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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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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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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