Salina Art Center

Join us for an evening of fabulous stories….Lie to Us

Join us for an evening of fabulous stories….

Lie to Us
in conjunction with the SAC’s current exhibition,
The Storyteller

Thursday, November 19, 2009
7:30 pm at the Warehouse
149 S. 4th Street

SALINA, KANSAS – This night is your opportunity to lie to us!  In conjunction with The Storyteller, currently on view in the SAC galleries, the Salina Art Center will host Lie to Us on Thursday, November 19, at 7:30 pm, at the Warehouse, 149 S. 4th Street. This event is FREE and open to all. 

Emceed by Salina Mayor Luci Larson and KSN Channel 3 Salina reporter, Josh Haskell, participants will attempt to fool a live audience by delivering their greatest feasible lie or most unbelievable truth. Following the storytelling, the audience will cast votes for the storyteller that best fools the audience, and a grand prize will be awarded to the winner. A cash bar will be provided by Martinelli’s.

The Storyteller, on view in the galleries through January 3, 2010, focuses on artists who use the story form as a means of comprehending and conveying political and social events.  Working in video, photography, drawing, mixed media, and installation, the international group of artists in the exhibition neither takes the idea of documentary truth as an object of critique nor abandons fact for fabulation. Rather, they enable individuals to construct the story of their unique participation in historical processes, thereby presenting these events in a new and unexpected light.

The Storyteller is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by iCI (Independent Curators International), New York. Guest curators for the exhibition are Claire Gilman and Margaret Sundell.  The exhibition, tour, and catalogue are made possible, in part, by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; iCI Benefactors Agnes Gund, Gerrit and Sydie Lansing, and Barbara and John Robinson; the iCI Partners and iCI Advocates.