Salina Art Center

Panel Discussion: The Smoky Hill River

Thursday, April 16, 2009
5:30 pm
at the Salina Art Center

                                 

SALINA, KANSAS – In conjunction with exhibitions currently on view in the Salina Art Center galleries, a panel discussion will take place on Thursday, April 16, at 5:30 at the Salina Art Center, 242 S. Santa Fe, Salina.  Please join us as experts lead a public conversation concerning the history of the Smoky Hill River, the state of the river today and their vision for its future. This event is FREE and open to the public. 

Panel participants include Jason Gage, City Manager of Salina, Judy Lilly, Kansas Librarian of the Salina Public Library and Troy Vancil, President of the Friends of the River.

Currently in the Salina Art Center galleries are three exhibitions. In Barry Anderson: Always Becoming Something, diverse Salina residents were filmed by the artist for a video project that explores various communities through video portraits.  Robert Bubp: Vision/Voice/Plan: Salina asks what the community of Salina should be in the next 25, 50, or 100 years. In a series of workshops with citizens, Bubp has facilitated an artistic conversation via collage, text, photographs and dialogue on a series of “planning” topics that include: cultural amenities, housing, schools, homeless shelters, green spaces, and community centers. In Allegories and Architecture, an exhibition of work by Carrie Scanga, viewers are prompted to invoke their own memories and imaginings through her drawings and etchings. Enjoy the works in Barry Anderson’s exhibition in the galleries through May 3, 2009, and Robert Bubp’s and Carrie Scanga’s exhibitions through May 17, 2009. 

Barry Anderson’s and Robert Bubp’s exhibitions are made possible in part by a grant from the Horizons Grants Program of the Salina Arts & Humanities Commission, City of Salina. Carrie Scanga’s exhibition and her future artist residency are made possible in part by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the R.C. Kemper Charitable Trust, UMB Bank, n.a. Corporate Trustee.
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This panel discussion is FREE and open to the public. Admission to the Salina Art Center galleries is also FREE. For more information contact the Salina Art Center at 785.827.1431, during business hours, Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, or visit http://www.salinaartcenter.org. The Salina Art Center galleries are open Wednesday through Saturday from noon – 5:00 pm, and Sunday from 1:00 – 5:00 pm.