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2023 News

December 2023

BFA Capstone Exhibition

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Kansas State University Department of Art will present the second of two BFA Exhibitions of the fall semester featuring Haley Haines, Allie Parks, and Sara Redger. The artists will showcase an exhibition of their undergraduate artwork from December 11 through 15, 2023 in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery, first floor of Willard Hall. Gallery hours are 8 am-5 pm, Monday through Friday. Please feel free to attend the reception with the artists on Friday evening, December 15, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm in the gallery. Admission is free and open to the public.

Emerging artist of Burlington, Kansas, Haley Haines, unveils a mesmerizing collection, drawing inspiration from her global sojourns. Her reminiscent paintings and prints invite viewers into invented spaces, revealing the depths of her inner world. Through layered silkscreens and vibrant watercolors, Haines weaves narratives that transcend boundaries. Her work is a testament to the profound influence of travel on artistic expression, reflecting a unique fusion of cultures and experiences. The intention of her creations is to resonate with audiences worldwide, offering a soul enriched by exploration, and inviting viewers to embark on their own journeys of discovery.

Allie Parks was born in and currently resides in Northeast Kansas. The Kansas native continues her studies in the arts at Kansas State University. Working on a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a primary focus in drawing and a secondary in printmaking, she works in mixed media, such as markers, watercolor, and ink. The pieces are both abstract and commentaries on events both past and present in her life. She has had work displayed in the 29th Annual Undergraduate Student Exhibition at the Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, Missouri, and The Scholarship Exhibition, Mark A. Chapman Gallery, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.

Sara Redger is a talented artist hailing from Topeka. During her tenure at Kansas State University, Redger has received three scholarships and actively engaged in undergraduate research, particularly in the realm of electrolytic etching—a venture supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Recent work has been featured in Mental Health in Art and World: A Multi-Medium Art Show in Topeka, Kansas, and the Kansas State University Art Scholarship Show in Manhattan, Kansas. Redger’s work serves as an exploration of the rich tapestry of human emotions and personal experiences. Her artistic journey is a vivid narrative, where memories and feelings are translated into expressive and evocative artworks.

The Mark A. Chapman Gallery on the first floor of Willard Hall, across from the art office, opened in 2005. Cheryl Mellenthin and Mark Chapman funded a complete renovation of the former Willard Hall Gallery, increasing the exhibition space to over 1,400 square feet along with 400 square feet dedicated to exhibition preparation and kitchen facilities. The Department of Art hosts BFA and MFA student exhibitions in the gallery as a part of graduation requirements each semester. The technology-friendly gallery serves not only exhibition purposes but also provides a location for an active Visiting Artist lecture program.

BFA Capstone Exhibition

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Kansas State University Department of Art will present the first of two BFA exhibitions of the fall semester featuring Holly Frakes, Michelle Jaramillo, and Sarah Presley. The artists will showcase an exhibition of their undergraduate artwork from December 4 through 8, 2023 in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery, first floor of Willard Hall. Gallery hours are 8am - 5pm, Monday through Friday. Please feel free to attend the reception with the artists on Friday evening, December 8, from 5:00 to 7:00pm in the gallery. Admission is free and open to the public.

Painter Holly Frakes of Topeka, Kansas, creates imaginary worlds of shape and color. Each painting holds a world created through a structured composition and skewed perspective. “As a form of distraction, we dive into entertainment or other methods of escapism - yet now, these vices have begun to blur with what is real.” Her paintings question reality and sympathize with those who experience isolation from their modern lifestyle.

Photographer Michelle Jaramillo of Manhattan, Kansas, creates black-and-white photography rooted in the personal aspects of her life, from motherhood to her Mexican American heritage. In this new series of images, she has focused on place-based photography and captured immigrant households’ intimate interiors. She says, “Brimming with cultural artifacts, these spaces showcase their stories, traditions, and the timeless tapestry of the lives that have traversed borders.” Her images embody the connection to her heritage and the profound kinship to the Hispanic community in Manhattan, Kansas.

Sarah Presley is a printmaker from Spring Hill, Kansas, working in intaglio etchings, screenprint, and mixed media collage. Her work addresses how feelings like nostalgia and grief have personally affected her view of home. She says, “It is my hope to capture the notion of home in this print series and spark curiosity about the complexities that lie within each residence we pass by.” This is conveyed through explorations in color, fine linework, collage, and typography.

The Mark A. Chapman Gallery on the first floor of Willard Hall, across from the art office opened in 2005. Cheryl Mellenthin and Mark Chapman funded a complete renovation of the former Willard Hall Gallery, increasing the exhibition space to over 1,400 square feet along with 400 square feet dedicated to exhibition preparation and kitchen facilities. The Department of Art hosts BFA and MFA student exhibitions in the gallery as part of graduation requirements each semester. The technology friendly gallery serves not only exhibition purposes, but also provides a location for an active Visiting Artist lecture program.

October 2023

Visiting Artist Professor Emeritus Geraldine Craig Exhibition

Gerry Craig

What does it look like when we die? What happens to the energy of a life, when no longer contained by our skin? The architecture of skin is a threshold for so many desires and projections, from inside out and outside in. A membrane of intimacy, joy, and pain. Yet how do we forge a partnership with grief, when the vessel of skin is gone and dissipation of matter isn’t physics theory? Find the forgotten corners, breathe in the dust, shop for skin outside time.

Kansas State University Department of Art presents Shop for Skin an installation by Geraldine Craig. The  exhibition will run from October 16 through November 10, 2023 in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery, first floor of Willard Hall. Gallery hours are 8am – 5pm, Monday through Friday. Please feel free to attend the reception with the artists on Monday evening, November 6, from 4:30 to 6:00pm in the gallery. Admission is free and open to the public.

Geraldine Craig’s studio work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, Mexico, Morocco, Japan. She completed a large art commission for University of Kansas Medical Center- Salina with Nelson Smith in 2018. Awards include the 2018-19 Artistic Innovations Grant by Mid-America Arts Alliance & National Endowment for the Arts; International Fellowship, Women’s International Study Center, Santa Fe; Dorothy Liesky Wampler Eminent Professor, James Madison University; Individual Artist Grant, Michigan Council for the Arts; James Renwick Senior Fellow in American Craft, Smithsonian Institution. She was Assistant Director, Cranbrook Academy of Art (2001-2007), and Associate Dean of the Graduate School (2014-18) and Department Head of Art (2007-14) at Kansas State University. She retired in 2022, and is Associate Dean/ Professor of Art Emeritus.

The Mark A. Chapman Gallery on the first floor of Willard Hall, across from the art office, opened in 2005. Cheryl Mellenthin and Mark Chapman funded a complete renovation of the former Willard Hall Gallery, increasing the exhibition space to over 1,400 square feet along with 400 square feet dedicated to exhibition preparation and kitchen facilities. The Department of Art hosts BFA and MFA student exhibitions in the gallery as part of graduation requirements each semester. The technology friendly gallery serves not only exhibition purposes, but also provides a location for an active Visiting Artist lecture program.

Funded in part by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee.

May 2023

BFA Capstone Exhibition

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Kansas State University Department of Art will present the second of two BFA Exhibitions of the spring semester featuring Charlie Bloede and Shayna Strahm. The artists will showcase an exhibition of their undergraduate artwork from May 8 through 12, 2023 in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery, first floor of Willard Hall. Gallery hours are 8am – 5pm, Monday through Friday. Please feel free to attend the reception with the artists on Friday evening, May 12, from 5:00 to 7:00pm in the gallery. Admission is free and open to the public.

Charlie Bloede, an artist from Grayslake, Illinois, explores the historical context of beautification through the medium of printmaking. She is inspired by fashion, trends, and societal expectations. Her prints utilize a combination of techniques such as watercolor screen monoprint, woodblock, and etching. She cuts and folds the prints to create 3D elements, bringing the narratives to life.

Printmaker Shayna Strahm of Sabetha, KS creates mixed media work incorporating many different printmaking techniques. Her work often features organic imagery and lines reflecting on the human struggle with identity and relationships. She states, “everyone can relate to the struggle of deciding who they want to be. I wanted to explore this struggle within my own experiences with relationships.” Her pieces reflect her internal struggle through the stark contrast of her woodblock prints and incorporation of the delicate female form.

The Mark A. Chapman Gallery on the first floor of Willard Hall, across from the art office, opened in 2005. Cheryl Mellenthin and Mark Chapman funded a complete renovation of the former Willard Hall Gallery, increasing the exhibition space to over 1,400 square feet along with 400 square feet dedicated to exhibition preparation and kitchen facilities. The Department of Art hosts BFA and MFA student exhibitions in the gallery as part of graduation requirements each semester. The technology friendly gallery serves not only exhibition purposes, but also provides a location for an active Visiting Artist lecture program.

BFA Capstone Exhibition

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Kansas State University Department of Art will present the first of two BFA Exhibitions of the Spring semester featuring Charles Weckwerth and Justice Catron. The artists will showcase an exhibition of their undergraduate artwork from May 1 through 5, 2023 in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery, first floor of Willard Hall. Gallery hours are 8am – 5pm, Monday through Friday. Please feel free to attend the reception with the artists on Friday evening, May 5, from 5:00 to 7:00pm in the gallery. Admission is free and open to the public.

Charles Weckwerth is an artist currently working out of Manhattan, KS. He will receive his Bachelor in Fine Arts with concentrations in painting and printmaking. When he works, the lines between the two media seem blurred, through process and content. Charles creates etchings, screen prints, and large-scale paintings. Charles says, “I seek to convey a sense of humanity in my paintings, something people are drawn to.” His prints and paintings convey this through gestural mark making, material, the surplus, and the lack thereof.

Justice Catron works in Manhattan, KS as a ceramist making vessels with layers of glaze, decals, and luster. The surfaces created draw on imagery of classical Western movies and its interpretations in the 20th century. He says, “My work examines my understanding and perception of identity through my experience as an indigenous person.” His use of modern imagery on traditionally inspired forms creates a juxtaposition between these themes that references ideas of self-portraiture, colonialization, and perseverance.

The Mark A. Chapman Gallery on the first floor of Willard Hall, across from the art office, opened in 2005. Cheryl Mellenthin and Mark Chapman funded a complete renovation of the former Willard Hall Gallery, increasing the exhibition space to over 1,400 square feet along with 400 square feet dedicated to exhibition preparation and kitchen facilities. The Department of Art hosts BFA and MFA student exhibitions in the gallery as part of graduation requirements each semester. The technology friendly gallery serves not only exhibition purposes, but also provides a location for an active Visiting Artist lecture program.

April 2023

Graphic Design BFA Exhibition

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The Kansas State University Department of Art will present the Graphic Design BFA Exhibition from April 20-28 in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery, in Willard Hall. A reception will be held from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm on Friday, April 28th in the gallery. Events are free and open to the public. These events are presented and funded by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee.

March 2023

Bryan Raymundo

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The Kansas State University Department of Art will present the exhibition, These Things Happen At Night, by MFA Candidate Bryan Raymundo from March 20-24 in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery, in Willard Hall. A reception will be held from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm on Friday, March 24 in the gallery. Events are free and open to the public.

Bryan Raymundo is originally from Wichita, Kansas and earned his BFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in Printmaking from Wichita State University. He has participated in regional solo and group exhibitions nationwide and has won multiple awards for his prints. While an undergraduate student at WSU, he organized three steamroller events which brought art and local communities together.

As a first generation Mexican American, Bryan Raymundo uses his own personal experience to reflect on notions of cultural displacement and stereotype. Portraiture and representations of the human figure combine with a rich range of images combed from Mexico and America in both the prints and ceramic sculptures. Dissecting lines carved into the plates and blocks before printing create a sense of fragmentation and separation, and large sections sharply cut away during the working process take on meaning through their absence. Combined with the linear, metal pedestals that surround and protect the ceramic pieces, the prints and ceramics in the exhibition create a visual parallel for the feeling of otherness, and the cumulative challenge of navigating two cultures.

Instagram: @raymundoprintmaker

Cursed of the Comp

Funding for this show was provided in part by the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Small Grant Program for K-State Graduate Students. These events are also presented and funded in part, by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee.

Rebecca Hackemann-Bahlmann

Professor Hackemann will be presenting and chairing the panel: Photography and the Metaverse(s), Web 3.0, NFT's, Public Spaces in VR for Artists: A Critical View and Making Sense of it.
Her co-presenters are legends in the field of New Media Art Patrick Lichty and Perry Hoberman. Dr. Hackemann has fundraised and is bringing 12 photography students to the conference as well as adjunct professor in photography Troy Colby. It is three days long and consists of a trade floor with pro vendors and more than 30 historical and contemporary presentations on photography by artists, theorists, curators, and technical experts.
Follow the trip @ksuphotoprogram and @ksu.fotoclub!
Photo of students from last rip to Houston SPE conference  in 2020 (Jacob Satterlee and Brooke Tuma)
Link to panel:

Makenzie Burmeister

Collisions

The Kansas State University Department of Art will present the exhibition, Collisions, by MFA Candidate Makenzie Burmeister from March 6-10 in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery in Willard Hall, Kansas State University campus. A reception will be held from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm on Friday, March 10th in the gallery. Events are free and open to the public.

Makenzie Burmeister is originally from Gretna, Nebraska and earned her BFA in Art Education with an emphasis in Ceramics from the University of South Dakota. During her time there she played soccer and won multiple awards for her sculpture and ceramics pieces.

Collisions showcases site-reflective installation, drawing, and assemblage sculptures that combine the use of new digital applications with conventional ceramics and drawing processes. Cast and found materials evocative of construction and labor are recontextualized and combined through meditative, rhythmic, and highly repetitive action, transforming them from the mundane and industrial into explorative, expressive, and introspective works.

Yellow Structure

Instagram: @burmeisterceramics

www.etsy.com/shop/BurmeisterCeramics/items

Funding for this show was provided in part by the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Small Grant Program for K-State Graduate Students. These events are also presented and funded in part, by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee.

January 2023

Rebecca Hackemann-Bahlmann

Congratulations to Associate Professor Dr. Hackemann - her peer reviewed book “3-D Experimental VR and Art Practices - untangling another dimension” is on pre order at University of Chicago Press website, the US distributor:

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/Other/bo196843995.html

The book includes 3-D works by Dali, William Kentridge, Zoe Beloff and Duchamp with an endorsement by Johnathan Crary, Meyer Shapiro professor of modern art and theory at Columbia University, New York and author of the classic "Techniques of the Observer" by MIT Press.

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2022 News

December 2022

Shreepad Joglekar

Lindy E. Bell Head of the Department of Art, Shreepad Joglekar is featured in the exhibition Found in Translation: Explorations by 8 Contemporary Artists at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.

"The art in Found in Translation is informed but not defined by artists’ individual experiences with immigration from places across Asia to the Kansas City region. It reflects their perspectives on the world and their places in it, shaped through a range of styles and media. These eight artists use their practices to explore evolving personal questions tied to place, memory, relationships, and other complex topics."

For more information regarding the exhibit https://nelson-atkins.org/exhibitions/found-translation-explorations-8-contemporary-artists/

Over the past decade my research interest has evolved from interpreting spaces using a camera, to visualizing realities which cannot be seen. Conceptually, I am concerned with inspecting the relations between contemporary neoliberal systems and the natural, social, and built environments. My primary tools have been photography and video installations. Photographs are inherently about appearances and mostly describe surfaces that once constituted material reality. This optical limitation makes conventional photography inadequate for depicting intangible subjects such as power, dispossession, and the experience of time. In a Sisyphean quest to document the invisible, in my recent work, I attempt to invert the conventional photographic process. Instead of capturing the appearance of space at a moment in time, I record time using the medium of sound and then digitally visualize it as space. Another branch of my work focuses on using photographs of my subjects to translate them into three dimensional models. These models are then manipulated to create alternative or even imaginary representations of those subjects, visualizing how they might appear in the past or future. Through these explorations I attempt to visualize and record the intangible.

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Immigrant Children Crying

November 2022

Kristen Jordan

Congratulations to Kristen Jordan (BFA in Painting, K-State, 2009; Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art; and MFA from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA in 2014) for inclusion of her work in:

Renewal, the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, The George Washington University, Washington D.C (Jurors: Olivia Kohler-Maga, Assistant Director, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery and Babette Pendleton, Exhibitions and Programming Associate, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design);September 15 – December 3, 2022

Lilt, at the Noyes Museum of Art, Stockton University, Hammonton, NJ. Jurors: Brittany Webb, the inaugural Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at PAFA, and T.K. Smith, writer and researcher PhD Program, University of Delaware; October 20, 2022 – January 20, 2023

Contemporary Photography in Hawai‘i 2022, The Fourteenth Annual Statewide Survey; Juror: Katherine Love, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Honolulu Museum of Art; Opened online, September 21, 2022; included in online archive following

Bryan Raymundo

Congratulations to Bryan Raymundo, master's award winner of the GSC Award for Graduate Student Teaching Excellence, sponsored by Kansas State University's Graduate Student Council.

Read about Bryan and his award here:

https://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/2022-11/gsc-awards11822.html

Also, Congratsto Bryan Raymundo on his solo exhibition: “Primero,” Roberta and Bob
Rogers Gallery in Omaha. Nov. 10, 2022 - Jan. 7, 2023.
Omaha World Herald write on the show:
Rebecca Hackemann-Bahlmann

Associate Professor Rebecca Hackemann-Bahlmann has completed the peer-reviewed book "3-D Experimental VR and Art Practices" by Intellect Books London, available for preorder at the University of Chicago Press.

The book will be printed in December and available for purchase at the 2023 College Art Association Conference in New York in February 2023 for the University of Chicago spring catalog. The general release is in May/June 2023.

The book is a critical survey of artistic practices that involve the use of 3D and stereoscopes, which is emerging as a scholarly field in its own right.S

It includes 32,000 words and 89 images by well-known and contemporary artists. Some images are in 3D and the book includes 3D glasses. The artists include Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, William Kentridge, Lygia Clark and Zoe Beloff as well as her own works and research in this new field.

Johnathan Crary, Meyer Shapiro professor of modern art and theory at Columbia University and author of the classic "Techniques of the Observer" by MIT Press, is endorsing the book jacket and writes:

"Rebecca Hackemann's new book is a superb and indispensable account of the creative and critical exploration of stereoscopy, 3D and VR by a wide range of artists since the early 20th century. Especially now, at a moment when powerful technology corporations are massively commodifying and routinizing VR and 3D products, Hackemann's study provides a crucial resource for sustaining oppositional and counter-practices of visuality and perceptual experience."

September 2022

Shea Kister

Shea Kister Residency

Congratulations to Shea Kister (MFA, 2022), who was awarded a long-term artist residency at Baltimore Clayworks!

Elena Masrour

Elena Masrour Show
Congratulations to Elena Masrour (MFA, 2022) on her artist’s talk and solo show, We’re Not in Tehran Anymore, at the Lawrence Art Center, August 5 - September 10. Her recorded talk is featured on LAC's website.
Congratulations also, to Elena on her full-time teaching position starting this fall, at Cleveland Institute of Art!

Jolynn Reigeluth

Jolynn Reigeluth Show
Congratulations to Jolynn Reigeluth (MFA, 2012), on her solo exhibition, Low Hanging Fruit, at Cerbera Gallery in Kansas City, September - October.

April 2022

Rebecca Hackemann-Bahlmann

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Professor Rebecca Hackemann-Bahlmann, has been invited as a speaker for International Week, a conference for scientists and designers at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld, Germany.

While there, Hackemann-Bahlmann also will open a solo exhibition at Kunstraum Elsa with new work "Haptic Habits: Die Dunkelkammer" and conduct a workshop with students.

The trip is funded partially through the K-State art department and a Kansas State University Faculty Development Award grant. Her work includes images created in collaboration with the diagnostic imaging section in the clinical sciences department in the K-State College of Veterinary Medicine and with Nicolette Cassel, assistant professor of clinical sciences. The work includes X-rays of old cameras as well as video work that examines the representation of the photographic darkroom in cinema.

March 2022

Elena Masrour

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Biking on a Sunny Day, watercolor and oil on canvas, 60’’x 50” 2022

The Kansas State University Department of Art will present the exhibition, We’re not in Tehran anymore,” by MFA Candidate Elena Masrour from March 21-25 in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery in Willard Hall, Kansas State University campus. A reception will be held from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm on Friday, March 25 in the gallery. Events are free and open to the public.

Elena Masrour is originally from Tehran, Iran, and received her BA in Fabric and Textile Design from the Tehran University of Art where she ranked 134th in the National Entrance Exam among more than 50,000 participants. While a young artist in Iran she received an Emerging Artist Award from the Iranian Visual Arts Association.

The paintings in this exhibition reflect some of the many difficulties women living in Iran have had to endure following the Islamic Revolution of 1978-1979. The segregation of women in terms of familial obligations, religious rituals, legal privileges, and personal and political power is addressed through the use of Persian iconography, and images and narratives combed from personal experience and Iranian pop culture. We’re not in Tehran anymore draws inspiration from the superheroines of the Golden Age of American comics as a vehicle for engaging viewers in the challenging content, and as a nod to the freedom of speech that Elena Masrour has been able to enjoy while studying art in Kansas.

Instagram: Elena.M (@elenamasrour)

Funding for this show was provided in part by the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Small Grant Program for K-State Graduate Students. These events are also presented and funded in part, by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee.

Shea Kister

ceramic art

Beware of the Bathroom Floor I, stoneware and low fire glaze, 5.5" x 11" x 8.5", 2021

The Kansas State University Department of Art will presented the exhibition, “Please, Sit Down.” by MFA Candidate Shea Kister from March 7th, 2022 – March 11th, 2022, in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery in Willard Hall, Kansas State University campus.

Shea Kister is a ceramicist and interdisciplinary artist originally from Omaha, Nebraska. She holds a BFA in ceramics and photography, with minor study in the areas of art history and psychology from the University of South Dakota. She works primarily in clay but also incorporates printmaking techniques and mixed media. In 2020, she was awarded the Angelo C. Garzio Scholarship for Studio Pottery and has exhibited her work across the United States.

Inspired by her study of trauma’s effects on memory as well as personal and social relationships, her work enlists notions of fragmentation, discontinuity, memory distortion, and dissociation through the use of scale, surface application, and materials. Creating manifestations of how feeling indescribable emotions can be outwardly represented, she presents her work within an immersive context that allows the viewer to experience familiar, though possibly uneasy feelings – the kind that might emerge from memory and the limitations of verbal or written language.

sheakister.com INSTAGRAM: @sheakisterceramics

Funding for this show was provided in part by the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Small Grant Program for K-State Graduate Students. These events are also presented and funded in part, by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee.

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Congratulations

Congratulations to Andrea (Andi) Benge on her new position as a tenure-track, Assistant Professor of Animation at Arizona State University! Andi completed her BFA degrees at K-State in Painting and Drawing in 2017. Since finishing her MFA at George Mason University in 2021, her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions as well as national and international film festivals.

February 2022

Congratulations

Congratulations to Sepideh Badakhshanian, Shea Kister, and Elena Masrour, for receiving AHSS grants for their MFA thesis work.

Sepideh Badakhshanian

photographic art

Deprivation, Photography, dimensions (11”x17”), 2022

The exhibition, Deprivation, by MFA Candidate Sepideh Badakhshanian, was presented in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery, from February 28 – March 4. A reception will be held from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm on Friday, March 4 in the gallery. Events are free and open to the public.

The body of works included in this show focus on women’s feelings in Iran’s traditional and conservative society, portraying the pain that accompanies Iranian women as they are subjected to sexual violence, harassment, legal discrimination, and cultural notions of taboo, along with a questioning of patriarchal ideologies in Iran and Middle Eastern cultures.

Funding for this show is provided in part by the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Small Grant Program for K-State Graduate Students. These events are also presented and funded in part, by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee.

Michael Burke

intaglio print

Its Painful Absences Covers All, Intaglio, 34”x23”, 2021

The Kansas State University Department of Art will presented the exhibition, “Disquiet” by MFA Candidate Michael Burke, 2/21 – 2/25 in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery in Willard Hall, K-State Campus.

Michael Burke is originally from Forest Grove, Oregon, and received his BFA in printmaking from the Oregon State University where he was awarded multiple scholarships in printmaking and art. During one of the most traumatic and solitary times in history, Michael Burke uses experimental and counter-intuitive printmaking methods in order to process and transform the haunting and arresting memories of personal trauma. His abstracted spaces and environments expose the remnants that reside between memories of pain and contemporary vision. Michael Burke’s etchings offer hope within the darkness, inviting the viewer to reflect on their own life experience and survival

This event was presented and funded in part, by the KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee.

September 2021

Kelly Yarbrough, K-State MFA, 2016, to present at TEDx Austin College, 2021

Kelly’s talk, entitled, The Tallgrass Prairie & the Power of Perenniality took place on Saturday, September 25th. Congratulations, Kelly!

https://www.austincollege.edu/about/college-news-events/signature-events/tedxaustincollege/tedxaustincollege-2021/

 

Congratulations, to Dee Roof, K-State MFA, 2020, for being awarded a Visiting Lectureship in the Art Department at Avila University, in Kansas City!

Congratulations, to Allison (Olsen) Bowman (BFA, Painting, 2017), for completing her new public art mural! Allison was one of seven artists chosen to paint the 300 ft. mural at 48th and Roe Lane in Roeland Park. Here’s a look at her finished design:

Roeland Park Mural

https://shawneemissionpost.com/2021/09/07/roeland-parks-47th-street-mural-131751/?fbclid=IwAR2gPFbyGQDC-VDmx8gwjb9ZjWc09gixtargvX9xXNspumQsrDsCmdG3scw

Congratulations, to Allison (Olsen) Bowman (BFA, Painting, 2017), for being awarded one of the Kansas City Art in the Loop public commissions! Allison’s installation may be seen on the library streetcar shelter at the corner of 9th and Main in KCMO:

KC Loop Installation

https://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article252668953.html?fbclid=IwAR3TlYU_fszgb1Ea3pv0b420qrbKC27Xa2j28l4lkhwoAQHXQ8FcLIqTKxQ

Congratulations to Nick Bayer, MFA, 2007, and his company, Createco Studios, on their latest public mural! Nick’s project was supported by the Oklahoma City 1% for Art Ordinance and may be seen in the MAPS 3, Health and Wellness Center 2, at 4021 South Walker Avenue in Oklahoma City.

OKC Arts

 

Summer 2021

Professor Rebecca Hackemann, Group Exhibition & Aquisitions
Professor Rebecca Hackemann is part of a group exhibition of American photographers at the Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig. http://www.photomuseum.de/
Professor Hackemann's work has also recently been acquired by the Springfield Museum of Art
Kathleen Murray, K-State Alumni, Interviewed by Voyage KC

Congratulations to Kathleen Murray, 2014 K-State BFA student in Printmaking and Graphic Design, is interviewed at VoyageKC.com. She is now a freelance illustrator and designer in KC. https://voyagekc.com/interview/conversations-with-kathleen-murray/

Nancy Morrow’s work was included in New American Paintings: 2020 Featured Artists/Recent Work.

Published and distributed by The Open Studios Press, Boston.

Jacob Brooks, K-State Alumni, Solo Exhibition in Milan

Congratulations to Jacob Brooks, 2016 K-State BFA student in Painting, (MFA, New York Academy of Art, 2019) for his solo exhibition at A-More Gallery in Milan! Jacob’s show opened on January 13 and will run through March 3.