6/12/2009

music

Wild Voodoo to play at car show in park

Wild Voodoo will perform during the Central City Street Rods, People's Choice Car Show from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 20 at Thomas Park.

Wild Voodoo features John Wild on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Dex Umekubo on lead guitar and vocals, Jay Quinn on bass and vocals and Jarrod "Chewy" Sawyer on drums and vocals. The band plays classic and original rock.

The event is open to the public, and there is a $2 donation at the gate.

More information on the People's Choice Car Show can be found at www.cen tralcitystreetrods.com. For more information about Wild Voodoo, visit www.wildvoodoo.com.

art

Photographers to give presentation

Salina Arts & Humanities Horizons Grant recipients Carolyn Wedel and Dale Cole will offer a brown bag lunch at noon Wednesday at Three Barbaras and a Jane Gallery, 111 E. Iron.

Wedel and Cole will present slide images from their recent VOSH International India trip, followed by a casual time for discussion. Participants can bring a lunch.

Salina artist at Red Barn Studio

LINDSBORG -- Salina multi-arts teaching artist, Michelle Meade, will be the artist-in-residence at the Red Barn Studio from Tuesday through June 20.

With a focus on arts in education, she has been involved in all media, including stage, television, film and voice-over work. Mead has performed on stage in New York, Kansas City and in regional theaters. She has done voice over work for Jim Henson's Muppets and mimed with Marcel Marceau and the Warsaw Mimedance Theatre of Poland.

As founding associate artistic director of the Great Plains Theatre Festival in Abilene, she created "Live Literature! Theatre for Young Audiences." Currently, she is completing the Kennedy Center Lied Teacher-Arts in Education Program.

Meade offers arts workshops as an artist, designer, writer, director, performing artist and puppeteer. At the Red Barn Studio, she will engage student artists in a hands-on puppet play to be performed at Lindsborg's Midsummer's Day Festival at 10 and 11 a.m. June 20 at Swensson Park. The workshop will be from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday through June 19 at the studio. The cost includes all materials and is $30 for studio members and $45 for nonmembers.

For more information, call the studio at (785) 227-2217 or e-mail raymer@redbarnstudio.org. Class size is limited.

Layton exhibition to be at library

A traveling exhibition of works by Kansas artist Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton will be featured June 19 through July 31 at the Salina Public Library, 301 W. Elm.

A reception will be at 5:15 p.m. July 2 at the library during First Thursday Art Rush.

The exhibition, part of the Lawrence Art Center collection, is sponsored by Central Kansas Mental Health Center, 809 Elmhurst, to raise awareness of mental illness and the importance of mental health.

Layton, a native of Wellsville, had suffered from bi-polar illness and severe depression when she began drawing in 1977 at age 68. Her contour drawings rejected stereotypical images and misconceptions of old age and mental illness and challenged viewers to confront their own issues and perceptions, according to a news release issued by Central Kansas Mental Health Center.

Her work has been featured in more than 200 art museums and centers throughout the U.S., including the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the National Museum of Women in Art.

Layton died in 1993 at age 83.

For more information about the exhibition, call 823-6322.

Exhibitions on tornadoes at Beach

MANHATTAN -- Photographs capturing the destructive power and aftermath of tornadoes in Kansas will be the focus of two exhibitions opening in June at Kansas State University's Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art.

"Destruction Framed: Photographs of the Chapman/Manhattan Tornado, June 11, 2008" will be on display through Aug. 16. "Larry Schwarm: Greensburg After the Storm" will be on display June 19 through Aug. 10.

The Chapman/Manhattan tornado exhibition features photographs of the aftermath of the tornado that tore through Chapman, Manhattan and Soldier. The work of Tom Leopold, a freelance photographer, and Rod Mikinski and Luke Townsend, Manhattan Mercury photographers, are featured. Ten pictures from each photographer are displayed.

In Schwarm's show, the Greensburg native captures the horrific power of the May 4, 2007, tornado that destroyed most of his town. Schwarm's photography has been recognized for its sensitivity to place and landscape, and his Greensburg photographs are witness to the catastrophic forces of nature and the annihilation of his rural birthplace.

For more information, contact Martha Scott at the Beach Museum of Art at (785) 532-7718 or visit the museum on the southeast corner of the K-State campus at 14th and Anderson. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays; and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays.

Entries sought for Deines exhibit

RUSSELL -- Deines Cultural Center is seeking artists for its Russell Area Artists Exhibit.¬ 

The exhibit will run from July 12 through Aug. 19. The show is open to any adult artist within a 60-mile radius of Russell.¬ Work must not have been previously shown at the Deines Cultural Center. All art must be original.¬ Crafts made from patterns will not be included in the show.

All two-dimensional work to be hung must be framed (including glass for appropriate media) unless specifically designed to be without a frame. Artists must respond by June 22 with a decision about participation.

The number of items each artist may show is dependent upon the number of participants. It is anticipated that each artist may be able to show one or two pieces.

Artwork may be for sale if the artist chooses. A 30 percent commission will be retained by the center for all pieces sold.

Interested artists should call Nancy Selbe at the center at (785) 483-3742 or e-mail deinescenter@rus sellcity.org.

theater

'Sound of Music' auditions announced

Salina Community Theatre will have auditions for the opening musical of its 2009-10 season, Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music."¬ 

Auditions for youths will be at 10 a.m. June 27 at the theater, 303 E. Iron.¬ Adult auditions will be at 7 p.m. June 28 and 29.¬ Additional auditions will be at 7 p.m. July 5 and 6.¬ All auditionees must bring a song to sing and be prepared to read from the script.¬ 

The musical tells the story of Maria, who becomes governess to the von Trapp children, with whom she forms a friendship through their mutual love of music.¬ 

¬ Roles include Maria, age 20 to 30; the Mother Abbess, 40 to 70; Captain von Trapp, 40 to 60; Elsa Schraeder, 30 to 40; Max Detweiler, 30 to 55; and a large adult chorus of men and women, 20 to 70.

¬ Young peoples' roles include Rolf Gruber, 16 to 20, and the von Trapp children:¬ Liesl, 15 to 18; Gretl, 6 to 10; Marla, 9 to 12; Brigitta, 10 to 13; Kurt, 9 to 14; Louisa, 13 to 15; and Fredrich, 13 to 16.

¬ For more information, call 827-6126.