explores and celebrates diverse facets of life and how we connect through culture, food, and service using personal and family memories. Nine students have created three pop-up exhibits  drawing from collections of the Mulvane Art Museum and personal and family artifacts and ephemera to share stories of connection. The exhibition is curated by students: Cody Dannar, Eric Jones, Jennie Kelly, Miyuki Nishimura, Kelsie O'Mara, Carl Smith, Catherine Tew, Samantha Veal, Yijuan Zhao. Connie Gibbons faculty mentor.

Topeka-The Color of Geography

The exhibition documents and interprets iconic Topeka city neighborhoods through the lens of their diverse color palettes as a means of discovering a sense of place. Sense of place is the combination of characteristics that make a location special, visually, culturally, socially and physically. It can be an intimate, personal
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experience, but also something that we share with others. In this exhibition, the theme of color and place intertwine to define each specific location of Topeka both as a singular community and as a larger part of the whole. Four Washburn University art majors have taken the lead in analyzing this attribute through photography, mixed media artworks and curatorial selections from the collections of the Mulvane Art Museum and the Sabatini Art Gallery at the Topeka Shawnee Public Library. They have also collaborated with students in the Basic Photo Imaging classes at Washburn University and with students at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Lead Artists: Jasmine Brown, Harvey Flowers, Abby Miller and Shawn Rooks. Marguerite Perret faculty mentor and Danielle Head Photography Faculty coordinator

  
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Illuminated Authorship: Original Art, Fine Printing, and Colle c ti bles
from the Thomas Fox Averill Kansas Studies Collection

Illuminated Authorship presents works from the Thomas Fox Averill Kansas Studies Collection and is curated by student, Jason Hanna. The artwork in this exhibition examines the interplay of authorship and illumination: the drawing inspired by landscape or poem, the art illustrating the poem, the printer seeking to enhance text with font, paper, and pictorial elements.  Art helps us see more than text; text helps us see the story in the art. Thomas Fox Averill faculty mentor. 

To learn more about the project go to:  Illuminated Authorship.
 
 
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