In The Galleries
March 12, 2010 —
7 Variations On You Can’t Always Get What You Want Santiago Cucullu with Martin Ayos
Milwaukee-based artist Santiago Cucullu’s large-scale installation transforms the Art Center’s Education Wing through sprawling vinyl graphics, a series of illuminated commercial signs, and audio recordings. Based on the artist’s collaboration with Buenos Aires writer and poet Martin Ayos, Cucullu’s multi-faceted work charts the psychological and physical wanderings through an ambiguous cityscape. Santiago Cucullu is the first artist to participate in the Art Center’s new series of… read more…
April 03, 2010 — April 25, 2010
Gerry Neustrom Young Artist Challenge
at Salina’s Central Mall
Closing Reception with the artists: Sunday, April 25, 4:00 pm
May 07, 2010 — August 08, 2010
PHOTOGRAPHIC: Anne Collier and Melanie Schiff
Opening Reception with the artists: Thursday, May 6, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
PHOTOGRAPHIC brings together for the first time the photographs of two leading American artists, Anne Collier and Melanie Schiff. Comprised of thirty color and black-and-white photographs, the exhibition traces the photo-based practices of these two artists from 2004 to the present, closely examining their individual takes on an expansive field of photographic traditions—portraiture, still life, landscape, performance,… read more…
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August 27, 2010 — October 10, 2010
Artist Exchange
Opening Reception with the artists: Thursday, August 26, 5:00 to 7:00 pm
In working toward its mission to create exchanges among art, artists, and audiences that reveal life, the Salina Art Center relies upon creative partnerships with artists who serve their communities as progressive thinkers, leaders, and agents of culture and positive change. The Artist Exchange, initiated in 2006, is one such partnership. Each year, six Kansas artists—working independently or collaboratively in their… read more…
October 29, 2010 — January 30, 2011
Stephen Vitiello
Opening Reception with the artist: Thursday, October 28, 5:00 to 7:00 pm
Composer, electronic musician, and sound artist Stephen Vitiello is well-known for his experimental approaches to the phenomenological aspects of sound. His field recordings of ubiquitous atmospheric noises are often mixed with electronics to create palpable soundscapes. In addition to photographs, scores, and an installation of sound works surveying the past five years of his practice, Vitiello will premiere a new piece… read more…
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Salina Art Center exhibitions and related programs are generously underwritten in part by our 2010 exhibition partner, Capitol Federal.
Salina Art Center programs, exhibitions and films are presented in part by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency which believes that a great nation deerves great art.
March 13, 2010, noon at the Salina Art Center
Artist at Work: Santiago Cucullu
Visiting Artist Santiago Cucullu participates in the Art Center’s Artist at Work program with an illustrated public presentation and a lively discussion of his professional experiences and strategies of navigating the contemporary art world while based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
April 07, 2010, 5:30 pm
Artist at Work: Jaimie Warren
Kansas City photographer, curator, and performance artist Jaimie Warren discusses her current work and career.