Lawrence Percolator

2009-11-05T17:56:00.002-06:00

Weekends through December 6

Ann Dean photographs

Mexico: Color, Line, & Texture

closing reception Friday, December 4
7-9 pm

Day of the Dead

2009-10-29T12:40:00.003-05:00

You are invited to bring something to the Percolator altar for

El Dia de los Muertos en Kansas
Where we who are not dead yet celebrate those who are

Sunday, November 1
6 pm potluck dinner
7:30 procession / invocation

Free & open to the public

On the walls: Ann Dean, Mexico: Color, Line, & Texture
through Dec. 6
closing reception Friday, Dec. 4

Come See the Mural

2009-10-18T13:19:00.007-05:00

Thanks go out to everyone who helped make the Black Sheep Art Collective residency at the Percolator a great success. The mural will be on view at the Percolator through October 28th,and then will be installed at the Four Winds Native Center at 15th and Haskell.

The DIY Spraypaint Workshop.

Jeff, Cy, and Ave at work in the Percolator studio.

Haskell students finishing their panel for the Four Winds Center.

Coming to the Percolator in October - The Black Sheep Art Collective

2009-10-08T23:36:00.001-05:00

From October 8 - 16, the Black Sheep Art Collective will be artists in residence at the Percolator. Listen to the lawrence.com podcast here.

Schedule of events so far (check back for updates)
Saturday, October 10th, 7pm - Get to know the Black Sheep Art Collective followed by a screening of the graffiti documentary "Bomb it."
Sunday, October 11th, 2-5pm - DIY spraypaint workshop
Friday, October 16th, 6-9pm - BSAC mural unveiling
October 16 - 28 - BSAC mural displayed at the Percolator
The completed mural will then be installed at the 4 Winds Center (formerly Pelathe) at 15th & Haskell. More on an opening for that soon.

From Here to There

2009-10-07T08:34:00.006-05:00

From Here to There
A Lawrence Percolator + FBL joint featurette

HEARTLAND

2009-09-26T11:54:00.003-05:00

The friendly neighborhood Lawrence Percolator is featured in the SMART Museum's Heartland exhibtion catalog. Here is a PDF of it for you! The catalog features essays by John Corbett and Frank Veenstra; Joshua Decter; Dave Eggers; Charles Esche; Hasan Kwame Jeffries; Andria Lisle; Hesse McGraw; Kerstin Niemann; Stephanie Smith; Rebecca Solnit; Matthew Strauss; Dan S. Wang; and Matt Weiland.

While this publication stems from the Heartland exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum and the Smart Museum of Art, this book is much more than an art catalogue. Contributors—including novelist Dave Eggers, scholar Hasan Kwame Jeffries, and journalist Rebecca Solnit—explore the region through topics ranging from art to music to urban farming to political history. An illustrated section introduces all of the artists involved in both iterations of Heartland, including established figures like Kerry James Marshall and exuberant newcomers like Whoop Dee Doo. An appendix surveys the lively state of independent and artist-run cultural initiatives from New Orleans to Detroit.

If you see any Percolator Paraphrenalia at the exhibition, send us a note about it.

Make a License Plate - Support the Arts

2009-09-14T19:55:00.002-05:00

Call for Artists To Design the Kansas Arts License Plate

The Kansas Arts Commission invites Kansas visual artists to submit designs for a new Kansas Arts License Plate. Artists must currently reside in Kansas and be 10 years old and older.

The plate is scheduled for production in 2010 or once funds are raised for its manufacture.

The license plate will be available for all Kansans to purchase for their vehicles. All proceeds will go towards grant programs of the Kansas Arts Commission.

The design should reflect and promote a positive image of Kansas and Kansas arts. The image will be used to promote the arts and the Kansas Arts Commission throughout the state and nationwide.

Submissions must be postmarked by October 15, 2009, or if delivered, received by October 15, 2009. No submissions will be returned.

Kansas Arts Commissioners and staff will narrow the submissions to five finalists. A sample plate for each of the finalists will be posted on the Kansas Arts Commission website and Kansans will be invited to vote for their favorite plate.

The winning design will be announced in January 2010. The artist submitting the winning design will be credited in all promotional material for the license plate and will be prominently featured on the Kansas Arts Commission’s website. Other promotional opportunities may be available. In addition, the winning designer will receive a three-percent royalty fee for all Kansas arts license plates sold.

humbled & happy

2009-08-04T12:19:00.009-05:00

Our Dime Bag fundraiser was a rollicking good time. A heartfelt thank you is due to the following artists:

April A. Bivens
Susan Schuette Buchanan
Diana Dunkley
Eric Farnsworth
Mary Lyn Farwell
Linda Frost
Zoe Gillaspie
Lana Grove
Chantel C. Guidry
Gary Hinman
Nancy Hubble
Lora Jost
Dave Loewenstein
Molly Murphy
Natasha Naramore
Cindy Oliver
Marty Olson
Rachael Perry
Wayne Propst
Lily Pryor
Ardys Ramberg
Julia Randolph
Sarah Randolph
Nan Renbarger
Ashley Russell
Nick Schmiedeler
Jan See
Dawn P. Tallchief
Dave Van Hee
Leslie vonHolten
CB Whalen
Renee Whaley
KT Walsh
Matt Weaver
Bonnie B. Willey

Thanks also to the Bopaphonics for entertaining the masses; Bill Allen, Tim vonHolten, & Ben Ahlvers for pancakes; Sam Leslie and his burrito bike for vegetarian happiness; and to our generous donors & participants who helped us celebrate our alley gallery endeavor.

The Percolator is closed through August so we can give our space some TLC. In the meantime, MAKE ART HAPPEN. We'll see you soon.

Art Sale & Pancake Feed

2009-07-27T13:04:00.003-05:00

Please join us for the One Night Only

2009 Dime Bag Show
& Pancake Feed

Saturday, August 1
7-10 pm
@ the Percolator

a fundraiser for the Lawrence Percolator & the Social Service League

Pancakes & syrup! Music by the Bopaphonics! Grown up drinks & curious artistic mash-ups!

All art priced at $50 and under!

We'd very much like to see you there.

Call for Artists: 2009 Dime Bag Show

2009-06-29T10:55:00.003-05:00

Dime Bag Show
a benefit for the Social Service League and the Lawrence Percolator

Call for Artists

Art for a good cause!

1. Stop by the Social Service League & pay $10 for a “Percolator bag” (all proceeds go to the SSL) 2. Fill the bag with whatever you want
3. Take it home & make artwork from your bag’s contents
4. Donate your artwork to the Percolator July 26–27
5. All proceeds from the sale of your artwork will benefit the Lawrence Percolator, a nonprofit community-based art gallery
6. Celebrate art in our community & buy art for your home August 1. All work sold for $50 or less!

the Dime Bag Show is one night only
Saturday, August 1, 7–10 pm

Social Service League
905 Rhode Island, Lawrence
Wed. through Fri. 9–4
Saturdays 9–2

Percolator
Alley behind the Arts Center :: Look for the green awnings

Questions?
Contact Leslie (leslievonholten@gmail.com, 785-840-5226)

Jack Ozegovic - Opening June 27th

2009-06-23T18:13:00.010-05:00

Continuing the Search
A retrospective exhibition of the work of Jack Ozegovic

Opening - Saturday, June 27th, 7-9 pm
show continues on weekends through July 19th

Replay Benefit Show June 14!!

2009-06-08T09:55:00.002-05:00

Please join us for the

Percopalooza Benefit Show
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Replay Lounge

4 pm to 2 am (art never sleeps)

Outdoor patio show featuring the sounds of Naomi What?, Danny Pound, Hospital Ships, Novalus, and the California Craisins

Readings by Mark Hennessey and Chantel Guidry

Not enough for you? Well how about door prizes! a photo booth! the famous Make It Table! clown paintings! zines!

Wanna ride home with a Farnsworth Bicycle Laboratory construction? Then be at the Replay June 14!!

and hey, why not—bring your kids, too! (they're pretty fun, we've noticed)

Crosshatch: Textile & Fiber Art through June 14

2009-05-29T23:00:00.003-05:00

Crosshatch

2009-05-15T09:52:00.006-05:00

Please join us for the opening of

Crosshatch:

Textile and Fiber Work from the University of Kansas and the Kansas City Art Institute

Friday, May 22
6 to 9 p.m.

Exhibit runs through June 14

Ride Your Bike

2009-05-03T19:37:00.004-05:00

Percolator Eric Farnsworth has designed new bike racks for the Spencer Museum of Art! Atop the truly mellowest hill to the KU campus, these racks are nestled right there between great art (at the Spencer of course) and great coffee (on the bottom floor of the Union). Go make a day of it and hitch your ride to these beauties. It's spring, after all.

Yoonmi Nam

2009-04-23T17:17:00.008-05:00

Percolator Artists’ Lecture Series

Yoonmi Nam

Wednesday, April 29
7 pm

Please join us for a lecture and discussion by Yoonmi Nam, an artist working primarily in printmaking and painting. Her work is influenced by her Korean and Canadian upbringing, which exposed her to the dynamics of both Eastern and Western art concepts. “This experience enriched my view and my understanding of both cultures, but at times, it also made me feel like an outsider,” she said. “Eventually, I realized that they are both part of who I am as a person and an artist. The training I had in Western art technique and the Eastern way of my thinking found its balance and its place in my work both visually and conceptually. In my work I seek to visually represent what we cannot see in space—the unseen space. It is in a way a landscape, but it lies in between the visible and the invisible.”

Nam is currently a professor of printmaking at KU. As a Spring 2009 Hall Center for the Humanities Fellow, she is working on a project entitled “Arranged Flowers,” a portfolio of five prints using a traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printmaking technique that combines research on seventeenth century Dutch flower paintings and Japanese prints that depict the art of Japanese flower arrangement (Ikebana).

The lecture is free and open to the public.

(Image photo by Aaron Paden)

"Cultural Recovery" by Arlene Goldbard

2009-04-16T09:40:00.005-05:00

"Cultural Recovery"
A talk by Arlene Goldbard
Tuesday, April 21st
7pm
Lawrence Arts Center (gallery)
940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, KS

Discussion will follow, and Arlene's latest book New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development, will be available for purchase.

Arlene's topic is "Cultural Recovery." She says: "Most policy-makers seem to have given little or no serious consideration to culture's role as a crucible for supporting resilience and recovery. It appears we may have reached an end-point for the old 'support the arts' arguments (which haven't been working for a long time). As more and more organizations face funding cuts, we need to stimulate a new understanding that sustainable recovery demands cultural recovery." Her approach to the topic includes suggesting ways for artists and organizations to respond to the crisis, facing the challenges of bringing about a real shift in thinking about the arts and public purpose, and finding ways to be integral to national recovery. The actions needed now, she says, must be equally and simultaneously powerful as art, as political action and as spiritual practice.

Arlene Goldbard is a writer and consultant whose focus is the intersection of culture, politics and spirituality. Her blog and other writings may be downloaded from her Web site http://arlenegoldbard.com/ She was born in New York and grew up near San Francisco. She now lives in Kansas City, Missouri. Her most recent book, New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development was published by New Village Press in November 2006. She is also co-author of Community, Culture and Globalization, an international anthology published by the Rockefeller Foundation and Clarity, a novel. Her essays have been published in In Motion Magazine, Art in America, Theatre, Tikkun, and many other journals. She has addressed countless academic and community audiences in the U.S. and Europe, on topics ranging from the ethics of community arts practice to the development of integral organizations. She has provided advice and counsel to hundreds of community-based organizations, independent media groups, and public and private funders and policymakers including the Rockefeller Foundation, Global Kids, the Independent Television Service, Appalshop and dozens of others. She is currently focusing on three projects: a book about artists working to heal the prison-industrial complex; a film about Rabbi Arthur Waskow; and a campaign to create a “new WPA” for artists. She serves as President of the Board of Directors of The Shalom Center.

Be a Tree

2009-04-10T08:16:00.001-05:00

By David Horvitz

"The Wheel of Willing Diversion" Celebration

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at the Spencer Museum Arts Festival
(outside between the Spencer and the Kansas Union)
Saturday, May 2nd from 12 - 4

Press play for one last spin of The Wheel of Willing Diversion.
The Percolator will be showcasing the Wheel and all of the responses participants have crafted from following its directives. Remember to drop off your responses at the front desk inside the Museum before May 1st so they can be included. (If your response requires special attention, audio/visual equipment for example, please contact the Percolator asap).

Writings from the Illuminated (nearby) Tree

2009-04-03T22:47:00.006-05:00

Below are examples of writings incorporated into the Illuminated (nearby) Tree. A booklet containing all of the writings is available at the Percolator for $2.

I would play hide – and – seek with my brother and then find the best most comfortable spot where I could see everyone and no one could see me, then forget I was in the middle of a game and just hang out for hours.

When I was about 8 my best friend and I would find dead birds around our backyards – so we buried the birds at the base of a tree and made little shrines and a cross and did farewell rituals for the little birds.

The orange tree that I grew from a seed that came from an orange I had @ Thanksgiving 1984 – I still have it.

I’m out on a limb. What a view. I think I’ll climb down some – that’s a little more stable but I can’t see as much.

In Hong Kong the trees have vines that drop into the streets. These trees can get so large they are their own islands in the rivers in southern China – Fred Yung from Hong Kong.

I used to hide small items in a knot-hole for the neighbor children. Wait, that was Boo Radley.

Trees are pretty cool, but so is paper.

Lone Star Lake – August 1983 – lying on my back, peaking on LSD, looking up through shimmering leaves.

I’m so tall I feel like a tree. People don’t cut me down.

So Long to a Zeller

2009-03-30T23:01:00.001-05:00

Dave & Heidi again
Originally uploaded by Lawrence Percolator

Our partner Heidi has left town for new adventures out west. We'll miss her.

When I learned the roots of Mondrian

2009-03-28T09:59:00.004-05:00

This reminded me of my learning of Mondrian's trees.
Over easter or spring break in 1991 I had an assignment to make a composition based upon a thing found in the natural world. I chose ball moss. Ball moss is a tangle of long tendrils and delicate flowers that grows on Texas shade trees. The assignment consisted of a 20x30 illustration board and a glazed ceramic plate, which I believe is a riff playing off of some Bauhaus lesson. I drew an oak branch with a ball of ball moss that morphed into a composition of "L"s and squares. An upperclassma n pointed out to me that Mondrian started with trees.

2009-03-21T11:16:00.004-05:00

Trees I Have Known is a juried exhibition featuring artwork and ephemera made by and collected by a diverse group of over thirty artists, thinkers, and neighbors who have created work that reflects upon the tree as subject, metaphor, and inspiration in many media.

Charles Boone (Illinois)
Kyle Bravo & Jenny LeBlanc (Louisiana)
Stacey Cluppert (Wisconsin)
Eric Farnsworth (Lawrence)
Jon Feinstein (New York)
Jenny Lee Fowler (New York)
Justin Guilbert (France)
Mirka Hokkanen (Washington)
Paul Hotvedt (Lawrence)
Chancey Jahnig (Lawrence, currently)
Lora Jost (Lawrence)
Mindy Kober (Texas)
Jeff Krolick (Oregon)
Dave Loewenstein (Lawrence)
George Lorio (Texas)
Robin Masi (Massachusetts)
Karen Matheis (Lawrence)
Eleanor Matheis (Lawrence)
Elaine McKay (New York)
Michele Monseau (Texas)
Melanie Mowinski (Massachusetts)
Colleen Mullins (Minnesota)
Tim Obrien (Lawrence)
Erika Osborne (West Virginia)
Sarah Nicole Phillips (New York)
Jim Proctor (Minnesota)
John Reeves (Lawrence)
Katherine Sehr (New York)
Erika Shearer (Lawrence)
Matthew Szosz (California)
Suzanne Szucs (New York)
Jake Vail (Lawrence)
Erika Villareal (Indiana)
KT Walsh ( Lawrence)
Roscoe Wilson (Ohio)

Unmonumental 130

2009-03-13T01:00:00.004-05:00

Found Art (East Village): Unmonumental 130

from Joy Garnett's NEWSgrist: where spin is art

Quote

2009-03-09T22:48:00.007-05:00

Trees
smell good,
feel good,
sound good,
and look good.
And as if that weren't enough,
they point beyond themselves.
-Robert Adams
courtesy of Philip Heying

Trees I have Known opens
6PM Saturday Night

Branching Out: Tree-themed art exhibits sprout up across town
Lawrence Journal World article March 10, 2009