“The inspiration and initiative for the series come from my friends and the people of Guatemala,” Frisbie said.

Rick visited Guatemala twice during the last year.

“The land of volcano fire and poverty is also home to people of passion, color, ingenuity, dancing and determination”.

Frisbie intends to capture some of that vigor in his paintings.

Poet Joe McKenzie will be Rick’s special guest at the opening. Frisbie says he asks Joe to read because of his passion that he exhibits in his poetry and his reading of poetry. He will be reading several of his newest poems and have copies of his recently published book for sale. McKenzie used one of Frisbie’s paintings for the cover of his book. Frisbie & McKenzie are both of Salina.

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

Please join us Friday, May 10, 2019, to welcome Rick Frisbie & Joe McKenzie. Artist Talk & Poetry Reading at 6:30 p.m. Refreshments served.

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Lincoln quilters will be showing a variety of patterns, colors and styles executed in their own unique vision and creative approach.

Scott Holl of St. Louis, MO., a Lincoln native has been working in assemblage, photography, and painting. Holl earned a BA in German from Fort Hays University, an MA in Theology from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, and a Masters of Library and Information Science from Dominican University in Illinois. Holl has had a lifelong interest in art and graphic design.

Marty Olson, Lawrence, Ks. works in mixed media and painting. Olson influences have been filtered through public education and a rich social life. His work appears in numerous private collections, predominantly local and regional. Olson says,”Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I have frequently revisited my roots for cultural inspiration. I love the light, landscape, history and cultural input when I am there. These aspects have certainly factored into my visual vocabulary.”

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

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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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Judy Love moved to the small unincorporated town of Zeandale, East of Manhattan, while teaching art at Kansas State University. ZAP, Zeandale Art Project, is a little arts community giving workshops, classes and gallery shows for the past 30 years. Judy paints with pastels and is featured in The Gallery of Great Things on the Big Island in Hawaii and by the Strecker/Nelson in Manhattan, Kansas. Judy’s pastel paintings are a collection of some of her landscape work over the last twenty years. She is also exhibiting a series of small, semi-sculptural acrylic paintings inspired by iridescent beetles.

Tom Leopold recently returned from photographing life on a small island off the coast of Honduras where fishing is their livelihood. As a veteran, he has photographed soldiers returning from war and the people of San Francisco. He is currently photographing a unique construction project on the Kansas State University campus. Leopold has photographed many shop windows. He says, “When the camera is our “eye” it melds inside, outside and reflections into a composite image. I see these images as almost abstracted compositions.”

Gene Sievers is with Kansas State University’s Department of Art, Wood Shop Supervisor since 2000. Porcelain and white stoneware are the clay bodies of choice for utilitarian, wheel thrown and altered pottery. An off white surface allows for a wide glaze palette. Sievers’ Raku pots are fired with an off-white glaze, so the fractal patterns interact with the contours of the form. Sievers says, “I strive for my pots to exude a quiescent grace and elegance of movement—exploring the space in and around them with a dancer’s proprioception.” He has his work in collections at the Sabitini Gallery, Topeka, Beach Museum, Manhattan, Yoshi Ikeda, Portland, Oregon, and Emprise Bank, Wichita.

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.

“Early Morning Winter Storm Front” Pastel. 44″ x 30″ Judy Love

“Wamego Sunflowers” Photograph Tom Leopold

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Tara Dean has been painting and creating images for the last two decades, building a body of work that centers around the abstracted figure and landscape. Dean’s fascination with form, line, color, and composition and their interplay led to the inspiration for this exhibit. She has exhibited her work Manhattan, Lawrence, Greensburg, Garden City, Junction City and Kansas City, MO.

Brian McCallum, artist and educator, currently teaches all levels of 3-D and art history at Garden City Community College in Southwest Kansas, where he also serves as director of Mercer Gallery. McCallums’s sculptural work has earned numerous accolades in juried shows for two decades. His art and methods are featured in Lark Publications, 500 Figures in Clay and Pottery Making Illustrated. McCallum has an extensive show record, most recently the Artist Self Portrait Invitational at the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery in Lindsborg, KS. He leads workshops at colleges and art centers throughout the U.S.

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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Klostermeyer began his career with a studio art degree from Bethany College, then taught pottery at Marymount College and Kansas Wesleyan University. Wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain incorporating a variety of decorating techniques, including carving, incising, application of oxides and glazes, constitute the majority of his works. Ken’s ceramics have been exhibited in invitational shows at Bethany College, Marymount College, the Smoky Hill River Festival, and the Birger Sandzen Gallery, the Bluestem Gallery, Bergen’s Gallery and Kansas Artist and Craftsman Association exhibits in Wichita, Topeka and Hays. This show represents a retrospective of Ken’s work, illustrating his use of a variety of clay bodies, techniques and glazes.

Prochaska’s paintings are inspired by a number of subjects but especially early western life, the first pioneers, settlers and cowboys. Many of these individuals have an emotional story that can be told though their eyes and hands. His goal is to have his audience come away with an experience of quiet introspection.

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.

Ken Klostermeyer vase.

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“Stretching Boundaries,” featuring the work of Betty Lemley opens at the Lincoln Art Center Friday, September 16 from 5:30 – 7:30, with a gallery walk at 6:15. This exhibit runs through October 22, 2016.

Born and raised in Minneapolis, Kansas, Lemley now lives and works in Salina after spending much of her adult life in Port Arthur, Texas. In 1991, she entered Lamar University-Beaumont Graduate School, completing a Masters of Arts degree in Visual Arts, in 1994, with emphasis in painting. Lemley works in several media: painting in oils, acrylics, watercolor, pastel, and works in pencil and ink. There has been a lifelong love of the landscape, she works in close harmony with nature in abstracted environment works.

Lemley has exhibited actively in the Beaumont and Port Arthur area, showing at the Beaumont Art League, the Dishman Gallery, the Art Studio. Her works has also been exhibited at the Glassell School of Art, Houston, and the University of Mexico at San Antonio as well as numerous other the galleries.

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Everyone is invited to join the classes, no previous artistic talent or experience required. The most important thing to remember is convince a friend (or two or three) to join you for an evening of jokes, laughter, silliness, and maybe even a sense of accomplishment too when it is all said and done. Each month a new scene is announced, so you want to sign up early to guarantee your spot at the table.

Lincoln Art Center director Joyce Harlow acts as the class instructor and sets everyone up with a canvas, sometimes with pre-drawn images, and the acrylic paint and brushes to get started. When everyone has arrived and settled with a glass of their favorite beverage (BYOB), she starts at the beginning with suggestions on where to start, what colors to use (or how to mix them) and what brush is best. She progresses the students through each step towards completing a full scene, with tips on how to manipulate the brushes to create texture and movement for a realistic look.

In the end, whether it’s the wine talking or not, everyone is usually all smiles and proudly photographing their new artwork for all their friends to see!

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