By Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: AD ASTRA John J. Ingalls gave us the best motto a state could ask for: Ad astra per aspera. And if you’re not into Latin: To the stars through difficulties. Yeah, yeah, difficulties, we’ve had them before and are up to our budgets in difficulties …
Arts Castle
A creature hides in an emergency lighting box in a mural at the Emporia Arts Council building. Now I always call it the Emporia Arts Center, just because that makes sense to me, but it is technically called the Emporia Arts Council and that’s important for this story. The other night during the Iconic Kansas …
Tom Parker x 3
Hammett House, Marshall County, by Tom Parker Tom Parker and his lovely wife, Lori, were unable to make it to the reception for Iconic Kansas Wednesday night because of the stupid snowstorm. We were all very disappointed that they weren’t there. But I’ll show you Tom’s photos so you can admire them here and then …
Phillip Finch
Phillip Finch is a well-published Emporia writer – and apparently a fine photographer as well. During Wednesday night’s reception at the “Iconic Kansas ” exhibit at the Emporia Arts Center Gallery, he stands next to his photo of Burgess Marsh at the National Wildlife Refuge near Hartford. Finch’s latest book is Devil’s Keep. More on …
150 celebration
With 2011 being our state’s sesquicentennial year, there’s a lot going on … For more information about events, etc., check out the Kansas 150 site. Kansas poetry is being celebrated with 150 Kansas poems. And, there’s an art contest sponsored by SouthWind Gallery in Topeka: Kansas 150 Art Competition. ****
Iconic Kansas
Photographers Casey Wilson, Jim Richardson and Harold Gaston talk shop at the Iconic Kansas reception at the Emporia Arts Center Gallery this evening. Iconic Kansas: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Kansas Statehood is the inaugural exhibit at the Arts Center. The show runs through March 2. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Emporia Arts Council …
The Good Life
How elaborate, how intricate this piece on display in the Kuska Collection at the Pioneer Museum of Art and History in Colby. I visited The Prairie Museum of Art and History in Colby in October.
Truck Graveyard
I loved this painting – “Truck Graveyard” by Jeannie Pflumm – for sale at the SouthWind Gallery in Topeka. I hung out there last night, peddling “Flyover People” books during Art Walk.
Clyde Engert
Watercolors and pencil sketchings by Clyde Engert of Andover are for sale during Art Gifts at the Emporia Arts Center.
Tollakson
Stone carving by Alan Tollakson, available during Art Gifts at the Emporia Arts Center, 815 Commercial.
Tornado for sale
Cliff Dieker’s “Tornado” sculpted from Indiana limestone is for sale at the Emporia Arts Center, 815 Commercial. Art Gifts continues through December.