A group of artists from Arizona will come to Lawrence next weekend for a presentation and workshop.

The Black Sheep Art Collective, based in Flagstaff, Ariz., provides mentoring and space for young artists throughout the state. The group has produced many mural projects and exhibitions of work from emerging indigenous artists who may not have otherwise had the opportunity to develop their artistic voices.

The residency in Lawrence, hosted by the Lawrence Percolator, will have the artists working with several students from Haskell Indian Nations University. The artists will create a series of panels that will form a mural to be installed at the Four Winds Center (formerly the Pelathe Center), 1423 Haskell Ave. The mural will be unveiled during an event from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. 16 at the Percolator, which is in the alley behind the Lawrence Arts Center.

The Black Sheep Art Collective members also will give a presentation about their group at 7 p.m. Saturday and hold a DIY spraypaint workshop from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 11, both at the Percolator.

Lecture, party mark Andy Warhol exhibition

The curator of art at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh will speak this week at the Spencer Museum of Art.

Eric C. Shiner’s presentation, “Andy Warhol: Consumption x Production” will begin at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the museum’s auditorium. It is in conjunction with “Big Shots: Andy Warhol, Celebrity Culture and the 1980s,” a display of the artist’s photographs on display at the Spencer through Jan. 24.

Shiner’s lecture will address the pivotal role celebrity culture and ignoring art-world taboos played in Warhol’s works.

Also, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, the Spencer’s Student Advisory Board is playing host to “WARhol & Peace,” a fall party tied to both the Warhol exhibition and “The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and the Environment, 1965-2005.”

The event will include custom-designed T-shirts from Wonder Fair art gallery, live music, cheap sunglasses, a can soup drive and ’80s-inspired appetizers. It also will include a screening of “Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol.” The party is free to attend and open to the public.

For more information on the events, visit www.spencerart.ku.edu.

Collegium Musicum presents fall concert

The Kansas University Instrumental Collegium Musicum will present its fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 11.

The concert, in Swarthout Recital Hall in KU’s Murphy Hall, will feature works played on instruments similar to those that would have been played between the 16th ad 18th centuries, including recorders, viols, members of the Baroque violin family and harpsichord. The program will include works by Byrd, Corelli, Gabrieli, Telemann and more.

The Collegium Musicum is under the director of Paul Laird, professor of music, and consists of students and other members of the KU and Lawrence community. The concert is free and open to the public.

Best-selling author to sign new novel

Laura Moriarty will read from her new novel, “While I’m Falling,” and sign copies during an event Thursday at Oread Books, on the second floor of the Kansas Union at Kansas University.

The event, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., is free and open to the public.

Moriarty, whose previous novels include “The Center of Everything” and “The Rest of Her Life,” now is a faculty member at KU. “While I’m Falling” is the first novel set at KU.

Deadlines approach for Kansas 150

The first deadline for humanities-related projects commemorating the 150th anniversary of Kansas statehood is approaching.

The Kansas Humanities Council’s Kansas 150 program is designed to “connect people with Kansas’ ideas, places and history projects” through such projects as museum exhibitions, panel discussions, heritage walking tours, oral history projects, digitization projects, Web site development and podcasts.

Several deadlines for grants are scheduled through the end of 2010. They are Oct. 16; April 16, 2010; July 30, 1020; and Nov. 24, 2010.

More information is at www.kansashumanities.org.

Art history lectures scheduled at KU

Several lectures focusing on art history are upcoming at Kansas University. They include:

• “The Painted Woman as Unpainted Beauty: Portraits of Mme Du Barry and Queen Marie-Antoinette,” by Melissa Hyde of the University of Florida, 5:30 p.m. Thursday.

• “Transmitting a Legacy: Saicho’s Medicine Buddha and its Replication,” by Yui Suzuki of the University of Maryland, 5:15 p.m. Nov. 9.

• “Male Worlds-Female Worlds: Gender Specific Aspects of Early Choson Painting,” by Burglind Jungmann of the University of California-Los Angeles, 5:15 p.m. Nov. 19.

• “A Palette of Fire: Death, Blackness and the Gendering of Painting,” by Moyosore Okediji of the University of Texas, 5:15 p.m. Dec. 7.

All lectures are in Room 211 of the Spencer Museum of Art.

Found objects central to Wonder Fair show

Found objects are the centerpiece of a new art show opening Saturday at the Wonder Fair Art Gallery, 803 Mass.

“Collecting the Past and Projecting the Present” features works by Monica Gundelfinger and Casey Millstein.

The show opens with a reception from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. The show runs through Nov. 8.