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Paper & Fire

admin — Fri, 12 May 2017 22:52:59 +0000

LINCOLN – “Paper & Fire”, featuring the work of Elaine Lierly Jones, Gardner, and Jennifer Mettlen Nolan, Dodge City, opens at the Lincoln Art Center Friday, May 12 from 5:30 – 7:30, with a gallery walk at 6:15. This exhibit runs through June 30, 2017.

Elaine Lierly Jones studied at Kansas University and Fort Hays State University where she earned a BA in art therapy. In 2000, after going to an open studio event in Kansas City , joined a local art group and started taking workshops in pastels. She says is was love at first “touch” and began taking classes in 2001. Jones has won awards at the AWA National Juried Exhibition in Scottsdale, AZ. She won the Grand Prize in the Pastel Journal Magazine’s 14th Annual Pastel 100 competition, 1st Place and Honorable Mention in this juried competition. She has memberships in MidAmerica Pastel Society, Pastel Society of America, American Women Artists and Missouri Valley Impressionists Society.

Jennifer Mettlen Nolan grew up on a farm near Sylvan Grove, Kansas. She earned her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree with her certification in Art Education and her Masters of Fine Arts degree from Fort Hays State University under Linda Ganstrom. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Dodge City Community College. Nolan works in lampworked glass jewelry and ceramics. Recent exhibits include the Baker Arts Center’s 11th National Juried Art Exhibition and Orton Cone Box Traveling Exhibition. Jennifer is a recent recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to study multiculturalisn in Syria and Turkey.

This exhibit is free and open to the public Tuesday-Friday Noon-4:00 and Saturday 9:00 am to Noon at the Lincoln Art Center, 126 E. Lincoln Ave., Lincoln, Kansas 67455. For more information call the art center at 785-524-3241 or visit lincolnartcenter.org.

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Gift Gallery

admin — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 15:01:23 +0000

Watch our FaceBook page this holiday shopping season for gift ideas for the special people in your life. Throughout the year, the Lincoln Art Center displays unique, hand-crafted items made by local artists in our Gift Gallery. This partnership allows the art center to make a few extra bucks for our operating expenses and also helps small artists pay the bills to continue creating.

We’ll be posting different items frequently, telling a little bit about the item, what’s it’s made out of, a little bit about the artist, and the price, and giving everyone an opportunity to shop the gift gallery even if you might not be in Lincoln. Shopping on social media gives you a chance to speak for a unique item you hadn’t seen before, or even possibly pay for it and have it shipped to you through our new PayPal account. Note: Due the fragile nature and/or the size of some works of art, we won’t be able to ship everything. Pick-up at the Art Center is a fine arrangement too.

We are having a membership drive between now and the end of the year. Sign up for a new membership or renew your existing membership and receive 10% off any item in the gift gallery. You can do this through PayPal on our website, or you can always call Joyce or mail it in too. You could score a unique, one-of-a-kind, hand-made item, get a discount on that gift, and help support the Lincoln Art Center all at the same time!

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We wish everyone and their families Happy Holidays and we hope to see you soon at the Lincoln Art Center!

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“Orbs, Shapes & ‘Scapes”

admin — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:36:53 +0000

“Orbs, Shapes & ‘Scapes,” featuring the work of Yadi Flannery and Martha Flannery, Santa Fe, N.M., and Nancy Henry, Prairie Village, Kan., opens at the Lincoln Art Center, Saturday, July 2, from 5:30 – 7:30, with a gallery walk at 6:15. This exhibit runs through Aug. 30, 2016.
The connection between the three artists is the interest they all have in design, texture and tone. Each of these artists create works that speak about experimental works from an internal, rather than external experience, to express some aspect of their world.
Yadi Flannery now lives and works in Santa Fe after spending three years on a farm near Beloit, Kan. “My work is Alternative Medicine, my alternate life is a quilt artist beginning as a teen.” Yadi’s work has been shown in various venues in New Mexico, Colorado and most recently at the Lincoln Art Center. This new body of work takes a “collage” approach incorporating scraps of fabric, clippings and throwaways largely untouched and pinned and stitched loosely. Yadi credits her inspiration for the collage quilts to the year long attendance at the Lincoln Art Center’s “open studio” on Tuesday evenings.
Martha Flannery has been beading and crafting jewelry for 35 years. She has branched out from beading to working with various metal pieces. “I love handling brass, copper, bronze and sterling silver, and watching them change through the process of hammering, torching, wrapping, riveting, stamping and patina work.”
Nancy Henry began her exploration into painting in 1991 with watercolors, and has since moved into pastels and acrylics. Her work has been shown in the Peterson Gallery in Santa Fe, galleries in Rociada, N.M., and Las Vegas, N.M., as well as many other shows and exhibits for several years.
Nancy and Yadi have collaborated to focus on using color and arrangement of color in new expressions of landscapes.
This exhibit is free and open to the public Tuesday-Friday, noon-4:00 p.m., and Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to noon, at the Lincoln Art Center, 126 E. Lincoln Ave., Lincoln, KS 67455.
For more information call the art center at 785-524-3241 or visit lincolnartcenter.org.

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