November 2009:
Kansas State University Painting Society Exhibition
| This November, the walls of the Stacks Gallery at the Carnegie Arts Center will be graced by the works of the Kansas State University Painting Society. The Kansas State University Painting Society is comprised of undergraduate students interested in painting. While the Painting Society is mainly made up of painting majors, it is open to all majors at Kansas State University. The Painting Society is an active group, involved in many campus projects, fundraisers, and community service projects each year. They also participate in exhibitions across the state. The exhibit at the Carnegie Arts Center is one of the Society’s first exhibitions for the 2009-2010 school year, and boasts a variety of media - oil and acrylic painting, drawing, sculpture, and mixed media. The Carnegie Arts Center is proud to exhibit the work of such a talented group of young artists and encourages you to attend the opening this Friday night. Top Image: Self Portrait, Rachel Scribner, 2008 Bottom Image: Portrait of Michelle (detail), Kyle Wilson, 2008 |
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A Community Conversation on the Arts
On November 18, Carolyn Singleton, executive director of the Carnegie Arts Center, attended “A Community Conversation on the Arts” at the Lyric Theater in Kansas City, Missouri. The event is part of a 50-state tour of Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative lead by Michael Kaiser. Kaiser is the president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and is dedicated to preserving the arts. Kaiser spoke about the importance of the grassroots arts organization and the vibrancy of smaller communities’ arts education. After speaking, Kaiser answered questions from the audience, which was made up representatives from arts organizations in Missouri and Kansas. The Carnegie Arts Center staff has had a busy two weeks, participating in “A Community Conversation on the Arts” on Wednesday and traveling to Minneapolis, Minnesota for the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts conference last week. Facebook users interested in reading more about the Carnegie’s trip to Minneapolis can check out Toulouse the cat’s latest note. (Search “Toulouse Carnegie” to find Toulouse on Facebook.) |
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December 2009:
"The Portrait Show" by Martin Leo Pyle
Bryan, oil on canvas, 2001 | Press Excerpt - Pyle is a prolific artist, with many of his pieces in private collections throughout the Midwest. Originally a painter, Pyle began to explore sculpture in 2007. He found that his experience in figurative and portrait painting exceptionally helpful in learning his new art form. Pyle’s talents as a sculptor were quickly recognized, and he was commissioned to create a variety of sculpture portraits. One of these commissions was from the city of Leavenworth to create the statue of Abraham Lincoln that will be unveiled in early December. |
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New Website for the Carnegie Arts Center! The Carnegie Arts Center recently partnered with Joe Wilson and Joe Heaton of J n J Technologies to create a new website, www.carnegieartscenter.org, and the Carnegie staff couldn’t be happier. “It looks great. It just looks great,” says executive director Carolyn Singleton. The new site, which launched in early December, lists all the information about the Carnegie’s upcoming art, music, dance, drama, yoga, and pottery classes, as well as many of the events they have planned for January and February 2010. The new site also features a list of links to area artists, musicians, museums, and galleries. The Carnegie staff plans to add more to the website soon, including more information about the history of the Carnegie Arts Center and information about the building, the Stacks Gallery, the Steinway grand piano, and the Carnegie’s two cats, Toulouse and Lautrec. The Carnegie Arts Center would like to thank J n J Technologies for their help in creating the new Carnegie Arts Center website! |