Author: Theresa Mott

Jennifer Ray, photographer, tackles the U.S.’s violent past and present. Amanda Pfister partnered with poet April Pameticky to create a work that speaks about motherhood, monotony and feminism.

Both are faculty at WSU’s School of Art, Design and Creative Industries and artists featured in Transmissions: The XXIV Faculty Biennial, on exhibit until April 22 in the Polk/Wilson Gallery. Join them at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, March 7 in the Beren Gallery at the Ulrich Museum of Art to learn about their inspiration and processes.

In addition to the Ulrich Museum of Art’s schedule of programs and exhibitions, and the 7,200 works of art in its collection, the Ulrich Art Loan program is a critical branch of the museum’s educational mission to connect people to stories and learn through modern and contemporary works of art that reflect the world today.

The program offers a select number of artworks for loan from the permanent collection. The works may be placed, pending review, in Wichita State administration, faculty and staff offices. There are some placement criteria, and a $75 loan fee per object, per year applies. Ulrich staff can also help curate artwork for a space with a one-time fee of $150.

Those interested in borrowing artwork should visit the Ulrich Collection portal, click “View the collection” and type “UAL” in the search box to view all available works through the art loan program. Artwork selection varies throughout the year, due to office renovations, relocations and our ever-evolving WSU population. When someone has works in mind they would like to loan out, submit the request form, and a museum staff member will reach out to schedule a visit to the proposed space. If approved, museum staff will schedule an appointment to install the artwork.

Have questions about the Ulrich Art Loan program? Learn more at the Ulrich Museum’s website or contact Jo Reinert, registrar and collections manager, at jo.reinert@wichita.edu.

Join the Ulrich Museum of Art as it hosts the Love is Memory workshop for senior citizens from noon to 2 p.m. Thursday, March 2 at the Dr. Sam & Jacque Kouri Collection Study Center in the Ulrich Museum. The event is presented by Wichita artist Micala Gingrich Gaylord in conjunction with the Big Read 2023 and is open to senior citizens on- and off-campus.

This workshop will focus on the ways objects house memories. Elders are invited to bring a small object they are willing to leave behind that represents a memory of love. Attendees will also make a short audio recording about their object during the workshop.

Students, faculty and staff are also encouraged to invite senior family and friends to the workshop. The object and voice recording will become part of a larger community art piece, which will be on view in the exhibition “Micala Gingrich Gaylord: Love Is Memory,” from April 3 to May 20 at the Ulrich Museum.

Jeff Pulaski is passionate about type and its design, form, meaning and history. Barry Badgett takes ideas within various contexts and crosses them in ways that would not normally occur.

Both are faculty at WSU’s School of Art, Design and Creative Industries and artists featured in Transmissions: The XXIV Faculty Biennial, on exhibit until April 22 in the Polk/Wilson Gallery. Join them at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, March 1 in the Beren Gallery at the Ulrich Museum of Art to learn about their inspiration and processes.

Tina Murano’s work is a visual representation of different states of mind, from being stuck to a state of flow. Illustrator, animator, web developer, consultant and designer. Joshua Smith synthesizes these skills in the service of telling compelling stories.

Both are faculty at WSU’s School of Art, Design and Creative Industries and artists featured in Transmissions: The XXIV Faculty Biennial, on exhibit until April 22 in the Polk/Wilson Gallery. Join them at 11:15 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 22 in the Beren Gallery at the Ulrich Museum of Art to learn about their inspiration and processes. Refreshments will follow the presentations.

Join the Ulrich Museum of Art for a talk by Kota Ezawa at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21 in the Beren Gallery. The talk will include a discussion of “The Simpson Verdict,” a moving image piece acquired by the Ulrich in 2003, currently on view in the Grafly Gallery on the first floor of the Ulrich. A reception will be held at 5:30 p.m.

The talk is part of the Ulrich Museum’s “Voices from the Vault: The 2000s” series, celebrating the decades as the museum approaches 50 years in 2025.

Tyler Stonestreet creates ceramics that are an extension of the stories that shape him as a person. Tim Stone conceives a painterly language that emphasizes the hybridization between physical and digital experiences.

Both are faculty at WSU’s School of Art, Design and Creative Industries and artists featured in Transmissions: The XXIV Faculty Biennial, on exhibit until April 22 in the Polk/Wilson Gallery. Join them at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 15 in the Beren Gallery at the Ulrich Museum of Art to learn about their inspiration and processes. Refreshments will follow the presentations.

In conjunction with the exhibition Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Boat People, Chau Thuy, president and founder of the Vietnamese Heritage Museum, will share his passion for preserving the history, art and culture of the Vietnamese boat people.

His own extraordinary journey as a refugee is reflected in his art and the books he has authored. Join the Ulrich Museum of Art for a visiting curator talk from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16 in the Beren Gallery. A reception will be held at 5:30 p.m.

In the talk, “Look at Her! I Don’t Think So. A Narrative Meditation on Power, Beauty Standards and Sexual Assault,” Dr. Brittany Lockard will explore the discourse surrounding sexual assault in the news, popular culture and even the art history classroom to ask how it can do better in the future.

Join the talk at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7 in the Ulrich Museum, with a reception hosted at 5:30 p.m.

Explore the newest exhibitions on display this semester at the Spring Exhibition Opening Celebration from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26 in the Ulrich Museum of Art. Come for a sip, a snack and a first look at these works on display:

Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Boat People in the Amsden Gallery
In his 2020 film, Vietnamese artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen visualizes a depopulated, post-apocalyptic world, where a group of five children sail the seas and try to understand their ancestors’ past through the traces of material culture they find.

Nature in the Floating World: Images of Nature in Japanese and Chinese Art
Featuring Japanese woodcut prints by internationally influential 19th century masters of ukiyo-e as Andō Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai, a variety of works by participants in the 20th century shin-hanga and sōsaku-hanga movements to revive and revitalize woodcut printing, and two large-scale works by contemporary Chinese artists Huang Yan and Liu Guosong. These works capture great inventiveness and beauty in approaches to depicting the natural world and reveal its deep interconnectedness with human life.

Transmissions: The XXIV Faculty Biennial
The longest-running series of exhibitions at the Ulrich Museum, the Biennial represents the breadth of creative work and research being undertaken by the faculty of WSU’s School of Art, Design and Creative Industries. The 2023 edition showcases the work of faculty who specialize in art history, art education, ceramics, drawing, fiber, graphic design, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and mixed and new media.

Ulrich receptions are an engagement of artists and art fans with music, food and fun. Like all of their events, the Opening Celebration is free and everyone is welcome.