The two artists couldn’t be more different — he paints celebrity portraits; she paints abstract landscapes — and that’s why sharing a space has been such a breeze, says Patrick Schlotterback of his studio mate Maria Martin.
"It's perfect because it's so eclectic. She's completely abstract, and I love her work, and I'm more realistic, almost a Norman Rockwell type," Schlotterback says.
The two, along ...
Mixie, Miffy and Luna — and all their animal companions at the Lawrence Humane Society — are in for a life-changing surprise Saturday if all goes as planned.
That’s the day when the animal shelter hopes to match every animal in the building with a caring new human — at no cost to the human.
The event, known as Clear the Shelter Day, is in its seventh year locally, and it’s part of a national push to ...
Of the 1,900 artists from around the world who wanted to see their artwork adorn the new Kansas City airport, only 28 — fewer than 2% — have been selected, and Hong Zhang, of Lawrence, is among them.
“I’m happy to be in this diverse group,” said Zhang, noting not only the intensity of the competition but the opportunity to have her Kansas-inspired artwork seen by countless travelers at the ...
The flag painted on the barn 20 years ago had badly faded.
That bothered Chris Koenig, who saw the decay as a metaphor for our memories of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
"It just bummed me out," he said.
He was a freshman at Pittsburg State University on 9/11, deeply saddened by the day’s horror, and he remembered how seeing the vivid little flag on the barn with the word ...
"The Ballad of Black Jack,” a homegrown musical about Bleeding Kansas, has been around for about half a century, but it's hardly a static relic from another era.
If you saw it at Baker University in the 1970s, as many schoolchildren on field trips did, and then in some later decade, something likely was quite different about the second show: a new song, a new character or two, an extended — or vastly ...
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Jeff Hamm has an office just west of the Wishing Bench in East Lawrence. Like many, he was saddened to wake up on Aug. 15 to discover that the quirky little landmark had been consumed by an overnight fire that destroyed much of the structure and all of the whimsical decorations that passersby had contributed over the years.
"I knew that was an iconic part of East Lawrence," he ...
