June 28 | 9 AM-5:30 PM | $65 - only 20 spots available
Summer Road Trip: Join us for an unforgettable day trip exploring Kansas art and oddities—including the Geneseo UFO Museum & Mural with Jim Grey, lunch at Fly Boy Brewery in Sylvan Grove, and an afternoon at the Grassroots Art Center with free time in Lucas. Visit our website for ticket details and to reserve your spot!
High Strangeness: Encounters with the Unexplained in Kansas and Beyond
MAY 28-AUGUST 31, 2025
The exhibition High Strangeness: Encounters with the Unexplained in Kansas and Beyond at the Salina Art Center features the audio-visual installation Witnessing (2000) by the pioneering artist Susan Hiller (1940-2019), one of the fist contemporary artists to engage seriously with the topic of the paranormal. Alongside her work, the show presents photographs and multi-media sculptures by Kansas artist Hugo Zelada-Romero. While Hiller's audio recordings document encounters with the unexplained from all over the world, Zelada-Romero's photographs track UFO sightings and unexplained incidents in Kansas, a hot spot for such phenomena. Zelada-Romero's work also explores a history of uncommon metaphysical practices in the state and the role that pop cultural representations play in "high strangeness" lore. Both artists investigate in their immersive works what happens when we take first-person accounts of “high strangeness” incidents seriously, ultimately inviting visitors to interrogate our own ideas and approaches to trust, belief, and living with uncertainty.
Curated by independent curator Ksenya Gurshtein. Exhibition catalogue will be available for sale at the Salina Art Center.